What to Read for Book Club
The ideal book club pick is a page-turner that’s ripe for discussion. These reads fit the bill, no matter what genre your group prefers. LITERARY HITS 
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICKPulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions.Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. READ MORE »Vote for Olive, Again in the Goodreads Choice Awards!Order Olive, Again (Oprah’s Book Club)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and simply not return. He had been working so hard to find equilibrium in his single life. The winds of his optimism, long dormant, had finally begun to pick up. Now this. READ MORE »Vote for Fleishman is in Trouble in the Goodreads Choice Awards!Order Fleishman Is in Trouble 
From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of “our funniest writers alive” (Allison Pearson): a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love.At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything—including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walk without the aid of a walker, and speak without spitting.Told with Jacobson’s trademark wit and style, Live a Little is equal parts funny, irreverent, and tender—a novel to make you consider all the paths not taken, and whether you could still change course. READ MORE »Order Live a Little 
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. READ MORE »Vote for Daisy Jones & The Six in the Goodreads Choice Awards!Order Daisy Jones & The Six 
A sophisticated and conversation-starting novel of modern love, sexual violence, and toxic inheritance from a brilliant new literary voice.When Kate Quaile meets Max Rippon in the first week of university, so begins a life-changing friendship.Over the next four years, the two become inseparable. For him, she breaks her solitude; for her, he leaves his busy circles behind. But knowing Max means knowing his family: the wealthy Rippons, all generosity, social ease, and quiet repression. Theirs is a very different world from Kate’s own upbringing, and yet she finds herself quickly drawn into their gilded lives—and the secrets that lie beneath. READ MORE »Order What Red Was PLOTS FROM THE PAST 
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, he was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.READ MORE »Vote for The Water Dancer in the Goodreads Choice Awards!Order The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club) 
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