| | | Hello Readers! | Happy New Year! This week, book club members discuss Oyinkan Braithwaite's funny and tragic novel Cursed Daughters, about a family curse affecting three generations of women. | Our first Editor's Choice pick of the year is Clare Leslie Hall's Broken Country, a Top 20 book of 2025, which follows a happy marriage rocked by the reintroduction of an old flame. We also feature a "beyond the book" article about the racialization of disease for John Green's Everything Is Tuberculosis, a Top 20 nonfiction selection. And check out almost 200 more titles in our Science, Health & the Environment category. | Kick off your 2026 reading right with the first-ever edition of The BookBrowse Literary Almanac, which bundles the best of BookBrowse last year with predictions and recommendations for the year ahead. | Plus, see what people are saying in the community forum about classics they read during 2025, and join the conversation. | Thanks for reading, | The BookBrowse Team | | | Discussions are open to all! If you'd like to participate, you can do so by creating an account here. Please note that discussions can contain spoilers. | | Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite | From the Jacket | A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer ("A bombshell of a book... Sharp, explosive, hilarious" —New York Times) | From the Discussion | "This was one of my best reads of the year…I felt like I was growing along with the characters. I loved how the book was about learning about individuality and loving oneself." —Shabella_G |
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| "Reading this book reminded me a lot of Barbara Kingsolver's character development in Demon Copperhead. There's an inherent sadness to each character, but also resolve." —Maren_C | "I think this is a fun read for anyone who enjoys a good mystery or can relate to living with or growing up around multigenerational households." —Joyce_Montague | | | | Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall | Clare Leslie Hall's novel Broken Country is a complex drama that explores themes of love and loss, betrayal and forgiveness. The year is 1968, and our narrator, Beth Johnson, is happily married to Frank, a sheep farmer in North Dorset. We learn early on that the couple had a nine-year-old son who died two years prior, and although they're still grieving, they have a strong marriage built on mutual love and respect. Their relationship is rocked, however, when wealthy author Gabriel Wolfe and his young son Leo return to their estate next door after living in America for the past decade. Beth's tale then rewinds to 1955, where she narrates meeting eighteen-year-old Gabriel when she was seventeen. … continued | Review by Kim Kovacs |
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| | | | The Racialization of Disease | One idea that stuck with me from John Green's book Everything Is Tuberculosis was how TB became racialized. And a brief look at history shows the same pattern occurring not just with tuberculosis but with nearly every major outbreak. From the plague and typhus to HIV and COVID-19, illnesses have repeatedly exposed and amplified a host of social faults. … continued | Article by Sofia Chatzistefanou |
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| Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green, featured above, is just one of nearly 200 recommended books in our Science, Health, and the Environment nonfiction category. | Explore these titles for enlightening reading about language, technology, outer space, the climate crisis, relationships between animals, plants, and humans from ancient times to the present day, and much more. | This is one of 100+ themed categories available to BookBrowse members. Non-members can view a limited version of our category lists. |
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| | The BookBrowse Literary Almanac |
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| Looking forward to another great year of reading in 2026, or want to catch up on all the great titles of 2025? Then you'll love The BookBrowse Literary Almanac 2025-2026. Inside, you'll find everything BookBrowse discovered in 2025: the 20 best books that rose above the noise, our editors' personal favorites, the author interviews that revealed the most, the book club discussions that went deepest, and the "beyond the book" articles that added the richest context and were the most thought-provoking. | But this isn't just retrospective. The Almanac also looks ahead to 2026 with our most anticipated titles, the best upcoming books for club discussions, and the trends we're watching in publishing and reading culture. |
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| Plus, check out our curated guides section for more specialized collections drawn from over 20 years of editorial content and book club research. | | BookBrowse Community Forum |
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| | While you're there, you can also find recommendations and book club advice, the latest book news, discussions, Ask the Author interviews, and more. | | | |
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