National Reading Group Month: Great Group Reads

The National Reading Group Month/Great Group Reads Committee of the Women's National Book Association has chosen 20 books as this year's list:

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (McSweeney's)
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir by Shulem Deen (Graywolf)
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (Hogarth)
Call Me Home by Megan Kruse (Hawthorne Books)
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham (Little, Brown)
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (Scout Press/Gallery)
Dietland by Sarai Walker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper (Simon & Schuster)
Henna House by Nomi Eve (Scribner)
Landfall by Ellen Urbani (Forest Avenue Press)
Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet (St. Martin's Press)
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee (City Lights Publishers)
Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by Jonathan Odell (Maiden Lane Press)
No. 4 Imperial Lane by Jonathan Weisman (Twelve)
Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkemade (Morrow Paperbacks)
A Perfect Crime by A Yi (Oneworld Publications)
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton (Grand Central)
A Sister to Honor by Lucy Ferriss (Berkley)
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim (Crown)
The Wonder Garden by Lauren Acampora (Grove)

The 25-member committee of writers, reviewers, booksellers, librarians, publicists and dedicated readers selected titles "on the basis of their appeal to reading groups, which seek books that open up lively conversations about a myriad of timely and provocative and diverse topics, from the intimate dynamics of family and personal relationships to major cultural and world issues."

National Reading Group Month Chair Jill A. Tardiff said, "Our goal is to have these superb titles become reading-group staples with facilitators and that booksellers and librarians across the country feature them during the month of October, which is, of course, National Reading Group Month--and throughout the year."

The organization is providing shelf talkers, table-top posters and other display material for download. Find the National Reading Group Month Marketing Toolkit at Get Involved. For more general information, go to NationalReadingGroupMonth.org and wnba-books.org.

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