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If you’re in need of new selections for your book club, we can help! Our quarterly picks lists below are filled with engaging titles sure to spark lively discussion. For each title, we:
- purchase multiple copies so they’ll be available to book club members
- purchase multiple formats so you can read the way you like best
- commit to keeping the titles for 18 months from the time we pick them so you can plan ahead
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Whatcom READS
Join the 2025 Whatcom READS community discussion by reading No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister with your book group. Then watch for upcoming events starting in Fall 2024 that explore themes from the book.
SUMMER 2024 PICKS
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce.
Nonfiction
When a father goes missing, his family’s desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another in this thrilling page-turner, a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis.
Fiction
A vivid reimagining of the woman who may have inspired the classic novel The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England’s witchcraft trials.
Fiction
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, this is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views, to find her own voice as a woman and poet.
Nonfiction
In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women’s lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose.
Fiction
Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. This luminous, spirit-lifting novel asks a big question: would you choose to find out the length of your life?
Fiction
A thought-provoking and moving investigation into India as a society in transition through the lens of forbidden love, as three young couples reject arranged marriages and risk everything for true love amid social and political upheaval.
Nonfiction
One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways—and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think. [The 2025 Whatcom READS selection!]
Fiction
A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are willing to believe –some of which may actually be true — from the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of Blackout and All Clear.
Fiction
Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family.
Nonfiction