7 Books Perfect For Reading And Discussing With Your Book Club

Jessamyn has no time to worry about a new ghost’s voice in her head. She’s too concerned with helping her parents move back to Malaysia. Except disembodied voices are hard to ignore when they belong to your dead grandmother—especially when Jess’s grandmother decides to take control of Jess’s body.

Before she’d died, Jess’s grandmother was a spirit medium and a conduit for the local spirit called the Black Water Sister. Her grandmother made a deal with the spirit and failed to hold up her end of the deal before she died. If Jess wants to reclaim her autonomy, she’ll have to help Ah Ma settle her unfinished business.

After losing her job during the pandemic and accumulating debt, which she doesn’t know how to dig herself out of, a Korean millennial is ready to end things. But before she can work up the nerve, a magical girl called Ah Roa pulls up with a shocking revelation.

This nameless, depressed girl is the most powerful magical girl in the world. There’s just one problem—it’s one thing being told that you’re a magical girl. It’s another thing entirely when you have to try activating your powers when the world depends on them.

How can she fight climate change when the only thing she’s good at is failing to meet expectations?

Louisa enrolls at a Catholic boarding school on a scholarship, hoping to boost her chances at attending a good college. What she finds instead is the companionship of her spunky (and beautiful) classmate, Victoria, and their attractive art teacher. Together, the lines between student and teacher blur, and they daydream of escaping their boring, restrictive lives.

Then one night Louisa and her teacher go missing without a trace, leaving Victoria behind. Twenty-five years later, an unnamed journalist sets out to uncover the mystery that’s haunted her since childhood. Victoria’s the only one who knows the truth, and after years of pretending she doesn’t care about what happened to her former friend, she’s ready to talk.

Beatriz is pretty, but her skin is too dark for Casta standards, and her father was killed for treason in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence. So when Don Rodolfo asks for Beatriz’s hand in marriage, who is she to refuse? It doesn't matter that Rodolfo’s last wife died mysteriously or his house in the Apan countryside whispers to her at night.

Desperate to claim this house as her salvation, Beatriz calls for Padre Andrés for assistance in healing the increasingly violent abode. Too bad the ghosts haunting San Isidro are rooted deeper than colonial religion can handle. If Beatriz and Andrés want to make it out alive, they'll have to rely on witch magic inspired by indigenous folklore.

The ocean has ripped apart Mina’s island for a hundred years, wiping away already scarce resources in the midst of war and conflict. Her village sacrifices a young “bride” every year in hopes to appease the Sea God, who they think is angry with humans.

When Mina’s brother’s love is chosen as the next bride, Mina throws herself into the ocean to save them from suffering grief. She falls into the Spirit Realm, where she finds the Sea God cursed with enchanted sleep.

If Mina wants to make it back home, she must find a way to wake the Sea God before her soul becomes trapped in the Spirit Realm forever. Except the game of fate is trickier than the stories Mina’s grown up hearing.

A scream. A murder. Four witnesses. Except one of them is a murderer.

A murder mystery unfolds between a fictional novelist’s work in progress (WIP) and e-mails from her beta reader. In the meta novel, four witnesses are brought together after hearing a scream in a library that ultimately leads to the demise of a local journalist. The new friends believe the murder is only a bewildering coincidence, but it’s quickly evident that something dark lurks beneath this blooming friendship.

Prank calls, a few stabbings, and a secret identity come together to reveal a dangerous game that only the murderer knows they're playing.

Wolf Willeford first became acquainted with Mrs Death after their mother died when they were a child. Now Wolf is constantly aware of Death’s presence as they navigate their life as a broke writer. Which brings Wolf to their newest project: a collection of memoirs and diary entries from Mrs Death.

It turns out that being responsible for every death throughout history isn’t great for your mental health. Death weighs down on us all. Wolf and Mrs Death engage in an exchange of thoughts, discussing the nature of death, memory, and what it means to live... Even when you’re Mrs Death, the woman who's responsible for all death through history.