Saimah Haque

|+| Add to Your Shelf November 9 We’ll start with the most obvious fall reading recommendation: NOVEMBER 9. This story presents a captivating exploration of love, creativity, and truth between a burgeoning writer, Ben, and an ambitious actress, Fallon. The two begin as strangers, running into each other fatefully at a diner, but their chance encounter evolves into an annual autumnal reunion.

If you haven’t heard of a cookbook book club (say that ten times fast), then you are in for a treat! A cookbook club is a community that gathers once a month to dine on and discuss specific recipes from a selected cookbook. Now, all of us here at Off the Shelf might not be experts in the kitchen, but we do have some experience curating niche book club lists for everything from thriller groups to seasonal historical fiction and beyond.

|+| Add to Your Shelf The Chalice England, 1538. Joanna, a young novice who is a fugitive of the royal court, becomes caught up in a dangerous plot to kill Henry VIII. Despite trying to build a life with a man who loves her, Joanna can’t escape the essential role she is to play in a seer-foretold prophecy.