You’ll get recommendations for the best books to discuss in your book clubs. From buzzy new releases to brilliant throwbacks, the books highlighted in this newsletter will drive your book club discussions. We’ll also share some book club-friendly recipes and interesting bookish updates from all over. In other words, we’ll keep you well-met, well-read, and well-fed.
"One thing that will become apparent as you read through this list is how rebellious book clubs can be."
The best new nonfiction for your book club includes an Indigenous memoir, compassionate true crime, a Black legend's biography, and more.
August's best book club books include El Salvadorian oracles, a freedom to read memoir/manifesto, and even hoochie mamas in Europe.
Read these sci-fi and fantasy books with your book club, and encounter magic-wielding femmes, time-traveling romance, and more.
The most popular book club books for summer book clubs, according to the Indie Next List, includes debuts, thrillers, sci-fi, and more.
These short story collections — which follow Cambodian Americans in California, and life during Jim Crow — are perfect for book clubs.
July's best book club books have everything — from historical coming-of-age tales set in 1950s Iran, to critiques of class set in the future.
These are the books the most book clubs have recorded discussing in June on Goodreads, from litfic to thrillers and romance.
Vanessa returns to In the Club to share her book club picks with bonus discussion questions, plus a little something to nibble on.
The best new book club books to read for Pride include a drag memoir, a romance written in the stars, and more.