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Celebrity Book Clubs Kaia Gerber's Book Club |
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Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion
by Jia Tolentino
Presents nine original essays examining the fractures at the center of culture today, offering insights into the conflicts, contradictions, incentives, and changes related to the rise of toxic social networking.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Normal people : [a novel]
by Sally Rooney
The unconventional secret childhood bond between popular Connell and lonely, intensely private Marianne is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render Connell introspective and Marianne social, but self-destructive.
Available on Overdrive and eReadIllinois
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This is how it always is
by Laurie Frankel
A family reshapes their ideas about family, love, and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent.
Available on Overdrive and eReadIllinois
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Between the world and me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Where the crawdads sing
by Delia Owens
Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful hermit who has survived for years in a marsh becomes targeted by unthinkable forces. A first novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Cry of the Kalahari.
Available on audiobook CD, Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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My dark Vanessa : a novel
by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Asked to help defend an older high-school English teacher with whom she had an affair at age 15, Vanessa struggles to choose between her romantic teen illusions and harrowing adult perceptions. A first novel.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print (English & Spanish)
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Such a fun age : a novel
by Kiley Reid
A story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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The vanishing half
by Brit Bennett
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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The immortalists
by Chloe Benjamin
After getting readings from a psychic reputed to be able to tell customers when they will die, four siblings from New York's Lower East Side hide what they learn from each other before living five decades of experiences shaped by their determination to control fate. Reprint. A New York Times best-seller.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Broken people : a novel
by Sam Lansky
A novel about coming to grips with the past and ourselves follows recovering alcoholic Sam as he, with his sponsor’s blessing, partakes in healing ceremony involving an ancient herbal medicine administered by a shaman over the course of three days.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Luster
by Raven Leilani
Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Let me tell you what I mean
by Joan Didion
A volume of 12 previously uncollected early pieces shares insights into the author’s evolving literary style and includes reflections on such topics as a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a Vegas WWI veteran reunion and a visit to San Simeon.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion
Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
Available on Overdrive
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