Book Reviews & other resources

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Other great sources of book news include:

• New York Times bestseller lists
• Goodreads, the world’s largest website for readers and book recommendations
• LibraryReads, recommending the top ten new books selected by librarians across the country each month
• Pop culture book news from People magazine
• Library Journal’s Book Pulse provides daily book, media, and publishing industry news

Celebrity book clubs often make waves on the bestseller lists. Here are some popular lists to consider:

• Reese Witherspoon’s book club – Hello Sunshine
• Oprah’s Book Club
• Jenna Bush Hager’s book club on Today  – Read with Jenna
• Former NFL quarterback Andrew Luck runs the Andrew Luck Book Club, with monthly selection for rookies (kids) and veterans (adults)

• Antiracism Reading List

March 2012 – Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

April 2012 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

May 2012 – A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

June 2012 – Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

July 2012 – Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

August 2012 – Population 485 by Michael Perry

September 2012 – My Antonia by Willa Cather

October 2012 – The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

November 2012 – The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer

December 2012 – Moloka’i by Alan Brennert

January 2013 – Still Alice by Lisa Genova

February 2013 – The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

March 2013 – Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

April 2013 – Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

May 2013 – State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

June 2013 – The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

July 2013 – The Fault in our Stars by John Green

August 2013 – Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

September 2013 – The Language of flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

October 2013 – People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

November 2013 – The Hotel on the corner of bitter & sweet by Jamie Ford

February 2014 – Where’d you go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple

March 2014 – Final Frontiersman by James Campbell

April 2014 – The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman

May 2014 – Cabin Fever by Tom Montgomery Fate

June 2014 – Joy for Beginners by Erica Baumeister

July 2014 – Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

August 2014 – Orange is the new black by Piper Kerman

September 2014 – Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

October 2014 – Still Life by Louise Penny

November 2014 – Zeitoun by David Eggers

December 2014 – Open Season by C.J. Box

January 2015 – Grandma’s Wartime Kitchen by Joanne Lamb Hayes (cookbook!)

February 2015 – The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

March 2015 – The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

April 2015 – The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown

May 2015 – Fever by Mary Beth Keane

October 2015 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

November 2015 – Paddling to Winter by Julie Buckles

December 2015 – Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

January 2016 – Farm Recipes and Food Secrets from the Norske Nook by Helen Myhre

February 2016 – Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

March 2016 – One Plus One by Jojo Moyes

April 2016 – The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux

May 2016 – The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

November 2016 – Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown

December 2016 – Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

January 2017 – The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

February 2017 – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

March 2017 – One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

April 2017 – The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

May 2017 – Hidden Figures by Margo Lee Shetterley

June 2017 – Wonder by R.J. Palacio

January 2018 – “Select your own cookbook”

February 2018 – The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb

March 2018 – The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan

April 2018 – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

May 2018 – The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan

2018-2019 – Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

2018-2019 – The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

2018-2019 – Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

2018-2019 – Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (evening club)

2018-2019 – Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

2018-2019 – Jimmy Hendrix Turns Eighty by Tim Sandlin (evening club)

2018-2019 – Ice Hunter by Joseph Heywood

2018-2019 – Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (evening club)

2018-2019 – Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (evening club)

2018-2019 – Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon

2018-2019 – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

2018-2019 – The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

2018-2019 – Death at Gill’s Rock by Patricia Skalka

2018-2019 – The Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

2018-2019 – Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

2018-2019 – Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

2018-2019 – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

2018-2019 – The Dry by Jane Harper

March 2020 – Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner

April 2020 – Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichel

September 2020 – The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad

September 2020 (evening) – Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

October 2021 – Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

October 2021 (evening) – Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

November 2021 – Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

November 2021 (evening) – Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

December 2021 – Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

December 2021 (evening) – The Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig

January 2022 – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

January 2022 (evening) – An Unexpected Light: travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot

February 15, 2022: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

February 22, 2022: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

March 15, 2022: The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

March 22, 2022: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

April 19, 2022: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

April 26, 2022: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

May 17, 2022: Dutch House by Ann Patchett

May 24, 2022: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

October 19, 2023: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

November 16, 2023: The Witness by Nora Roberts

December 14, 2023: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow