Host An Unforgettable Book Club Party

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first child. So imagine her surprise when, after a fall, she comes to on the floor of a gym and discovers that she’s actually thirty-nine, has three children, and is in the midst of an acrimonious divorce.

Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin

In a strange New York City at the turn of the nineteenth century, Peter Lake is being pursued by the murderous Pearly Soames and his Short Tails gang, when he is rescued by Athansor, a beautiful and extraordinary white horse that becomes his companion. Peter burglarizes the wealthy homes on the Upper West Side and comes upon the consumptive and dying Beverly Penn.

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

This is the story of Wang Lung’s life through feast and famine in his small Chinese village of Anhwei. He reaped the riches the land brought him during times of feast and he suffered devastating poverty during times of famine but he would never sell his land.

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

The Mulvaneys are living the American ideal. But, this ideal family begins to slowly and painfully fall apart after tragedy befalls only daughter Marianne following her high school prom in 1976.

The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans

The Christmas Box is about a young family that moves in with an elderly woman, MaryAnne Parkin, to help her with meal preparation and to care for her old mansion. They develop a deep friendship with Mary who teaches the overworked Richard about the first gift of Christmas.

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

The Dovekeepers is the story of four Jewish women who come together during the siege of Masada in the 1st-century CE.

Over 900 rebel Jewish men, women and children make a final stand against the Roman army on the mountain fortress of Masada in the Judean desert. As the Roman Army advances, the Jewish holdouts choose suicide over Roman enslavement. Two women and five children are known to have survived.

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Lev and his cellmate Kolya are sent on a mission to find a dozen eggs for the wedding cake of a powerful colonel’s daughter in a harsh Soviet winter during WWII.

Nightwoods by Charles Frazier

Nightwoods by Charles Frazier is set in the 1960s deep in the southern Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.
Luce, a woman traumatized as a teen chooses to isolate herself and live alone, until the twins of her murdered sister Lily are dropped at her doorstep.

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

In rural Mississippi, Larry lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion when his date went missing over 20 years ago. Silas, who was once a friend of Larry’s, is the town constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they’ve buried and ignored for decades.