HP BOOKCLUB – January 2026 to June 2026
Dear Readers – Welcome back all snowbirds. We will now disclose the book choices for the next six (6) months. We have combed several of the recommended lists for excellence. The other criteria we used was availability. Enjoy, come on the second Saturday at 11:00 AM and join us for lunch afterwards in the cafe.
January 10, 2026 – The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing and Healing, by Lara Love Hardin. “Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won’t want to stop.” OPRAH’• New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir. a heartbreaking and tender journey from shame to redemption, despite a system that makes it almost impossible for us to move beyond the worst thing we have ever done.
February 14, 2026 – The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. A rare alchemist who can mix grains of tragedy and delight without diminishing the savor of either. The results may feel surreal, but this technique allows her to capture the impossibly strange events of real life. It’s a delight… moving me to tears and humbling me. A beautiful novel … ferocious by its uncompromising empathy. Reese’s Book Club. Washington Post, Guardian.
https://reesesbookclub.com/book/the-island-of-missing-trees/
March 14, 2026 – Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Michael Desmond Harvard sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond, landmark work of scholarship and reportage will forever change the way we look at poverty in America. A brilliant, heartbreaking book, into the poorest neighborhoods, to tell the story of families on the edge. Evictions used to be rare. But today, eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In vivid, intimate prose, a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. Pulitzer Non-Fiction.
April 11, 2026 The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton (GMA). After the Collapse of Civilization, a Return to Nature. Lily Brooks-Dalton begins her 2d novel “The Light Pirate” with an apocalypse; what follows is something like peace. After years of hurricanes and flooding, the federal government announces that their home State of Florida is being abandoned, “released back into the wild,” they too are bewildered. “A symphony of beauty and heartbreak.” Associated Press. NYT Editor’s Choice. NPR Books We Love.
May 16, 2026 – This Other Eden by Paul Harding. A powerful historical novel about the last days of a tiny, racially integrated community off the coast of Maine, as its inhabitants are noticed, then hated, then evicted. The islanders are poor, hungry, lawless, and incestuous, the children vulnerable to neglect and abuse. Rendered in their flawed paradise with penetrating insight and boundless imagination … full of marvels, thrilling prose, and scene after scene of exquisite pain and beauty. NYT – NPR, NEW YORKER, TIME.
https://www.nationalbook.org/books/this-other-eden/
June 13, 2026 – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch founded the town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. Should be required reading for the human race. A sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life. National Observer. One of the most influential literary works of our time… a dazzling and original achievement. Nobel Award
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1982/marquez/prose/
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