Book Club Kits

A propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France.

A heartfelt, epic novel of friendship, betrayal and redemption is set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries.

A tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong.

A recently established government ministry studying time travel is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. A civil servant is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore, who according to history, died on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic. Over the course of an unprecedented year, Gore and the bridge fall haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences they never could have imagined.

Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?

Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.

A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. 

A reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present.

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world.

A sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself, pulsing with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, as it follows four women in Nigeria and America in the midst of the pandemic.  

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, partially narrated by an immigrant fig tree that connects stories in Cyprus and London.

The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.

Since 2013 writers for the My Life, My Story project at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have interviewed over 9,000 veterans and written short stories about their lives. Each story is reviewed and edited by the veteran, and with their approval, added to their VA medical record. Any VA provider who is caring for that veteran can easily find their story and read, in their own words, what matters to them, who matters to them, and why. This book contains 15 of their remarkable stories.

A year in the life of a wayward young man in New England who, by chance, becomes the caretaker for an eighty-two-year-old widow living with dementia, powering a story of friendship, loss, and how much we're willing to risk to claim one of life's most treasured mercies: a second chance.

A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.

In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.