Wondering what to read next with your book club? Check out this list of recommendations filled with family dynamics, multigenerational sagas, the power of community, and more thought-provoking and highly discussable topics!
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THE BEE STING by Paul Murray
Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due July 1st.
“Like Murray’s SKIPPY DIES (2010), this is a tour de force, beautifully written (a cat was ‘so black it looked like a hole in the universe’) and perfectly apposite in its tone. It is, in sum, utterly fascinating and unforgettable.”–Booklist, starred review
HANGMAN by Maya Binyam
Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due July 1st.
“A sub-Saharan immigrant who has been in the United States for a quarter century receives a mysterious call telling him to board a flight home, and the place he encounters when he lands seems entirely unfamiliar. While there, he ends up searching for his brother. A book about the impossibility of finding Black refuge.”–Library Journal pre pub alert
WESTERN ALLIANCES by Wilton Barnhardt
Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due July 1st.
“Author of the New York Times best-selling LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY Barnhardt returns after a decade with a family saga featuring the dysfunctional Costa family, headed by Wall Street banker Salvador. Children Roberto and Rachel, who live off him instead of holding jobs, are beginning to examine their father’s actions as they tootle around Europe.”–Library Journal pre pub alert
THE CONNELLYS OF COUNTY DOWN by Tracey Lange
Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due July 1st.
New York Times bestselling author Tracey Lange brings another moving novel about family loyalty, the consequences of love, and finding a new lease on life. Tara Connelly was released after serving eighteen months in prison. And now, at 30, she has to rebuild her life and relationship with her complicated yet fierce family.
THE PEACH SEED by Anita Gail Jones
Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due July 1st.
Perfect for readers of other book club favorites like BLACK CAKE and THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DUBOIS, this is a multigenerational epic debut about two people who were torn apart over 50 years prior, and are now finding their way back to one another. Exploring the origins of a Southern family’s tradition, the impacts of the 1800s slave trade from Senegal to South Carolina, and how modern-day sons and daughters struggle with the legacies of America’s Civil Rights Movement.
STILL BORN by Guadalupe Nettle
Available for download on Edelweiss know more. LibraryReads votes due July 1st.
An insightful and profound novel about motherhood, community, and friendship that explores the lived experiences of women with two career-driven women in their mid-thirties. One is determined not to become a mother, the other decides to have a child of her own.
THE BEE STING by Paul Murray; 9780374600303; 8/15/23
HANGMAN by Maya Binyam; 9780374610074; 8/8/23
WESTERN ALLIANCES by Wilton Barnhardt; 9781250090003; 8/1/23
THE CONNELLYS OF COUNTY DOWN by Tracey Lange; 9781250865373; 8/1/23
THE PEACH SEED by Anita Gail Jones; 9781250872050; 8/1/23
STILL BORN by Guadalupe Nettle; 9781639730032; 8/8/23
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