"For an interesting and genuinely useful way to keep up with the zeitgeist, consider digging into the listings at the various media and celebrity book clubs. That's what we've done here.
We've rooted out the past 16 recommended books from popular book club lists, including Good Morning America, Belletrist, Oprah, Reese, and more. That's more than a year's worth of recommendations from six different clubs, each of which typically picks one book per month.
If nothing else, these books represent a kind of world tour of storytelling in time and space, from Appalachia to the Arctic Circle, Nigeria to New Delhi, the recent past to our uncertain future."