The following were the most popular book club books during October based on votes from book club readers in more than 93,000 book clubs registered at Bookmovement.com:
1. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
2. The Correspondent: A Novel by Virginia Evans (Crown)
3. The Wedding People: A Novel by Alison Espach (Holt)
4. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
5. James: A Novel by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
6. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
7. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Crown)
8. Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
9. The Briar Club: A Novel by Kate Quinn (Morrow)
10. The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Rising Stars:
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)