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Wally Lamb's Highly Anticipated New Novel is Oprah's Latest Book Club Pick

After an unbearable tragedy, a young father reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable in THE RIVER IS WAITING.

Taylor Jenkins Reid's New Novel is June's "Good Morning America" Book Club Pick

Set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program, the book is about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

Claire Lynch's Debut Novel is June's "Read with Jenna" Book Club Pick

A FAMILY MATTER is a heartbreaking and hopeful exploration of love and loss, intimacy and injustice, custody and care.

Who Owns and Inherits Our Stories?

The answers and secrets that surface on the page may have the unerasable power to reconnect a family and restore a legacy in THE PHOENIX PENCIL COMPANY, which is Reese's Book Club pick for June.

Austin Taylor's NOTES ON INFINITY Asks: How Far Would You Go to Achieve Your Dreams?

Two Harvard students are propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they’ve discovered the cure for aging.

THE RIVER'S DAUGHTER Opens Us to the Possibilities of Transformation Through Nature

This vivid and propulsive memoir is about finding courage and meaning in a life outdoors by a world-class whitewater rafting guide.

Monthly Feature


Our Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks for June

Each month, we share top book picks from Indie Next and LibraryReads. We also feature a number of other prominent selections, including the Barnes & Noble Book Club, the "Good Morning America" Book Club, Oprah’s Book Club, the PBS Books Readers Club, the "Read with Jenna" Book Club, Reese's Book Club, and the Target Book Club.

THE LISTENERS is June's Barnes & Noble Book Club selection and Top LibraryReads Pick, as well as an Indie Next pickMaggie Stiefvater's first novel for adults is a mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel --- and a world --- in peril.

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What if you could have one last meal with someone you’ve loved, someone you’ve lost? Combining the magic of UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR with the high-stakes culinary world of SWEETBITTER, AFTERTASTE is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and DAISY JONES & THE SIX comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

From the New York Times bestselling author of TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON and THE EXPATS comes a pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex and murder.

A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this heartbreaking yet hopeful debut novel.

The New York Times bestselling author of SOLD ON A MONDAY and THE WAYS WE HIDE shines a light on shocking events surrounding Portland's dark history in this gripping novel of love, lore and betrayal.

From nationally bestselling author Meg Mitchell Moore comes a sparkling new novel following a young woman entwined in the opulent lives of her neighbors on Block Island, set against a backdrop of scandal, secrets and a not-so-subtle love triangle.

Marguerite by the Lake by Mary Dixie Carter - Psychological Thriller

From Mary Dixie Carter comes an atmospheric, tense novel about the death of a glamorous garden designer, a widower trying to keep his secrets buried, and the beautiful young gardener who finds herself entangled in their lives.

Two sisters living on Martha’s Vineyard during World War II find hope in the power of storytelling when they start a wartime book club for women in this spectacular novel inspired by true events.

This singular, extraordinary debut is about Zoe and Jack, Harvard students who find themselves propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they’ve discovered the cure for aging.

In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic --- of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life --- holds the power to transform a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.

From Wally Lamb, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of SHE'S COME UNDONE and I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE, comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

THE RIVER'S DAUGHTER is a vivid and propulsive memoir about finding courage and meaning in a life outdoors by a world-class whitewater rafting guide.

Sleep by Honor Jones - Fiction

From a dazzling new talent comes the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the big house where she was raised.