Book Group Best Bets
Looking for good books for discussion? These recently released novels from a variety of genres are sure to spark lively discussion in your book group! Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise noted. (Created October 2024)
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Dixon, Descending
A former Olympic-level runner working as a school psychologist abandons his family and students to join his brother on a quest to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, resulting in a tragedy that shatters his life.
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Hum
From the National Book Award--longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wife and mother who--after losing her job to AI--undergoes a procedure that renders her undetectable to surveillance ? but at what cost?
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The Briar Club
In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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Greta & Valdin
Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a Ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladisavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric Maori-Russian-Catalonian family.
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The Last One at the Wedding
Maggie is getting married, and her dad is thrilled to be invited, even though they have been estranged for three years. Why the estrangement? The answer to that question and other crazy rumors about the family hosting the event fuel this engaging, suspenseful read. This will appeal to readers who enjoy hard-to-guess plot twists. (LibraryReads)
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There Are Rivers in the Sky
Sweeping across centuries, and stretching from Mesopotamia to London, this stunning novel follows a trio of characters living in the shadows of one of the greatest epic poems of all time - Nineveh and its Remains, as they become entwined by a single drop of water
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Model Home
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave where they grew up. As the only Black family in the neighborhood, the neighbors acted nice enough, but soon bad things, scary things - the strange and the unexplainable - began to happen in their house. Whatever it was, the family stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned. As adults, the siblings got away, leaving their parents alone in the house. But when news of their parents' death arrives, they return, to reckon with their family’s past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away. It was not a “natural” death for their parents… but was it supernatural?
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I Hope This Finds You Well
An admin worker accidentally gains access to her colleagues' private emails and DMs and decides to use this intel to save her job.
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Margo's Got Money Troubles
A young woman attempts to navigate adulthood, new motherhood and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world.
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Hard by A Great Forest
After fleeing the former Soviet republic of Georgia as a child and being forced to leave his mother behind, Saba returns to their beautiful, decaying homeland to search for his brother who went missing while searching for their father.
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