Fantasy
The Library of Broken Worlds
Alaya Dawn Johnson
A dazzling fantasy about a girl who discovers a library where every book is a world — and someone is destroying them one by one.
Reading
Books We Are Reading
Our curated selections and featured reads — the titles the club is exploring right now.
The Curated Shelf
Books our members are reading.
Fiction
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.
Literary Fiction
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
A modern love story about two friends, often in love but never lovers, who become creative partners in the world of video game design.
Fantasy
The House in the Cerulean Sea
T.J. Klune
A magical, warm-hearted story about a caseworker who discovers an orphanage of magical children and learns what it means to build a home.
Literary Fiction
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
A modern retelling of David Copperfield set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, told by a boy born to a teenaged single mother.
Historical Fantasy
Babel
R.F. Kuang
An orphan boy is brought to London's Royal Institute of Translation, where he discovers the dark underpinnings of empire and language.
Featured Reads
June – July featured reads.
Fiction
The Light Between Words
by Amara Okonkwo
A luminous debut about memory, identity, and the stories we tell to survive.
Set across two continents and three generations, this novel weaves a tapestry of voices that ask what we carry forward and what we leave behind. A moving exploration of diaspora, belonging, and the quiet courage of everyday lives.
About the Author
Amara Okonkwo is a Nigerian-British novelist whose work explores diaspora, memory, and belonging. A graduate of the University of Lagos and the University of East Anglia, her short fiction has appeared in Granta and The Paris Review. The Light Between Words is her debut novel.
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Non-Fiction
The Art of Stillness
by Daniel Hartwell
Why reclaiming focus is the most radical act of our time.
A rigorous and deeply human investigation into how attention shapes our reality. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, and personal narrative, Hartwell makes a compelling case for reclaiming focus in an age of endless distraction.
About the Author
Daniel Hartwell is a science journalist and former editor at Nature. He holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London and writes on attention, technology, and the human mind. The Art of Stillness is his third book.
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Historical Fiction
Letters from the Rue de Sévigné
by Margaux Lefèvre
Some stories are too dangerous to remain untold.
Paris, 1942. A young librarian discovers a hidden archive of letters that could change the course of the war. A sweeping, emotionally rich novel about courage, complicity, and the power of the written word.
About the Author
Margaux Lefèvre is a French historian turned novelist. After two decades researching the French Resistance, she turned to fiction to bring those stories to a wider audience. Letters from the Rue de Sévigné is her first novel in English.
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Memoir
The Long Way Home
by James A. Whitfield
A life measured not in achievements, but in the people who shaped it.
From a small town in the American South to the halls of global finance, Whitfield's memoir is a meditation on ambition, family, and the cost of success. Honest, lyrical, and ultimately hopeful.
About the Author
James A. Whitfield spent thirty years in global finance before turning to writing. A native of Macon, Georgia, he holds an MBA from Wharton and now writes full-time from his home in Charleston. The Long Way Home is his first memoir.
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