Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice.


Adult Book Club Kits

  • The Underground Railroad


  • Crying in H Mart: A Memoir


  • Voracious


  • A Gentleman in Moscow


  • Dead Letters from Paradise


  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption


  • Educated


  • Before We Were Yours


  • Little Fires Everywhere


  • The Night Tiger


  • Caste : the Origins of Our Discontents


  • Useful Delusions: The Power and Pardox of the Self-Deceiving Brain


  • The Paris Library


  • Demon Copperhead


  • The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland


  • Faithful


  • Red, White & Royal Blue


  • Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twinty-First Century


  • The Night Watchman


  • Small Marvels: Stories


  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants


  • Red at the Bone


  • The Thursday Murder Club


  • Another Brooklyn


  • The Neighbor's Secret


  • Where the Crawdads Sing


  • Minister's Daughter: One Life, Many Lives


  • How to Be Nice to Yourself


  • Stories of Elders


  • Making It All Right: a Novel


  • Bento Box in the Heartland


  • Transcendent Kingdom


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine