Stockton Township Public Library Adult Book Club

Current Read

The Compound

by Aisling Rawle

Nothing to lose. Everything to gain. Winner takes all.

Lily—a bored, beautiful twentysomething—wakes up on a remote desert compound alongside nineteen other contestants on a popular reality TV show. To win, she must outlast her housemates while competing in challenges for luxury rewards, such as champagne and lipstick, and communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door.

The cameras are catching all her angles, good and bad, but Lily has no desire to leave: Why would she, when the world outside is falling apart? As the competition intensifies, intimacy between the players deepens, and it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between desire and desperation. When the producers raise the stakes, forcing contestants into upsetting, even dangerous situations, the line between playing the game and surviving it begins to blur. If Lily makes it to the end, she'll receive prizes beyond her wildest dreams—but what will she have to do to win?

Addictive and prescient, The Compound is an explosive debut from a major new voice in fiction and will linger in your mind long after the game ends.

When we meet

Book Club meets on the last Thursday of each month at 1 pm in the Atwood Room.

Upcoming dates:

April 30, 2026
May 28, 2026
June 25, 2026

Upcoming Books

April 30, 2026 - The Compound by Aisling Rawle (Goodreads Link)
May 28, 2026 - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Goodreads Link)
June 25, 2026 - The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (Goodreads Link)

Previous Book Club Books

March 2026

How to Age Dis-Grace-Fully by Clare Pooley

February 2026

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

November 2025

Funny Story by Emily Henry

October 2025

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

September 2025

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

August 2025

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

July 2025

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

Pre-June 2025

May 2025: James by Percival Everett

April 2025: Blood Memory (Greg Iles)

March 2025: Someone Else's Shoes (Jojo Moyes)

February 2025: The Mother in Law (Sally Hepworth)

January 2025: The Glass Maker (Tracey Chevalier)

December 2024: Hello Beautiful December (Ann Napolitano)

November 2024: Inheritance (Dani Shapiro)

October 2024: One by One (Frieda McFadden)

September 2024: Horse: A Novel (Geraldine Brooks)

August 2024: Finding Me (Viola Davie)

July 2024: The First Ladies (Marie Benedict)

June 2024: Readers Choice

May 2024: The President is Missing (James Patterson)

April 2024: Tobacco Wives (Adele Myers)

March 2024: The Art Thief (Michael Finkel)

February 2024: Romantic Comedy (Curtiss Sittenfeld)

January 2024: Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt)

Pre-2024:

In five years (Rebecca Serle) 2023

Dear Edward (Ann Napolitano) 2023

Unsheltered (Barbara Kingsolver) 2023

Just the Nicest Couple (Mary Kubica) 2023

The Personal Librarian (Marie Bennedict) 2003

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (J Ryan Stradal) 2023

Under the Southern Sky (Kristy Woodson Harvey) 2023

The Bookshop on the Shore (Jenny Colgan)

White Houses (Amy Bloom)

Shutter Island (Dennis LeHane)

A Redbird Christmas (Fannie Flagg)

Beartown (Fredrik Backman)

Secrets of the Lost Summer (Carla Neggers)

Little Fires Everywhere (Celest Ng)

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)

The Chance (Karen Kingsbury)

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)

Before We Were Yours (Lisa Wingate)

The Beloved Christmas Quilt (Wanda Brunstetter)

Where’d You Go Bernadette (Maria Semple)

The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion)

The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion)

The Rosie Result (Graeme Simsion)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

The Last Girls (Lee Smith)

Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Mark Sullivan)

While My Sister Sleeps (Barbara Delinsky)

The Language of Flowers (Vanessa Diffenbaugh)

The Little Teashop on Main (Jodi Thomas)

Ask Again, Yes (Mary Beth Keane)

The Rules of Magic (Alice Hoffman)

Carnegie’s Maid (Marie Benedict)

The Christmas Train (David Baldacci)

Blankets (Craig Thompson)

In the Midst of Winter (Isabel Altende)

The Girl in White Gloves (Kerri Maher)

The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared (Jonas Jonasson)

Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty)

Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)

Magic Hour (Kristin Hannah)

28 Summers (Elin Hilderbrand)

The Victory Garden (Rhys Bowen)

The Vanishing Half (Britt Bennett)

The Invention of Wings (Sue Monk Kidd)

The Boys (Ron Howard and Clint Howard)

The Santa Suit (Mary Kay Andrews)

Dear Santa (Debbie Macomber)

The Silent Patient (Alex Michaeldies)

Anxious People (Fredrik Backman)

The Lost Girls of Paris (Pam Jenoff)

All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

Wild (Cheryl Strayed)

Orphan Train (Christina Baker Kline)

The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)

Delicious (Ruth Reichl)

The Husband’s Secret (Liane Moriarty)

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (Katarina Birald)

Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)

Me Before You (Jojo Moyes)

Mrs. Kennedy and Me (Clint Hill)

After You (Jojo Moyes)

The Forgotten Garden (Kate Morton)

Sean’s War & Sean’s Quest (Lee Anderson)

Family Tree (Barbara Delinsky)

Hidden Figures (Margot Lee Shetterly)

The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir (Jennifer Ryan)

Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (Bill Bryson)

Defending Jacob (William Landay)

The Girls of Mischief Bay (Susan Mallery)

I am Malala (Malala Yousafzai)

The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)

Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie)

Reflections (Barbara Bush)

The Kitchen House (Kathleen Grissom)

What Alice Forgot (Liane Moriarty)

The Almost Sisters (Joshilyn Jackson)

Glory Over Everything (Kathleen Grissom)

Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil (John Berendt)

Save Me (Lisa Scottoline)

Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)

All We Ever Wanted (Emily Giffin)

The Alice Network (Kate Quinn)

A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towels)

The Bookshop on the Corner (Jenny Colgan)

The Wedding Date (Jasmine Guillory)

An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)

Lilac Girls (Martha Hall Kelly)