Open Books Challenge 2025: Celebrity Book Club PickUnpublished

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'I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life' JOHN GREEN, author of The Fault in Our Stars AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2024 A...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, KEVIN BACON, ETHAN HAWKE AND MAHERSHALA ALI *A THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLER* *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2021* ...

A ground-breaking, heart-racing thriller perfect for fans of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange An instant no. 1 New York Times Bestseller, April 4 2021 Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for YA Fiction, 2021 Winner of CrimeFest Best YA Crime Fiction Prize, 2022 ...

One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times A book of the year pick in the Guardian, New York Times, Independent, Spectator, Red, NPR, People, Slate, Sydney Morning Herald and Smithsonian Magazine '...

'Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES 'Might be a masterpiece' HUGH LAURIE 'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN 'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY 'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER READING PICK A BETWEEN THE COVERS NOVEMBER 2022 PICK 'Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere' ELLE 'Destined to be a feminist classic - kept me up at...

One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction -- Longlisted for the Booker Prize The Sunday Times Bestseller -- One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of the Year 'Massively enjoyable' - The Sunday...

A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan.

WINNER OF A 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY  A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023* Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the...

'Erdrich remains one of the world's literary giants' Boston Globe In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of...

The #2 New York Times bestseller A Read With Jenna book club pick 'UTTERLY CHARMING' PANDORA SYKES 'WICKEDLY FUNNY' JENNY JACKSON 'A PERFECT NOVEL' CATHERINE NEWMAN 'THE BEST READ OF THE YEAR SO FAR'...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER  THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER  *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*

BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2021 "Riveting and heartbreaking ... A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those...

'Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian 'Begs to be read' Spectator 'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife,...

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick 'Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent' - Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six Step into Starling House - if you dare. Alix E. Harrow reimagines Beauty and the Beast in this...

Discover the deliciously dark and piercing novel of food and secrets, perfect for fans of Lisa Taddeo and Meg Mason *A New York Times standout book of 2024* *A Stylist Best Debut for 2024* 'A sharp, dark, must-read story about...

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality...

Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.

  * One of the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' * 'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' Barack Obama Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young...

**A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021** 'An amazing book, beautiful and captivating.' Elif Shafak 'A gorgeous, destabilizing meditation' Raven Leilani From the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a...

'Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets' Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of...

From the beloved author of Tweet Cute comes Emma Lord's You Have a Match, a hilarious and heartfelt novel of romance, sisterhood, and friendship. When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it's mainly to support her friend and secret love interest, Leo. After all, she...

A READ WITH JENNA PICK! From the prize-winning author of WAHALA, a powerful de-colonial retelling of MANSFIELD PARK, exploring identity, culture, race and love 'A spirited exploration of culture and kinship' BONNIE GARMUS 'Deeply emotional and...

'IT MOVED ME DEEPLY' LIV LITTLE'DEEPLY POIGNANT' HARPERS BAZAAR'GORGEOUS' RAVEN LEILANITHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN 'It will make you laugh, cry deeply, and want to call your siblingsâe(tm) Cosmopolitan 'Even better...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 - THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEETHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'Mottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what The Wire did for Baltimore' THE TIMES'A soul...

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022) An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022) A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022)<...

'Extraordinary' - The New York Times 'A mouth-watering delight . . . subtle yet striking' - Sarah Jessica Parker 'A glorious debut . . . a richly layered account of artistic endeavour and resilience.' - Guardian Shortlisted for...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN An award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience.<...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India.

* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * 'A spectacular achievement' ANTHONY DOERR 'Extravagantly beautiful' DAILY MAIL 'One of the greatest writers of all time' JACQUELINE WOODSON 'Extraordinary' GUARDIAN'The...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL A BARRACK OBAMA READING PICK A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. 'The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years' GUARDIAN

From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity. 'A story that is both beautiful and heartbreaking; it is as raw as it is precious. I bawled my eyes...