Back Book Club Picks | November Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Book Club Picks  
Nutshell: A Novel

Ian Mcewan · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

New from the bestselling author of Atonement and The Children ActTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have...
Read More check catalog
 
 
I Will Send Rain: A Novel

Rae Meadows · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A luminous, tenderly rendered novel of a woman fighting for her family's survival in the early years of the Dust Bowl; from the acclaimed and award-winning Rae Meadows.Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Mischling

Affinity Konar · Lee Boudreaux Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II.Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.It's 1944 when the twin...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Tumbling Turner Sisters: A Novel

Juliette Fay · Gallery Books
Pages: 339
Format: Print book

For fans of Orphan Train and Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, a compelling historical novel from "one of the best authors of women's fiction" (Library Journal) . Set against the turbulent backdrop of American Vaudeville, four sisters embark on an unexpected adventure - and a last-ditch...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Wonder

Emma Donoghue · Little
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Among the Living

Jonathan Rabb · Other Press
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

"Jonathan Rabb is one of my favorite writers, a highly gifted, heart-wise storyteller if ever there was one. What a powerful, moving book." - David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning authorA moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Other Einstein: A Novel

Heather Terrell · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Commonwealth.

Ann Patchett · Harper
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Mothers: A Novel

Brit Bennett · Riverhead Books
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

One of The Today Show's "Must-Read Books for Fall""Luminous ... engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -People, Pick of the Week "Fantastic ... a book that feels alive on the page and rich for later consideration." -The Washington PostA dazzling...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Leaving Lucy Pear

Anna Solomon · Viking
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

"From the first page, I was under Anna Solomon's spell." - Sue Monk KiddChosen as a must-read book for summer 2016 by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and BookPageSet in 1920s New England, the story of two women who are both...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Nix: A novel

Nathan Hill · Knopf
Pages: 640
Format: Print book

"The Nix is a mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it's also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. . . . Nathan Hill is a maestro." - John Irving A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Girl in the Castle: A Novel

Santa Montefiore · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

International sensation Santa Montefiore presents the first book in a trilogy that follows three Irish women through the decades of the twentieth century - perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Hazel Gaynor.Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill is special...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Last Days of Night: A Novel

Graham Moore · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America - from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and author of The SherlockianSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING...
Read More check catalog