Book Clubs

Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F. Penney makes a great book club pick! A modern, fast-paced, feminist, and sometimes even funny East Coast gothic with fresh regional folklore about a woman searching for her missing elderly aunt, long suspected to be a witch by the local villagers. Book Club Questions (Spoilers ahead!) Imagine yourself away from the world in a cozy cottage in the forest. Your own version of Willow Sound, just for you. Outside the window, wildflowers sway. Door locked. Candles lit. You sink into the soft...

Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? Off Menu by Amy Rosen makes a great book club pick! In Amy Rosen’s debut novel, Off Menu, hilarity and heartbreak are dished out in equal measure. Mid-20s Ruthie navigates learning what she wants, who to love, and how to laminate pastry in this Heartburn meets Bridget Jones’s Diary adventure for the next generation. Book Club Questions Is there a character you related to the most? Who and why? How did you feel when Dean came back into Ruthie’s story? Did you relate to the friendships between Ruthie,...

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...