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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 2025 Whatcom READS community discussion by reading No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister with your book group. Then watch for upcoming events starting in Fall 2024 that explore themes from the book.
FALL 2024 PICKS
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a frank and emotional memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid.
Fiction
The enthralling story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, this is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.
Fiction
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own.
Nonfiction
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.
Nonfiction
A propulsive and moving tale of wartime love, family, and loss, as an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Việt Nam War that will reverberate throughout each other’s lives.
Fiction
A high-tech drama involving an eclectic group of characters, including a survivalist influencer, the daughter of a cult leader, and three tech moguls as the world undergoes a drastic change.
Fiction
In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross.
Fiction
For fans of Michael Pollan and Anthony Bourdain, this “surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines” — from Neolithic bread to ancient Roman fish sauce — reveals why reviving the foods of the past is the key to saving the future.
Nonfiction
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries — “a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic.”
Fiction
As a once-bustling mall prepares to shut its doors for the final time, the residents of an upstate New York town must reckon with a shocking act that forces them to reevaluate who they are in this “remarkable study of ordinary people’s extraordinary inner lives.”
Fiction