Find out what the Good Morning America book club is reading this month and see every book on the GMA book club list.
In the fall of 2019, Good Morning America announced the start of its GMA book club. Wanting to compete with Jenna Bush Hager’s book club on the Today show, the GMA book club strives to choose intriguing discussion-worthy books every month.
Impressed with the quality of Good Morning America’s book club, I wanted to share the full GMA book list.
You’ll find plenty of thought-provoking reads among GMA’s book club books. So far, all of the choices have been novels, but I’m still holding out hope for a few nonfiction picks to slip in.
Without further ado, here is your complete guide to GMA’s book club list, including this month’s Good Morning America Book Club Selection.
GMA’s Book Club November 2026 Pick
Whale Harbor
Mary Beth Keane
In the 1960s, an Irish father must make a heartbreaking decision for his eleven grieving sons. The older ones will have to emigrate to England while the younger ones will stay in Ireland. When Macden is offered a job on a Montana cattle ranch, he heads to American and promises his little brother Rian that he can join him one day. But one day Rian goes missing and his disappearance will haunt the family for decades in this new novel based on the author’s own family history.
GMA’s Book Club October 2026 Pick
Bad Words
Ríoghnach Robinson
Parker Navarro thought his debut novel would ignite his career until critic Selina Chan’s scathing review turned it to a complete failure. Now Parker hopes his second novel is his chance at redemption. Selina can’t resist reviewing him again and her review creates a viral feud that shifts both of their fortunes overnight. Yet behind-the-scenes of their public sparring is a quiet dialogue that makes both of them rethink their ideas of success, sincerity, and each other.
GMA’s Book Club September 2026 Pick
Under Story
Chloe Benjamin
Biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from her past, working as a dishwasher at a remote scientific base in Antarctica. When a strange light appears across the ice, a group of physicists arrive with her ex-husband Eli in tow. Laurel is convinced the Arc is a rabbit hole into a world where she they can go back and live their story a second time. Can she convince him to try or will human hubris that will damage the natural world?
GMA’s August 2026 Book Club Pick
Take What You Can
Naima Coster
The only two Black students on a study abroad to France, Val and Milly became instant best friends. Not in their thirties both married with a baby girl on the way, Milly convinces Val to move to New York City so they can raise their daughters together. But Val struggles to find her place in Milly’s world, separated by class and social capital. As the pressures of marriage and motherhood accumulate, a rift that started long ago in France threatens to consume their friendship.
GMA’s July 2026 Book Club Pick
Country People
Daniel Mason
After twelve years working on his PhD in Russian folktales, Miles Krzelewski is feeling lost in his life despite being a devoted husband and father. When his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a Vermont college, Miles feels its a perfect opportunity for a reset. Soon Miles is entangled in a colorful cast of local characters where he begins to suspect a ridiculous local legend may actually be true.
GMA’s June 2026 Book Club Pick
Dolly All the Time
Annabel Monaghan
Moving back home to Whitfield, Rhode Island, to help her father and brother from losing the family home, Dolly Brick is a single mom who can tackle any problem. When she stumbles on Stewart Whitfield in the middle of a very public breakup, she can’t keep herself from offering to help even if he is from the wealthiest families in town. When Stewart’s proposed fake dating starts to feel very real, Dolly must decide if she can let her years of independence slide to let someone else in.
GMA’s May 2026 Book Club Pick
Homebound
Portia Elan
In 1983, Becks is mourning the death of her beloved uncle while finishing the video game that they had been working on together. In 2078, Dr. Portman works on artificial intelligence and robotics and struggles with her responsibility to the planet’s future. In 2586, Yesiko finds a long-lost piece of technology while scavenging at sea that sets her on a path of sacrifice she’s not sure she wants to make. Weaving together stories across centuries, Homebound imagines a chain reaction of love and creativity.
GMA’s April 2026 Book Club Pick
Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
Natalie Heller Mills has build a growing brand as a tradwife, raising six children with her cowboy husband in a rustic farmhouse. A brand that conveniently overlooks all the nannies, producers and modern-day behind-the-scenes amenities. When Natalie wakes up to find her family living in 1855, she must figure out if it’s time travel or a new reality show. Because what she portrays as a charming traditional lifestyle is a nightmare in real life.
GMA’s March 2026 Book Club Pick
The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives
Elizabeth Arnott
In 1966, Beverly, Elsie and Margot are united by a common fate: their ex-husband’s are some of California’s most infamous murderers. Trying to keep their lives steady while everyone secretly questions how they could not have know what their husbands were doing, the three fight the shame of their husbands’ deceit. When a string of local killings hits the news, the three women band together to catch the killer.
GMA’s February 2026 Book Club Pick
The Exes
Leodora Darlington
Natalie has only ever wanted to find “the one” she can spend her life with but instead she has a string of exes. When she meets James, she believes her luck has finally changed with their marriage. As Natalie tries to be the perfect wife, her long line of dead exes haunts her. Is their a monster inside her or is someone toying with her? And will her husband be next?
GMA’s January 2026 Book Club Pick
Skylark
Paula McLain
In 1664, Alouette Voland is unjustly imprisoned in a notorious French asylum with thousand of other women. With a small group of allies, Alouette dreams of creating a life bigger than any she had previously imagined. In 1939, Kristof works as a psychiatrist resident in Paris. When the Nazis descend on the city, Kristof knows that helping his Jewish neighbors might risk his work as a doctor. McLain takes you into an underground city below Paris with two parallel tales of defiance and rescue.
GMA’s December 2025 Book Club Pick
Best Offer Wins
Marisa Kashino
Living in a cramped apartment with her husband in DC, Margo Miyake is desperate to move into a home in the suburbs where they can expand their family. After eighteen months and almost a dozen failed bidding wars, Margo feels like it will never happen. When Margo gets a tempt about the perfect house that will go on the market soon, she begins obsessively stalking the homeowners, willing to do anything to guarantee she gets this house.
GMA’s November 2025 Book Club Pick
Wreck
Catherine Newman
Catherine Newman follows her beloved characters from Sandwich home in a sequel set two years later. The ever anxious Rocky is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick, their college age daughter Willa, and her widowed father Mort. When the family is slightly affected by a local car accident, Rocky finds herself obsessed with it and with a medical condition she hopes doesn’t stress the family.
GMA’s October 2025 Book Club Pick
Twice
Mitch Albom
When he is eight, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at anything. However, he has to accept the outcome the second time. Alfie grows up correcting his mistakes – from teenage embarrassment to crazy risk-taking adventures. But when he turns his ability to his love life, Alfie learns that if he takes a do-over, that person will never fall in love with him again. Now he must decide how much he is willing to risk for a second chance at life.
GMA’s September 2025 Book Club Pick
The Book of Lost Hours
Hayley Gelfuso
In the time space, a massive library exists filled with books containing the memories of those who have died. The library is only accessed by special watches once passed from father to son but now in the hands of the government. Trapped in the library as a child, Lisavet begins to collect memories when she realizes governement agents are entering the library to destroy books to tell their version of history, But the arrival of an American spy will make Lisavet realize how much she is missing.
GMA’s August 2025 Book Club Pick
Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson
The daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont, Jet Mason has lived a normal, boring life. When she is attacked on Halloween, Jet receives a head injury that doctors say will kill her in the next week. That gives Jet seven days to solve her own murder and she can’t help but look at everyone – her parents, her best friend turned sister-in-law and her ex-boyfriend – in a new light.
GMA’s July 2025 Book Club Pick
The Compound
Aisling Rawle
With nineteen other contestants, Lily competes in a reality tv show where all she has to do is outlast her competitors by staying in The Compound the longest. During challenges, the contestants compete for luxuries like lipstick and necessities for the house like appliances. As Lily becomes closer to the others, the line between needs and wants starts to blur. As the producers push the contestants into riskier and riskier challenges, Lily begins to wonder how far she is willing to go to win.
GMA’s June 2025 Book Club Pick
Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
In the 1980s, Joan Goodwin loves her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. Until she sees an ad for the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Suddenly, Joan finds herself training to be an astronaut with a colorful cast of characters that teach her about the transformative power of love.
GMA’s May 2025 Book Club Pick
The Original Daughter
Jemimah Wei
Living in a small working-class apartment with her parents and grandmother, Genevieve is shocked when she unexpectedly gets a younger sister, Arin, the product of her grandfather’s dalliance. As the girls grow they become extremely close. Raised in a highly competitive world, Genevieve and Arin shun the outside world and focus solely on academic achievement. When a shocking betrayal estranges the sisters, Genevieve must decide between ambition and familial love and what she owes to herself versus what she owes to her family.
GMA’s April 2025 Book Club Pick
The Sirens
Emilia Hart
After attacking her ex while sleepwalking, Lucy flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales. But Jess is missing and Jess’s paintings reflect the strange dreams Lucy has been having. Lucy dreams of two exiled Irish sisters sailing from England to Australia. Diving into her sister’s past, Lucy begins to worry about Jess and to wonder about her family’s past.
GMA’s March 2025 Book Club Pick
Count My Lies
Sophie Stava
Sloane Carraway has a tendency to lie; usually just harmless little lies that make her seem a little more interesting. When she sees a hurt little girl at the park, she can’t resist telling the girl’s father she’s a nurse as she pulls out the bee stinger. Soon Sloane finds herself hired as the nanny for the picture perfect New York City power couple. But the deeper Sloane goes into Jay and Violet’s world the more she realizes that she is not the only one lying.
GMA Book Club’s February 2025 Pick
Junie
Erin Crosby Eckstine
Sixteen year old Junie has been a slave at the Bellereine Plantation in Alabama since her birth. Serving Violet, the white master’s daughter, Junie spends most of her days daydreaming of far off worlds and mourning the death of her sister Minnie. When visitors from New Orleans arrive courting Violet, Junie realizes her whole world might be upended. In desperation, she awakens the ghost of her sister and unburying the plantation’s dark secrets. How much will Junie be willing to risk for love and liberation?
GMA Book Club’s January 2025 Pick
Homeseeking
Karissa Chen
In Los Angeles, recently widowed Haiwen looks up at the store and sees his childhood love, Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. Growing up in Shanghai, Suchi was drawn to Haiwen’s violin. But in 1947, Haiwen enlisted in the Nationalist Army to save his brother from the draft. Following Haiwen and Suchi for the next six decades, Homeseeking shows different paths life can take us on while showcasing China’s tumultuous history.
GMA Book Club’s December 2024 Pick
The Last One
Rachel Howzell Hall
In a new romantasy novel, Kai wakes up in the woods with no memories. She finds herself in a town riddled with disease and full of monsters. All she knows is that she must get to the Sea of Devour or things will get much worse. Reluctantly accepting the help of a skillful but infuriating blacksmith, Kai learns that nothing is what it seems in this strange land.
GMA Book Club’s November 2024 Pick
The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins
Off the Scottish coast, Eris is an island only accessible for twelve hours each day. Eris was famously the home of Vanessa Chapman, a renowned artist whose cheating husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now caring for Vanessa until her death, Grace now lives alone on Eris. When a shocking discovery about one of Vanessa’s works is made, an art curator comes to visit Grace, threatening Grace’s content lifestyle.
GMA Book Club’s October 2024 Pick
A Song to Drown Rivers
Ann Liang
Possessing a rare beauty, Xishi knows her only lot in life is to marry well so she jumps at the opportunity when the young military advisor Fanli offers her a mission. Fanli trains Xishi to be the perfect weapon and tasks her with seducing the neighboring king to bring his empire down from within. But if she is unmasked as a traitor, Xishi could bring both kingdoms down in this novel based on a Chinese legend.
GMA’s Book Club September 2024 Pick
Colored Television
Danzy Senna
After a series of sketchy rentals, Jane lands a house-sitting gig in the luxury hills of Los Angeles. Now the mother of two can finally have time to finish her latest novel which she views as a biracial War & Peace. When things don’t go as planned, Jane turns to a Hollywood producer desperately wanting “diverse content.” But Jane’s big break is not all it’s cracked up to be in this darkly witty novel.
GMA’s Book Club August 2024 Pick
The Seventh Veil of Salome
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In 1950s Hollywood, every actress wants to be cast as Salome knowing a starring role in a big-budget film will make their careers. Instead, the director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican actress. As Vera puts her all into playing Salome, a woman caught between love and duty, an passed-over actress envious of Vera’s success will do anything to win the fame she thinks she deserves.
GMA Book Club July 2024 Pick
The Love of My Afterlife
Kirsty Greenwood
Arriving in the afterlife in an embarrassing way (and outfit), Delphie is shocked to find herself face-to-face with a gorgeous man. As they talk, their chemistry is palpable. Until someone runs in shouting about a mistake and he is sent back to earth. Now Delphie is allowed to return to her life once more but she only has ten days to find her soulmate again in a city of millions.
GMA Book Club June 2024 Pick
Malas
Marcela Fuentes
In 1951, a mysterious woman accuses Pilar Aguirre of stealing her husband and casts a curse upon Pilar and her family. Forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is preparing for her quinceañera, rocking out to MTV and Selena as she secretly sings in a punk band. When Lulu’s grandmother dies, Lulu finds herself drawn to Pilar, a glamorous older woman who crashes the funeral. But their unexpected friendship threatens to dredge up past secrets in this coming-of-age story set on the Texas-Mexico border.
GMA Book Club May 2024 Pick
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
For fans of Outlander comes a new genre-bending time travel romance that is getting plenty of buzz. After being offered an exorbitant salary, a government worker starts a new position at the Ministry of Time. Studying whether time travel is possible and feasible, she is tasking with being a “bridge”, an assistant to a time traveling expat. Now she is unlikely roommates with Commander Graham Gore, who history records as having died on an 1847 Arctic expedition. By the time the Ministry of Time’s true objectives come to light, she has fallen hopelessly in love and must decide is she is able, and willing, to change the future.
GMA Book Club April 2024 Pick
Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez
Justin finds himself with an unusual curse: every woman he dates finds her soulmate the minute she breaks up with Justin. Emma has the same problem, so Emma and Justin hatch a plan to rent a cottage together in Minnesota, hoping to break each other’s curses. Things go awry when Emma’s toxic mother shows up and Justin assumes guardianship of his younger siblings. It seems Fate may have more in mind than a quick summer fling.
GMA Book Club March 2024 Pick
Listen for the Lie
Amy Tintera
Best friends Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town. Lucy married her dream guy and Savvy was the social butterfly especially popular among the men. One night, Lucy is found walking down the street covered in Savvy’s blood. Even years later, Lucy has no memory of the night of Savvy’s murder. When a popular true crime podcaster comes to town to cover Savvy’s murder, Lucy decides to help him, even though she may be the one at fault.
GMA Book Club February 2024 Pick
Come & Get It
Kiley Reid
Following the success of her debut novel, Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid returns with another look at class and race. Agatha Paul arrives at the University of Arkansas as a visiting professor. Looking to interview women for her research about weddings, Agatha meets Millie Cousins, a resident advisor. But as Agatha interviews the residents in Millie’s hall, she wonders how she can use what she finds about their views on class and race to her advantage.
GMA Book Club January 2024 Pick
The Storm We Made
Vanessa Chan
In 1945 in Malaya, Cecily Alcantara’s family is trying to survive until the end of World War II. Cecily’s son has disappeared, her youngest daughter must stay hidden so she isn’t forced to work in the comfort houses, and her oldest daughter hates serving drunken Japanese soldiers in the teahouse. Cecily knows it’s all her fault; for a decade ago, Cecily was drawn into a campaign to keep “Asia for Asians.” Tired of being a housewife, Cecily became a spy who unwittingly ushered in the Japanese invasion. Now Cecily must face what she has done in order to save her family.
GMA Book Club December 2023 Pick
The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon
From the author of Code Name Hélène, comes a new novel based on the true story of a fearless midwife determined to find justice. In 1789, Martha Ballard is asked to determine the cause of death of a man found buried in the ice. As a local midwife, Martha knows all the town’s secrets, including that this man was one of the men accused of a heinous rape four months ago. As the trial nears, Martha believes the two cases are connected and her detailed diary ends up as pivotal evidence that might tear the whole town, and her family, apart.
GMA Book Club November 2023 Pick
Class
Stephanie Land
In her bestselling memoir Maid, Stephanie Land described her story of working as a house cleaner and trying her best to raise her child in extreme poverty. In the final chapter, she wrote about moving to Montana to attend college. Yet, getting a degree was not the happily-ever-after she imagined. With a searing look at America’s education system, Land discusses navigating a tricky loan system, attending college while still in poverty, and the struggle of a single mother full of desire and ambition.
GMA Book Club October 2023 Pick
The List
Yomi Adegoke
In this page-turning debut novel, Ola Olajide is the picture of a successful woman. A celebrated journalist, Ola is set to marry her amazing fiancé Michael in just a month. Until “The List” appears, a crowdsourced collection of names that has become a social media account posting anonymous accusations. Normally Ola would be all-in supporting the list, except Michael’s name is on it.
GMA Book Club September 2023 Pick
Happiness Falls
Angie Kim
Twenty-year-old Mia isn’t particularly concerned when her father and brother are late coming home from a walk. Until her little brother walks in covered in blood. With autism and a rare genetic condition, Eugene can’t communicate what happened. Now Mia must race to find answers. Did her father walk away? Did something happen to him? And could Eugene be responsible? Happiness Falls powerfully hits on the family dynamics of having a nonverbal sibling and the ableist views of society.
GMA Book Club August 2023 Pick
Family Lore
Elizabeth Acevedo
Flor can predict the exact day anyone will die. So when Flor wants a living wake, her sisters and nieces willingly gather together. Confronted with the possibility of Flor’s death or their own, each sister and niece makes a decision about her life in this powerful story of a Dominican-American family. Although Elizabeth Acevedo is best known for her young adult novels, this GMA Book Club pick for August is being praised as a superb adult novel.
GMA Book Club July 2023 Pick
Save What’s Left
Elizabeth Castellano
When Kathleen Deane’s husband Tom announces that he’s unhappy after thirty years of marriage, Kathleen begins to wonder what makes her happy. Moving to the small eastern beach village of Whidbey, Kathleen finds herself embroiled in a battle against a hideous vacation home being built near her quaint cottage. Quickly Kathleen learns that Whidbey is not the paradise she assumed, but still might be just what she needs.
GMA Book Club June 2023 Pick
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
Emma Törzs
Half-sisters Joanna and Esther Kalotay have spent their whole life guarding the ancient and rare magic books their family has been sworn to protect for generations. To avoid her mother’s fate, Esther has fled to a remote Antarctic base while Joanna has isolated herself in the family home. When their father dies, the sisters reunite and discover that their parents have been keeping secrets from them. Secrets that span centuries.
GMA Book Club May 2023 Pick
The Nigerwife
Vanessa Walters
Nicole Oruwari has a seemingly perfect life, exchanging the gloom of London for a glittering mansion in Nigeria. Until Nicole disappears. Nicole’s Auntie Claudine refuses to accept the police’s lack of progress. Flying to Nigeria, she is determined to find her niece, but instead finds shocking secrets that hint at her own dark past.
GMA Book Club April 2023 Pick
Dirty Laundry
Disha Bose
In a small Irish village, Ciara Dunphy is the queen bee with the perfect life that makes her the envy of all her friends. Meanwhile, Ciara’s best friend Mishti feels out of place in her arranged marriage in a foreign country and local mom Lauren feels ostracized for her disheveled lifestyle. When Ciara is murdered, the flaws in her immaculate life are on display for all to see and everyone starts airing their neighbors’ dirty secrets to distract from their own possible motives.
GMA Book Club Pick March 2023
Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson
The Stockton family of Brooklyn Heights has lived off their connections and old money for generations, firmly placing them amongst New York’s one-percenters. Darley, the eldest daughter, traded her job for motherhood but has lost herself in the process. Meanwhile, Georgiana, the youngest, finds herself facing forbidden love, forcing her to choose what she really wants. And Sasha, the daughter-in-law, feels like an outsider after marrying into wealth that she could never have comprehended. Pineapple Street falls all three women, giving a witty look at modern life.
GMA Book Club Pick February 2023
River Sing Me Home
Eleanor Shearer
At a Barbados plantation in 1834, the master gathers his slaves together and announces that they have all been emancipated. Now they are to be his apprentices instead of slaves, although they must now work for him for another six years. Instead, Rachel decides to leave, searching for her five children who were sold away.
GMA Book Club Pick January 2023
Age of Vice
Deepti Kapoor
In the middle of the night in New Delhi, an expensive Mercedes jumps the curb and kills five people. When the dust settles, only a stunned servant is left to explain what happened. Part crime thriller part epic family drama, Age of Vice tells the interconnecting story of the playboy heir of a wealthy family, a poor servant rising through the ranks, and a journalist caught between ethics and ambition.
Good Morning America’s December 2022 Pick
The Light Pirate
Lily Brooks-Dalton
In a Florida already wracked by climate change, Frida gives birth to baby Wanda amid a deadly hurricane. As the world continues to disintegrate, Wanda grows and adapts to an ever-changing world. Living in a community abandoned by society, Wanda seeks adventure, community, and love in a place remade by nature.
Good Morning America’s November 2022 Pick
Someday, Maybe
Onyi Nwabineli
On New Year’s Eve, Eve’s husband Q dies by suicide. While you learn more about Eve and Q’s relationship, Nwabineli’s debut novel focuses on Eve’s complicated emotions after her husband’s death. From shock to anger to depression, Eve navigates her grief with the help of her Nigerian family and a group of loyal friends in this powerful story.
Good Morning America’s October 2022 Pick
Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
Olivia McAfee’s picture-perfect life is shattered when she finds out her husband’s dark secrets. Now divorced, she moves to her quiet New Hampshire hometown with her teenage son Asher. When Asher’s girlfriend dies and he’s the prime suspect, Olivia knows he must be innocent. Yet as more of Asher’s secrets are revealed, she begins to wonder if he’s more like his father than she thought.
Good Morning America’s September 2022 Pick
The Fortunes of Jaded Women
Carolyn Huynh
Mai Nguyen knows that she and her daughters are cursed never to find love or happiness thanks to her ancestor who left her husband for true love and was cursed by a Vietnamese witch. Desperate, Mai consults a trusted psychic who predicts the family will have a marriage, a funeral, and the birth of a son, a prediction that will bring together the estranged women in Nguyen’s family.
Good Morning America’s August 2022 Pick
Mika in Real Life
Emiko Jean
At 25, Mika’s life is still a complete mess, much to the chagrin of her Japanese parents. When the daughter she gave up for adoption reaches out, Mika tells a white lie to make her life seem more put together than it is. Just as Mika’s life seems to be settling into place, her lie keeps snowballing and she risks losing everything she just found.
Good Morning America’s July 2022 Pick
The Dead Romantics
Ashley Poston
Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most popular romance writers of the day. But after a bad breakup, a disillusioned Florence struggles to write about love. With a new book due and her editor refusing an extension, Florence’s career is all but over. When her father dies, Florence returns to her sleepy Southern hometown only to be shocked to find the ghost of her editor, whose unfinished business has her second-guessing everything she knows about love stories.
Good Morning America’s June 2022 Pick
More Than You’ll Ever Know
Katie Gutierrez
In 1985, Lore Rivera is an international banker, frequently traveling between Texas and Mexico City. Although married to Fabian with twin sons, after Lore has an affair with Andres in Mexico, she secretly marries him as well. When her double life is finally exposed, one husband is arrested for murdering the other. Uncovering this sensational story in the modern-day, a true-crime writer uncovers long-hidden secrets when she tracks down Lore to hear Lore’s side of the story.
Good Morning America’s May 2022 Pick
The Change
Kirsten Miller
An explosive story about three women whose midlife crises bring a newfound power. Alone in her 40s, former nurse Nessa discovers she can hear voices from the dead. Meanwhile, Harriet and Jo are undergoing their own transformations. When the trio discover a dead body that the police write off as an overdosed sex worker, their investigation leads them into the dark secrets of the exclusive neighborhood.
Good Morning America’s April 2022 Pick
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Elizabeth Zott has always defied stereotyping, especially as the only woman chemist at the Hastings Research Institute. After falling in love with another chemist who sees her, life throws her a curveball. Now as a single mom, she unexpectedly finds herself the host of a tv cooking show. When Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking charms her audience, and now the women who watch her are beginning to question the status quo in their own lives.
Good Morning America’s March 2022 Pick
The Love of My Life
Rosie Walsh
When Emma falls seriously ill, her husband Leo begins to research her life for her obituary. The more he digs into his wife’s past, the more her realizes everything she told him about herself is a lie, including her name. Now Emma must convince Leo that he really does know her, but first she must tell him about the other love of her life.
February 2022 GMA Book Club Pick
The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb
Growing up in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian will not let his family’s doubts or inherent racism against Blacks stop him from becoming the world’s best classical musician. Which is why it’s a dream come true when he realizes his ancestor’s old fiddle is really a priceless Stradivarius. On the eve of the most prestigious music competition, his violin is stolen and replaced with a ransom note. Ray must do everything he can to get it back, all while the descendants of his ancestor’s former slave owner claim the violin is rightfully theirs.
January 2022 GMA Book Club Pick
The Maid
Nita Prose
Although she struggles to interact with people, her love of order and cleanliness makes Molly Gray is an excellent maid at the Regency Grand Hotel. When Molly discovers a wealthy guest dead in his hotel bed, the police peg her as the prime suspect due to her unusual behaviors. With the help of her friends, Molly must investigate the murder to prove her own innocence in this locked-room mystery.
December 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
Dava Shastri’s Last Day
Kirthana Ramisetti
One of the wealthiest women in the world, Dava Shastri is used to getting her way. When she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Dava gathers her entire family to her private island, and then leeks an early press release announcing her death. Instead of accolades, Dava is stunned to see articles revealing hidden secrets, which she now must explain to her children.
November 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
Still Life
Sarah Winman
During World War II, a young Allied soldier, Ulysses Temper, meets Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian, while hiding inside a wine cellar of a deserted Italian villa. Their friendship shapes Ulysses for the next four decades and when he receives a small inheritance, he knows he must return to Tuscany.
October 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
We Are Not Like Them
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Told from alternating perspectives, We Are Not Like Them tells of a friendship between two women, one white and one Black, that faces its ultimate test. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten but their lives have taken different directions lately – Jen pregnant with her first baby and Riley the first Black woman anchor at the local Philadelphia station. When Jen’s husband, a police officer, is part of a shooting of an unarmed Black teenager, Riley is assigned to cover the career-making story.
September 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
Several People Are Typing
Calvin Kasulke
Narrating through Slack messages between co-workers, Several People are Typing is a satire of the modern work environment. Gerald, a mid-level employee at a large New York public relations company, finds his consciousness has been uploaded to Slack. While his boss raves about Gerald’s productivity and his friend Pradeep tries to help him escape, Gerald’s co-workers must deal with the in-person office politics.
August 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
The Husbands
Chandler Baker
Even though her husband Hayden helps out, successful lawyer Nora Spangler feels like she carries an unfair share of the domestic burden. When they consider moving into an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora finds a group of high-powered women with extremely supportive husbands. While helping with a resident’s wrongful death case, she learns how far these women are willing to go to get some help at home.
July 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
A novel based on the true story of Bella de Costa Greene, who was hired at a young age to be the curator for J.P. Morgan’s renowned library. However, Bella had a secret. Her dark complexion is not from her alleged Portuguese heritage but because she is African American, the daughter of the first Black man to graduate from Harvard.
June GMA Book Club Pick
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris
Tired of being the only Black woman at Wagner Books, Nella Rogers is thrilled when Harlem-born Hazel moves into the cubicle next to her. When Hazel becomes the office darling, Nella starts receiving threatening notes. Could Hazel be trying to force out Nella, or is there much more going on in their workplace?
May 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
Olympus, Texas
Stacey Swann
Two years after having an affair with his brother’s wife, March returns to his small East Texas hometown, setting the gossip mill on overdrive. Having suffered for years from her own husband’s dalliances, his mother, June, doesn’t exactly welcome him home. Soon after March’s arrival, someone is dead and marriages are crumbling, making you wonder at what point is love the thing that drags you down.
April 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
While battling addiction, Jeannette decides to learn more about her family history. She questions her mother Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, about her life but is unsatisfied with Carmen’s answers. Instead, Jeannette travels to Cuba to visit her grandmother and reckon with family secrets from three generations of strong women.
March 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
In his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro ponders the meaning of love through an unusual narrator. Klara is a robot, an Artificial Friend waiting to be bought and taken home to be a companion to a lonely child. Ishiguro’s brilliant writing brings Klara to life, with her keen observations about the world around her, forcing you to piece together complex situations as perceived through the lens of innocence.
February 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Cherie Jones
In Baxter Beach, Barbados, a strong clash of cultures exists between wealthy ex-pats and the poorer locals who end up serving them. When her husband takes part in a failed burglary at a mansion, Lala’s life is torn apart by the consequences. A tale of intergenerational trauma, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House doesn’t hold back from talking about the horrors of abuse, misogyny, and poverty.
January 2021 GMA Book Club Pick
The Push
Ashley Audrain
Blythe Connor is determined to be the kind of mother to her daughter Violet that she never had. Except, quickly Blythe begins to suspect that there is something wrong with her daughter. As her husband is quick to dismiss her fears, you have to wonder, is there something wrong with Violet or is there something wrong with Blythe.
December 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
This Time Next Year
Sophie Cousens
When Minnie meets Quinn at a New Year’s Eve party, it’s clear they have nothing in common except being born at the same time in the same hospital. Quinn is a privileged party boy who has been handed everything in life while Minnie is a hard worker struggling with the realities of life. As they keep encountering each other over the next year, they realize maybe their differences make them fit together better.
November 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
Memorial
Bryan Washington
Benson and Mike have hit a crossroads in their relationship, not sure why they are still together. When he finds out his estranged father is dying, Mike rushes to his father’s side in Osaka. Mike’s departure leaves Benson stuck with Mike’s strict Japanese mother Mitsuko, in an arrangement that strangely enough helps Benson clarify what he wants in life. Book of the Month calls it funny and heartbreaking but warns that the author doesn’t use quotation marks.
October 2020 Book Club Pick
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
In the Midnight Library, there are two books – one book for the life you’ve lived and one for the one you could have lived. After attempting suicide, Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library. Now she must decide which book to choose from. What if she had made different choices? Would her life truly have been better?
September 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
Fifty Words for Rain
Asha Lemmie
In post World War II Japan, Nori, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese aristocrat and a Black American GI, is hidden away on her grandmother’s estate to conceal the family shame. All Nori knows is the attic she is confined to until she meets her legitimate half-brother, Akira, a boy who shows her the world contains so much more.
August 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Fiona Davis
In 1913, Laura Lyons lives inside the famed New York Public Library where her husband is superintendent. Yet she struggles with her traditional role as a housewife and begins a degree in journalism. In 1993, Sadie, Laura’s granddaughter, becomes the curator of one of the library’s collections. When rare books begin to disappear, Sadie finds that history is repeating itself.
July 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
Sex & Vanity
Kevin Kwan
From the author of Crazy Rich Asians comes a retelling of E. M Forster’s A Room with a View. While vacationing in Capri, Lucie Churchill finds herself attracted to George Zhao even though she can’t stand him. She’s always ignored her Chinese side in favor of her father’s blue-blooded New York heritage. Years later, when George arrives in the East Hamptons, Lucie finds herself drawn to him even though it would risk her engagement and her family’s prospects for her.
June 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Growing up in a Southern Black community obsessed with skin color, the Vignes sisters run away at age sixteen. Though identical twins, their lives end in completely different paths. One returns to live in their hometown while the other secretly passes as white. A fascinating story from beginning to end, Bennett explores more than race, as she contemplates how the past affects future generations when their daughters’ lives intersect. Nuanced and complicated, this thought-provoking book is just what you want out of literary fiction and every bit deserving of its spot among the best literary books.
May 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
The Book of V.
Anna Solomon
Anna Solomon weaves together stories of three powerful women: a modern housewife straining against motherhood and desire, a politician’s wife in the 1970s who refuses her husband’s humiliating favor, and the Biblical queen Esther. Together, the three women’s tales show the expectations and restraints society has placed on women throughout the centuries.
April 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore
On New Year’s Eve in 1982, Oona Lockhart is faced with a life-changing decision: travel abroad to continue her studies in London or pursue fame as a member of her boyfriend’s rock band. As the clock strikes midnight and Oona turns 19, she faints and wakes up as a fifty-year-old. Thus begins the mixed-up time travel life of Oona, where every year she gets to randomly experience her life at different stages. Oona Out of Order explores if we can change our destiny while having fun highlighting the differences between decades.
March 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
In Five Years
Rebecca Serle
Lawyer Dannie Cohan knows exactly where she’ll be in five years – until the night of her engagement. In her post-engagement bliss, she has a vision of herself in five years engaged to someone else. She doesn’t think much of it, until years later when she finds he is dating her best friend. While the premise sounds light-hearted, partway through the story, beach read goes out the window and thought-provoking steps in. You’ll feel compelled to know if the vision came true and surprised at how well Serle counters your expectations.
January 2020 GMA Book Club Pick
Long Bright River
Liz Moore
Estranged sisters, Mickey, a police officer, and Kacey, a drug addict, live completely different lives in Philadelphia. When Kacey goes missing and drug addicts begin dying, Mickey becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her among the opioid-riddled streets. More a family drama than a gritty detective thriller, Long Bright River‘s slower pace draws you into Mickey’s world of being a single mom and police officer while the flashbacks build a relationship between the sisters.
December 2019 GMA Book Club Pick
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Tomi Adeyemi
In her stunning first book, Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi brilliantly blended Nigerian mythology and symbols of the Yoruba religion into a gorgeous young adult fantasy. After Zélie Adebola fights to bring magic back to Orïsha, she must now struggle to unite the Maji against the monarchy, hoping to place Amari on the throne.
November 2019 GMA Book Club Pick
The Family Upstairs
Lisa Jewell
Shortly after her 25th birthday, Libby Jones learns that she has inherited an abandoned London mansion from her biological parents. Adopted as a baby, Libby is excited to learn about her birth family. But her family history is much more than she anticipates when she finds out her parents committed suicide as part of a cult, and her siblings vanished. As scary as that is, the truth is even darker. A dark and disturbing tale, you can’t look away as the truth of what happened so long ago gets more and more twisted.
October 2019 GMA Book Club Pick
Dominicana
Angie Cruz
When Juan Ruiz proposes to fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion, she knows she must accept even though he is twice her age. With Juan, she can move to America and help her family immigrate from the Dominican Republic. In New York, Ana is miserable until Juan returns to the Dominican Republic because of political unrest and Ana gets a taste of true freedom, and spends time with Juan’s younger brother. But with Juan’s return, Ana is forced to choose between her duty to her family and her heart.
Which book from the GMA book club list will you read first?
