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Pecantown Mystery & Thriller Book Club — 2026 Reading List

Mystery & Thriller Book Club

2026 Reading List

January  ·  February  ·  March  ·  April  ·  May  ·  June  ·  July  ·  August  ·  September  ·  October  ·  November

January
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Thriller NYT Bestseller
The Missing Half
Ashley Flowers & Alex Kiester

From the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie comes a gripping thriller about two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances. Nicole Monroe’s older sister vanished seven years ago, her car abandoned on the side of a road. When another woman whose sister disappeared the same week makes contact, the two join forces to unravel a mystery no one else has been willing to solve — even if it means destroying everything they’ve ever known.

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February
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True Crime Historical · Nonfiction
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson

A mesmerizing true story set against the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, weaving together two real-life narratives: the brilliant architect Daniel Burnham, racing to build the fair against impossible odds, and Dr. H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer, who used the chaos of the fair to lure victims into his specially constructed “murder castle.” Larson’s masterful narrative makes history read like the most gripping of thrillers.

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March
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Thriller Psychological · Dark
The Whisper Man
Alex North

After the devastating loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy moves with his young son Jake to the village of Featherbank for a fresh start. But Featherbank has a dark history: years ago, a serial killer called “the Whisper Man” abducted young boys there. When a new child goes missing, Detective Pete Willis — the officer who originally caught the Whisper Man — is called back. And the imprisoned killer hints he knows more than he should. A haunting, atmospheric thriller about grief, obsession, and evil that echoes through generations.

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April
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True Crime Nonfiction · History
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann

In the 1920s, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma became fabulously wealthy after oil was discovered beneath their land. Then members of the tribe began to be systematically murdered. The FBI’s investigation into what became known as the “Reign of Terror” — one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history — is told in full for the first time. A gripping, essential piece of American history, now a major film by Martin Scorsese.

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May
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Cozy Mystery USA Today Bestseller
The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder
C.L. Miller

When Freya Lockwood learns that her estranged mentor Arthur Crockleford has died under suspicious circumstances, she receives a letter he sent days before his death urging her to investigate. Joining forces with her irrepressible Aunt Carole, Freya follows cryptic clues to an isolated English manor hosting a shady “antiques enthusiasts’ weekend.” Think Antiques Roadshow meets Miss Marple — a deliciously fun, twisty debut packed with priceless fakes and very real danger.

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June
Ann Rule: The Extraordinary Life
Biography True Crime · Spring 2026
Ann Rule: The Extraordinary Life of the Queen of True Crime
Leslie Rule

Written by Ann Rule’s own daughter — who spent her teenage years attending murder trials alongside her mother and photographing killers in the courtroom — this biography traces Ann Rule’s remarkable journey from Seattle policewoman to the most influential true crime writer of the 20th century. With unparalleled insider access and decades of family memories, Leslie Rule paints an intimate portrait of the woman who invented the genre as we know it.

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July
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Dark Comedy Booker Prize Longlisted
My Sister the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite

When Korede’s beautiful younger sister Ayoola calls her for help — again — it’s to dispose of yet another boyfriend’s body. Korede has always cleaned up Ayoola’s messes. But when Ayoola sets her sights on Korede’s work crush, a doctor at the hospital where she’s a nurse, Korede faces an impossible choice. Sharp, darkly funny, and razor-smart, this blazing debut from Lagos explores sisterhood, beauty, and the terrible things we do for family.

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August
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True Crime Classic · 1966
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote

On November 15, 1959, in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were brutally murdered. Truman Capote’s account of the crime, the investigation, and the eventual capture and execution of the killers is widely considered the book that invented the true crime genre. Meticulously reported and novelistically rendered, it remains one of the most important and chilling works of nonfiction ever written.

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September
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Crime Novel Edgar Award Winner
Bluebird, Bluebird
Attica Locke

When Black Texas Ranger Darren Mathews arrives in the tiny East Texas town of Lark to investigate the murders of a Black lawyer and a local white woman, he finds a community riven by racial tension, old grudges, and dangerous secrets. A masterful, timely crime novel rooted in the brutal history of race in America and the Texas landscape, from one of the most powerful crime writers working today. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.

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October
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True Crime New · 2026
Thirteen Perfect Fugitives
Geoffrey Kelly

On March 18, 1990, two men posing as police officers spent 81 minutes inside Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, calmly removing thirteen masterworks — including a rare Vermeer and Rembrandt’s only known seascape — in what became the world’s largest unsolved art heist, valued at over $1 billion. Now the FBI’s lead investigator for 22 years tells the full story for the first time: the mob connections, the suspects, and the decade-spanning hunt.

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November
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Classic Mystery Sherlock Holmes · 1887
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle

The book that started it all. When Dr. John Watson returns wounded from Afghanistan, he finds himself sharing rooms at 221B Baker Street with the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes — and is quickly drawn into a baffling murder investigation. The original detective novel, this is where Holmes’ genius for cold logic and razor-sharp observation was first unveiled to the world — a thrilling, essential read that launched one of fiction’s greatest characters and inspired every mystery written since.

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Literary Fiction Book Club

2026 Reading List

April  ·  May  ·  June  ·  July  ·  August  ·  September  ·  October  ·  November  ·  December

April
Meets: 14th
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Short Stories NYT Bestseller
Brawler
Lauren Groff

A fierce, celebrated collection of nine stories — Groff’s first since the award-winning Florida. Ranging from the 1950s to the present and moving across age, class, and region, these stories reflect a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels. Characters include a hot-tempered teenage swimmer, a woman responsible for a disabled sibling, and a mother blinded by loss. Precise, surprising, and profound.

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May
Meets: 19th
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Novel Mystery · Comedy
The Reservation
Rebecca Kauffman

On the morning of its most important booking — a dinner party for bestselling author John Grisham — the upscale Midwestern restaurant Aunt Orsa’s erupts into chaos when 22 steaks vanish from the fridge. As the stressed-out ensemble staff scrambles through their day, their stories converge into a pitch-perfect mash-up of Clue and The Bear — and a tender meditation on human connection.

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June
Meets: 16th
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Fantasy / Magical Realism
The Astral Library
Kate Quinn

Quinn’s first foray into magical realism asks: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Alix Watson, homeless and broke, stumbles through a hidden door in the Boston Public Library and discovers the Astral Library — a sanctuary where the desperate escape into the pages of their favorite novels. Soon she’s fleeing through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as a shadowy enemy threatens everything.

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July
Meets: 14th
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Novel Most Anticipated · 2026
Go Gentle
Maria Semple

The beloved author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette returns with her most exuberant novel yet. Adora Hazzard is a Stoic philosopher and contented divorcée living on New York’s Upper West Side — until a chance encounter with a charming stranger unleashes black-market art deals, secret rendezvous, and international intrigue. Romantic, hilarious, and bursting with life: a rollicking mid-life transformation story.

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August
Meets: 11th
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Oprah’s Book Club Pick NYT Bestseller
Kin
Tayari Jones

Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, are lifelong best friends fated to live starkly different lives — one ascending through Spelman College to a world of affluence, the other searching for her absent mother across a world of peril and love. Set in the 1950s Jim Crow South, Kin is a luminous portrait of friendship, sisterhood, and found family — Ann Patchett calls it “Tayari Jones’s very best work.”

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September
Meets: TBD
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In Translation · French Int’l Booker Longlist
The Witch
Marie NDiaye  ·  tr. Jordan Stump

First published in French in 1996 and now appearing in English for the first time: Lucie, a mediocre witch in a suffocating marriage, initiates her twin daughters into their matrilineal powers — only to watch them grow far beyond her own gifts. Equal parts dreamlike and disquieting, this longlisted International Booker Prize novel explores motherhood, liberation, and the terrifying freedom of children who outgrow you.

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October
Meets: TBD
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Novel · Harlem Trilogy #3 Two-Time Pulitzer Winner
Cool Machine
Colson Whitehead

The magnificent conclusion to Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy. Set in 1980s New York as Reagan-era capitalism reshapes the city, furniture dealer and master fence Ray Carney gambles on one last heist — entangling himself with a legendary criminal mastermind and risking the safety he’s spent decades building for his family. A vivid portrait of a city in transition, from Windows on the World to the abandoned tunnels below.

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November
Meets: TBD
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In Translation · Japanese Noir · Tokyo 1990s
Sisters in Yellow
Mieko Kawakami  ·  tr. Taylor & Yoshio

Kawakami’s first noir novel — winner of Japan’s Yomiuri Prize. Fifteen-year-old Hana has nothing: no money, no father, a neglectful mother. When the magnetic Kimiko appears, the two open a bar called Lemon in the back alleys of Tokyo, drawing in a circle of fierce young women. A Japanese Breaking Bad about friendship, betrayal, poverty, and survival in a rapidly dividing society. Haruki Murakami calls Kawakami’s writing “pure astonishment.”

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December
Meets: TBD
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In Translation · Icelandic Nobel Laureate · First English Ed.
A Parish Chronicle
Halldór Laxness  ·  tr. Philip Roughton

Nobel Prize–winning Icelandic master Halldór Laxness appears in English for the first time with this slim, luminous gem. Set in the Mosfell Valley of Iceland, it follows a small parish church — ordered demolished by a distant government — that stubbornly refuses to disappear, thanks to the quirks and tenacity of its people across centuries. Wry, understated, and deeply humane: the perfect contemplative close to the reading year.

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