Reese's Book Club (Updated October 2022)

Each month, Reese Witherspoon chooses a book with a woman at the center of the story. There's not a formula to the books she spotlights. Reese's team makes their choices thoughtfully and looks for ways to deepen our connection to books, authors, and ourselves.
 

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1. The Alice Network

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Author:
Quinn, Kate
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Formats:
Book, Audiobook, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"Two women--a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947--are brought together in a ... story of courage and redemption"--Amazon.com.

2. The dictionary of lost words: a novel

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Author:
Williams, Pip, 1969-
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and...

3. The light in hidden places: a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgórska

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Author:
Cameron, Sharon, 1970-
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyśl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...

4. The night tiger

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Author:
Choo, Yangsze
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Description:

"Choo narrates this richly complex novel herself, her gorgeous writing delivered in a voice that is deep and precise and lovely, both British and not quite. Her tone and words transport us..." — San Francisco Chronicle
This program is read by the author.
A sweeping historical audiobook about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.
Quick-witted,

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5. This is the story of a happy marriage

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Author:
Patchett, Ann
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Book, Audiobook, OverDrive eAudiobook
Description:

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

"I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett's multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. [...] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett's is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers." — New York Times Book Review

Blending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett,

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