Books that would be great for a local, in-person book club at a cafe and will hopefully spark great discussion!
created by emstrongarmreads
last updated January, 2026
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
Pet (Pet, #1)
Akwaeke Emezi
The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
Portrait of a Thief
Grace D. Li
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
Patricia Highsmith
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Human Acts
Han Kang
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Passing
Nella Larsen
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Razorblade Tears
S.A. Cosby
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
Elie Wiesel
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
All the Light We Cannot See
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