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.
I guessed these books based upon only the color hint (hint #1) and the comparable books hint (hint #2). I added the remaining hints as they became available. I created the images for hint #4 since the individuals hints were all included in one image (that can be found at the bottom of this post). The sixth picture for each book is the book-inspired “moodboard” posted after the selections are released.
Hint # 1
The Paris Daughter
Kristin Harmel
From the bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change . . .
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Gallery Books
Tags: Historical Fiction
Hint # 2
The Drowning Woman
Robyn Harding
The bestselling author of The Party returns with a deliciously twisted story of friendship, retribution, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past – and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning who pulls her into a dark web of secrets and lies. Lee Guliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets – no one ever does – but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla . . .
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Tags: Crime, Thriller, & Mystery
Hint # 3
The Memory of Animals
Claire Fuller
A Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Gizmodo, Shondaland, LitHub, & Tor.com Best Book of Summer and Good Houskeeping Best Book of 2023 So Far! From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Unsettled Ground comes a beautiful and searing novel of memory, love, survival―and octopuses. Claire Fuller’s The Memory of Animals is an ambitious, deeply imagined work of survival and suspense, grief and hope, consequences and connectedness that asks what truly defines us―and to what lengths we will go to rescue ourselves and those we love.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Tin House Books
Tags: Sci-Fi, Mystery, & Literary Fiction
Hint # 4
Same Time Next Summer
Annabel Monaghan
Named a Best book of Summer by Real Simple, Reader’s Digest, Country Living, The Skimm, BookBub, and Goodreads
The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn’t seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story, and herself . . .
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Tags: Romance, Coming-of-Age, & Humorous
Hint # 5
The Rachel Incident
Caroline O’Donoghue
A Vogue “Best and Most-Anticipated Book of the Year
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three. Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain . . .
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Knopf Publishing
Tags: LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Hint #4
