Best Book Club Books 2024 for Engaging Discussions
Joining a book club is a great way to meet fellow book-lovers. But one of the difficult things can be deciding which books you should tackle together. If you’re looking for the best book club books 2024, you’ve come to the perfect place! If you are not a member of a book club but enjoy reading books, you have come to the correct place too. Regardless of what your group is looking for, these are the best book clubs books 2024 that we recommend worth reading.
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The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
In World War II Malaysia, a woman discovers her pre-war miscalculations have ruined her life… The ultimate cost of her shortsightedness and self-delusion is excruciating, to the point that finishing the book is like waking up from a nightmare with relief that it didn’t really happen. A chilling exploration of the costs of human weakness and desire, in a compelling and vividly wrought historical context.
We always enjoy gaining new perspectives on WWII and understanding how the war played out in different countries around the world. The 1935 sections of the novel are told from Cecily’s point of view. In contrast, the 1945 sections feature alternative perspectives, including those of Cecily’s three children.
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
This gorgeously written and heartbreaking novel tells the story of a tragic wildfire and how it forever changes the lives of a Greek family and their village. Irini teaches music, her husband, Tasso, paints pictures of the ancient forest surrounding their home, and together, they are raising their young daughter, Chara, whose name means joy.
When a wildfire sweeps through the forest, it destroys the family’s home and village. The family grapples with the fire’s cause as the village begins to rebuild. A landowner started the fire while attempting a controlled burn for redevelopment, but it quickly spiraled out of control.
Months later, Irini encounters the man who started the fire. He is dying, but in her anger, Irini makes a rash decision that results in a police investigation.
Due to burns on his hands, Tasso is unable to paint. He struggles to cope with the loss of his artistic voice, his beloved forest, and his father, who vanished before the fire. If it weren’t for his young daughter, he wouldn’t have any hope for the future.
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this unforgettable story of grief, hope, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein.
All Fours by Miranda July
This book feels so much more alive than anything else I’ve read recently. It follows the story of an unnamed narrator, an artist who embarks on a road trip from Los Angeles to New York. Her journey, though, takes her on a completely unexpected path.
All Fours is brutally honest, shockingly nimble, and completely unpredictable. In short, it’s book club gold.
Ambition Monster by Jennifer Romolini
As a millennial in girl boss culture, I devoured Ambition Monster. Jennifer Romolini’s thoughtful and smart examination of how her lifelong devotion to success at all costs ultimately drove her a little bit insane.
Romolini’s unique background makes her story even more engaging. The daughter of teenage, quasi-hippie parents, Romolini works her way through a series of jobs—from waiting tables to C-suite media executive—through pure determination and a touch of workaholism. All who have thought to themselves, “What am I doing this all for, exactly?” will be able to relate, and reexamine their own “ambition monsters” anew.
The Future by Naomi Alderman
On the day the world ended, Lenk Sketlish—CEO and founder of the Fantail social network—sat at dawn beneath the redwoods in a designated location of natural beauty and attempted to inhale from his navel.’ Readers who appreciate everything that’s going on in the opening sentence of this novel are likely to enjoy the whole thing. This is a story about the wealthiest people in the world and how they live. A smart, engrossing fable about digital technology and human community.
How to Talk About Books you Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard
The more serious you and your book club become about reading, the more hopeless you may end up feeling about all the books you will never, even with the best of intentions, have time for. How to Talk About Books you Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard will make you feel much better about this. And, indeed, let you beautifully off the hook if you haven’t managed to finish your book club read in time.
You can skim, flip through, read the end, or even just hold the book, unopened in your hands, all are fine with Bayard and he makes a compelling case for why you might be better able to discuss the book if you haven’t actually read it. Although Bayard’s credentials as a reader and academic are serious, his book is delightfully mischievous and funny. Give it a try and see if you agree with him or not.
Love Can’t Feed You by Cherry Lou Sy
A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires.
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library. When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook, and no plan. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
Family Family by Laurie Frankel
India Allwood always wanted to be an actress and her dreams came true with success on Broadway and on TV. Now she’s making a movie about adoption. But she’s disheartened that the storyline doesn’t sit right with her.
India, an adoptive mom to ten-year-old twins, grows tired of seeing only painful adoption stories in movies. When a journalist asks her opinion, she speaks the truth—she believes the film she’s creating is bad. Soon, she finds herself at the center of a media storm.
When her twins turn to family for help, things just get messier. One thing is for certain – no matter how families are formed, they are always complicated.
Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller
Goodbye Birdie Greenwing looks like the perfect book club book for 2024. So you shouldn’t have a hard time convincing your book club for this one!
This is a beautiful, poignant novel about complex family relationships and unlikely friendships, exploring the truth of mothers, daughters, sisters, and women everywhere. “Goodbye Birdie Greenwing celebrates relationships in all their quirky, complicated uniqueness. It is a story about the choices we make and how we justify them. About finding out who we are, not who other people think we should be.”
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Alice Winn’s In Memoriam—a love story set during the tumult of the First World War—came roaring out of the starting gates and straight into the bestseller lists. In it, two heartsick schoolboys confront their feelings for each other amid the horrors of war. Literary figures like Maggie O’Farrell and Garth Greenwell have endorsed the book. The New York Times praises it as both “devastating” and “tender.”
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab vibrates with beautiful melancholy.In eighteenth-century France, Addie strikes a Faustian bargain for immortality. She soon faces the curse of being forgotten by all. The story shifts between her desperate early days and present-day New York. There, she learns to navigate her curse and build a life. One day, everything changes for her. Like the show Russian Doll, the book similarly sparks an intense interest to pick apart the nuances of the plot and the decisions of the main character and to consider what you’d do in her unique circumstances.
Where Butterflies Wander by Suzanne Redfearn
Marie and her husband recently lost one of their children to a tragic accident and she is desperate to help her family get a fresh start for the sake of her other three surviving kids. She travels to New Hampshire in hopes of selling a family estate only to find a war veteran, known to locals as “the river witch” living in a cabin on the property. Davina insists that it was a gift to her from Marie’s grandfather.
If Davina refuses to move on, then Marie won’t be able to either. As the women fight over the property, battles lines are drawn in the town and within Marie’s family with both sides digging into their positions. When tensions reach a breaking point, a force outside of their control intervenes.
The Women by Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah is known for writing some of the most popular book club books, but I have to say, they never disappoint. It’s been such a long time since I’ve read one of her books!
The Women follows Frances “Frankie” McGrath, a 27-year-old young woman and nursing student who grew up in Southern California with her conservative parents.
In 1965, her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, and she decides to alter the course of her life, joining the Army Nurse Corps and follow his path.
As you can imagine, the stakes couldn’t be higher, and main character Frankie fights to cope with the destruction of war all around her. This book is about hope, betrayal, bold patriotism, closest friends that can change in an instant, and the courage that rose to the surface for women in Vietnam.
Very Bad Company by Emma Rosenblum
The rich people are employees of the incredibly pretentious and maybe sketchy tech company Aurora. The warm locale is a leadership retreat in Miami, and the bad behaviors are ever more salacious and possibly illegal. Told through multiple perspectives of a cast of deliciously narcissistic characters, Rosenblum’s tale is juicy and hilarious, especially if you’ve ever had the misfortune of speaking to a tech bro for too long.
Conclusion
Now that you have this selection of the best book club books 2024, it’s time to start reading. These best book club books 2024 appeal to a broad range of readers, and will offer your book club plenty to discuss over a glass of wine.
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FAQs
To choose your next book club book, consider members’ interests, explore themes or genres, look for award winners, and seek discussion potential. Poll members for suggestions, balance book lengths, read a few chapters, and include new releases to keep it fresh and engaging.
Ask each person to talk about the book they have brought with them, or have read recently. This activity will also provide people with an idea of what a Book Club does and allows people to get to know each other. It will also lead to a discussion of reading likes and dislikes.
You can go around in a circle, allowing each member to ask a question and moderate the discussion around it. This is an ideal way to keep everyone involved and chatting! When you have a lot to say about a book, conversations can quickly become overwhelming.
