Invented Lives Book Giveaway When Galina Kogan’s mother dies, the young, Jewish book illustrator chooses to leave Soviet Russia for permanent exile in Australia. A deep examination of otherness, of inhabiting different lives, of art, and of identity pervade this detailed novel of belonging. Invented Lives is 2020 Great Group Reads selection. Please use the form below […]
Win a Copy of The Beauty of Your Face: WNBA Bookish Giveaways
The Beauty of Your Face Book Giveaway One of the New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2020 • Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize School principal Afaf Rahman crouches in a former confessional as a school shooter guns down students at the Nurideen School for Girls in Chicago. This is a propulsive […]
Win a Copy of Wild Game: WNBA Bookish Giveaways
Wild Game Book Giveaway: March 2021 When Rennie’s glamorous mother, Malabar, entrusts Rennie with the knowledge of her affair with her husband’s best friend, Rennie is thrilled to become her mother’s confidante. This memoir of mothers and daughters, complicity, lies, and secrets is astonishing, self-reflective, and honest. Wild Game is 2020 Great Group Reads selection. This […]
Win a Copy of The Prettiest Star: WNBA Bookish Giveaways
The Prettiest Star Book Giveaway: March 2021 A Kirkus Best Book of 2020 • Finalist for the Southern Book Prize • An April 2020 Indie Next List In the 1980s — at the height of the AIDS crisis, a young, gay, man living with HIV loses his love and chooses to go home to rural […]
Win a Copy of The Bitch: WNBA Bookish Giveaways
The Bitch Book Giveaway: March 2021 LONGLISTED FOR 2020 THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE When Damaris adopts a female puppy and takes her back to the shack on a bluff at the edge of the Colombian jungle that she shares with her husband, she hopes that the dog will ease her longing for […]
Win a Copy of Goshen Road: WNBA Bookish Giveaways
Goshen Road Book Giveaway: March 2021 Connected short stories centered around two sisters and their families portray a careful and genuine rendering of people in rural West Virginia as they face their present and their future with dignity and determination. Goshen Road is 2020 Great Group Reads selection. Please use the form below to enter to […]
Win a Copy of Godshot: WNBA Bookish Giveaways March 2021
Godshot Book Giveaway: March 2021 An NPR Best Book of 2020, An Oprah Magazine’s “Most Anticipated Book of 2020”, A Vulture’s “Best New Book for 2020”, A Buzzfeed “Most Highly Anticipated Book” A Bustle “Must Read Book of 2020“, A Paste Magazine’s “Most Anticipated Novel”, An Electric Literature’s “Most Anticipated Debut of 2020“, The Rumpus Editor Pick for 2020, Library Journal’s Title to Watch, SF Chronicle “Book to […]
The 2019 Great Group Reads List Has Arrived!
National Reading Group Month & Great Group Reads Each October, members of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) gather to celebrate National Reading Group Month (NRGM). To kick off our celebration, we have released the 2019 Great Group Reads (GGR) list. From March to July, GGR volunteers read dozens of books that have been sent […]
The Power behind the WNBA: Linda Rosen, National Recording Secretary
The member diversity in the WNBA makes our goal of connecting, educating, advocating, and leading possible. As bookwomen, we believe “Books Have Power.” The Bookwoman welcomes Linda Rosen (South Florida), the WNBA’s National Recording Secretary, to the “Power behind the WNBA” interview series! Tell us about yourself. I’m proud to be the National Recording Secretary […]
National Reading Group Month: 2018 Great Group Reads
Great Group Reads Process For eleven years now, the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) has promoted the value of books and reading with National Reading Group Month (NRGM) initiatives. Great Group Reads is one such initiative. It invites members from all chapters to read books submitted by publishers that might be a good fit for […]