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July's pick is The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.

What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?

Art Barbara was sonot cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friendthought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.

Okay, that part was a little weird.

So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things – terrifying things – that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?

Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts.

Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.

January 16: The Clockmaker's Daugher by Kate Morton

February 20: Fireborne by Rosaria Munda

March 20: God of Neverland by Gamma Ray Martinez

April 17: The Spellshop by Sarabeth Durst

May 15: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

June 26: The Pallbearer's Club by Paul Tremblay

July 17: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas

August 21: The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

September 18: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

October 16: Tales from the Hinterlands by Melissa Albert

November 20: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

December 19: Bring ideas for 2026!

January 15, 2026: Circe by Madeline Miller