If your book club members love keeping abreast of the current conversation, the books below are a mix of the buzziest, most anticipated, and consistently bestselling books out now that have popped up in all manner of book clubs. Among them is a groundbreaking book by a debut author who is the first nonverbal person with autism to graduate from UCLA with an English degree.
The others include the latest by Tayari Jones that follows two girls who grow up without mothers, historical fiction by Xochitl Gonzalez that tells a tale of Brooklyn in the early aughts, the book club book of the moment that Roxane Gay said is “This is a perfect novel,” and more.
 Kin by Tayari JonesYou’ve no doubt seen this in one of our monthly book club round-ups, and for good reason. Jones is one of our current literary giants, and this story of two motherless Black girls raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, but with very different life trajectories, is sure to become a modern-day classic. |
 Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl GonzalezPutting aside my discomfort that a historical novel can be set in 2007, this is a fantastic meditation on a very particular moment in Brooklyn history. The neighborhood where the main character, Alicia, lives is Fort Greene. She finds joy and possibility in the all-night parties thrown by her neighbor La Garza. Neither Alicia nor her friends realize that the coolness of Fort Greene is going to upend the neighborhood. Before the construction of the Barclays Center, and right at the tipping point of Brooklyn becoming expensive, Alicia and her friends and family try to find their way in NYC. —Julia Rittenberg |
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