Marcy Goldman’s Book Club Favorite Book List 2025
Just some of the stand-out books I’ve shared with my book club. It’s a new season of reading – here’s some of my favorites I’m happy to share. Some of these books are ones I've presented to my book club (which I still host on Zoom) and some are personal favorites. There's no alpha order here

1. American Dirt
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2. Between Two Worlds
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3. (ignore!)
4. A Man Called Ove
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6. American Dirt
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7. Between Two Worlds
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8. Broken Country
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9. Crying in H Mart
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10. Circe
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11. Daughters of Olympus
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12. The 100 Years of Margot and Lenni
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13. The Book of Doors
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14. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
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15. The Golem and the Jinni
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16. The Humans
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17. The Impossible Us
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18. I Who Have Never Known Men
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19. I’m Glad My Mother Died
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20. Eleanor Oliphant is Doing Fine
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21. Erotic Tales for Punjabi Widows
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22. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
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23. Lessons in Chemistry
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24. The Language of Flowers
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25. The Light Between Oceans
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26. The Martian
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27. Middlesex
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28. Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death
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29. My Friends
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30. Nickel Boys
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31. Perfume / Story of a Murderer
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32. The Measure
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33. The Mermaid
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34. Remarkably Brilliant Creatures
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35. The Regrets
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36. The Salt Path
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37. Shark Heart
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38. Swift River
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39. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
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40. The Midnight Library
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41. We’ll Prescribe You a Cat
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42. Wild Dark Shores
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43. Yellow Face
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Lite-Weight summer reads that I’d still recommend:

Where the Lost Wander (the old west…)
Nora Goes Off Script (summer romance but intelligent and witty enough)

Older Favorites
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Gone with the Wind
The Fountainhead
Poetry of Robert Frost
Poetry of Emily Dickenson