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The Fifteen Minute Book Club

Let's pick November's Book Club read!

Let's kick this thing off with a bang!

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Lizzie Campbell
Oct 15, 2025
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Hello friends! It’s time to pick our very first book club read. I have four options below that I think I’m equally excited about – from literary fiction to dark academia to a big box craft store run by a religious cult. Check them out below and vote for your favorite!

November Book Choices

Heart the Lover by Lily King

Genre: Literary Fiction | Page Count: 256

Summary

In the fall of her senior year of college, the narrator meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off-campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unp…

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