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2025
Oct: Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Nov: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Dec: Watch Party: Never Let Me Go
2026
January: The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree – India Hayford
A contemporary novel rooted in folklore, drawing on themes of magic, trauma, and cultural survival. It blends realism with myth in the American South.
February: Educated – Tara Westover
The story of a woman who grew up in a survivalist Mormon family in rural Idaho with no formal schooling. She teaches herself enough to attend Cambridge and Harvard, exploring the power of education to reinvent identity
March: Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
Set in 1980s Glasgow, this novel follows a boy struggling with poverty and a mother battling alcoholism. Demon Copperhead in Scotland.
April: Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
When an elderly couple are found brutally murdered on a remote farm in southern Sweden, the police launch an urgent investigation. Combining gripping detective work with sharp social insight, the novel offers a compelling portrait of 1990s Sweden.
May: The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
An American missionary family moves to the Congo in 1959, with tragic consequences. Each family member narrates, revealing colonialism, religion, and cultural blindness.
June: Concrete Island – J. G. Ballard
A modern Robinson Crusoe tale where a man is stranded in a motorway wasteland in London. It is both survival story and critique of modern isolation.
July: The Tiger’s Wife – Téa Obreht
A Balkan doctor unravels folklore and family secrets in a war-torn land. Myth and history collide in this magical realist exploration of grief and resilience.
August: In the Time of Butterflies- Julia Alvarez
About the lives of the Mirabal sisters, who courageously resisted Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. It portrays their transformation from ordinary women into national heroines, symbolizing sacrifice, courage, and the fight for freedom.
Sept: The Overstory – Richard Powers
An interlinked series of stories about people whose lives are shaped by trees and forests. Both sweeping and intimate, it is a novel about ecology, activism, and the interconnection of life.
Oct: The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
An existential journey across the Sahara by an American couple. Blends alienation, colonial critique, and the vast indifference of nature.
Nov: Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer (Dec watch movie)
A nonfiction account of Christopher McCandless, who abandoned modern life to live in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer examines freedom, idealism, and the risks of rejecting society.
