The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Format used for this read: Audiobook) In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there…
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to…
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (Format for this read: Audiobook) Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a…
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (Format used for this read: Audiobook) I read this book for the first time 3 years ago and absolutely LOVED IT. When someone in my book club picked this as our monthly read this month, I was kinda JAZZED to dig into it again, remembering how weird and wonderful it was.…
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in more than 60 years – a book…
The Women by Kristin Hannah (Format used for this read: Audiobook) An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of…
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike — particularly by the members of a secret society of female students…
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled…
Demon Copperhead by Barbra Kingsolver (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.…
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only…