Book Club Books (1/8/25)

Whether your book club is searching for hard-hitting women’s fiction or a jaw-dropping thriller, we have some upcoming recommendations for you!

FINDING GRACE by Loretta Rothschild
9781250381828 | 6/10/25

Honor seems to have everything: she adores her bright and beautiful daughter, Chloe, and her charming, handsome husband, Tom, even if he works one hundred hours a week. Her bestselling children’s books mean that she’s made a name for herself doing what she loves. Yet Honor’s longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it—until a shocking tragedy changes their lives forever, and Tom is left to pick up the pieces.

Grace has made her London wine shop a second home for people like her—those running from their own pasts. Passionate, studious, and self-assured, she finds herself curious about Tom, who becomes a fixture at the shop.

As Grace falls for Tom, she shares things about herself that she’s never told anyone—while Tom is keeping a secret that could destroy their burgeoning romance. Through it all, the lasting impact of Honor’s obsessive want looms over them, as does the possibility that their meeting was no accident.

Can Tom and Grace wade through the secrets to find each other on the other side? Do we all have ghosts that refuse to stay buried? And how do old love and new love align? Blending a page-turning moral dilemma with satisfying emotional poignancy, FINDING GRACE is a sweeping love story that explores what happens when a shared past collides with an unexpected future.

THE OTHER SIDE OF NOW by Paige Harbison
9781250358073 | 6/3/25

With a leading role on a hit TV show and a relationship with Hollywood’s latest heartthrob, Meg Bryan appears to have everything she ever wanted. But underneath the layers of makeup and hairspray, her happiness is as fake as her stage name, Lana Lord. Following a breakdown at her birthday party, she books an impromptu trip to Ireland. Specifically, the village where she and her best friend Aimee always dreamt of moving—a dream that fell apart when an accident claimed Aimee’s life a decade ago.

When Meg arrives, the people in town treat her not as a stranger, but a friend (except for the hot bartender). Meg writes it all off as jetlag until she looks in the mirror. Her hair is no longer bleached, her skin has a few natural fine lines, and her nose looks like… well, her old nose. Her real nose.

Eventually, she comes to accept that she somehow made a quantum slide into an alternate version of her life. But the most shocking realization of all? In this life, her best friend Aimee is alive–but wants nothing to do with Meg.

Despite her bewilderment, Meg is clear-eyed about one thing: this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reconnect with her friend and repair what she broke. She finagles an opportunity to act in the play Aimee is writing and directing and as the project unfolds, Meg realizes that events as she remembers them may not be the only truth, and that an impossible choice looms before her.

WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK? by Sara Hamdan
9781250329813 | 5/20/25

Mia Almas has a secret. By day, she works at a respectable job as a media fact checker—a position her conservative, Arab grandparents approve of—and, by night, she takes to the stages of New York City comedy clubs. She holds herself back in a lot of ways, especially in the romance department, but being on stage lights her up and makes being a wallflower the rest of the time more bearable. That is, until Phaedra, her stylish and bold new neighbor, inspires Mia to take a few risks.

As Mia pursues a forbidden romance with her boss, her standup gets better and bolder, leading to a surprise spotlight that exposes her secret gig. Horrified and worried that her rebellious act could mean big consequences for her reserved Palestinian-American family, Mia frantically dives into damage control. But all of her efforts to pull back from the spotlight expose a family scandal from the 1940s that could change everything…

Equal parts funny and tender, WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK? is a heart-bursting exploration of what it means to discover and embrace the hidden parts of yourself, and how love in all forms can make you whole.

PARTY OF LIARS by Kelsey Cox
9781250378811 | 7/1/25

Today is Sophie Matthews’ sixteenth birthday party, an exclusive black-tie bash in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where secrets are as deep-rooted as the sprawling live oaks. Sophie’s dad has spared no expense, and his renovated cliffside mansion — once thought haunted, and shuttered for years from outsiders — is now open. It’s the event of the season and the champagne is set to flow all day. Then, just before the candles on the three-tiered red velvet cake are blown out, a body falls from the balcony onto the starlit dance floor below.

But, who is the victim, and who is the killer?

There is Dani, the gorgeous new mother who’s been plagued by self-doubt ever since the birth of her baby girl. Órlaith, the superstitious Irish nanny, who senses a looming danger in this cavernous house. Mikayla, the birthday girl’s best friend, who is not nearly as meek as the popular kids assume. And Kim, the cunning ex-wife, who has a grudge she can’t let go of…

Everyone is invited in. Not everyone will get out alive.

THE ACCIDENTAL FAVORITE by Fran Littlewood
9781250857118 | 6/24/25

Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They’re well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it’s with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside for a weeklong celebration of Vivienne’s seventieth birthday. But when Patrick’s reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals that he has a favorite daughter, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it sends through the family.

Decades-old unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked. And be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts about life decisions both big and small, no one’s secrets are safe. Still-tender wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers, and as the family’s past is re-written, they find themselves suddenly unmoored.

In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.