Contemporary Lit

If you love nothing more than hanging out in a bookstore, then check out these great books about bookstores. 20 genre-bending reads set in your favorite kind of place.

These Black Cake book club questions will help you unpack this family’s history, traditions and dark secrets. Get discussion prompts, selected reviews and three related reads.

Discuss Cara Romero’s life and strong spirit with these How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water book club questions. Get discussion prompts, a synopsis, selected reviews and three related reads.

Figure out what to read next with all of the best Jodi Picoult books…ranked and rated. Get her full book list with a synopsis and ratings for each.

Explore the full range of possibility with these climate fiction books. Find the apocalypse, despair and a damaged earth along with hope, found family and a new future.

Discuss this turbulent ride through Covid using these Wish You Were Here book club questions. Get discussion prompts, a synopsis, selected reviews and some read-a-likes.

Explore themes of grief, love, coming of age and the creative process using these Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book club questions. Get discussion prompts, selected reviews and related reads.

Set your book club on fire with these Nothing to See Here book club questions. Get fiery discussion prompts, a synopsis, selective reviews and some readalike suggestions.

Figure our where to start (or where to go next) with this full list of Taylor Jenkins Reid books- ranked, rated and with a synopsis for each book.

Explore Taylor Jenkins Reid’s themes of ageism, sexism, competition and grief using our Carrie Soto is Back book club questions. Get question prompts, a synopsis, selected reviews and some read-alikes.

Get a curated list of books about octopuses featuring fiction and non-fiction along with monsters, murderers, hunks, hunters and escape artists.

Unpack this book’s many philosophical questions using our The Measure book club questions. Get discussion prompts, a synopsis, selected reviews and some related reads.