Book clubs — Missed books in 2025
I mentioned earlier that I have a list of 40+ book clubs that I’m monitoring for “new to me” books to consider for my To Be Read (TBR) pile. I went through all of 2025, made a list of ones that interested me, and posted it. But it wasn’t the best of lists. I didn’t do a great job curating; I didn’t even check every club that I ended up including later, and I wanted a complete “database” of all the options. So, since I decided to build the Excel sheet with the help of Claude AI, I might as well share the list of books and results for 2025 that I missed the first time around. These are just the ones that I didn’t say yes to the first time — either I said NO but didn’t mention it, or I hadn’t rated them yet. Previous posts and my Reading Challenge have the other 2025 books I said yes to before.
2025: The 324 books that slipped off my lilypad
Total: 324 rows across 12 months with 29 YES, 62 MAYBE, 233 NO. I’m sure no one will snicker at me because I am quietly adding 91 books to my TBR pile without fanfare. #HoardingFrog
YES:
- The White Octopus Hotel, Alexandra Bell
- The Motherload, Sarah Hoover
- Searches, Vauhini Vara
- Lightbreakers, Aja Gabel
- Immaculate Conception, Ling Ling Huang
- Sisters in the Wind, Angeline Boulley
- The Women, Kristin Hannah x 3
- The Brotherhood of the Rose, David Morrell
- The Fraternity of the Stone, David Morrell
- The League of Night and Fog, David Morrell
- Point of Impact, Stephen Hunter
- Exit Strategy, Lee Child; Andrew Child
- Chutzpah Girls, Julie Silverstein; Tami Schlossberg Pruwer
- Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Boulley
- Turtle Island, Sean Sherman
- Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
- The Girl Next Door, Rachel Meredith
- Only Way Out, Tod Goldberg
- The Gun Man Jackson Swagger, Stephen Hunter
- Murder Takes a Vacation, Laura Lippman
- Witches of Dubious Origin, Jenn McKinlay
- Crooks, Lou Berney
- The Librarians, Sherry Thomas
- A Forty Year Kiss, Nickolas Butler
- The Phoenix Pencil Company, Allison King
- Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
MAYBE:
- Twist, Colum McCann
- Under the Same Stars, Libba Bray
- There’s Always Next Year, George M. Johnson; Leah Johnson
- An Inside Job, Daniel Silva
- The Secret of Secrets, Dan Brown
- The Tin Men, Alex DeMille; Nelson DeMille
- Saving Five, Amanda Nguyen
- A Different Kind of Power, Jacinda Ardern
- The Bone Thief, Vanessa Lillie
- A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
- The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong
- Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson
- Good Dirt, Charmaine Wilkerson
- The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman
- The Launch Date, Annabelle Slator
- Courtroom Drama, Neely Tubati Alexander
- Last Night Was Fun, Holly Michelle
- Friends to Lovers, Sally Blakely
- And Then There Was the One, Martha Waters
- The Marriage Method, Mimi Matthews
- Saint of the Narrows Street, William Boyle
- Hang On St Christopher, Adrian McKinty
- The Get Off, Christa Faust
- The Night in the City, Michael McGarrity
- The Medusa Protocol, Rob Hart
- The Gorgon of Los Feliz, Nolan Knight
- The Red Scare Murders, Con Lehane
- The Stolen Queen, Fiona Davis
- The Four Queens of Crime, Rosanne Limoncelli
- With a Vengeance, Riley Sager
- The Secret Sharers, Xiaolong Qiu
- Famous Last Words, Gillian McAllister x 2
- Murder at Gulls Nest, Jess Kidd
- The Dentist, Tim Sullivan
- Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, Martin Edwards
- Cover Art, Vanessa Westermann
- An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder, Lynn Cahoon
- Saltwater, Katy Hays
- You Belong Here, Megan Miranda
- Dead Money, Jakob Kerr
- This is Not a Game, Kelly Mullen
- The Library of Lost Dollhouses, Elise Hooper
- The English Masterpiece, Katherine Reay
- The Witch’s Orchard, Archer Sullivan
- The Harvey Girls, Juliette Fay
- The Confessions, Paul Bradley Carr
- Holy Island, L.J. Ross
- The Names, Florence Knapp
- A Family Matter, Claire Lynch
- The Irish Goodbye, Heather Aimee O’Neill
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Before I Forget, Tory Henwood Hoen
- Isola, Allegra Goodman
- You Are Here, David Nicholls
- Dead Simple, Peter James
- Don’t Believe a Word, Susan Lewis
- Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz
- The Satsuma Complex, Bob Mortimer
- The Shortlist, Andrew Raymond
- The Lucky Winners, K.L. Slater
- Thirst Trap, Grainne O’Hare
January 2025
22 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacious | Private Rites, Julia Armfield | Three sisters navigate inheritance and identity in a flooded Britain. | NO |
| Belletrist | The Motherload, Sarah Hoover | Honest motherhood memoir exposing the myth of immediate maternal joy | YES |
| Jack Carr | The Brotherhood of the Rose, David Morrell | Two orphans raised by a CIA handler as elite assassins, betrayed by their own | YES |
| The Fraternity of the Stone, David Morrell | Black-ops assassin in monastic hiding for 6 years pulled back into the field | YES | |
| The League of Night and Fog, David Morrell | Elderly former Nazis disappearing — Saul and Drew investigate a buried WWII conspiracy | YES | |
| Jewish Book Council – Fiction | The Trade Off, Samantha Greene Woodruff | Brilliant Jewish twin secretly drives her brother’s 1920s Wall Street career | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | Not From Here, Leah Lax | Librettist gathers immigrant stories, interweaves them with her Jewish family’s past | NO |
| Library Science | Set My Heart on Fire, Izumi Suzuki | Semi-autobiographical novel of 1970s Tokyo’s underground music scene | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Akwaeke Emezi | Grieving widow falls for off-limits man during tropical-island summer | NO |
| Natalie Portman | Saving Time, Jenny Odell | Philosophical cultural critique of productivity culture and clock time | NO |
| Native American | Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Boulley | Biracial Ojibwe teen goes undercover for FBI after witnessing murder | YES |
| Oprah 2.0 | A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle | Spiritual guide on transcending ego for personal and global awakening | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – British | Beautiful Ugly, Alice Feeney | Bestselling author seeks answers on remote Scottish island after wife vanishes | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | The Case of the Missing Maid, Rob Osler | Queer female detective investigates a missing maid case in 1898 Chicago | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | Head Cases, John McMahon | FBI cold-case unit pursues serial killer linked to its lead agent’s past | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | The Stolen Queen, Fiona Davis | Met curator’s Egypt past resurfaces after Met Gala artifact theft | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | Sweet Fury, Sash Bischoff | Actress preparing feminist Tender Is the Night adaptation unravels in therapy | NO |
| The Good Liars, Anita Frank | Housekeeper at 1920s English manor confronts missing-boy mystery and supernatural secrets | NO | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | Karma Doll, Jonathan Ames | Buddhist detective on a Mexican beach gets framed for murder | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | Shattering Dawn, Jayne Ann Krentz | Stalker mystery and psychic abilities draw together two suspicious investigators | NO |
| Reader’s Digest | The Lotus Shoes, Jane Yang | Foot-bound slave and her aristocratic mistress in 1800s Qing-dynasty China | NO |
| TeaTime | Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke | Rilke’s letters of advice to a young aspiring poet | NO |
February 2025
35 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnes & Noble | This Is a Love Story, Jessica Soffer | Fifty-year New York marriage recalled as artist wife is dying | NO |
| BBC Radio 2 | Human, Animal, Seth Insua | Dairy farmer’s family unravels when activists target their farm | NO |
| Nesting, Roisin O’Donnell | Dublin mother flees coercive husband into Ireland’s housing crisis | NO | |
| Belletrist | The Mystery Guest, Gregoire Bouillier | French autofiction: ex-lover calls with a birthday party invitation | NO |
| Black Men Read | Neighbors and Other Stories, Diane Oliver | Posthumous debut: 1960s Black American lives under Jim Crow | NO |
| Good Housekeeping | Confessions, Catherine Airey | Three generations of Irish women, NYC to Donegal, family secrets | NO |
| Good Morning America – Adult | Junie, Erin Crosby Eckstine | Enslaved teen on Alabama plantation awakens her sister’s ghost as Civil War looms | NO |
| Good Morning America – Young Adult | Under the Same Stars, Libba Bray | Three timelines connected by a German oak tree, Nazi era to today | MAYBE |
| Jack Carr | The JFK Conspiracy, Brad Meltzer; Josh Mensch | 1960 assassination plot against President-elect Kennedy and the Secret Service agent who foiled it | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Fiction | The Last Dekrepitzer, Howard Langer | Hasidic Holocaust survivor’s journey from Poland to Mississippi to Harlem | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | The In-Betweens, Davon Loeb | Essay memoir of growing up biracial in a Jewish-Protestant family | NO |
| Library Science | The Wickedest, Caleb Femi | One-night poetry sequence at a London house party | NO |
| Mindy’s Book Studio | The Rules of Fortune, Danielle Prescod | Daughter investigates her billionaire father’s empire after his death | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | Seven Days in June, Tia Williams | Black writers reunite after fifteen years for one Brooklyn week | NO |
| Natalie Portman | The Coin, Yasmin Zaher | Palestinian woman in NYC unravels through Birkin scams and obsessive purity | NO |
| Oprah 2.0 | Dream State, Eric Puchner | Love-triangle aftershocks span fifty years against a warming Montana backdrop | NO |
| PBS Books | Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson | Estranged siblings learn mother’s hidden Caribbean murder-suspect past via recorded inheritance | MAYBE |
| Good Dirt, Charmaine Wilkerson | Jilted Black heiress flees to France after a tragedy tied to family heirloom | MAYBE | |
| Poisoned Pen – British | The Wolf Tree, Laura McCluskey | Detectives investigate a suspicious death on a hostile Scottish island | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | The Oligarch’s Daughter, Joseph Finder | Ex-Wall Streeter flees Russian operatives after marrying an oligarch’s daughter | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | Fagin the Thief, Allison Epstein | Dickensian London origin story for Oliver Twist’s Jewish villain Fagin | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | Dead Money, Jakob Kerr | Silicon Valley fixer joins FBI investigation of tech CEO’s murder | MAYBE |
| A Forty Year Kiss, Nickolas Butler | Two Wisconsin ex-spouses reconnect forty years after their early breakup | YES | |
| Delayed Rays of a Star, Amanda Lee Koe | Three twentieth-century film legends’ lives traced from a 1928 Berlin photograph | NO | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | Saint of the Narrows Street, William Boyle | Italian American sisters bury a body, hide the secret eighteen years | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | The Launch Date, Annabelle Slator | Rival coworkers test a new IRL dating app together | MAYBE |
| Read with Jenna | This Is a Love Story, Jessica Soffer | Fifty-year New York marriage recalled as artist wife is dying | NO |
| Reader’s Digest | Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love, Marianne Cronin | Never-kissed 90-year-old Eddie searches for first love through a charity shop’s donations | NO |
| Reese | Isola, Allegra Goodman | Sixteenth-century French noblewoman marooned on a Gulf of St. Lawrence island after forbidden shipboard romance | MAYBE |
| Richard & Judy | The Women, Kristin Hannah | Idealistic young nurse serves in Vietnam War, returns home to indifference | YES |
| First Wife’s Shadow, Adele Parks | Domestic-noir twist: rich woman, widower husband, his perfect dead first wife | NO | |
| My Favourite Mistake, Marian Keyes | Walsh sister Anna returns to Ireland: perimenopause, retreat job, family chaos | NO | |
| One of the Good Guys, Araminta Hall | Self-described ‘good guy’ suspect when women’s-rights activists disappear in coastal town | NO | |
| Redemption, Jack Jordan | Mother plans revenge on the hit-and-run driver who killed her son | NO | |
| TeaTime | The Lamb, Lucy Rose | Folk horror; cannibal mother and daughter in Cumbrian woods | NO |
March 2025
26 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnes & Noble | Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall | First love returns to 1960s Dorset farm with fatal consequences | NO |
| BBC Radio 2 | Fundamentally, Nussaibah Younis | British academic deradicalizes ISIS women in Iraq, mirrors herself | NO |
| Belletrist | The Strange Case of Jane O., Karen Thompson Walker | New mother’s amnesia and hallucinations spiral into psychiatric mystery | NO |
| Jack Carr | Fearless, Eric Blehm | Biography of Navy SEAL Team Six operator Adam Brown — addiction, faith, sacrifice | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Fiction | We Would Never, Tova Mirvis | Mother becomes prime suspect in ex-husband’s murder amid bitter divorce | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | 10/7, Lee Yaron | 100 firsthand stories of October 7 Hamas attack on Israel | NO |
| Library Science | Early Thirties, Josh Duboff | Two thirtysomething best friends grow apart in New York | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | Finding Me, Viola Davis | Davis’s memoir: poverty in Rhode Island to Oscar in Hollywood | NO |
| Natalie Portman | Saving Five, Amanda Nguyen | Sexual assault survivor’s fight to pass the Survivors’ Bill of Rights | MAYBE |
| Native American | Sisters of the Lost Nation, Nick Medina | Indigenous teen hunts for missing girls amid horror and violence | NO |
| Oprah 2.0 | The Tell, Amy Griffin | Founder’s memoir of recovering repressed childhood abuse through psychedelic therapy | NO |
| PBS Books | The Women, Kristin Hannah | Idealistic young nurse serves in Vietnam War, returns home to indifference | YES |
| Poisoned Pen – British | Famous Last Words, Gillian McAllister | New mom learns her husband is the gunman in a London hostage siege | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | The Big Fix, Holly James | Bookish professor flees henchmen after a murder at an estate sale | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | Saltwater, Katy Hays | Daughter investigates her mother’s mysterious Capri cliff death thirty years later | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | The Four Queens of Crime, Rosanne Limoncelli | Real Golden Age crime writers solve a real-life 1938 country house murder | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall | First love returns to 1960s Dorset farm with fatal consequences | NO |
| Glamorous Notions, Megan Chance | Costume designer hides past Roman entanglements while reinventing herself in Hollywood | NO | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | Hang On St Christopher, Adrian McKinty | 1992 Belfast detective probes carjacking that killed an IRA assassin | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | The Lady Sparks a Flame, Elizabeth Everett | Complicated heroine with a traumatic past finds redemptive Victorian romance | NO |
| Reese | Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall | First love returns to 1960s Dorset farm with fatal consequences | NO |
| Richard & Judy | Precipice, Robert Harris | PM Asquith’s WWI-eve love letters to Venetia Stanley jeopardize state secrets | NO |
| The Missing Family, Tim Weaver | Three vanish in seconds from a Dartmoor lake boat; investigator hunts truth | NO | |
| What Have You Done?, Shari Lapena | Vermont teen murdered in a hayfield: sleepy small town, many suspects | NO | |
| Service 95 | There There, Tommy Orange | Twelve Native lives converge at the Big Oakland Powwow | NO |
| TeaTime | Loca, Alejandro Heredia | Two Afro-Dominican best friends remake their lives in 1990s NYC | NO |
April 2025
27 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBC Radio 2 | Ordinary Saints, Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin | Queer Irish woman confronts brother’s potential canonization as Catholic saint | NO |
| Who Wants to Live Forever, Hanna Thomas Uose | Couple split when miracle drug offers indefinite human lifespan | NO | |
| Belletrist | Searches, Vauhini Vara | Pulitzer finalist’s memoir-essays on AI, tech capitalism, and sister’s death | YES |
| Good Morning America – Adult | The Sirens, Emilia Hart | Sisters across two centuries bound by the sea and strange transformations | NO |
| Good Morning America – Young Adult | Watch Me, Tahereh Mafi | James Anderson infiltrates Ark Island, the last refuge of The Reestablishment, ten years after its fall | NO |
| Jack Carr | The Unvanquished, Patrick K. O’Donnell | Civil War shadow war: Lincoln’s Jessie Scouts hunt Confederate Mosby’s Rangers | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Fiction | Sons and Daughters, Chaim Grade | 1930s Polish shtetl rabbi’s family confronts modernity and impending Holocaust | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | How to Share an Egg, Bonny Reichert | Food memoir tracing intergenerational Holocaust trauma through Polish cooking | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor | Disabled Nigerian-American writer pens sci-fi epic that transforms her life | NO |
| Natalie Portman | Autocracy, Inc., Anne Applebaum | Networks of modern autocrats: kleptocracy, surveillance, propaganda across borders | NO |
| Native American | Washing My Mother’s Body, Joy Harjo | Illustrated standalone of Harjo’s elegy on washing her mother’s body | NO |
| Oprah 2.0 | Matriarch, Tina Knowles | Beyoncé’s mother on her Galveston roots, Knowles marriage, and self-reinvention | NO |
| PBS Books | Miss Austen, Gill Hornby | Cassandra Austen in 1840 protects sister Jane’s literary legacy from posthumous exposure | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – British | Murder at Gulls Nest, Jess Kidd | Former nun investigates missing pen pal’s disappearance at a 1950s boardinghouse | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | The Maid’s Secret, Nita Prose | Hotel maid investigates an art heist connected to her grandmother’s hidden past | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | The Museum Detective, Maha Khan Phillips | Karachi archaeologist authenticates a mysterious mummy while seeking her missing niece | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | The Girl from Greenwich Street, Lauren Willig | Hamilton and Burr defend an accused in America’s first murder trial | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | The Story She Left Behind, Patti Callahan Henry | Daughter crosses Atlantic in 1952 chasing her vanished author-mother’s lost invented language | NO |
| This is Not a Game, Kelly Mullen | Grandmother and game-designer granddaughter sleuth locked-room mansion murders during storm | MAYBE | |
| The Indigo Girl, Natasha Boyd | 1740s teen pioneers indigo cultivation on father’s South Carolina plantation | NO | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | The Get Off, Christa Faust | Ex-pornstar fugitive flees pregnant onto rodeo circuit after botched revenge hit | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | Gold Coast Adventure, Nana Malone | Ghanaian American heiress torn between arranged marriage and earlier love | NO |
| Read with Jenna | Heartwood, Amity Gaige | Missing Appalachian Trail hiker; three women’s perspectives on a desperate Maine search | NO |
| Reader’s Digest | The Story She Left Behind, Patti Callahan Henry | Daughter crosses Atlantic in 1952 chasing her vanished author-mother’s lost invented language | NO |
| Reese | All That Life Can Afford, Emily Everett | American grad student in London hides her working-class roots while drawn into a wealthy family’s Saint-Tropez world | NO |
| Service 95 | Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter | London father and sons grieve dead mother; mythic Crow visits | YES |
| TeaTime | The Antidote, Karen Russell | Dust Bowl Nebraska town reckons with buried violence and memory | NO |
May 2025
25 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacious | My Documents, Kevin Nguyen | Four cousins interned by US after attacks | NO |
| BBC Radio 2 | The Book of Guilt, Catherine Chidgey | Alternate-history 1979 England: triplet boys at sinister state orphanage | NO |
| Belletrist | Twist, Colum McCann | Irish journalist repairs deep-sea internet cables off West Africa | MAYBE |
| Good Housekeeping | Immaculate Conception, Ling Ling Huang | Art-school friends, mind-merging tech, toxic obsession | YES |
| Good Morning America – Adult | The Original Daughter, Jemimah Wei | Singapore sisters torn apart by ambition and family secrets in turn-of-millennium Bedok | NO |
| I Care About Books | The Women, Kristin Hannah | Idealistic young nurse serves in Vietnam War, returns home to indifference | YES |
| Jack Carr | Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield | Spartan Thermopylae from a captured helot’s perspective | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Fiction | Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory, Iddo Gefen | Israeli family builds tech startup around eccentric mother’s cloud-making desert invention | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | Chutzpah Girls, Julie Silverstein; Tami Schlossberg Pruwer | Illustrated bedtime book: 100 mini-biographies of daring Jewish women | YES |
| Mindy’s Book Studio | When Stars Align, Melissa de la Cruz | Three former teen Hollywood stars reunite after a decade | NO |
| Natalie Portman | Consider Yourself Kissed, Jessica Stanley | Decade-long literary romance set against London politics and motherhood | NO |
| Native American | Medicine River, Mary Annette Pember | Ojibwe journalist traces Indian boarding schools’ legacy through mother’s experience | NO |
| Oprah 2.0 | The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong | Suicidal Vietnamese-American teen becomes caretaker for elderly widow with dementia | MAYBE |
| PBS Books | We All Live Here, Jojo Moyes | Divorced mom’s life unravels when both stepdad and absent bio-dad move in | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – British | Death at the White Hart, Chris Chibnall | Detective probes a ritualistically staged murder in a picturesque Dorset village | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | Cover Art, Vanessa Westermann | Artist’s lakeside pop-up gallery is disrupted by murder via poisoned chocolates | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | This Book Will Bury Me, Ashley Winstead | Online amateur sleuths’ hunt for an elusive killer goes terribly wrong | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | A Death on Corfu, Emily Sullivan | 1898 Corfu widow investigates murder of local maid with visiting author | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | Heartwood, Amity Gaige | Missing Appalachian Trail hiker; three women’s perspectives on a desperate Maine search | NO |
| The Library of Lost Dollhouses, Elise Hooper | Library curator uncovers century-spanning secrets hidden inside historic dollhouses | MAYBE | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | The Night in the City, Michael McGarrity | 1950s NYC ADA accused of strangling his socialite ex-lover | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | Courtroom Drama, Neely Tubati Alexander | Jury duty for reality-TV murder trial sparks juror-box romance | MAYBE |
| Read with Jenna | The Names, Florence Knapp | Three alternating timelines for one boy based on the name his battered mother chose | MAYBE |
| Reader’s Digest | Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man), Jesse Q. Sutanto | Cozy mystery sequel: Vera Wong investigates a dead influencer with no real identity | NO |
| Service 95 | Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel | Two Mexico City friends navigate motherhood from opposite ends | NO |
June 2025
33 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacious | Marsha, Tourmaline | First definitive biography of Black trans activist Marsha P. Johnson | NO |
| Barnes & Noble | The Listeners, Maggie Stiefvater | 1942 West Virginia luxury hotel hosts interned Axis diplomats | NO |
| BBC Radio 2 | The Rush, Beth Lewis | Three women’s fates collide during 1898 Klondike Gold Rush murder | NO |
| Belletrist | Lush, Rochelle Dowden-Lord | Wine industry insiders’ secrets spill at a French vineyard | NO |
| Black Men Read | Don’t Cry for Me, Daniel Black | Dying Black father writes letters to his estranged gay son | NO |
| Good Morning America – Young Adult | Time After Time, Mikki Daughtry | Sapphic romance across two centuries, Victorian England to present | NO |
| I Care About Books | Erasure, Percival Everett | Black novelist parodies ghetto fiction and the parody becomes a hit | NO |
| Jack Carr | Point of Impact, Stephen Hunter | Retired Marine sniper drawn out of solitude into a presidential assassination conspiracy | YES |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | Kissing Girls on Shabbat, Sara Glass | Memoir of leaving Gur Hasidic sect to embrace queer identity | NO |
| Late Show | Orbital, Samantha Harvey | Six astronauts on the ISS, sixteen orbits, twenty-four hours | NO |
| Library Science | Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan | Seventeen-year-old’s jealous summer scheming on the French Riviera | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | A Good Cry, Nikki Giovanni | Poet Nikki Giovanni reflects on aging, family, and her grandparents | NO |
| Natalie Portman | The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt | Orphaned Marrakech-raised heiress versus a publishing giant pushing a trauma memoir | NO |
| Native American | Bad Cree, Jessica Johns | Cree woman’s grief dreams turn deadly when she returns home | NO |
| Oprah 2.0 | The River Is Waiting, Wally Lamb | Grieving father seeks redemption in prison after a fatal addiction-driven mistake | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – British | A Novel Murder, E.C. Nevin | Author investigates a literary agent’s murder at a crime fiction festival | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | Murder Takes a Vacation, Laura Lippman | Widowed former PI stumbles into murder on a Paris Seine cruise | YES |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | Don’t Tell Me How to Die, Marshall Karp | Terminally ill woman hunts for her family’s perfect replacement before she dies | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | With a Vengeance, Riley Sager | 1954 luxury train: woman lures her family’s destroyers for vengeance | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | Welcome to Murder Week, Karen Dukess | Three Americans solve staged English village murder mystery while uncovering family secrets | NO |
| The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club, Martha Hall Kelly | Two WWII Martha’s Vineyard sisters launch a wartime book club; 2016 dual timeline | NO | |
| The Girls of Good Fortune, Kristina McMorris | 1888 Portland woman with hidden Chinese heritage unravels Chinatown abduction and massacre | NO | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | The Medusa Protocol, Rob Hart | Reformed assassin captured by mysterious doctor probing her memories | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | When Javi Dumped Mari, Mia Sosa | Best friend learns of Mari’s engagement weeks before her wedding | NO |
| Read with Jenna | A Family Matter, Claire Lynch | Dying father reveals lifelong secret about late wife’s same-sex love to his daughter | MAYBE |
| Reese | The Phoenix Pencil Company, Allison King | Granddaughter uncovers her grandmother’s WWII Shanghai past involving a magical pencil-reforging family power forced into espionage | YES |
| Richard & Judy | Do Not Disturb, Freida McFadden | Snowstorm forces fugitive into a Hitchcock-homage motel with a dark past | NO |
| Famous Last Words, Gillian McAllister | New mom learns her husband is the gunman in a London hostage siege | MAYBE | |
| The Daughter, T.M. Logan | Mother searches dark London for daughter who vanished from university | NO | |
| The Hidden Girl, Lucinda Riley | Yorkshire model rises in NYC; the Delancey family hides Holocaust-era secrets | NO | |
| You Are Here, David Nicholls | Coast-to-coast English hike pairs an adrift teacher and a reclusive divorcee | MAYBE | |
| Service 95 | Widow Basquiat, Jennifer Clement | Memoir of Basquiat through his lover Suzanne Mallouk | NO |
| TeaTime | Flashlight, Susan Choi | Father vanishes from a beach; family unravels across decades | NO |
July 2025
20 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacious | Great Black Hope, Rob Franklin | Drug arrest and friend’s death send queer Black grad spiraling | NO |
| Belletrist | Notes on Infinity, Austin Taylor | Harvard biotech startup and love affair spiral into scandal | NO |
| Good Morning America – Young Adult | The Nightblood Prince, Molly X. Chang | Prophesied empress-to-be in Chinese-inspired empire fights fate between two princes | NO |
| Late Show | The Director / Lichtspiel, Daniel Kehlmann | Director G.W. Pabst, trapped in Nazi Germany, makes films for Goebbels | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | The Reformatory, Tananarive Due | 12-year-old Black boy faces ghosts and abuse at 1950 Florida reformatory | NO |
| Natalie Portman | A Different Kind of Power, Jacinda Ardern | Former NZ PM on empathetic leadership through Christchurch, COVID, and motherhood | MAYBE |
| Native American | Project 562, Matika Wilbur | Photo-portraits and interviews from all 562 federally recognized US tribal nations | NO |
| Oprah 2.0 | Culpability, Bruce Holsinger | Self-driving car crash forces a family to reckon with AI culpability | NO |
| PBS Books | Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus | 1960s chemist pushed out of science becomes cooking-show host teaching housewives chemistry | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – British | The White Crow, Michael Robotham | Police officer investigates a violent home invasion linked to her gangster father | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder, Lynn Cahoon | Author’s assistant investigates a literary agent’s murder on Bainbridge Island | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | Cold Burn, A.J. Landau | Park Service agent and FBI investigate deaths in Alaska and the Everglades | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | The Listeners, Maggie Stiefvater | 1942 West Virginia luxury hotel hosts interned Axis diplomats | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | We Don’t Talk about Carol, Kristen L. Berry | Journalist unearths family secret tied to 1960s missing North Carolina Black girls | NO |
| The English Masterpiece, Katherine Reay | 1970s London art consultant questions a Picasso, sparking forgery scandal | MAYBE | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | Florida Palms, Joe Pan | 2009 Florida teens become drug runners during the recession | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | Last Night Was Fun, Holly Michelle | Wrong-number text flirtation between rivals competing for baseball-team promotion | MAYBE |
| Reese | Spectacular Things, Beck Dorey-Stein | Two close sisters in small-town Maine grapple with their mother’s secrets and the cost of one’s soccer-stardom dreams | NO |
| Service 95 | Small Boat, Vincent Delecroix | French radio operator’s account of fatal Channel migrant disaster | NO |
| TeaTime | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams | Earthman hitchhikes across the galaxy after Earth is demolished | YES |
August 2025
25 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacious | Nice Girls Don’t Win, Parvati Shallow | Memoir of Survivor winner | NO |
| Barnes & Noble | Songs for Other People’s Weddings, Jens Lekman; David Levithan | Wedding singer’s own relationship frays while writing love songs | NO |
| Belletrist | How to Lose Your Mother, Molly Jong-Fast | Reckoning with a famous, elusive mother fading into dementia | NO |
| Black Men Read | That’s How They Get You, Damon Young | All-star Black humor anthology edited by Damon Young | NO |
| Jack Carr | An Inside Job, Daniel Silva | Allon investigates a Leonardo stolen from the Vatican Museums after a Venice murder | MAYBE |
| Jewish Book Council – Fiction | Sisters of Fortune, Esther Chehebar | Three Syrian Jewish sisters in Brooklyn navigate love and tradition | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner | Six American Jews and the Civil War-era slavery debate | NO |
| Late Show | A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst | Whale wrecks a couple’s boat; 118 days adrift in the Pacific | NO |
| Native American | The El, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. | Indigenous teen gang members ride the El across 1979 Chicago | NO |
| Oprah 2.0 | Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo | Two boyhood friends across small-town New York and expatriate Venice | NO |
| PBS Books | Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding | Thirtysomething London singleton’s year of dating disasters, calorie counts, and Mark Darcy | YES |
| Poisoned Pen – British | The Good Liar, Denise Mina | Forensic scientist learns her evidence in a famous murder conviction was junk | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | Just Another Dead Author, Katarina Bivald | Mystery author investigates a literary titan’s death at a French retreat | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | You Belong Here, Megan Miranda | Mother’s college tragedy resurfaces when her daughter enrolls at the same school | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | Departure 37, Scott Carson | Pilots refuse to fly after dead mothers’ phone calls | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | The Witch’s Orchard, Archer Sullivan | Appalachian PI revisits cold case of three vanished girls and witch folklore | MAYBE |
| Full Bloom, Francesca Serritella | Mysterious perfume transforms NYC lighting designer as buried fire trauma resurfaces | NO | |
| The Harvey Girls, Juliette Fay | Two 1926 women on the run hide as Harvey Girls railroad waitresses | MAYBE | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | 13 Hillcrest Drive, Gerald Petievich | Hollywood publicist’s deadly money drop reveals Beverly Hills elite’s dark secrets | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | Friends to Lovers, Sally Blakely | Childhood best friends reunite at her sister’s wedding after ruined friendship | MAYBE |
| Read with Jenna | My Other Heart, Emma Nanami Strenner | Vietnamese mother’s vanished toddler and two Asian-American teen friends searching for identity | NO |
| Reader’s Digest | The Glassmaker, Tracy Chevalier | Orsola Rosso’s Murano glassmaking family endures five centuries of Venetian history | NO |
| Reese | Once Upon a Time in Dollywood, Ashley Jordan | Grieving playwright escapes to Tennessee mountains, falls for single-dad neighbor | NO |
| Service 95 | This House of Grief, Helen Garner | Australian writer covers father’s murder trial of three drowned sons | NO |
| TeaTime | Make Your Way Home, Carrie R. Moore | Eleven stories: Black Southern lives reckoning with home and history | NO |
September 2025
36 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacious | Resting Bitch Face, Taylor Byas | Poetry collection on Black female subjectivity, art, and the gaze | NO |
| Barnes & Noble | Buckeye, Patrick Ryan | Two Ohio families’ intertwined secrets from WWII through Vietnam | NO |
| BBC Radio 2 | A Splintering, Dur e Aziz Amna | Pakistani village woman’s burning ambition to escape into urban wealth | NO |
| The Two Roberts, Damian Barr | Real Scottish queer painters’ lives and love from 1933 onwards | NO | |
| Belletrist | Finding Grace, Loretta Rothschild | When secrets surface, two women’s paths become dangerously intertwined | NO |
| Black Men Read | Grant Park, Leonard Pitts Jr. | Race, terrorism, and the eve of Obama’s 2008 election | NO |
| Good Housekeeping | My Other Heart, Emma Nanami Strenner | Vietnamese mother’s vanished toddler and two Asian-American teen friends searching for identity | NO |
| Good Morning America – Young Adult | Sisters in the Wind, Angeline Boulley | Ojibwe foster teen on the run learns about the sister and family she never knew existed | YES |
| I Care About Books | The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver | Baptist missionary family in 1959 Belgian Congo, told by wife and four daughters | NO |
| Jack Carr | The Secret of Secrets, Dan Brown | Langdon races through Prague to save Katherine Solomon and the secret of human consciousness | MAYBE |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | Children of the Book, Ilana Kurshan | Mother of five reflects on reading with her children in Jerusalem | NO |
| Late Show | People Like Us, Jason Mott | Two Black writers’ stories merge against American gun violence | NO |
| Library Science | The Post Office Girl, Stefan Zweig | Post-WWI Austria: post office clerk plucked into wealth, then dropped | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | Fearless and Free, Josephine Baker | Iconic dancer-spy’s dictated memoir of Paris, war, and stardom | NO |
| Natalie Portman | No Straight Road Takes You There, Rebecca Solnit | Essays on climate, women’s rights, democracy, and indirect paths of change | NO |
| Native American | Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk; Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. | Twenty-six Indigenous authors’ horror stories on tradition, ghosts, and folklore | NO |
| Oprah 2.0 | All the Way to the River, Elizabeth Gilbert | Memoir of addictive love with her late best friend Rayya Elias | NO |
| PBS Books | Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 1950s Mexican socialite confronts ancestral horrors in cousin’s haunted Anglo-colonial mountain mansion | NO |
| The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Three women across three eras face witches in New England and rural Mexico | NO | |
| Poisoned Pen – British | Death in the Countryside, Maria Malone | Police sergeant and her spaniel investigate a missing wife in rural Yorkshire | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library, Amanda Chapman | Book conservator and ‘Mrs. Christie’ team up to solve a Manhattan murder | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | Crooks, Lou Berney | Four-decade saga of the Mercurio crime family pursuing the American dream | YES |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | The Glass Eel, J.J. Viertel | Maine island thriller of black-market glass-eel poaching, addiction, and ecological noir | NO |
| Under the Stars, Beatriz Williams | 1846 Atlantic steamship disaster echoes through modern Winthrop Island family reckoning | NO | |
| The Moon in the Mango Tree, Pamela Binnings Ewen | 1920s American opera singer follows missionary husband to Siam, sacrificing her career | NO | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | The Gorgon of Los Feliz, Nolan Knight | Welfare-kid grifter turns gumshoe across L.A., Vegas, Mojave underworld | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | The Girl Next Door, Rachel Meredith | Reporter goes undercover to expose anonymous author of sapphic bestseller | YES |
| Read with Jenna | Buckeye, Patrick Ryan | Two Ohio families’ intertwined secrets from WWII through Vietnam | NO |
| Reese | To the Moon and Back, Eliana Ramage | First Cherokee astronaut’s ambition strains bonds with sister, mother, lover | NO |
| Richard & Judy | Dead Simple, Peter James | Groom buried alive in stag-night prank; the friends who know are dead | MAYBE |
| Don’t Believe a Word, Susan Lewis | Christy Ward’s true-crime podcast investigates whether Sadie was stolen as a baby | MAYBE | |
| Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz | Susan Ryeland reads a manuscript that encodes clues to a 20-year-old poisoning | MAYBE | |
| The Satsuma Complex, Bob Mortimer | Legal assistant chases vanished pub girl ‘Satsuma’ through South London | MAYBE | |
| The Shortlist, Andrew Raymond | Glasgow DCI investigates a crime novelist’s murder at a Highland writers’ festival | MAYBE | |
| Service 95 | The Trees, Percival Everett | Mississippi murders satirically reckon with America’s lynching legacy | NO |
| TeaTime | The Dilemmas of Working Women, Fumio Yamamoto | Five stories of Japanese women navigating work, illness, and marriage | NO |
October 2025
27 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacious | The Wilderness, Angela Flournoy | Five Black women navigate twenty years of friendship and midlife | NO |
| BBC Radio 2 | Artificial Wisdom, Thomas R. Weaver | AI vs. ex-president in 2050 election amid climate apocalypse | NO |
| Belletrist | Will There Ever Be Another You, Patricia Lockwood | Pandemic-era woman’s mind unravels under a mystifying chronic illness | NO |
| Black Men Read | Out There Screaming, Jordan (ed.) Peele; John Joseph (ed.) Adams | All-new Black horror short stories edited by Jordan Peele | NO |
| Good Housekeeping | Workhorse, Caroline Palmer | Editorial assistant claws her way up at a NYC fashion magazine in 2001 | NO |
| Good Morning America – Young Adult | Fake Skating, Lynn Painter | Childhood sweethearts reunited in hockey-mad Minnesota for a fake-dating arrangement | NO |
| I Care About Books | Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | POW witness to Dresden firebombing comes “unstuck in time” | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | Hostage, Eli Sharabi | Israeli survivor’s memoir of 491 days in Hamas captivity | NO |
| Late Show | What We Can Know, Ian McEwan | 2014 lost poem; 2119 academic in climate-shrunken Britain pieces it together | NO |
| Library Science | Nymph, Stephanie LaCava | Daughter of assassins swerves love and courts an early death | NO |
| Mindy’s Book Studio | I’ll Follow You, Charlene Wang | Two friends share a viral social media persona that brings fame, danger and toxicity | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | Ring Shout, P. Djeli Clark | Black women monster-slayers hunt KKK demons in 1922 Georgia | NO |
| Native American | I Am My Name, Na’kuset; Judith Henderson | Cree Sixties Scoop survivor’s picture-book journey to finding her family | NO |
| Oprah 2.0 | A Guardian and a Thief, Megha Majumdar | Two Kolkata families clash over stolen visas in climate-ravaged near-future | NO |
| PBS Books | The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman | Four British retirees in a luxury retirement village solve a present-day murder | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – British | Bog Queen, Anna North | Forensic anthropologist’s bog-body discovery unearths an Iron Age druid’s story | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | Witches of Dubious Origin, Jenn McKinlay | Librarian discovers she’s the last descendant of a family of witches | YES |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | The Librarians, Sherry Thomas | Four quirky librarians band together when murder hits their Austin library | YES |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | The Gun Man Jackson Swagger, Stephen Hunter | 1890s Arizona Civil War vet sharpshooter investigates suspicious cowboy death | YES |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | The Confessions, Paul Bradley Carr | World’s AI supercomputer goes offline; mass-mailed letters expose humanity’s darkest secrets | MAYBE |
| Widow’s Point, Richard Chizmar | Cursed Nova Scotia lighthouse traps doomed thrill-seekers across 2017 and 2025 hauntings | NO | |
| Midnight Burning, Paul Levine | 1937 Hollywood: Einstein and Chaplin fight Nazi insurrection with LAPD’s first Black female officer | NO | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | What About the Bodies, Ken Jaworowski | Three desperate lives collide in a rust-belt town through accidental violence | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | And Then There Was the One, Martha Waters | 1930s English village sleuth investigates a suspicious council chairman death | MAYBE |
| Read with Jenna | The Irish Goodbye, Heather Aimee O’Neill | Three adult sisters reunite over Thanksgiving; brother’s old boating tragedy still haunts the family | MAYBE |
| Service 95 | Flesh, David Szalay | Detached Hungarian István’s life from housing estate to London elite | NO |
| TeaTime | The Wilderness, Angela Flournoy | Five Black women navigate twenty years of friendship and midlife | NO |
November 2025
22 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacious | We Survived the Night, Julian Brave NoiseCat | Indigenous memoir, journalism, and Coyote storytelling on contemporary Native life | NO |
| BBC Radio 2 | The Eleventh Hour, Salman Rushdie | Five Rushdie stories on mortality across India, England, America | NO |
| Belletrist | Simultaneous, Eric Heisserer | Homeland agent and therapist discover past-life patterns behind serial killings | NO |
| Black Men Read | Isaac’s Song, Daniel Black | Gay Black man processes father’s legacy in 1980s Chicago | NO |
| Good Morning America – Adult | Wreck, Catherine Newman | Anxious mom Rocky’s life upended by a local fatal accident and a mystery spreading rash | NO |
| Good Morning America – Young Adult | Coldwire, Chloe Gong | Cyberpunk dystopia where the wealthy live in virtual upcountry while the poor rot in downcountry | NO |
| Jack Carr | Exit Strategy, Lee Child; Andrew Child | Reacher follows a stranger’s plea-for-help note into a Baltimore conspiracy | YES |
| Jewish Book Council – Fiction | I Wanted to Be Wonderful, Lihi Lapid | Two intertwined stories of early marriage and motherhood, one autobiographical | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | Heart of a Stranger, Angela Buchdahl | First Asian American rabbi’s memoir on identity, faith, and belonging | NO |
| Late Show | This Is Happiness, Niall Williams | Coming-of-age in 1950s Ireland as electricity arrives in a Clare village | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | Black AF History, Michael Harriot | Comedic, incisive retelling of American history centered on Black experience | NO |
| Natalie Portman | Father Figure, Emma Forrest | Scholarship student’s dangerous entanglement with classmate’s wealthy, haunted father | NO |
| Native American | Turtle Island, Sean Sherman | Oglala Lakota chef’s regional cookbook of Indigenous North American foods | YES |
| PBS Books | America’s First Daughter, Stephanie Dray; Laura Kamoie | Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Patsy shapes her father’s legacy from Paris to Monticello | NO |
| My Dear Hamilton, Stephanie Dray; Laura Kamoie | Eliza Schuyler Hamilton’s life as patriot, wife, and widow preserving Alexander’s legacy | NO | |
| Poisoned Pen – British | The Dentist, Tim Sullivan | Bristol detective on the autism spectrum investigates a homeless man’s strangling | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | The Botanist’s Assistant, Peggy Townsend | Lab assistant investigates her botanist boss’s suspicious death at a university | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | The First Witch of Boston, Andrea Catalano | 1648 Boston: midwife Maggie Jones becomes Massachusetts Bay Colony’s first woman hanged as witch | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | The Red Scare Murders, Con Lehane | 1950s blacklisted PI fights to save innocent Black man from execution | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | Christmas People, Iva-Marie Palmer | Cynical screenwriter wakes inside a Hallmark Christmas movie of her hometown | NO |
| Read with Jenna | Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite | Lagos woman fights family curse and belief in cousin’s reincarnation | NO |
| Service 95 | The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood | Atwood’s dystopian Gilead: women enslaved as forced surrogates | NO |
December 2025
26 rows
| Book Club | Book title & author | Brief Description | Yes/no for me |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacious | Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite | Lagos woman fights family curse and belief in cousin’s reincarnation | NO |
| BBC Radio 2 | The Merge, Grace Walker | Daughter merges consciousness with Alzheimer’s mother in dystopian future | NO |
| The White Octopus Hotel, Alexandra Bell | Time-travel romance through magical 1935 Swiss Alps hotel | YES | |
| Belletrist | Lightbreakers, Aja Gabel | Grief and time travel: physicist tries to relive memories of his dead daughter | YES |
| Good Morning America – Young Adult | There’s Always Next Year, George M. Johnson; Leah Johnson | YA holiday romcom — New Year’s Eve catastrophe, dual POV, two love stories in a small town | MAYBE |
| Jack Carr | The Tin Men, Alex DeMille; Nelson DeMille | Army CID agents investigate murder at a Mojave AI/robot warfare base | MAYBE |
| Jewish Book Council – Fiction | Hunting in America, Tehila Hakimi | Israeli woman on US tech assignment becomes hunter, predator, and prey | NO |
| Jewish Book Council – Nonfiction | Beyond Dispute, Daniel Taub | Israeli diplomat draws on Talmud for art of constructive disagreement | NO |
| Late Show | Beasts of the Sea, Iida Turpeinen | Steller’s sea cow from 1741 discovery to extinction to museum restoration | NO |
| Mocha Girls Read | Spilling the Tea, Brenda Jackson | 90-something matriarch plays matchmaker for injured veteran great-grandson | NO |
| Native American | The Bone Thief, Vanessa Lillie | BIA archaeologist hunts stolen ancestral remains amid Native teen’s disappearance | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – British | Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, Martin Edwards | Six contestants compete in a Cluedo-style Christmas murder mystery in Yorkshire | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Cozy | The Snow Lies Deep, Paula Munier | Ex-MP and her retired bomb-sniffing dog investigate a Vermont Christmas murder | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Crime | Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Ace Atkins | 1985 teen suspects his mom’s new boyfriend is a KGB spy | NO |
| Poisoned Pen – Historical | The Secret Sharers, Xiaolong Qiu | Retired Shanghai inspector helps locate a wealthy woman’s missing past lover | MAYBE |
| Poisoned Pen – Mystery | Wreck, Catherine Newman | Anxious mom Rocky’s life upended by a local fatal accident and a mystery spreading rash | NO |
| Blood and Treasure, Ryan Pote | Sabotaged ISS and ancient Ark of the Covenant collide for ex-Navy treasure hunter Ethan Cain | NO | |
| Holy Island, L.J. Ross | Tidal Lindisfarne murder pulls sabbatical DCI Maxwell Ryan back into pagan-ritual investigation | MAYBE | |
| Poisoned Pen – Noir | Only Way Out, Tod Goldberg | Crooked cop pockets a dead thief’s millions, then the family arrives | YES |
| Poisoned Pen – Romance | The Marriage Method, Mimi Matthews | Schoolteacher marries newspaperman amid Victorian conspiracy and murder investigation | MAYBE |
| Read with Jenna | Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen | Regency comedy of manners: Elizabeth Bennet’s wit meets Mr Darcy’s pride | MAYBE |
| Reader’s Digest | Before I Forget, Tory Henwood Hoen | Stalled 26-year-old daughter caregives her Alzheimer’s-stricken father at his Adirondack lake house | MAYBE |
| Reese | The Heir Apparent, Rebecca Armitage | Princess in Australian exile inherits British throne, must choose duty or love | NO |
| Richard & Judy | Me and Mr. Darcy, Alexandra Potter | Romantic on a Jane Austen tour bus meets the real Mr. Darcy | NO |
| The Lucky Winners, K.L. Slater | Cash-strapped couple wins national dream-house raffle; their prize becomes a nightmare | MAYBE | |
| TeaTime | Thirst Trap, Grainne O’Hare | Three Belfast friends grieve a fourth as they approach thirty | MAYBE |
And that’s a wrap on my retroactive curation. I hope you find some of the books in there intriguing enough to try, too!
My next post will clean up any gaps from January to April. 🙂
