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Book of the Month
Cost: $16.99/month
Ships To: United States.
Coupon Code: “30TOTE” to get 30% off a 3-month Book of the Month membership PLUS a free Book of the Month tote bag or “BOTM5” to try one month for just $5.
Book of the Month is a monthly book subscription service. Each month their panel of Judges selects a limited number of exceptional books to offer to their members. They announce their New Selections on the first of the month, and members have six days to decide which book (or books) they would like to receive. They ship books to all of their members at the same time, so members can read and participate in their discussion forum as a group.
Book of the Month ships via USPS on the 6th day of each month.
Book of the Month perfectly packages their books and they always arrive in perfect condition. I received all of the books this month, but I was most excited about the following:
~The Trespasser by Tanna French: This book was selected by guest judge Gaby Dunn. The Trespasser is the 6th novel in Tana French’s series about the Dublin Murder Squad. You don’t need to have read all of the books in the series to be able to follow along, as all of the books have a new title character or “hero”. As with most Book of the Month selections, it’s not one I would have selected for myself, but I’m hooked!
From Gaby Dunn:
The Trespasser, the sixth novel in the series, comes with a fresh edge: not only is protagonist Antoinette Crowley a woman (the only one on Murder Squad), she’s a mixed race woman. Working on the Squad is Crowley’s dream and she’s damn good at it, but she has to be “four times as good” (as the writer Roxane Gay would put it) as her white male co-workers. So while her colleagues waste their time pissing in her locker, stealing her witness reports or otherwise trying to intimidate her, she can’t afford to be shaken—she must handle her cases with the utmost, jaw-clenching seriousness.
Antoinette’s case is a seemingly routine domestic murder that, as they tend to do in great thrillers, becomes way more complex than it originally seems. And the victim, or what we learn of her in life, is a fascinating, twisted woman in her own right. Antoinette puts on a brave face, but might be flawed narrator as well – is she being paranoid, or are her co-workers actually trying to impede her investigation? Come for the cool women and their complicated stories, stay for the hilarious descriptions of entitled men.
Other November Options
The remaining November Book of the Month options (selections must be made by the 14th) are:
~A Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem, selected by guest judge Anthony Bourdain
~Swing Time by Zadie Smith
~Every Man a Menace by Patrick Hoffman
~Nicotine by Nell Zink
Coupon Codes
New Book of the Month customers can use one of the following coupon codes with a new subscription purchase:
~ “30TOTE” to get 30% off a 3-month Book of the Month membership PLUS a free Book of the Month tote bag.
~ “BOTM5” to try one month for just $5.