BARNES & NOBLE BOOK CLUB

Barnes & Noble Book Club: Every Book Pick

Barnes & Noble launched its national Book Club on March 5, 2018, with free in-store Book Club nights at its then-632 U.S. locations led by expert booksellers, naming The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer as its inaugural pick that May. The club has run a new selection almost every month since (no pick in December), chosen by B&N's own booksellers and editors rather than a single celebrity host, with picks leaning toward literary and upmarket contemporary fiction. Each selection gets a dedicated in-store display and a free author livestream or in-conversation event; several picks, including Buckeye by Patrick Ryan, have gone on to be finalists for Barnes & Noble's own Book of the Year award.

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  1. August 2026
    Sunlight Finds You

    by Laura Moriarty

  2. July 2026
    The Shampoo Effect

    by Jenny Jackson

  3. June 2026
    Valley of the Moms

    by Hannah Selinger

  4. May 2026
    Good Joy, Bad Joy

    by Mikki Brammer

  5. April 2026
    Mothers and Other Strangers

    by Corey Ann Haydu

  6. March 2026
    Lake Effect

    by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

  7. February 2026
    Good People

    by Patmeena Sabit

  8. January 2026
    The Rest of Our Lives

    by Ben Markovits

  9. November 2025
    Like Family

    by Erin O. White

  10. October 2025
    Heart the Lover

    by Lily King

  11. September 2025
    Buckeye

    by Patrick Ryan

  12. August 2025
    Songs for Other People's Weddings

    by David Levithan & Jens Lekman

  13. July 2025
    The Letter Carrier

    by Francesca Giannone

  14. June 2025
    The Listeners

    by Maggie Stiefvater

  15. May 2025
    My Friends

    by Fredrik Backman

  16. April 2025
    Rabbit Moon

    by Jennifer Haigh

  17. March 2025
    Broken Country

    by Clare Leslie Hall

  18. February 2025
    This Is a Love Story

    by Jessica Soffer

  19. January 2025
    The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

    by Emma Knight

  20. November 2024
    Like Mother, Like Mother

    by Susan Rieger

  21. October 2024
    The Mighty Red

    by Louise Erdrich

  22. September 2024
    Colored Television

    by Danzy Senna

  23. August 2024
    The Wedding People

    by Alison Espach

  24. July 2024
    The God of the Woods

    by Liz Moore

  25. June 2024
    You Are Here

    by David Nicholls

  26. May 2024
    The Real Americans

    by Rachel Khong

  27. April 2024
    I Cheerfully Refuse

    by Leif Enger

  28. March 2024
    After Annie

    by Anna Quindlen

  29. February 2024
    Good Material

    by Dolly Alderton

  30. January 2024
    Mercury

    by Amy Jo Burns

  31. November 2023
    Absolution

    by Alice McDermott

  32. October 2023
    The Prospectors

    by Ariel Djanikian

  33. September 2023
    Happiness Falls

    by Angie Kim

  34. August 2023
    Tom Lake

    by Ann Patchett

  35. June 2023
    Good Night, Irene

    by Luis Alberto Urrea

  36. May 2023
    The Secret Book of Flora Lea

    by Patti Callahan Henry

  37. April 2023
    Hang the Moon

    by Jeannette Walls

  38. March 2023
    The Daughters of Madurai

    by Rajasree Variyar

  39. February 2023
    The Snow Hare

    by Paula Lichtarowicz

  40. November 2022
    The Cloisters

    by Katy Hays

  41. October 2022
    The Night Ship

    by Jess Kidd

  42. September 2022
    Other Birds

    by Sarah Addison Allen

  43. August 2022
    Mercury Pictures Presents

    by Anthony Marra

  44. July 2022
    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

    by Gabrielle Zevin

  45. June 2022
    Half-Blown Rose

    by Leesa Cross-Smith

  46. May 2022
    Elektra

    by Jennifer Saint

  47. April 2022
    Sea of Tranquility

    by Emily St. John Mandel

  48. March 2022
    One Italian Summer

    by Rebecca Serle

  49. February 2022
    The Family Chao

    by Lan Samantha Chang

  50. January 2022
    Anthem

    by Noah Hawley

  51. November 2021
    Our Country Friends

    by Gary Shteyngart

  52. October 2021
    The Death of Jane Lawrence

    by Caitlin Starling

  53. September 2021
    Matrix

    by Lauren Groff

  54. August 2021
    The Guilt Trip

    by Sandie Jones

  55. July 2021
    The Paper Palace

    by Miranda Cowley Heller

  56. June 2021
    The Other Black Girl

    by Zakiya Dalila Harris

  57. May 2021
    Hour of the Witch

    by Chris Bohjalian

  58. April 2021
    The Five Wounds

    by Kirstin Valdez Quade

  59. March 2021
    We Begin at the End

    by Chris Whitaker

  60. February 2021
    Good Neighbors

    by Sarah Langan

  61. January 2021
    Better Luck Next Time

    by Julia Claiborne Johnson

  62. November 2020
    The Cold Millions

    by Jess Walter

  63. October 2020
    Leave the World Behind

    by Rumaan Alam

  64. September 2020
    Transcendent Kingdom

    by Yaa Gyasi

  65. August 2020
    The Pull of the Stars

    by Emma Donoghue

  66. July 2020
    Florence Adler Swims Forever

    by Rachel Beanland

  67. June 2020
    The Vanishing Half

    by Brit Bennett

  68. May 2020
    All Adults Here

    by Emma Straub

  69. April 2020
    Conjure Women

    by Afia Atakora

  70. March 2020
    A Good Neighborhood

    by Therese Anne Fowler

  71. February 2020
    American Dirt

    by Jeanine Cummins

  72. January 2020
    Dear Edward

    by Ann Napolitano

  73. November 2019
    The Family Upstairs

    by Lisa Jewell

  74. October 2019
    Ninth House

    by Leigh Bardugo

  75. September 2019
    The Testaments

    by Margaret Atwood

  76. August 2019
    Inland

    by Téa Obreht

  77. June 2019
    Mrs. Everything

    by Jennifer Weiner

  78. May 2019
    The Guest Book

    by Sarah Blake

  79. April 2019
    Lost Roses

    by Martha Hall Kelly

  80. March 2019
    The Island of Sea Women

    by Lisa See

  81. February 2019
    The Last Romantics

    by Tara Conklin

  82. January 2019
    The Only Woman in the Room

    by Marie Benedict

  83. September 2018
    An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

    by Hank Green

  84. June 2018
    Clock Dance

    by Anne Tyler

  85. May 2018
    The Female Persuasion

    by Meg Wolitzer

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