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Booklist's Top 10 Book-Group Books: 2019

The only thing better than a great book is a great book you can share with others. These are the books reviewed in Booklist between July 2018 and June 2019 that are likely to prompt vibrant discussions in a variety of book groups.

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  • Storm Lake

    a Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope From a Heartland Newspaper

    Cullen, Art,
    The Storm Lake Times, a tiny Iowa newspaper published twice a week, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for taking on big agricultural companies poisoning local waters. In this book, the newspaper's publisher describes how Storm Lake has changed…
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018] — 071.77 Cu
  • Survival Math

    Notes on An all-American Family

    Jackson, Mitchell S.
    Mitchell S. Jackson had to make difficult calculations to survive growing up in a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, facing drugs, poverty, violence, and government neglect. Survival Math traces the way his family managed their lives and…
    Book, 2019New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Shuster, Inc., [2019] — 305.896 Ja
  • The popular fascination with the Borden murders and its central enigmatic character has endured for more than one hundred years. This account of the trial is based on transcripts of the proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, and newly…
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2019] — 364.1523 Ro
  • We Fed An Island

    the True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

    Andrés, José, 1969-
    Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria. He and his team fed hundreds of thousands of people, cooking up to 100,000 meals a day at more than a dozen kitchens across the island. We Fed an Island describes the network…
    Book, 2018New York : Ecco, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]. — 363.34 An
  • After her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village to confront Bashir Ahmed, a salesman who frequented her childhood home but disappeared a decade prior.
    Book, 2019New York : Grove Press, 2019. — FIC Vijay M
  • J is a student at an all-boys school for geniuses deep in a forest and far from the world. He knows no family but the school's founder, and no life but life at the school. But J is starting to suspect there's something more out there—and on the…
    Book, 2019New York : Del Rey, [2019] — HRR Malerman J
  • Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by…
    Book, 2019New York : Scribner, 2019. — FIC See L
  • In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she's defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance. In the suburbs, Stephanie's aspirations for bliss on the commuter belt, coupled with her…
    Book, 2018New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. — FIC Evans D
  • Washington Black, an 11-year-old slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified of the cruelties that await him when his master's eccentric brother chooses him as a manservant. But Christopher Wilde is a naturalist, inventor, and abolitionist,…
    Book, 2018New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]. — FIC Edugyan E
  • For two years, the girls and women of a Mennonite colony have repeatedly violated by "demons" who "punished them for their sins." Upon learning that they were actually drugged and attacked by men from their own community, eight women hold a secret…
    Book, 2019New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019] — FIC Toews M