Celebrity Book Clubs - September 2020
Reese Witherspoon's Book Club
- ADULT PICK: The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
- YA PICK: You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Read with Jenna - The Today Show
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
GMA Book Club
- Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
Well-Read Black Girl Book Club
- ADULT PICK: Luster by Raven Leilani
- YA PICK: Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam
Belletrist Book Club (Emma Robert's Book Club)
- The Lightness by Emily Temple
Andrew Luck Book Club
- ROOKIE PICK: I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- VETERAN PICK: Gloryland by Shelton Johnson
BuzzFeed Book Club
- The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
Vox Book Club
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Teen Vogue Book Club
- TBD
Project Lit Community Book Club
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Oprah's Book Club
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter
A Reese's Book Club YA Pick!
Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.
$27.95ISBN: 9780525658184Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Knopf - September 1st, 2020A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.$26.00ISBN: 9781524746360Availability: Not In Stock - Usually Available in 1-5 DaysPublished: Dutton - September 1st, 2020A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller!
$26.00ISBN: 9780374194321Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 4th, 2020A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
$19.99ISBN: 9780062996480Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Balzer + Bray - September 1st, 2020New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness
$26.99ISBN: 9780062905321Availability: Not In Stock - Usually Available in 1-5 DaysPublished: William Morrow - June 16th, 2020“A teen thriller in the vein of the ‘90s horror movie The Craft . . . A beautiful meditation on meditation . . . Frequently hilarious, and thoughtful throughout.” —The New York Times Book Review
$17.99ISBN: 9780525518778Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Nancy Paulsen Books - September 1st, 2020Winner of the NCTE Charlotte Huck Award!
An upbeat, empowering, important picture book from the team that created the award-winning Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
I am
a nonstop ball of energy.
Powerful and full of light.
I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader.$15.95ISBN: 9781578051755Availability: Not In Stock - Usually Available in 1-5 DaysPublished: Counterpoint LLC - August 10th, 2010"A work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized." --Ken Burns, American filmmaker
$27.99ISBN: 9780062333131Availability: Not In Stock - Usually Available in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper - August 11th, 2020WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF FICTION OF 2020
AMAZON BEST BOOK OF LITERATURE AND FICTION OF 2020
NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020
BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF 2020
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020
$17.00ISBN: 9780143111061Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Penguin Books - February 13th, 2018A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
"An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down.”
—Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You
$18.00ISBN: 9780399588198Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: One World - February 12th, 2019#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed
$8.99ISBN: 9780525582199Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Yearling - April 7th, 2020The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, shares his personal story and the injustices he faced while growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this New York Times bestselling young readers' adaptation of his adult memoir.
$32.00ISBN: 9780593230251Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Random House - August 4th, 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
