Our book group choice for May 2024 is Here We Are by Graham Swift. The story – set in 1959 Brighton, England – revolves around three entertainers in a seaside variety show: Ronnie, the magician; Evie, his enchanting assistant; and Jack, the charismatic compere.
Our book group choice for April 2024 is Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. June Hayward is a struggling writer yearning for recognition. Her world collides with Athena Liu, a rising literary star lauded for her insightful novels exploring the Asian American experience. June sees in Athena everything she desires: success, fame, and validation.
Our book group choice for March 2024 is Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Hideo Harada exists in a quiet, unremarkable world. A television writer creeping towards middle age in 1980s Japan, Hideo’s life is steeped in routine and subtle loneliness.
Our book group choice for February 2024 is Mrs. Bridge by Evan S Connell. The book offers a poignant glimpse into the seemingly idyllic life of India Bridge, a wife and mother in 1930s Kansas City. Through 117 brief episodes, Connell paints a nuanced portrait of a woman grappling with societal shifts, personal doubts, and the quiet ache of unfulfilled
Our book group choice for January 2024 is Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Enter Green Town, Illinois, where shadows whisper secrets and a sinister carnival creeps under a blood-red moon.
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Our book group choice for December 2023 is Lady Susan by Jane Austen. Forget matchmaking heroines and dashing suitors. Step into the daring world of Lady Susan, Jane Austen’s unpublished masterpiece where morality dances a waltz with desire.
London, UK (20 Dec 2023) — Charles Dickens features twice, joining six other authors in the The Loveliest Book Group Pantheon Class of 2023, announced today in London. British classics David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol join Great Expectations – inducted in the inaugural class earlier in the year – to lift Dickens’ to the most entries (3) in the London-based
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Our book group choice for November 2023 is For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain, by Victoria MacKenzie. MacKenzie’s debut novel is a fictionalized account of the meeting between two extraordinary medieval women: Margery Kempe, a visionary mystic and pilgrim, and Julian of Norwich, an anchoress who lived in a tiny cell for over sixty years.
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Our book group choice for October 2023 is Slow Horses by Mick Herron. Slow Horses is a darkly humorous spy thriller by Mick Herron, following a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who have been relegated to Slough House, a dumping ground department of MI5.
Our book group choice for September 2023 is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. A coming-of-age novel set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, it tells the story of Damon Fields, a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer.
