The Bowery Book Club formed in 2007 in Winnsboro, Texas. The all-women group with 30+ members meets once a month for lively conversations about fun and meaningful stories. Here are their 2024 collective recommendations for good reads.
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
An Echo in Time by Boo Walker
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Black Cross by Greg Iles
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Braiding Sweet Grass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and The Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Button Man by Andrew Gross
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
Erasure by Percival Everett
Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Just One Damn Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s, Book One, by Jodi Taylor
Labyrinth by Mark Sullivan
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
Long Island by Colm Toibin
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kristen Miller
March by Geraldine Brooks
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid
My Beloved Monster by Caleb Carr
Never Tell by Selena Montgomery
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
Oath & Honor by Liz Cheney
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Run Baby Run by Melissa Lenhardt
Summers Sisters by Judy Blume
Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
The Gift of Rain by Tang Eng
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The House of Hidden Meaning by RuPaul
The Incident of the Coconut Cake by Amy Reichert
The Judge’s List by John Grisham
The King of Diamonds by Rena Pederson
The Last Letter by Karen Baum Gordon
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
The Observer by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
The Resistance by Anita Shreve
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Spy who Went Dancing by Aline Griffith
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz
The Women by Kristen Hannah
True Grit by Charles Portis
Twilight Territory by Andrew X Pham
Verity by Colleen Hoover
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Weyward by Amelia Hart
Yellow Face by R. F. Kuang