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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.
SUMMER 2025 PICKS
“Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument.”
Nonfiction
“New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.”
Fiction
“Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.”
Fiction
“The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.”
Nonfiction
“If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny? (This) brilliantly constructed tale looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world.”
Fiction
“An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery.”
Nonfiction
“In her first book, The Other Significant Others, NPR editor and producer Rhaina Cohen presents an eye-opening exploration of the many ways friendship, in various forms, can enrich and empower lives for the better.”
Nonfiction
“For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this ‘mind-bending take on time travel’ (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.”
Fiction
“From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family summer vacation full of secrets, lunch, and learning to let go.”
Fiction
“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