If you’ve ever felt a bursting desire to talk about a book you just finished with someone else who knows exactly what you went through, start a book club with your friends! Discuss how the characters lured you into suspecting the wrong person in a murder mystery or the thrill you felt the moment you knew the couple was finally falling in love or how you absolutely weren’t fooled by the narrator’s attempts to misdirect you.
Below are some suggestions for your first book club read, or you can ask Library staff for more personalized recommendations.
Stuck Up and Stupid by Angourie Rice & Kate Rice – A “slow burn” contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice recommended by Reese’s Book Club
The Swan’s Daughter: A Possibly Doomed Love Story by Roshani Chokshi – A fairy tale love story based on mythology and recommended by Good Morning America’s Book Club
I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This by Eugene Yelchin – A graphic novel memoir about a young man facing the dangers of trying to be creative in Soviet Russia in the early 1980s
The Cousins by Karen M. McManus – A twisty mystery about three cousins uncovering the deadly secrets in their family and trying to win over their wealthy grandmother, written by the author of One of Us is Lying
The Leaving Room by Amber McBride – A novel-in-verse love story about a Keeper, someone in the space between life and death who ushers young souls into the after life, falling in love with another Keeper, a National Book Award Finalist
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart – A mystery thriller with an ending you’ll never guess, recently adapted into an Amazon Prime original show
Scythe by Neal Shusterman – Two scythe apprentices in a dystopian deathless world compete to become a new reaper or die, a Printz Honor Book