What Book Clubs Are Reading in November
Our monthly round-up of book clubs is here! This November, club mavens chose an exploration of AI’s race and gender bias by an MIT-trained activist and scholar; a 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning saga set in the roaring ‘20s; a thought-provoking follow up memoir by the author of Maid; the heartfelt story that’s sure to delight fans of the film Groundhog Day; plus the tribal memoir that’s become a classroom and book club classic in the decade since its release.
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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz"I've never read anything quite like this one," exclaimed Natalie Portman when announcing her latest book club pick, a 2023 Pulitzer Prize winning novel that explores family, ambition, power, and money during the roaring '20s and the Great Depression.
DUA LIPA & Seth MeyersPaperback, 2023
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Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Stephanie LandGood Morning America’s pick this month is the follow up memoir by the author of Maid, which tackles her struggles as a single mom trying to get a college degree while “facing obstacles at every turn, including a complex loan system, not having enough money for food and navigating judgment from professors and fellow students who don't understand the demands of attending college while living under the poverty line.”
Alta Journal & The New York TimesOut of stock
The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Brit BennettThis month, Dua Lipa chose a bestseller and a 2021 Women’s Prize finalist for her book club. The pop star was “struck by how the novel so cleverly raises questions of heritage and identity while remaining non-judgmental, empathetic, and full of heart.”
DUA LIPA & HIDEO_KOJIMAPaperback, 2022
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Maybe Next Time: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Cesca MajorFor November, Reese Witherspoon picked a life-affirming novel with emotional oomph and Groundhog Day vibes about “an overworked & overwhelmed London literary agent, Emma, who finds herself trapped in a time loop... 🕰️👀 No matter what Emma does, she keeps living the same day over and over—all while trying to stop something terrible from happening to her family.”
Hardcover, 2023
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid KhalidiRapper Noname’s November pick is a Columbia professor’s deep dive into Palestinian history that was featured on our list of the best books for context and understanding on the Israel-Hamas war.
Lydia Kiesling & Sonam K AhujaPaperback, 2021
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Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Deborah A. MirandaThis month, the California Book Club examines an acclaimed tribal memoir by a California author reflecting on her indigenous and European roots that’s been a hit with teachers and book clubs since its release a decade ago. The Golden State-focused club will convene on 11/16 for an online chat with the author to discuss her work.
Shannon Watts & juliet pattersonOut of stock
The Unsettled
Ayana MathisIn her Audacious Book Club selection for November, Roxane Gay picks a powerful generational saga set between Philadelphia and Alabama in the 1980s that sends the reader “on a kind of intellectual treasure hunt,” according to the New York Times.
Cuss Whisperer & Honorée Fanonne JeffersOut of stock
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
Joy BuolamwiniThe LA Times Book club invites its readers to explore AI's racial and gender bias with “one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and critics of artificial intelligence.” Readers can join the book club’s online event with the MIT academic on 11/14.
Tracy Chou 🌻 & Brian MerchantOut of stock
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward“I am a fan of all of Jesmyn’s work and her newest offering is vital work for our culture” raved Oprah of the two-time National Book Award winner and author of her latest book club pick, which is told through the eyes of a slave who’s just been sold south by the white man who is both her captor and father.
Oprah Winfrey & Imani PerryHardcover, 2023
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Everything Is Not Enough
Lolá Ákínmádé ÅkerströmThis month, Jennette McCurdy of iCarly and I'm Glad My Mom Died memoir fame picked a novel that “poses the question ‘what does it mean to have it all?’ and explores it three ways, through the eyes of three different women in europe…Lolá Akínmádé Akerström has a sharp voice in the world of nuanced contemporary women's fiction. 📚”
Jennette McCurdyHardcover, 2023
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