Best Books for Book Clubs

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Literary Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.

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Literary Fiction

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Sethe escaped slavery years ago. The house she lives in has not let her leave it behind.

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Science Fiction

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

In the Republic of Gilead, Offred records what she is not allowed to say out loud.

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Science Fiction

1984

by George Orwell

Winston Smith rewrites the past for a living, until he decides to keep one honest thought of his own.

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Historical Fiction

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.

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Biography & Memoir

Educated

by Tara Westover

A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.

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Nonfiction

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

The woman whose cells were taken without consent, and the family who learned about it decades later.

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Nonfiction

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

A single-volume argument about how shared fictions let one human species run the planet.

Fiction

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel

A boy, a lifeboat and a Bengal tiger — and a second story that changes the first.

Biography & Memoir

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

Two years in a hidden annexe in Amsterdam, written by a teenager who wanted to be a writer.