The Last Mrs. Astor
by Fran Kiernan

"In Kiernan’s capable hands, [The Last Mrs. Astor is] more interesting than most novels about great fortunes being amassed and lost."—Thomas Mallon, Commonweal

Origin
by Diana Abu-Jaber

In this “mystery of cold beauty and dark isolation, written with crystalline precision” (Miami Herald), a series of crib deaths in Syracuse, New York, draws the attention of police and national media. Is a serial infant murderer at large?

All reading group guides:

Diane Ackerman The Zookeeper's Wife

Rabih Alameddine I, the Divine

Robert Alter Genesis

Christine Balint The Salt Letters | Ophelia's Fan

Rupa Bajwa The Sari Shop

Brad Barkley Money, Love

Andrea Barrett Servants of the Map | Ship Fever | The Voyage of the Narwhal

Rachel Basch The Passion of Reverend Nash

Charles Baxter Shadow Play

Frederick Busch Harry and Catherine

Lan Samantha Chang Inheritance

Abigail De Witt Lili

Rachel DeWoskin Foreign Babes in Beijing

Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jack Driscoll Lucky Man, Lucky Woman

Andre Dubus III The Garden of Last Days

John Dufresne Deep in the Shade of Paradise | Love Warps the Mind a Little

Tony Eprile The Persistence of Memory

Jennifer Cody Epstein The Painter from Shanghai

Ellen Feldman Scottsboro | Lucy | The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank

Susan Fletcher Eve Green

Paula Fox The Widow's Children

Judith Freeman The Chinchilla Farm

Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique

Barbara Goldsmith Obssesive Genius

Stephen Greenblatt Will in the World

Helon Habila Waiting for an Angel

Sara Hall Drawn to the Rhythm

Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train, A Suspension of Mercy, The Selected Stories

Lawrence Hill Someone Knows My Name

Hannah Hinchman A Trail Through Leaves

Linda Hogan Power

Ann Hood The Knitting Circle

Janette Turner Hospital Due Preparations for the Plague | The Last Magician

Dara Horn In the Image | The World to Come

Pam Houston Sight Hound

Kathleen Hughes Dear Mrs. Lindbergh

Helen Humphreys The Lost Garden | Leaving Earth

Erica Jong Fanny | Sappho's Leap

Beth Kephart Seeing Past Z: Starting a Neighborhood Workshop

Frances Kiernan The Last Mrs. Astor

Binnie Kirshenbaum Hester Among the Ruins

Barbara Klein Moss Little Edens

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

James Lasdun The Horned Man

Karen Latuchie The Honey Wall

Don Lee Country of Origin | Yellow

Joan Leegant An Hour in Paradise

Vyvyane Loh Breaking the Tongue

Lydia Minatoya The Strangeness of Beauty

Tova Mirvis The Ladies Auxiliary

Lisa Michaels Grand Ambition

Walter Mosley Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

Patrick O'Brian The Yellow Admiral

Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea

Josh Russell Yellow Jack

Kerri Sakamoto The Electrical Field

Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury The Cruelest Miles

May Sarton Journal of a Solitude

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Anya | Buffalo Afternoon | The Snow Fox

Laura Schenone The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken

Jessica Shattuck The Hazards of Good Breeding

Frances Sherwood The Book of Splendor | Vindication

Joan Silber Household Words | Ideas of Heaven | The Size of the World

Heather Skyler The Perfect Age

Gustaf Sobin The Fly-Truffler | In Pursuit of a Vanishing Star

Dorothy Allred Solomon Daughter of the Saints

Ted Solotaroff Truth Comes in Blows

Jean Christopher Spaugh Something Blue

Mark Strand and Eavan BolandThe Making of a Poem

Mary Helen Stefaniak The Turk and My Mother

Matthew Stewart The Courtier and the Heretic

Manil Suri The Death of Vishnu

Barry Unsworth Losing Nelson | Morality Play | Sacred Hunger | Songs of the Kings

Brad Watson The Heaven of Mercury

Jenny White The Sultan's Seal