Away With Words Book Club

Away With Words Book Club is a private book club.

Book club members, make sure to mention your book club when checking out in-store at Bookmarks to save 20% off your book club purchases.  

Upcoming Selections:

  • March 25 : My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
  • April 22: The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan 
  • May: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
  • June: The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
  • July: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
  • August: One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • September: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
  • October: Kindred by Octavia Butler
  • November: Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
  • December: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfield

 

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781609450786
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Europa Editions - September 25th, 2012

Soon to be an HBO series, book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
 


The School for Good Mothers: A Novel By Jessamine Chan Cover Image
$27.00
Unavailable in store; contact staff@bookmarksnc.org to check price and order availability
ISBN: 9781982156121
Published: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books - January 4th, 2022

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize
Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022!

In this New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in


Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Ann Napolitano Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593243732
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: The Dial Press - March 14th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?


The Echo of Old Books By Barbara Davis Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781542038164
Availability: Available to order; typically arrives at Bookmarks in 5-10 days
Published: Lake Union Publishing - March 28th, 2023

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls.


The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel By Laura Dave Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781501171352
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books - March 21st, 2023

Don’t miss the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick that’s sold over 2 million copies–now an Apple TV+ limited series starring Jennifer Garner!

The “page-turning, exhilarating” (PopSugar) and “heartfelt thriller” (Real Simple) about a woman who thinks she’s found the lov


One True Loves: A Novel By Taylor Jenkins Reid Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781476776903
Availability: Available to order; typically arrives at Bookmarks in 5-10 days
Published: Washington Square Press - June 7th, 2016

* Now a major film!


Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller By Oliver Darkshire Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781324092070
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 14th, 2023

National bestseller
A Literary Hub and BookPage Most Anticipated Book of 2023

Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren’t even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice.


Kindred By Octavia Butler Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807083697
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Beacon Press - February 1st, 2004

From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner

The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.


Secretly Yours: A Novel (Vine Mess #1) By Tessa Bailey Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780063238985
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Avon - February 7th, 2023

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER


Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club): A Novel By Curtis Sittenfeld Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780399590948
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House - April 4th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a “smart, sophisticated, and fun” (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.