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Readathon - 9/13
Glasser Book Club Pick - The Bewitching
Books Mentioned -
The Good House by Tananarive Due
Another by Paul Tremblay
September
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
Nonfiction, memoir, mother/daughter relationship, India
Hot Desk by Laura Dickerman
Romance, book world, rival book editors
Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross
Set in the Divine Rivals universe
All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert
Memoir, love, queer, addiction, codependency
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
New Robert Langdon book
History Matters by David McCullough
Essay collection
Awake by Jen Hatmaker
Memoir, grief, divorce, infidelity, marriage
What Can We Know by Ian McEwan
Sci fi, a hundred years in the future an academic searches for a mysterious poem read out loud in 2014
What a Time to Be Alive by Jade Chang
Grieving broke young woman accidentally become viral self help guru
It’s Me They Follow by Jeannine Cook
Magical realism, bookstore owner helps people find love through books but is lonely herself
Best Woman by Rose Dommu
Literary fiction, family dramedy, coming-of-age, trans protagonist, wedding drama
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Literary fiction, female friendship across 25 years
Vianne by Joanne Harris
Sequel to Chocolat
Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely? by Sarah McCoy
Literary fiction, 1950s actress leaves to become a nun
Life and Death and Giants by Ron Rindo
Literary fiction, teenage boy who is almost eight feet tall and changes people who meet him
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Takami Nieda
Literary fiction, feel good, Japan, people get emotionally healed by a hippo ride at a playground
We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
Weird fiction, both prequel and sequel to Bunny
One of Us by Dan Chaon
Horror, historical, 1915, orphaned twins on the run join a carnival
Dinner at the Night Library by Hika Harada, translated by Philip Gabriel
Literary, Japan, food, Tokyo library/cafe that is only open at night and serves meals inspired by books by dead authors
A Different Kind of Tension by Jonathan Lethem
Short stories, literary, surreal, specific
Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood
Literary, woman with strange disease starts to lose grip on reality in pandemic
Little Movements by Lauren Morrow
Literary, race, class, art, small town, choreography
Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan, translated by Jesse Kirkwood
Sci fi, Japan, near future, architect designing a skyscraper for housing criminals becomes friends with chatbot
The Killer Question by Janice Hallett
Mystery, amateur sleuth must solve a murder set during pub trivia, clubs are revealed through trivia questions, texts, and emails
A Killer Wedding by Joan O’Leary
Mystery, matriarch of ultra-rich Irish family is found dead at expensive wedding
A Murderous Business by Cathy Pegau
Mystery, queer, historical, NYC
A Rather Peculiar Poisoning by Chrystal Schleyer
Historical cozy mystery, turn of the century, two brothers vie for the same woman, one gets poisoned
The Librarians by Sherry Thomas
Mystery, four librarians band together after two patrons show up dead
The Belles by Lacey N. Dunham
Thriller, dark academia, h
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