Book of the Month
August: “Country People” by Daniel Mason
Country People by Daniel Mason Our August 2026 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit...
July: “Whistler” by Ann Patchett
Whistler by Ann Patchett Our July 2026 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former...
June: “Transcription” by Ben Lerner
Transcription by Ben Lerner Our June 2026 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK The narrator of Ben Lerner’s new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and...
May: “Go Gentle” by Maria Semple
Go Gentle by Maria Semple Our May 2026 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcée, she lives a contented life on New York City’s Upper West Side. Having discovered that the secret to happiness is to desire...
April: “Kin” by Tayari Jones
Kin by Tayari Jones Our April 2026 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a...
March: “Brawler” by Lauren Groff
Brawler by Lauren Groff Our March 2026 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff’s electric collection is an individual triumph, bold, agile, and packed with power. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s...
February: “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Our February 2026 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he...
January: “Pick a Color” by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa Our January 2026 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK “I live in a world of Susans. I got name tags for everyone who works at this nail salon, and on every one is printed the name ‘Susan.'” Ning is a retired boxer, but...
December: “Sacrament” by Susan Straight
Sacrament by Susan Straight Our December 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK In August 2020, a group of nurses are working in the ICU at a hospital in San Bernardino at the height of a Covid surge: Larette Embers, whose husband, Grief, is an animal control officer;...
November: “Culpability” by Bruce Holsinger
Culpability by Bruce Holsinger Our November 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK When the Cassidy-Shaws’ autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver’s seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat,...
October: “What We Can Know” by Ian McEwan
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan Our October 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine...
September: “At Last” by Marisa Silver
At Last by Marisa Silver Our September 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Helene Simonauer and Evelyn Turner are two formidable women whose paths cross when their children marry. Both women are sharp, cunning, and unwavering in their conflicting beliefs about...
August: “The Hounding” by Xenobe Purvis
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis Our August 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on the riverbank to portentous ravens...
July: “So Far Gone” by Jess Walter
So Far Gone by Jess Walter Our July 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for...
June: “Endling” by Maria Reva
Endling by Maria Reva Our June 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a loner and a maverick scientist who lives out of her mobile lab. She scours the country’s forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails, while her relatives...
May: “The Emperor of Gladness” by Ocean Vuong
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong Our May 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK The hardest thing in the world is to live only once… One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a...
April: “Audition” by Katie Kitamura
Audition by Katie Kitamura Our April 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a...
March: “Stone Yard Devotional” by Charlotte Wood
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Our March 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains...
February: “Good Dirt” by Charmaine Wilkerson
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson Our February 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as...
January: “Mothers and Sons” by Adam Haslett
Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett Our January 2025 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and...
December: “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Our December 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile,...
November: “The Safekeep” by Yael van der Wouden
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Our November 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK A house is a precious thing… It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over....
October: “Tell Me Everything” by Elizabeth Strout
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout Our October 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout...
September: “Colored Television” by Danzy Senna
Colored Television by Danzy Senna Our September 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a...
August: “All Fours” by Miranda July
All Fours by Miranda July Our August 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a...
July: “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore Our July 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK 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...
June: “Blue Ruin” by Hari Kunzru
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru Our June 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Once, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career taking shape before him. That was not to happen. Now, undocumented in the...
May: “Real Americans” by Rachel Khong
Real Americans by Rachel Khong Our May 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is...
April: “James” by Percival Everett
James by Percival Everett Our April 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can...
March: “Wandering Stars” by Tommy Orange
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange Our March 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard...
February: “Leaving” by Roxana Robinson
Leaving by Roxana Robinson Our February 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK “I never thought I’d see you here,” Sarah says. Then she adds, “But I never thought I’d see you anywhere.” Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when...
January: “Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Our January 2024 Book of the Month ABOUT THE BOOK Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life...
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