Book Clubs

Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? The Northern by Jacob McArthur Mooney makes a great book club pick! “The Northern is both a tender-hearted, contemplative coming-of-age novel and adventure-filled road trip story that brings a unique time in sports history to life.” — Zoe Whittall, author of The Fake and The Best Kind of People Book Club Questions How would you characterize the relationship between the two siblings at the centre of the novel? Is their relationship recognizable to you, either with siblings you had growing up or with other people in your life?...

Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? Cattail Lane by Fran Kimmel makes a great book club pick! Rudderless Nick Ackerman’s life changes when he discovers he has a 14-year-old son — who also comes with a grandmother with dementia. A heartwarming tale of second chances and how families are lost, found, and built anew. Book Club Questions Cattail Lane has multiple narrators, but do you think there is a clear protagonist? Who do you think changes most over the course of the novel? What impact does Sarah have on Billy and Nick’s developing relationship,...

Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? Lake Burntshore by Aaron Kreuter makes a great book club pick! A comedic and heartrending novel about a summer of momentous change at a Jewish sleepover camp in Southern Ontario’s cottage country. It celebrates, satirizes, and complicates the contemporary Jewish world through the rarefied locale of a Canadian summer camp. Book Club Questions Lake Burntshore is about one summer at a Jewish sleepover camp. Do you relate to the teens and young adults at Camp Burntshore? Does it remind you of your adolescence?  Among the large cast of characters, which...

Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? The Beauty of Us by Farzana Doctor makes a great book club pick! A campus YA novel with a diverse cast of characters. Evoking elements of My Dark Vanessa (Kate Elizabeth Russell) and The Red Word (Sarah Henstra), this novel unravels the complexities of consent, racism, power dynamics, social anxiety, and the struggles with sexuality that so many teens face in an accessible and story-forward way. Book Club Questions How do the alternating perspectives in the novel affect how you feel about the story? What did you like or dislike...

Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? Far Creek Road by Lesley Krueger makes a great book club pick! Tink Parker is an adventurous, nosy, and very funny nine-year-old living a happy suburban life. But it’s 1962. The Cold War is slowly building toward the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is in danger of ending, and Tink’s innocence comes under threat as she stumbles on neighborhood secrets and affairs. Book Club Questions Far Creek Road begins as Tink Parker makes friends with eight-year-old Norman, who has just moved into her suburban neighborhood. What do you think of Tink...