Have you been to Simon & Schuster’s new
Reading Group Resources site? It’s a one-stop shop for all reading group needs!

We just updated the site with new book club recommendations including:

Lipstick in Afghanistan  (Gallery, 9781439191385)
Roberta Gately
“In this utterly engrossing read, Gately vividly evokes the beauty and tragedy of Afghanistan, where she, like Elsa, worked as a nurse after 9/11.” – Booklist

Blacklands: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 9781439149454)
Belinda Bauer
“Blacklands is leading the pack of profound new mysteries. . . . Atmospheric . . . . bewitching . . . . a brilliant analysis of an exceedingly twisted mind.” — Chicago Tribune

A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir (Simon & Schusters, 9781439125687)
Elena Gorokhova
A January 2010 Indie Next Pick
One of O Magazine’s 10 to Watch For, February 2010
One of the Christian Science Monitor‘s 10 Best Mother’s Day Books, 2010
“Artful memoir about the angst and joys of growing up behind the Iron Curtain. . . . Articulate, touching and hopeful.” — Kirkus Reviews

The Kitchen House: A Novel (Touchstone, 9781439153666)
Kathleen Grissom
“Kathleen Grissom gives us a new and unforgettable perspective on slavery and families and human ties in the Old South, exploring the deepest mysteries of the past that help define who we are to this day.”
– Robert Morgan, Bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club selection Gap Creek

Exit the Actress: A Novel (Touchstone, 9781439171172)
Priya Parmar
“Nell is a thoughtful protagonist and narrator. . . This is a solid debut from a writer readers will want to see more from.”
– Publishers Weekly
(Scribner, 9781439148952)
Colm Toibin
“A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound.”
– Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine
 
Diamond Ruby: A Novel (Touchstone, 9781439160053)
Joseph Wallace
“Comparisons to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are not made lightly . . . wonderful, memorable . . . perfect.”
—Laura Lippman

Best Friends Forever: A Novel (Washington Square Press, 9780743294300)
Jennifer Weiner
“Addie Downs – the Everygirl at the center of Jennifer Weiner’s latest novel – just could turn out to be one of our favorite heroines of the summer…Another superlative novel by Weiner, about a big girl with a bigger heart, that will have women and men of all sizes cheering.”
– USA Today

Thereby Hangs a Tail: A Chet and Bernie Mystery (Atria, 9781416585862)
Spencer Quinn
“[Thereby Hangs A Tail] is a fun and lighthearted book for lovers of mysteries and dogs.”
—Hudson Valley News

Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner, 9781439169018)
Audrey Niffenegger
“The endurance of love animates this gothic story set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. Niffenegger’s prose can be wearyingly overblown, but she has a knack for taking the romantic into the realm of creepiness, and she constructs a taut mystery around the secrets… It’s no small achievement that the revelations are both organic and completely unexpected.”
– The New Yorker

Infidel (Free Press, 9780743289696)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“Too potent a social critic to be tolerated any longer [in her home country]…an unflinching advocate of women’s rights and an unflinching critic of Islamic extremism.”
– The New York Times

Brooklyn: A Novel 

Happy Book-Clubbing!