Women’s National Book Association Announces 2024–2025 Great Group Reads Selections
Each year, the Great Group Reads (GGR) Committee—comprised of book lovers, writers, reviewers, librarians, and publishing professionals—evaluates a wide range of titles. They highlight books for their literary merit and ability to spark meaningful conversations among book clubs and reading groups.
Great Group Reads is part of the National Reading Group Month initiative by the Women’s National Book Association. Since its inception in 2009, GGR has become a valued resource for reading groups, facilitators, educators, bookstores, and libraries to recommend books.
Read the full list of Great Group Reads picks here, along with explanations for why each title was chosen!
Our 2024–2025 Great Group Reads selections are:
THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans (Crown)
Discover the word-of-mouth New York Times bestseller hailed by Ann Patchett as “A cause for celebration”—an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love.
Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime.
A moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies, all while protecting the ones he loves.
In 1932 Berlin, a trans man named Bertie and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin’s thriving queer community. An employee of the renowned Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute of Sexual Science, Bertie works to improve queer rights in Germany and beyond. But everything changes when Hitler rises to power. The Institute is raided, the Eldorado is shuttered, and queer people are rounded up. Bertie barely escapes with his girlfriend, Sofie, to a nearby farm. There they take on the identities of an elderly couple and live for more than a decade in isolation.
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and bounded around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, more than two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality.
We wish a warm congratulations to our authors and their publishers!