Novel Chicks Book Club

The Novel Chicks 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 2024 Selections:

February 22: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

March 28: An Invisible Thread  by Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski

April 25: The Battle for God  by Karen Armstrong

May 23: The Life and the Times of the Thunderbolt by Bill Bryson

June 27: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

September 26: MiddleSex by Jeffrey Eugenide

October 24: Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

November 21: The Winemaker's Wife by Kristin Harmel

January 23, 2025: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

February 27: We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

March 27: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Piece of the World: A Novel By Christina Baker Kline Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062356277
Availability: Available to order; typically arrives at Bookmarks in 5-10 days
Published: Mariner Books - January 30th, 2018

A New York Times bestseller.

"Exquisite. A must-read.” --Kristin Hannah


An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny By Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781982189648
Availability: Available to order; typically arrives at Bookmarks in 5-10 days
Published: Howard Books - March 15th, 2022

This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author.


The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism By Karen Armstrong Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9780345391698
Published: Ballantine Books - January 30th, 2001

In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people.


The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir By Bill Bryson Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780767919371
Availability: Available to order; typically arrives at Bookmarks in 5-10 days
Published: Crown - September 25th, 2007

From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.


Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel By Bonnie Garmus Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780385547345
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Doubleday - April 5th, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. STREAM ON APPLE TV+


Middlesex: A Novel By Jeffrey Eugenides Cover Image
$21.00
ISBN: 9780312427733
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Published: Picador - June 5th, 2007

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.


Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By John Steinbeck, Jay Parini (Introduction by) Cover Image
By John Steinbeck, Jay Parini (Introduction by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143107002
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Classics - October 2nd, 2012

A collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck’s route by Don Freeman

A Penguin Classic


The Winemaker's Wife By Kristin Harmel Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781982112301
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Gallery Books - March 17th, 2020

The author of the “engrossing” (People) international bestseller The Room on Rue Amélie returns with a moving story set amid the champagne vineyards of France during the darkest days of World War II, perfect for fans of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel, the owner of stori


Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed By Lori Gottlieb Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781328662057
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper - April 2nd, 2019

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!


“Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing.”—Katie Couric


We Begin at the End By Chris Whitaker Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250759689
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - April 12th, 2022

Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel from the Crime Writers’ Association (UK)
Winner for Best International Crime Fiction from Australian Crime Writers Association
An Instant New York Times Bestseller


Hamnet By Maggie O'Farrell Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781984898876
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - May 18th, 2021

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time.