Book-club pick

The Correspondent

by Virginia Evans

Released April 29, 2025

We recommend The Correspondent because its letters slowly reveal a full, imperfect life with extraordinary tenderness. It is thoughtful, funny, and deeply humane—the kind of book that gives a group plenty to discuss and a reader plenty to sit with.

The Wedding People

by Alison Espach

The Wedding People begins in a dark emotional place and opens into something unexpectedly funny, generous, and hopeful. Its questions about friendship, reinvention, and the lives we think we should be living make it especially rewarding to discuss.

The God of the Woods

by Liz Moore

We recommend The God of the Woods for readers who like a mystery with literary depth. The layered disappearances, summer-camp setting, and examination of family power make it both compulsive and rich enough for a long conversation afterward.

The Women

by Kristin Hannah

The Women follows a young Army nurse into the Vietnam War and through the difficult return home. We recommend it for its vivid history, enduring female friendships, and emotional honesty about service, sacrifice, and recognition.

All the Colors of the Dark

by Chris Whitaker

Part mystery, part love story, and part decades-spanning portrait of obsession, All the Colors of the Dark is difficult to put down and difficult to categorize. We recommend it for readers who want suspense with a large emotional canvas.

Broken Country

by Clare Leslie Hall

Released March 4, 2025

Broken Country combines a rural setting, an old love, and a choice whose consequences ripple through several lives. It is an intimate, emotionally charged novel with the kind of moral complexity that makes a book-club conversation come alive.

Keep Them Close

by David Ellis

Released June 30, 2026

A murdered husband, two fiercely loyal siblings, and decades of buried choices create a domestic thriller built on shifting trust. It looks especially promising for readers who enjoy layered family secrets and twists that keep changing the story beneath them.

Mad Mabel

by Sally Hepworth

Released April 21, 2026

Mabel has a story to tell, and you’re probably going to want a glass of wine for this one. A dual-timeline mystery filled with secrets, complicated friendships and just enough “wait…what?” to keep you turning pages.

Plant Lady

by Minyoung Kang

Released August 4, 2026

A quiet plant-shop owner hides something sharp beneath her nurturing exterior in this darkly funny Korean novel of healing, anger, and female resistance. Its compact length and offbeat blend of comfort and menace make it an intriguing under-the-radar pick.

The Women in White

by Sarah Pekkanen

Released August 4, 2026

Four women. Strange experiments. And decades of time in between. There are secrets that definitely did not stay buried, plenty of “wait…WHAT?” moments, and a need to know what happened.

Big Little Truths

by Liane Moriarty

Released August 25, 2026

Ten years after Big Little Lies, Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie are parenting teenagers when a threatening package and a stranger near the school force old secrets back into the open. We recommend this warm, sharp, twisty return for its female friendships, family dynamics, and abundant book-club conversation.

Sunrise

by Téa Obreht

Released August 11, 2026

Three lives converge across a century in a Wyoming ghost town where the past refuses to stay buried. We recommend this genre-blending Western gothic for its survival story, haunted landscape, and rich questions about myth, memory, and belonging.