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THE WATERSMITH

One of our recommended books is The Watersmith by Yance Wyatt

A cross between The Alchemist and Demon Copperhead, The Watersmith follows a bereaved moonshiner who gives up whiskey to distill human ‘spirits.’

When hard-drinking handyman Jack Calloway discovers an old moonshine still behind the Smoky Mountain cabin he plans to flip, his teenage son dares him to repair it. Jack accepts—until his wife, Jolene, tries to sabotage the first batch and is horribly burned in the process. Wracked with guilt, Jack sends their son away and moves Jolene into the cabin to recover while he tries to sober up.

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BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL

#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 USA Today bestseller • #1 National Indie bestseller • #1 IndieNext List, June 2025 • 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fantasy

A genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger from V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Now in trade paperback with a new short story!

This is a story about hunger.
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape.

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THE WILD BENEATH

For readers of Wild Dark Shore and The Time Traveler’s Wife, a fierce, haunting story of one woman caught between her first love and a mysterious stranger who upends everything—and the two worlds that won’t let her go.

Annie MacLeod always knew she was different, growing up on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest, navigating by stars and swimming with sea creatures alongside her parents and best friend Evan. But when a tsunami shatters her world, Annie is stranded on land and forced to confront how eccentric she is.

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FORGOTTEN SOULS

NPR investigative journalist and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, Cheryl W. Thompson explores the stories of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen—the Black pilots who fought for America in WWII—who went missing in combat, the lives they lived, the reasons their planes went down, why the remains of all but two were never found, and the impact their disappearances had on their families and communities.

In 1945, World War II ended one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Geared for battle were nearly 1,000 trailblazing Black pilots trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field, an unrepentantly segregated facility in Alabama.

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READING GROUP CHOICES 2026

Filled with over 40 book recommendations. Each title has been carefully selected for reading groups, and includes discussion questions to facilitate lively group discussions.

Cover: “Winter Subway Reading” by Jenny Kroik

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THE BURNING SIDE

One of our recommended books is The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff

From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging.

When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and the quiet knowledge that the fire is not the only thing threatening their family. They retreat to April’s childhood home in Dallas, where her spirited parents and siblings provide both comfort and complication.

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