Julie's Book Groups

25/10/2025

Yves

17/10/2025

In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual...

14/10/2025

20/09/2025

On VERA OR FAITH.

The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritag...

03/07/2025

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Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class sh...

20/05/2025

A family of caretakers on a remote island face isolation, heartbreak, and secrets as they protect the world's largest seed bank amidst rising sea levels and a mysterious newcomer.

A surprising, riveting thriller.

Wild Dark Shore: A Novel

17/05/2025

Another propulsive novel of courage, love and survival from Georgia Hunter of WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES.

I can’t put it down.

1940, Italy. Lili and Esti have been best friends since they first met at university. When Esti’s son Theo is born, they become as close as sisters. While a war seethes across borders, life somehow goes on—until Germany invades Italy, and the friends suddenly find themselves in occupied territ.....

17/04/2025

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Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to n...

17/04/2025

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I’m just so sad that I’ll never get to read this for the first time again. My book groups are so lucky.

Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to n...

14/04/2025

But we knew this, right?

Gen Zers and millennials are putting creative twists on book clubs, driven by a renewed love of reading and a growing desire for off-screen connection.

13/04/2025

CARELESS PEOPLE is utterly gripping. While I was reading this tell-all about what goes on behind the scenes at Facebook/Meta, I wanted to do very little else.

The lengths to which Meta/Facebook attempts to stop Wynn-Williams from promoting her book is reason enough to buy and read it.

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

13/04/2025

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Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to n...