The Covenant of Waterby Abraham Verghese Our May 2023 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of Cutting for Stone. Published in 2009, Cutting for Stone became a literary phenomenon, selling...

Take What You Need by Idra Novey Our April 2023 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, who’s sought a clean break from her...

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai Our March 2023 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past — the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a...

My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig Our February 2023 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Tessa is a successful writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks...

Demon Copperheadby Barbara Kingsolver Our November 2022 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK “Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.” Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s the story of a boy...

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Our October 2022 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many...

The Boys by Katie Hafner Our September 2022 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries fun-loving Barb, so comfortable in the world, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with...

A Map For the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang Our August 2022 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family’s rural village...

The Latecomerby Jean Hanff Korelitz Our July 2022 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK The Latecomer follows the story of the wealthy, New York City-based Oppenheimer family, from the first meeting of parents Salo and Johanna, under tragic circumstances, to their triplets...

Trust by Hernan Diaz Our May 2022 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats....

Mecca by Susan Straight Our April 2022 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his...

Honor by Thrity Umrigar Our February 2022 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the...

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez Our January 2022 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK It’s 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying...

A Classic Pairing: Now Comes Good Sailing by Andrew Blauner &Walden by Henry David Thoreau Our December 2021 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK The world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), the author of Walden, “Civil Disobedience,” and...

Fight Night by Miriam Toews Our October 2021 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK “You’re a small thing,” Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.” Swiv’s Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious...

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura Our August 2021 Book of the Month Our August Book of the Month, Intimacies by Katie Kitamura, is a subtle and beautifully written novel about what it is to balance the global and the personal when the world is constantly swirling in our...

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Our July 2021 Book of the Month As we all start to leave our homes and venture out again, we thought you might want to go EPIC with your summer reading. Our July Book of the Month, Great Circle by best-selling author Maggie Shipstead,...

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris Our June 2021 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white...

Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber Our May 2021 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family — a Thai wife and two kids living in Queens. In the aftermath of this revelation, Ethan’s...

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Our March 2021 Book of the Month Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 as someone, “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the...

My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee Our February 2021 Book of the Month Babysitter night was my favorite night of the week when I was a pre-teen. It was the only night I could eat with abandon and steal cookies from the heavily guarded cookie jar. My brother and I would...