Wow Your Book Club With 1 of These 50 New Book Suggestions

Want to impress your book club with a read everyone will like? We're here to help you find a book that every member will rave about. We've rounded up a list of 50 new books to bring to the table, all ripe for discussion and many that might be totally new to your members.

Whether your group favors historical fiction, psychological thrillers, or thought-provoking memoirs, we have something that even the pickiest of readers will love. Check out our list, and get ready to be the star of your next book club discussion.

01
Every Note Played

Every Note Played

In Every Note Played, Still Alice author Lisa Genova tells the story of a concert pianist suffering from ALS and the ex-wife who must become his reluctant caretaker.


02
My Dear Hamilton

My Dear Hamilton

From the authors of America's First Daughter, Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamdie, My Dear Hamilton is a fictionalized exploration of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a wronged wife in the center of a political sex scandal and a revolutionary woman struggling to define herself.

03
The Home For Unwanted Girls

The Home For Unwanted Girls

Based on true events, Joanna Goodman's The Home For Unwanted Girls is about a young unwed mother forcibly separated from her daughter at birth in 1950s Quebec and their journey to find each other years later.

04
Rainbirds

Rainbirds

In Clarissa Goenawan's debut novel, Rainbirds, she introduces a young man who abandons his home in Tokyo to take on his murdered sister's newly vacant teaching position, as well as to find out what led to her murder.

05
The Night Child

The Night Child

In Anna Quinn's The Night Child, a high school English teacher is pushed toward a psychological breakdown when she is visited by a child-like apparition.

06
Good Neighbors

Good Neighbors

Good Neighbors by Joanne Serling is a portrait of four young suburban families that form a neighborhood clique, but when one of the couples adopts a young girl from Russia, the loyalty and morality of the group is called into question.

08
Shadow Child

Shadow Child

Told in interwoven narratives between 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's Shadow Child is about twin sisters whose bond is broken by the death of their mother but restored years later by a secret that will change everything.

09
A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise

A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise

In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise, Sandra Allen translates her uncle Bob's real autobiography, an often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a "true story" about being "labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic" that Bob begs her to put out into the world.

10
The Unmade World

The Unmade World

Steve Yarbrough's The Unmade World covers a decade in the lives of an American journalist and a Polish small businessman turned petty criminal in the aftermath of a tragic encounter during a snowy night in Krakow.

11
Unwifeable

Unwifeable

From the popular dating columnist for New York magazine, Mandy Stadtmiller, Unwifeable is a memoir about countless failed high-profile hookups and blackout nights in the New York comedy and writing scene.

12
Educated

Educated

Tara Westover's memoir, Educated, is about her unconventional upbringing by Mormon survivalists who homeschooled Westover and her six siblings.

13
The Glitch

The Glitch

Elisabeth Cohen's The Glitch is the story of Shelley Stone, a high-profile Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has everything . . . until a woman claiming to be a younger version of her appears, forcing Stone to question if she is buckling under pressure.


14
Women in Sunlight

Women in Sunlight

From Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Women in Sunlight is about an American writer living in Tuscany, Kit Raine, whose work is waylaid by the arrival of three women new to Italian culture and in need of Kit's friendship and guidance.

15
Still Lives

Still Lives

Still Lives by Maria Hummel is the story of avant-garde artist Kim Lord, whose new exhibition — comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous murdered women — is set to debut, but when opening night comes, Kim is nowhere to be found.

16
Self-Portrait With Boy

Self-Portrait With Boy

Rachel Lyon's debut, Self-Portrait With Boy, is about an ambitious young female artist who accidentally captures a boy falling to his death in the background of her self-portrait — an image that could jump-start her career but would irrevocably damage her relationship with a new friend, who happens to be the fallen boy's mother.

17
Text Me When You Get Home

Text Me When You Get Home

Through dozens of interviews with historians, creators, authors, and other experts, journalist Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home offers a new sociological perspective — as well as a celebration — of female friendships today.

18
I Am, I Am, I Am

I Am, I Am, I Am

I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's moving memoir about the 17 near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her and her daughter's lives.

19
Gun Love

Gun Love

Prayers For the Stolen author Jennifer Clement's latest novel, Gun Love, is about a mother and daughter living out of a '94 Mercury in Central Florida, an area populated by gun owners with an incredible passion for their firearms.

20
Everyone Knows You Go Home

Everyone Knows You Go Home

Chasing the Sun author Natalia Sylvester's latest novel, Everyone Knows You Go Home, tells the story of a Mexican-American couple, Isabel and Martin, who allow Martin's teenage nephew to take refuge after he crosses the Mexican border, but they also receive unwelcome visits from the spirit of Martin's estranged father, Omar.

21
You All Grow Up and Leave Me

You All Grow Up and Leave Me

Piper Weiss's memoir, You All Grow Up and Leave Me, tells the story of her childhood in Manhattan's exclusive private-school scene in the early 1990s and her middle-aged tennis coach, who killed himself after a failed attempt to kidnap one of his teenage students.

22
The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

Exploring the minutiae of a woman's everyday life over a period of decades, Jana Casale's The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky is a collage of one woman's small attempts to carve meaning out of the ordinary.

23
Oliver Loving

Oliver Loving

In Stefan Merrill Block's Oliver Loving, a new medical test promises to unlock the mind of a boy who has been trapped in a coma for 10 years, which could finally allow his family to figure out the truth of what happened 10 years earlier.

24
Keep Her Safe

Keep Her Safe

K.A. Tucker's Keep Her Safe tells the story of Noah and Gracie, the son of a decorated police chief and the daughter of a corrupt cop, who band together to uncover the dark truth about the Austin Police Department's past.

25
The Friend

The Friend

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez tells the story of a woman who, in the wake of her best friend's suicide, finds herself burdened — and eventually bonded — with the unwanted Great Dane he left behind.

26
The Parking Lot Attendant

The Parking Lot Attendant

Nafkote Tamirat's The Parking Lot Attendant is about a girl and her father, who become members of a tightly knit Ethiopian community in Boston, only to find that the commune is not nearly as harmonious as they believed and that its founders intended.

27
Would You Rather?

Would You Rather?

In Katie Heaney's book of essays, Would You Rather?, she opens up about realizing at the age of 28 that she is gay, as well as how she learned to accept herself and her new identity in the New York City dating scene.

28
Anatomy of a Miracle

Anatomy of a Miracle

In Jonathan Miles's Anatomy of a Miracle, a paraplegic who finds himself suddenly able to stand is thrust into the limelight, and the secret behind the injury that put him in the wheelchair threatens to be revealed.

29
Sometimes I Lie

Sometimes I Lie

In Alice Feeney's Sometimes I Lie, a woman wakes up in a hospital, unable to move, speak, or open her eyes, and though she doesn't remember how she ended up there, she suspects her husband had something to do with it.

30
Our Kind of Cruelty

Our Kind of Cruelty

Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall is the story of Mike Hayes, who dedicates himself to shaping the perfect life for Verity Metcalf, the woman who taught him about love, and even though V won't return his calls and is engaged to someone else, Mike is convinced it is all part of a secret game she is playing.

31
I'll Be Gone in the Dark

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

Published after journalist Michelle McNamara's sudden death, I'll Be Gone in the Dark tracks McNamara's dogged pursuit of the Golden State Killer, a mysterious and violent predator who committed 50 sexual assaults and 10 sadistic murders in California.

32
The Gunners

The Gunners

In The Gunners, Rebecca Kauffman, author of Another Place You've Never Been, tells the story of a man suffering from macular degeneration who reconnects with his childhood friends after one of them commits suicide.

33
Then She Was Gone

Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone tells the story of Laurel Mack — a mother trying to put her life back together after her 15-year-old daughter goes missing and her marriage crumbles — who meets a man whose daughter reminds her viscerally of her own missing child.

34
The Queen of Hearts

The Queen of Hearts

Kimberly Martin's debut, The Queen of Hearts, tells the story of best friends and medical doctors Zadie and Emily, whose friendship is put on the line when the unexpected reappearance of a man from their past forces both women to examine the difficult choices made at the beginning of their careers.

35
In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills

In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills

Jennifer Haupt's In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills is the interwoven story of three women searching for family and forgiveness, spanning from 1968 Atlanta after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. through postgenocide Rwanda and present-day New York City.

36
Asymmetry

Asymmetry

Told in three distinct sections, Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry is about a young editor and her relationship with a famous older writer, an Iraqi-American man detained by immigration officers, and the thread that ties these two seemingly disparate stories together.

37
Census

Census

In Census, Jesse Ball tells the story of a dying widower who signs up to be a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau so he can go on one last trip with his adult son, who has Down's syndrome.

38
Our Little Secret

Our Little Secret

Roz Nay's Our Little Secret tells the story of Angela Petitjean, a woman who is taken into questioning after the wife of her high school sweetheart goes missing, even though she hasn't seen her old boyfriend in eight years.

39
Only Child

Only Child

Rhiannon Navin's Only Child tells the story of 6-year-old Zach Taylor, who sets out on a journey toward healing and forgiveness after a gunman takes the lives of 19 of his classmates.

40
Mrs.

Mrs.

Caitlin Macy's Mrs. is the story of Philippa Lye, an elegant Upper East Sider with a shadowy past, whose precariously balanced life is challenged by a childhood acquaintance and an insightful newcomer.

41
The Spring Girls

The Spring Girls

Anna Todd's The Spring Girls is a modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, in which the Spring sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy — live on a New Orleans military base and struggle to escape from their humble station in life.

42
The Other Side of Everything

The Other Side of Everything

In Lauren Doyle Owens's The Other Side of Everything, a neighborhood murder brings together a curmudgeonly widower, a cancer survivor, and a teenage waitress in unexpected ways.

43
America Is Not the Heart

America Is Not the Heart

In Elaine Castillo's debut novel, America Is Not the Heart, a family with three generations of women struggles to find the promise of the American dream and leave behind the political upheaval they escaped in the Philippines.

44
The Girl Who Smiled Beads

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

The Girl Who Smiled Beads is the true story of Clemantine Wamariya, who fled the Rwandan massacre at 6 years old, only to find herself taken in by a family in Chicago, raised as their own, and given opportunities she couldn't have dreamed of in Rwanda.

45
Whiskey & Ribbons

Whiskey & Ribbons

In Leesa Cross-Smith's Whiskey & Ribbons, a woman who is nine months pregnant becomes widowed when her police officer husband is killed in the line of duty, and her husband's adopted brother must move in to help her care for her new child.

46
Stray City

Stray City

Chelsey Johnson's debut, Stray City, is the story of a 23-year-old lesbian who escapes her Midwestern Catholic childhood to live outside of the closet in Portland, OR, but when a drunken night leads to a one-night stand with a man and an unwanted pregnancy, she must deal with the repercussions.


47
The Wild Birds

The Wild Birds

In her debut, The Wild Birds, Emily Strelow weaves together the stories of a young girl disguised as a boy to work as a lighthouse keeper's assistant in 1870s San Francisco, a nomad scouring the Sierras for refuge in 1941, and a precocious 15-year-old trying to find a place for herself in present-day Burning Hills, OR.

48
Something in the Water

Something in the Water

In Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water, a documentary filmmaker and an investment banker on their honeymoon in Bora Bora discover something menacing while scuba-diving, and they must decide whether to reveal it or keep it secret.


49
Daphne

Daphne

Will Boast reimagines the myth of Daphne and Apollo in his debut novel, Daphne, in which a woman who suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion meets a shy, charming man, and she must decide whether to continue her life in isolation or risk attempting real intimacy.


50
All the Beautiful Girls

All the Beautiful Girls

In Elizabeth J. Church's All the Beautiful Girls, a woman who survived the childhood car accident that killed her family moves to Las Vegas with the hope of being a troupe dancer, but she instead lands work as a showgirl.