A Complete List of Our Good Housekeeping Book Club Picks

This dizzying speculative fiction tackles AI, art and toxic female friendship in a whirl of obsession and jealousy. Enka envies fellow art student and best friend Mathilde, an artistic genius who is held back by trauma. When a new technology allows Enka to enter Mathilde’s mind, the boundaries between them and between right and wrong increasingly blur as obsession wrestles with art and technology.

Meet the extraordinary Endicotts, four siblings who lost touch after their chaotic childhood: Jude, a famous actress with three big secrets; Connor, an author with terrible writer’s block; Roddy, an athlete risking his relationship for one final season; and Gemma, the older sister, who basically raised them. To reunite during a family trip, they must come to terms with their past and one another in this touching family drama about secrets and forgiveness.

Marital discord meets mortal danger in this high stakes, tongue-in-cheek romp. During their anniversary dinner, Jane shocks Dan by asking for a divorce. To make matters worse, they aren’t even through their first course when ecoterrorists hold up the restaurant. But why do the terrorists seem to be following the plot of Jane’s last novel? And can Jane and Dan work together to survive?

This kaleidoscopic debut veers between 9/11-era New York, 1970s rural Ireland and the gritty '80s art scene of NYU, tracing three generations of women and the choices that define them. Sisters Máire and Róisín have a troubled relationship exacerbated by mental illness and a shared romantic interest. At 16, Cora is orphaned by 9/11 and returns to Ireland, where she becomes an abortion activist. Years later, Lyca tries to untangle a complicated web of family secrets with a semi-autobiographical video game at its heart.

Suchi and Haiwen are star-crossed lovers growing up in occupied Shanghai during WWII. This sweeping epic traces their path through the Chinese diaspora in Taiwan, Hong Kong, New York and California as they separate and reconnect again and again against the troubled backdrop of Japanese occupation and the Cultural Revolution. Heartbreaking and hopeful in turns, Homeseeking is about the love of home and family, even against unimaginable circumstances.

If there was ever a perfect holiday read, Williams's sequel to This Is Happiness is it. You don't have to have read the first book to be totally drawn in to the rhythms of the Irish village of Faha, circa 1962, as the Christmas season brings a tumble of developments affecting the town doctor Jack Troy. Chief among them: the discovery of an abandoned baby. If the good doctor didn't have enough on his plate before....

Penny has longed all her life for the pony she had as a girl — but doesn't realize that Pony is also obsessed with her. In the course of this high-spirited, hilarious mystery, he will cross the country to track her down, escaping pony rides, horse shows, and race tracks. Unfortunately, Penny's in the pokey, awaiting trial for a murder that took place twenty-five years ago that only he can solve. It's a race he must win.

As with so many sisters, there's a pretty one and a smart one: Olivia and Amy, four years apart. But beneath Olivia's beauty lies a wild hellion of a girl, far beyond her parents' and teachers' control. Her lonely, brainiac, rule-abiding little sister watches in horror as Ollie's bipolar disorder puts the family in an emotional Cuisinart that never stops. This absorbing novel follows the sisters into adulthood with insight, humor, rue and love.

On a delayed flight to Sydney, an elderly woman paces the aisle, doling out predictions to her fellow passengers of when and how they will die. This spellbinding tale tracks the lives of these diverse characters over the next few months, and their reactions as the first three predictions prove true. Everything we loved about Moriarty's Big Little Lies — the pacing, the twists, the taut energy — is here, in a high-flying exploration of free will and destiny.

Breeze down to the Delaware shore with Jack Schmidt, owner of a family restaurant he's worked at since boyhood. A corporate chain wants to buy him out, and Jack (an "old" 52) is tempted. The unlikely temptress: the chain's rep, Nicole, a loud but intriguing woman who won't take no for an answer. But what about the loyal Schmidt's crew, whose livelihoods depend on Jack? When an ex turns up with shocking news, this endearing man realizes his life is changing whether he likes it or not.

Brodesser-Akner's follow-up to her hit debut Fleishman Is in Trouble centers on the kidnapping of a wealthy factory owner and the decades of family trauma that follow his return — but if anything has ever proven that laughter is the best medicine, it's this book. The saga of the Fletchers in their ritzy Long Island suburb delivers brilliant psychological insight and spot-on cultural context along with dialogue so funny, it hurts.

Jolene has found the key to surviving her soul-sucking corporate job: Venting about her colleagues in white ink at the bottom of her emails. That is, until she gets caught and put into sensitivity training with the suspiciously friendly HR guy, Cliff. But when a computer glitch gives her access to her coworkers’ emails and chat logs, she learns layoffs are on the horizon (not to mention lots of gossip). Can Jolene save her job before she’s found out, or will her inconvenient feelings for Cliff get in the way? This laugh-out-loud funny workplace drama is a balm for anyone who’s ever gotten fed up at work.

Stella has always lived simply in defiance of her neglectful, glamorous mother. But when her mom dies and leaves Stella with a plane ticket to Paris, she decides to go, against her better instincts. There, a chance discovery sets off a grand adventure that includes a benevolent art collector, a historic bookstore and its residents, and Stella’s senses awakening to all the delectable indulgences life has to offer. This book is a banquet of food, fashion and found family.

Lauren comes home from a bachelorette party to find her husband waiting. There’s just one problem: She’s never met the guy. When he goes into the attic, a different man returns. When Lauren’s attic begins supplying a never-ending stream of husbands, she has to decide to choose one, or perpetually seek a better option. This hilarious, time-bending novel is a commentary on dating, love and appreciating the life you’ve got.

Cuban artist Anita de Monte died tragically in 1985, just as her career was taking flight. By 1998, when art student Raquel discovers her, Anita is almost forgotten. The parallels between their stories are striking: Raquel is struggling to find her footing in the art world, and she’s also losing herself to a powerful man. This touching, vibrant story asks us: Who gets to have a legacy?

Fields of corn rustle in a warm breeze; teens whisper behind the Galaxy Swirl; a group of older ladies play games and gossip; and a retired sheriff has a thing or two to tell his granddaughter’s beau about love. This story takes place over one unremarkable day in a small Indiana town. It’s a tale that seems small at first but feels more consequential as it goes on, just like the lives it describes.

In this hilariously offbeat mystery, Alice and Joe move to a sleepy village before their first baby arrives, expecting to take up hobbies like knitting and woodworking. But when a dead body turns up during a prenatal class, Alice joins her new also-pregnant pals to figure out who did it.

Rachel never expected to go back to her New England hometown. She didn’t expect her ex-husband to be dying in the home they still share, her job to fall apart or her first love to marry her sister’s neighbor either. Oh, and her mother has died and left her a house. This is a book about midlife challenges and wisdom and picking up the pieces when they haven’t fallen where you thought they would. It's an engaging read that will make you feel seen, no matter what stage of life you're currently going through.

Watch the seasons pass with this lush love letter to the beauty in the author’s own backyard. With meditations on how the natural world changes as the years march on and what that means for our lives, this is a story of hope and grief, joy and sorrow, accompanied by 52 gorgeous illustrations by the author's brother, Billy Renkl. It’s a warm hug of a book, just in time to help you reflect on your own year and look to the next.

A thick smog descends upon the world, crops wither and die, livestock starve and food becomes little more than sustenance. One floundering chef mourns the loss of not only the flavors that sustained her, but her career. When she's hired to cook for a secluded colony of the global elite, she rediscovers that ingredients can be alchemy and her body's appetites reawaken.

But soon enough, her enigmatic employer and his brilliant and seemingly fearless daughter entice the chef into a world where decadence isn't dead, but neither is avarice. Grab a snack before reading this fresh and ultimately hopeful take on climate change and how humanity might persevere.