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.
There are two hints that are shared between all of the books. You can view these below.
Also included in the images for each book are two that were posted after Aardvark announced the selections: one describing the book in one sentence and the other a mood board.
Book # 1
Ascension
Nicholas Binge
A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore is contacted by a shadowy organization to help investigate, he has no idea what he is getting into as he and his team set out for the mountain.
Publication Date: April 25, 2023
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Tags: Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, & Mystery
Book # 2
The Chateau
Jaclyn Goldis
A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and murder in this stylish, twisty thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Lisa Jewell. Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors for her granddaughter Darcy and three friends. Twenty years earlier, the four girlfriends studied abroad together in France and visited the old woman on the weekends, creating the group’s deep bond. But why this sudden invitation?
Amid winery tours, market visits, and fancy dinners overlooking olive groves and lavender fields, it becomes clear that each woman has a hidden reason for returning to the estate after all these years. Then, following a wild evening’s celebration, Séraphine is found brutally murdered.
Publication Date: May 23, 2023
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Tags: LGBTQ+, Thriller, & Mystery
Book # 3
The Guest
Emma Cline
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.
Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.
With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.
Publication Date: May 16, 2023
Publisher: Random House
Tags: Literary Fiction & Contemporary Fiction
Book # 4
Hint 4.4: 💐😇💪🏴☠️
Practice Makes Perfect
Sarah Adams
A small-town sweetheart and an emotionally unavailable bad boy try to find some common ground in this chemistry-filled romance from the author of The Cheat Sheet and When in Rome. Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect match-someone who complements her happy, quiet life running the local flower sop in Rome, Kentucky. But finding her dream man may be harder than Annie imagined. Everyone knows everyone in her hometown, and the dating prospects are getting fewer by the day. After she overhears her latest date say she is “so unbelievably boring,” Annie starts to think the problem might be her. Is it too late to become flirtatious and fun like the leading ladies in her favorite romance movies? Maybe she only needs a little practice . . . and Annie has the perfect person in mind to be her tutor: Will Griffin.
Publication Date: May 2, 2023
Publisher: Dell
Tags: Romance & Contemporary Fiction
Book # 5
Cassandra in Reverse
Holly Smale
If you had the power to change the past, where would you start? Cassandra Penelope Danworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn’t (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable order . . . until now. Then, something truly unexpected happens: Cassie discovers she can go back and change the past. One small rewind at a tie, Cassie attempts to fix the life she accidentally obliterated, but soon she’ll discover she’s trying to fix all the wrong things.
Publication date: June 6
Publisher: MIRA
Tags: Early Release, Romance, Contemporary Fiction, & Humorous
