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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.
Book Club Picks
If you’re in need of new selections for your book club, we can help! Our quarterly picks 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
FALL 2026 PICKS
“The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves?”
Fiction
“A searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists–the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.”
Fiction
“A propulsive, never-before-told story of one family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.”
Nonfiction
“From the critically acclaimed author of Shotgun Lovesongs comes an exquisitely written, small-town story about one couple’s hard-won second chance at love, forty years after their divorce.”
Fiction
“Megha Majumdar’s electrifying novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other.”
Fiction
“In the book which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Dillard writes in the form of a journal, trying to understand God by chronicling the seasons along Tinker Creek in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains, and by exploring the paradoxical coexistence of beauty and violence.”
Fiction
“A magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of Norway, where his only companion was an old woman who practiced the ancient tradition of collecting eiderdown from birds that nest on this remarkable landscape each year.”
Nonfiction
“From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins–and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit–comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.”
Fiction
“A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today, and the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love, and resurgence.”
Nonfiction
“From the beloved, New York Times bestselling author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves, a novel about a family living alone on a remote island, when a mysterious woman washes up on shore.”
Fiction