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This month we will be discussing The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.
The 2025/2026 book nominees are:
CLASSIC (PICK 1)
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
NON-FICTION/AUTO-BIO/BIO (PICK 1)
A Place Called Home – David Ambroz
In the Country We Love: A Family Divided – Dianne Guerrero
Know My Name – Chanel Miller
The Many Lives of Mama Love – Lara Love Hardin
Unseen: How I lost my Vision but Found my Voice – Molly Burke
ROMANCE (PICK 1)
Until Next Summer – Ali Brady
Great Big Beautiful Life – Emily Henry
Stuck Up and Stupid – Angourie Rice and Kate Rice
I Hope This Finds You Well – Natalie Sue
Yours Truly – Abby Jimenez
SCI-FI/FANTASY (PICK 2)
The Power – Naomi Alderman
The Tainted Cup – Robert Jackson Bennett
I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Haprman
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Heartless Hunter – Kristen Ciccarelli
Motheater – Linda Codega
Every Version of You – Grace Chan
Annie Bot – Sierra Greer
The Teller of Small Fortunes – Julie Leong
An Academy for Liars – Alexis Henderson
THRILLER/MYSTERY/HORROR (PICK 2)
Look Closer – David Ellis
Love Letters to A Serial Killer – Tasha Coryell
We Used To Live Here – Marcus Kliewer
The Long Call – Ann Cleeves
We Are All the Same in the Dark – Julia Heaberlin
The Woman in the Library – Sulari Gentill
The Midnight Feast – Lucy Foley
Culpability: A Novel – Bruce Holsinger
The First Gentleman – James Patterson and Bill Clinton
The Teacher – Frieda McFadden
Notes on Execution – Danya Kukafka
HISTORICAL FICTION (PICK 2)
The Book of Lost Names – Kristin Harmel
Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams
Good Dirt – Charmaine Wilkinson
Becoming Madam Secretary – Stephanie Dray
As Bright as Heaven – Susan Meissner
Finding Margaret Fuller – Allison Pataki
Isola – Allegra Goodman
Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys
Where the Lost Wander – Amy Harmon
The House of Eve – Sadeqa Johnson
FICTION (PICK 3)
Shark Heart: A Love Story – Emily Habeck
Beartown – Fredrik Backman
The Friends We Keep – Jane Green
The Wedding People – Alison Espach
Weyward – Emila Hart
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
How to Read a Book – Monica Wood
The Great Alone – Kristen Hannah
Our Missing Hearts – Celest Ng
The Magic of Found Objects – Maddie Dawson
Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult
The River is Waiting – Wally Lamb
Atmosphere – Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Cliffs – J. Courtney Sullivan
The Most Fun We Ever Had – Claire Lombardo
