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Book Club Reading Recommendations
Check out the lists below for your next reading inspiration. Book club members and voracious readers alike will find something to pique their interest. The best part? You can click on the Amazon or IndieBound links, and start reading right away! Check back regularly as new lists will be added and existing lists updated.
Featured Recommendations
TV Shows Based on Video Games
Check out these live-action television shows based on video games! With the return of season two of The Last of Us, HBO’s hit show based [...]
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Apr
Apr
Level Up: Reading List
Things to read in our special exhibit Level Up: Writers & Gamers Our current special exhibit, Level Up: Writers & Gamers, explores how Americans use [...]
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Aug
Aug
Banned Books Reading List
Welcome to the AWM’s banned books reading list! Now more than ever, authors across the country are fighting against attempts to ban and challenge books. [...]
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Dec
Dec
Dark Testament Reading List
The ultimate reading list for Dark Testament: A Century of Black Writers on Justice Welcome to the reading list for the AWM’s newest exhibit, Dark [...]
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Oct
Oct
“My America” Reading List
All the books featured in My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today. We present our reading list of books written by refugees, immigrants, and second-generation [...]
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Dec
Dec
Native American Heritage Month Book Recommendations
Happy Native American Heritage Month! Every November we recognize and celebrate the people who inhabited this land for many years, long before the United States [...]
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Nov
Nov
LGBTQ+ Books to Read
By Frankie Paar Each year, the month of June is designated as Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and celebrate the LGBTQ+ [...]
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Jun
Jun
Staff Reads
AWM Staff Picks: December 2025
Reading, watching, listening, and gaming recommendations from the staff of the American Writers Museum. We can’t recommend these books, films, shows, plays, albums, and games [...]
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Dec
Dec
Reading for the season
More Reading Recommendations
Filipino American Memoirs
In celebration of Filipino American History Month, add these memoirs by Filipino American writers to your reading list! written and compiled by Jen Soriano Much [...]
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Oct
Oct
Famous Kid Detectives
From books to television, junior sleuths have been solving mysteries for decades. Growing up, I loved reading mystery books—tales of danger and intrigue with relatable [...]
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Aug
Aug
Memoir Reading Recommendations
A list of memoir book recommendations, along with podcasts and videos to supplement your reading. “You never really understand a person until you consider things [...]
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Apr
Apr
7 Trans and Non-Binary Writers to Read Today
“I’ve learned to shy away from binaries. They’re usually false.” —Akwaeke Emezi There has been a lot of buzz recently around trans and non-binary people [...]
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Sep
Sep
Cats, A Writer’s Loyal Companion
There’s something about cats that gives them a certain mystery and one that makes a special muse to writers. Check out this list of books [...]
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May
May
The AWM Playlist
Books about music, musicians, and the feelings they inspire. Recommended by American Writers Museum staff. Music is deeply personal for many of us — we [...]
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May
May
Dogs, a Writer’s Best Friend
A list of books in honor of our K9 companions and the writers they’ve inspired. Whatever a writer loves deeply, whatever mystifies and delights them, [...]
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May
May
Asian American Writers, Their Books & The Books They Love
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, celebrate by reading these writers, their recent books, and the books they love! Visit our page at Bookshop.org [...]
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May
May
