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Goodreads Members' Top 45 Book Club Picks
Look, we know there's a lot of pressure when it comes to picking a book for your book club. You'll need to please a lot of different types of readers—and guarantee that the book will spark a lively discussion. Luckily, Goodreads members are here to help! We looked through our data to find your fellow readers' top current picks for their book clubs.
And there are so many familiar names and beloved favorites across all genres to choose from!
Fans of science fiction and The Martian author Andy Weir should check out his latest, Project Hail Mary. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead is back on the scene with Harlem Shuffle, a new heist fiction. For a century-skipping story, flip the page on Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr's latest.
But there's more! Hordes of horror lovers can't get enough of Mexican Gothic, plus moving memoirs, crowd-pleasing classics, a murder mystery for Thursday night, and comedy about a crime that never took place!
Scroll over the book covers to learn more about each title, and add the ones that pique your interest to your Want to Read shelf!
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Which books have been hits with your book club? Share them with us in the comments below!
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No thinking out of the box. Just go to Barnes and Noble and look at their entry display, you’ll find most of these. Same thing on Amazon, most come up on popular read searches and Audible. I guess I get the second two, look who owns all of these outlets. Just moving inventory.
Books my club has read last year:Ring Shout
The Memory Police
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
The Book of Lost Saints
Otherbound
Kill the Farm Boy
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Enjoy picking something not on a bestseller list!
The Stationery StoreThe Library of Legends
The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck
The Moon in the Palace
Pachinko
Colette wrote: "No thinking out of the box. Just go to Barnes and Noble and look at their entry display, you’ll find most of these. Same thing on Amazon, most come up on popular read searches and Audible. I guess ..."Maybe so, but I gave 5 stars to 10 of the 13 that I've read, and one that I gave 4 stars won a major prize.
Colette wrote: "No thinking out of the box. Just go to Barnes and Noble and look at their entry display, you’ll find most of these. Same thing on Amazon, most come up on popular read searches and Audible. I guess ..."It's not easy to find multiple books many different people agree on. This is consensus based on a wider public conensus, it makes perfect sense. In you time outside the book club, you can read whatever you personally fancy.
Nothing against these books, but I agree that it would be nice to have more of a balance—the new/recent releases as well as tried and true favorites. My book club sometimes reads classics or books that have been out a while. This list is better than most I've seen promoted on this site: I liked seeing The Night Circus, Wuthering Heights, and Fahrenheit 451 on this list. Of the ones I have read, I think Piranesi and Educated are the strongest books for discussion on this list. The Vanishing Half and Hamnet, too, but they weren't as enjoyable.
Tremendous reads: Hamnet, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Hail Mary, The Four Winds, Deacon King Kong. Unforgettable characters and masterful storytelling.
Our book club read God of Small Things- great discussion
Fresh Water for Flowers- excellent book
Code Name Verity- loved this one
The Grass is Singing
Flight Behavior
Snow Falling on Cedars
Rabbit Foot Bill
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Simon the Fiddler
Fever 1793
Of the books on this list, the ones read by my book club or on our schedule for this year:The Lincoln Highway
Anxious People
Apples Never Fall
The Thursday Murder Club
The Book Thief
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Shadow of the Wind
Where the Crawdads Sing
There are some on this list that I’ve read apart from book club and wouldn’t be particularly interested in discussing in book club: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Cloud Cuckoo Land, The Guest List. I’m not a fan of Doerr’s plotting, either in Cloud Cuckoo Land or All the Light We Cannot See. Evelyn Hugo and The Guest List books were just mind candy, not really worth a book club discussion.
For what it’s worth, here are some books not on this list that our book club particularly enjoyed discussing in recent years:
Derek B. Miller: American By Day
Gail Honeyman: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Phil Hogan: A Pleasure and a Calling
Leif Enger: Virgil Wander
Kristin Hannah: The Great Alone
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Christina Baker Kline: A Piece of the World
David Grann: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Sonia Purnell: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Anthony Verghese: Cutting For Stone
Natasha Solomons: Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English
Julia Child: My Life in France
Mary Ann Shaffer: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Louise Dickinson Rich: We Took to the Woods
Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kittredge
Dave Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Amy Bloom: Away
Thomas Mullen: The Last Town on Earth
I loved Edgar Sawtelle, a beautifully written book. It's a shame that it has a 3.62 rating.
My book club found these books to be enjoyable and discussion-worthy:A Gentleman in Moscow
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Mountains Sing
The Lincoln Highway
All the Light We Cannot See
The Round House
The Splendid and the Vile
Angle of Repose
All of these rated 5 stars!
The Last Rose of ShanghaiThe Sweetness of Water
Where the Lost Wander
Ivory Shoals
The Apple Never Falls
The Lincoln Highway
Carolyn wrote: "I loved Edgar Sawtelle, a beautifully written book. It's a shame that it has a 3.62 rating."Edgar Sawtelle - a wonderful book.
The Thursday Murder Club was the book on the list that we enjoyed the most. We also read and had lively discussions on Anomaly, Of Women and Salt, My Sister, the Serial Killer, and Do No Harm. We are currently reading Still Life With Monkey.
Our favorties were:The Silent Patient
Educated
Where the Crawdad Sings
The Giver of Stars
The Girl on the Train
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Woman in Cabin 10
Homefront
Still House Lake
The Hate You Give
A Man Called Ove
Before We Were Yours
So far these were all good.
Ellen I agree with your list the most. All except for a Man Called Ove. I just could not get into the book.
Razorblade Tears
It Ends With Us
The Silent Patient
The Nature Of Fragile Things
Verity
These are some of the books our book club read this year that are not on the list. Enjoy!