The following were the most popular book club books during August based on votes from book club readers in more than 88,000 book clubs registered at Bookmovement.com:
1. The Women: A Novel by Kristin Hannah (HarperCollins)
2. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
3. First Lie Wins: A Novel by Ashley Elston (Pamela Dorman Books)
4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Riverhead Books)
5. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
6. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Crown)
7. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Harper)
8. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
9. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
10. The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (One More Chapter)
Rising Stars:
The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar (Dana Marton)
The God of the Woods: A Novel by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)