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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 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.
SUMMER 2026 PICKS
From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
Fiction
She found the literary voices that would inspire the world…. The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance, written by Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian.
Nonfiction
From National Book Award-winning author Evan Osnos comes a collection of essays exploring American oligarchy, billionaire culture, and the new Gilded Age, offering a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape–and sometimes warp–our social and political landscape.
Nonfiction
The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life’s story.
Fiction
From the best-selling author of Underland and “the great nature writer…of this generation” (Wall Street Journal), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers–and life itself.
Nonfiction
A wry and tender novel about three very different sisters reunited in adulthood for one short summer in coastal Japan, navigating domestic life with their sharp-edged grandmother and decidedly avoiding resurfaced memories of their mother’s disappearance.
Fiction
Set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of an award-winning journalist’s effort to hold on to her family’s ancestral Hawaiian lands–and find herself along the way.
Nonfiction
An instant New York Times bestseller, this is the electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits.
Nonfiction
The story of one family told three different ways, leading to three different fates — a dazzling debut that asks: Can a name shape the course of a life?
Fiction
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending novel full of secrets and surprises, and an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known.
Fiction