Aardvark Book Club is a monthly book subscription box (in both the U.S. & Canada) in which members choose up to 3 hardcover books. In addition to past months’ selections, Aardvark provides 4-5 newly published books to choose from each month. You can also discuss the books with other members in the Aardvark app.
As the end of the month approaches, Aardvark Book Club starts posting hints for their upcoming month’s selection. While the type of hints changes from month-to-month, they remain fun to follow along with. I typically make guesses as to what books they will be in my Instagram stories, but I thought I would also share them here.
The last picture for each book is the book-inspired mood board, which is posted after the selections have been released.
Book # 1
Big Swiss
Jen Beagin
A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensures. Bold, outlandish, and filled with irresistible characters, Big Swiss is both a love story and also a deft examination of infidelity, mental health, sexual stereotypes, and more – from an amazingly talented, one-of-a-kind voice in contemporary fiction.
Publication Date: February 7, 2023
Publisher: Scribner
Tags: Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+, TV Series Coming, Humorous, Romance
Book # 2
For Your Consideration
Amy Spaulding
Since a crushing breakup three years ago, Nina Rice has written romance, friends, her dreams of scriptwriting for TV, and even LA proper out of her life. Instead, she’s safely out in the suburbs in her aunt’s condo working her talent agency job from home, managing celebrity email accounts, and certain that’s plenty of writing – and plot – for her life. But a surprise meeting called by Ari Fox, a young actress on everyone’s radar, stirs up all kinds of feelings Nina thought she’d deleted for good . . .
Publication Date: February 10, 2023
Publisher: Kensington
Tags: Romance, LGBTQ+, Includes a Cat, Contemporary Fiction
Book # 3
48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
Joyce Carol Oates
When a woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate. Marguerite, a beautiful woman, has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But if foul play involved? Bit by bit, like ripping the petals off a flower blossom, a dark truth is revealed. And subtly, but with the unbearable suspense at which Joyce Carol Oates excels, clues mount and bring to light the fate of the missing beauty.
Publication Date: March 14, 2023
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Tags: Early Release, Crime Thriller, & Mystery
Book # 4
Sink
Joseph Earl Thomas
A wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Even in the depths of isolation, there were unexpected moments of joy carved out, from summers where he was freed from the injurious structures of his surroundings to the first glimpses of kinship he caught on his journey to becoming a Pokémon master. Sink follows Thomas’s coming-of-age towards an understanding of what it means to lose the desire to fit in—with his immediate peers, turbulent family, or the world—and how good it feels to build community, love, and salvation on your own terms.
Publication Date: February 21, 2023
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Tags: Debut, Memoir, Coming-of-Age, & Literary Fiction
Book # 5
The Magician’s Daughter
H.G. Parry
In the early 1900s, a young woman is caught between two worlds in H.G. Parry’s spellbinding tale of miracles, magic, and the adventure of a lifetime. Off the coast of Ireland sits a legendary island hidden by magic. A place of ruins and ancient trees, sea salt air, and fairy love. Hy-Brasil is the only home Biddy has ever known. Washed up on its shore as a baby, Biddy lives a quiet life with her guardian, the mercurial magician Rowan. A life she finds increasingly stifling.
Publication date: February 28, 2023
Publisher: Redhook
Tags: Historical Fiction & Coming-of-Age
