Reading group choices 2018: selections for lively discussions

The almost sisters/ Joshilyn Jackson

The aasociation of small bombs/ Karan Mahajan

Behave/ Andromeda Romano-Lax

The boat runner/ Devin Murphy

The Chilbury Ladies' choir/ Jennifer Ryan

Close enough to touch/ Colleen Oakley

Cocoa Beach/ Beatriz Williams

The Essex serpent/ Sarah Perry

Fallen land/ Taylor Brown

Grief Cottage/ Gail Goodwin

The hopefuls/ Jennifer Close

If the creek don't rise/ Leah Weiss

The little French bistro/ Nine George

The little Paris bookshop/ Nine George

Miss Kopp's midnight confessions: a Kopp sisters novel/ Amy Stewart

The nightingale/ Kristin Hannah

The nix/ Nathan Hill

Nutshell/ Ian McEwan

The other Einstein/ Marie Benedict

Pachinko/ Min Jin Lee

A piece of the world/ Christina Baker Kline

Precious and Grace: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency/ Alexander McCall Smith

Readers of Broken Wheel recommend/ Katarina Bivald

The river at night/ Erica Frederick

Salt houses/ Hala Alyan

The second Mrs. Hockaday/ Susan Rivers

The spy: a novel of Mata Hari/ Paulo Coello

Swimming home/ Mary-Rose MacColl

Swing time/ Zadie Smith

Temporary people/ Deepak Unnikrishnan

Us & them/ Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

The vengeance of mothers: the journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill / Jim Fergus

The women in the castle / Jessica Shattuck Nonfiction

Animals strike curious poses/ Elena Passarello

Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande

The best of us: a memoir / Joyce Maynard

Cuz: the life and times of Michael A./ Danielle Allen

Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city / Matthew Desmond

The general's niece: the little-known de Gaulle who fought to free occupied France/ Paige Bowers

It's not dark yet: a memoir / Simon Fitzmaurice

The lost city of the Monkey God: a true story/ Douglas Preston

The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore

A room in Athens/ Frances Karlen Santamaria

Thousand miler: adventures hiking the Ice Age Trail/ Radzicki McManus

Witnesses of the unseen: seven years in Guantanamo/ Lakhdar Boumediene & Mustafa Ait Idir Young Adult

Ahimsa/ Supriya Kelkar

As you wish/ Chelsea Sedoti

Bang/ Barry Lyga

Beck/ Peet & Meg Rosoff

The hate u give/ Angie Thomas

I am Alfonso Jones/ Tony Medina, Stacey Robinson & John Jennings

Invictus/ Ryan Graudin

The knife of never letting go/ Patrick Ness

Raymie Nightingale/ Kate DiCamillo

This is where it ends/ Marieke Nijkamp

The wild robot/ Peter Brown.