👤 WHO'S WHO?
This travel-loving writer is one half of the friends-to-lovers pair at the center of People We Meet on Vacation.
Who is Poppy Wright?
Poppy and Alex are both originally from this fictional Ohio town.
What is Linfield?
In Verity, Jeremy discovers a manuscript that appears to reveal disturbing secrets about his wife's thoughts and actions.
What is Verity's autobiography/manuscript?
Olive agrees to fake-date this man because she wants her best friend to believe that Olive has finally found someone.
Who is Adam Carlsen?
Of all the questionable decisions made in Verity, this one may be the biggest: continuing to read a manuscript that essentially screams “STOP READING ME.”
What is Lowen continuing to read it?
This octopus spends his days observing the humans around him and becomes one of the most important characters in Remarkably Bright Creatures.
Who is Marcellus?
Sophie begins her working life in this establishment before the Witch of the Waste intervenes.
What is the hat shop?
The central mystery of The Whisper Man revolves around a serial killer who becomes infamous for doing this to his young victims.
What is whispering to them at their windows?
This mysterious organism is responsible for the strange energy-related phenomenon threatening Earth in Project Hail Mary.
What is Astrophage?
In People We Meet on Vacation, the book-club-approved diagnosis for Poppy and Alex is: “You two could have solved this problem approximately ______ years earlier.”
What is 12 years? 😭
This intimidating biology professor reluctantly becomes Olive's fake boyfriend in The Love Hypothesis.
Who is Adam Carlsen?
Tova works nights at this facility, where she develops her unusual friendship with Marcellus.
What is the Sowell Bay Aquarium?
In People We Meet on Vacation, Poppy and Alex stop speaking for two years after a disastrous event during their final trip together.
What is their trip to Palm Springs / the events surrounding Alex's confession and their falling-out?
The scientific crisis in Project Hail Mary threatens Earth because this is happening to the Sun.
What is the Sun is losing energy/its output is decreasing?
Remarkably Bright Creatures asks readers to accept one extremely important premise: that this animal might understand humans much better than humans understand each other. What is the name of Tom Kennedy's young son in The Whisper Man?
What is an octopus?
This alien communicates with Ryland Grace using a musical system that eventually allows the two to understand one another.
Who is Rocky?
Much of The Whisper Man takes place in this fictional English town, where Tom and Jake move after the death of Rebecca
What is Featherbank?
In Project Hail Mary, Ryland initially believes he is completely alone aboard his spacecraft. Then he discovers that another spacecraft is nearby—and its occupant isn't human.
Who is Rocky?
Sophie is not actually a powerful witch when the story begins—but she discovers that she possesses this unusual magical ability
What is the ability to bring things to life through speaking to them?
The book-club reaction to The Love Hypothesis can essentially be summarized as: “This fake relationship is getting suspiciously ______."
What is real?
In Howl's Moving Castle, this young woman begins the story working at her family's hat shop before a curse dramatically changes her appearance.
Who is Sophie Hatter?
Unlike the other books on this list, this title places much of its story in a very different kind of “Box Hill”—a location associated with Daniel and Kit's relationship.
What is Box Hill?
The ending of Verity leaves readers debating whether the manuscript was genuine or whether Verity created it as an elaborate manipulation.
What is the ambiguity over the truth of Verity's manuscript?
In The Love Hypothesis, Olive's fake relationship with Adam is complicated by a major problem: neither of them is particularly good at pretending their attraction isn't real.
What is they actually fall in love?
This book wins the unofficial Book Club Award for “We Need To Talk About What We Just Read.”
What is Verity?