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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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Join the 2026 Whatcom READS community discussion by reading Solito by Javier Zamora with your book group. Then watch for upcoming events starting in Fall 2025 that explore themes from the book.
WINTER 2026 PICKS
“An ‘impeccably researched’ (Washington Post) work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation’s earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.”
Nonfiction
“We embraced the mediated life — from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse — because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp the boundaries between virtual and real. What are the costs? Who are we in a disembodied world?”
Nonfiction
“Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana.”
Fiction
“An ‘absolutely transformative’ (People) culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family–sustenance and survival–from a chef, award-winning journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor.”
Nonfiction
“An epic saga about a French noblewoman deserted on an island where her survival depends on the power of her faith and love — from the New York Times bestselling author of Sam, A Read with Jenna Pick.”
Fiction
“Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.”
Fiction
“From one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities across the world and reflecting on the transformative importance of literature in understanding ourselves.”
Nonfiction
“Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills.”
Fiction
“From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a stunning reimagining of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. Split between England and Nigeria, two extraordinary cousins are set on vastly different paths as they come to terms with their shared family history–a masterful exploration of race, identity, and love.”
Fiction
“A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this richly imagined and empowering story of motherhood, magic, and legacy in the vein of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina and La Hacienda.”
Fiction