January: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Fiction/Mystery)
When a father goes missing, his family’s desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another – both a riveting page-turner and a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis; from the award winning author of Miracle Creek.
February: The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Loigman (Fiction/Romance)
On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart sixty years earlier.
March: Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson (Historical Fiction)
The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
April: Tomorrow Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Fiction/Adventure)
In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.
May: Maid by Stephanie Land (Non Fiction)
Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it’s like to be in service to them. “I’d become a nameless ghost,” Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients, many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner. As she begins to discover more about her clients’ lives-their sadness and love, too-she begins to find hope in her own path.
June: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Fiction/Thriller)
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
July: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Fiction/Classic)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic American novel by Mark Twain, published in 1885, that follows the journey of a young boy, Huck Finn, and a runaway slave, Jim, down the Mississippi River. It’s celebrated as a masterpiece for its satirical critique of racism, hypocrisy, and societal norms in the antebellum South. old in a distinct vernacular English that captures the American voice.
August: James by Percival Everett (Fiction/New)
A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before.
September: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Fiction/Thriller)
First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate.
October: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (Science Fiction)
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.
November: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (Fiction/Magical Realism)
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a truth and understanding that strike the soul.
A masterpiece of the art of fiction.
December: The Improbable Victoria Woodhull by Eden Collinsworth (Biography)
From the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th century businesswoman and activist and a leader in the fight for women’s suffrage and labor reforms. A masterpiece of the art of fiction.
