Inspired by People from Home: A Guest Post by Amy Jo Burns
I come from a family of roofers — my dad, my brother, my uncles, and my grandfather—and they are absolutely…
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2023 B&N Book Club Picks
We love talking about books and writing (and more) with authors and B&N Book Club members at our monthly Virtual…
Writing Into the Intimate Moments: 5 Questions with Ariel Djanikian, Author of The Prospectors, Our October Book Club Pick
Ariel Djanikian answers our questions about what she hoped to accomplish when writing The Prospectors.
The Power of Books: An Exclusive Guest Post from Patti Callahan Henry About the Inspiration Behind The Secret Book of Flora Lea, Our May Book Club Pick
Twenty years after WWII, a woman’s life is upended when she discovers a mysterious book set in the imaginary world…
The Range of Truth: An Exclusive Guest Post from Jeannette Walls, Author of Hang the Moon, Our April Book Club Pick
With Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls brings us an engrossing novel about a young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia, her complicated…
A Daughter’s Impact: A Guest Post From Rajasree Variyar, Author of The Daughters of Madurai, Our March Book Club Pick
Profoundly moving and haunting, it will be hard not to fall in love with The Daughters of Madurai. Our March…
Darling, Just a Little More: An Exclusive Guest Post from Paula Lichtarowicz, Author of The Snow Hare, Our February Book Club Pick
An incredible novel that expertly weaves together sadness and love, courage and loss, hardship and hope. Everything comes rushing back…
If Our Book Recommendations Were Tarot Decks
If we put our most recommended books of the year into a tarot deck, there’s three in particular we would hope to…
Video Games, Novels, and the Art of Story Telling: Gabrielle Zevin’s Guest Post on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is about storytelling, the lies we tell about ourselves, the difficulty of expressing love, the…
Liminal Spaces of the Heart: An Exclusive Guest Post from Leesa Cross-Smith, Author of Half-Blown Rose, Our June Book Club Pick
Half-Blown Rose is a story drenched in travel, art, music, and romance. It was sparked by a trip to Paris…
Betrayal, Trickery, and the Trojan War: An Exclusive Guest Post from Jennifer Saint, Author of Elektra, Our May Book Club Pick
Check out this exclusive guest post from Jennifer Saint to learn what inspired Elektra and so many other books!
Autofiction, Time Travel, and Pandemics: An Exclusive Guest Post From Emily St. John Mandel, Author of Sea of Tranquility, Our April Book Club Pick
Here, Emily gives us a glimpse into her life as an author as well as the inspiration behind the time-travel…
My Own Italian Summer: An Exclusive Guest Post From Rebecca Serle, Author of One Italian Summer — Our March Book Club Pick
We caught up with Rebecca Serle to learn about how discovering her mother’s youth on a mother/daughter trip to Italy…
The Tightrope Between Fact and Fiction: An Exclusive Guest Post From Chris Bohjalian, Author of Hour of the Witch — our May Book Club Pick
Seventeenth-century New England was not a safe place, especially for women. Any small action outside of being a “good wife” had…
A Multigenerational Story of Love, Secrets and Family: Florence Adler Swims Forever—Our July B&N Book Club Pick
As a breathtaking portrayal of how the human spirit can endure—and even thrive—in the wake of tragedy, Florence Adler Swims…
9 Books to Read if You Loved The Ninth House, October’s B&N Book Club Selection
The Barnes & Noble Book Club selection for October, The Ninth House, found readers tearing into a richly dark fantasy…
9 Books to Read if You Loved Inland, August’s B&N Book Club Selection
The Barnes & Noble Book Club selection for August, Téa Obreht’s Inland, combines magical, mystical elements with historical fiction set…
Why Meg Wolitzer’s The Female Persuasion Is the Ideal Book Club Pick
Meg Wolitzer’s The Female Persuasion is a great, big bear hug of a feminist novel, a book to linger over…