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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.
FALL 2025 PICKS
“When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives.”
Fiction
“A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, The Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown with just a tinge of darkness.”
Fiction
“The biting, incisive, and hilarious Colored Television. . . skewers Hollywood culture while offering a thoughtful take on how creatives balance making art with making a living.”
Nonfiction
“A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves.”
Fiction
“A poignant meditation on addiction, heartbreak, and the reality of life on the road in smalltime bands, The Horse is a beautiful, haunting tale from an author working at the height of his powers.”
Fiction
“A captivating memoir that immerses readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean.”
Nonfiction
“This genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society.”
Nonfiction
“An elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations.”
Fiction
“An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author’s life and family, and the role of fiction in our times.”
Nonfiction
“In this ‘espionage-laden family epic’ (Vanity Fair), an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy — and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties.”
Fiction