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If you’re in need of new selections for your book club, we can help! Our quarterly picks lists below are filled with engaging titles sure to spark lively discussion. For each title, we:
- purchase multiple copies so they’ll be available to book club members
- purchase multiple formats so you can read the way you like best
- commit to keeping the titles for 18 months from the time we pick them so you can plan ahead
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Whatcom READS
Join the 2027 Whatcom READS community discussion by reading I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger with your book group. Then watch for upcoming events starting in Fall 2026 that explore themes from the book.
SPRING 2026 PICKS
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from nature.
Nonfiction
“A poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and the search for independence in a society that seeks to limit it. Winner of the Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year 2024.”
Fiction
“A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom — and her family’s ties to it — in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.”
Fiction
“A unique and brilliantly illuminating look at soccer, the world’s most popular sport, as a lens through which to view the pressing issues of our age, from the clash of civilizations to the global economy.”
Nonfiction
“Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife.”
Fiction
“In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger.”
Nonfiction
“A harrowing and redemptive memoir in which a new mother must reconstruct her shattered mind, her relationship to her religious upbringing, and her life’s purpose.”
Nonfiction
“For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.”
Fiction
“From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist comes an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest.”
Nonfiction
“For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers’ life.”
Fiction