Want to rock your book discussion group with controversy, stellar writing, and the unexpected?
 
Here are three books everyone will want to add to this year’s list!
 
Faith by Jennifer Haigh
In Jennifer Haigh’s Faith, a sister turns a cool omniscient eye on her troubled Irish-American family. It’s the summer of 2002. Sexual abuse charges, perpetrated within [...]

This holiday season as you pass the turkey, Aunt Cindy’s cranberry delight, and the proverbial Waldorf salad, pass along these irresistible book titles as well, which are sure to generate (despite football) some lively family discussions—some that may even go into overtime.
The Arrivals by Meg Mitchell Moore
Readers are reminded of the pliancy and flexibility of [...]

More and more book groups tell us they are looking for titles that will bring men to the
discussion table—so here are three sure to intrigue both Mars and Venus.
Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff
A child goddess, she skipped through gardens of fantastical beasts’ giraffe and rhinoceros,
leopards, and monkeys. By the time she was a teen-aged queen, [...]

The tide’s coming in and your sunblock’s long since disappeared, but here are three summer reads you won’t be able to put down. 
You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
Meg Brady of 12A has become obsessed with her neighbor, Natalya Torres, whose self-serving behavior and Heidi Klum beauty belie terrible secrets—some of which [...]

Tired of all those Skittle-colored book jackets with less than memorable plots, one-dimensional characters obsessed with men and their Jimmy Choos—and not necessarily in that order—and endings you could have written in your sleep?
When Tito Loved Clara by Jon Michaud
Seriously assimilated librarian, Clara Lugo, is a Dominican-American woman who can’t live far enough away from [...]

Room by Emma Donoghue
Readers’ courage just might be a prerequisite for picking up and getting through Emma Donoghue’s Room—a nearly inconceivable tale of a girl abducted at nineteen by a sociopath and imprisoned for five years in a small, secluded backyard shed.
During that time, the girl became impregnated, not once but twice, and out of [...]