Pageturners: My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Palo Alto Pageturners meets on the second Thursday of the month in the Embarcadero Room. At the end of each year, we suggest and vote on books to read and sometimes invite local authors to discuss their books. 

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Here’s our reading list for 2026:

• My Friends by Fredrik Bachman – January
• The Wager: A Tale of a Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann – February
• South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami – March
• Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco by Gary Krist – April
• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui – May
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach – June
• Unlikely Animals: A Novel by Annie Hartnett – July
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe  – August
• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon – September
• We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida – October
• What We Can Know by Ian McEwan – November
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon – December

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