Book Club Recommendations

Updated February 4, 2025
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City of thorns : nine lives in the world's largest refugee camp
Rawlence, Ben
Paper Book
To the charity workers, Dabaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement,...
Mistress of the Ritz : a novel
Benjamin, Melanie
Paper Book
In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites- The Hotel Ritz. There, under a roof legendary for its unprecedented luxury and for its fabled residents-including Coco Chanel, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Cole Porter, Hemingway,...
The coin : a novel
Zaher, Yasmin
Paper Book
Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize Shortlisted for the Swansea Dylan Thomas Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in...
Real life
Taylor, Brandon
Paper Book
An elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate novel from an electric new voice.
Finding Dorothy : a novel
Letts, Elizabeth
Paper Book
This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. "A breathtaking read that will transport you over the rainbow and into the heart of one...
The gypsy moth summer
Fierro, Julia
Paper Book
"Fierro doesn't just observe, she knows. Like all great novelists, she gives us the world." - Amy Bloom, bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early...
My name is Mary Sutter
Oliveira, Robin.
Paper Book
A moving, New York Times bestselling novel about a young Civil War midwife who dreams of becoming a surgeon Chosen by Good Housekeeping as a Top 10 Good Read Mary Sutter's story continues in Winter Sisters, coming February 2018 from Viking ...
Would like to meet
Winters, Rachel
Paper Book
Can you fall in love like they do in the movies? It's Evie Summers's job to find out. Because if she can't convince her film agency's biggest client, Ezra Chester, to write the romantic-comedy screenplay he owes producers, her career will be over. The catch? He thinks rom-coms...

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