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Digital Book Club - October 2025

This month’s Digital Book Club title is the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner, James by Percival Everett.

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. Thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

James is available on BorrowBox as an eBook and eAudiobook with no waiting.

Previous titles

September 2025 - Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
August 2025 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
July 2025 - The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell
June 2025 - The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
May 2025 - The Love Letter by Lucinda Riley
April 2025 - Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
March 2025 - A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch
February 2025 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
January 2025 - The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan
December 2024 - The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani
November 2024 - The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina
October 2024 - A house of Ghosts by W.C.Ryan

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Last updated 01 October 2025