NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Perfume Thief a remarkable tale about the
life-changing power of books and second chances following the Titanic librarian who opens a
bookshop in Paris where he meets a secret society of survivors. "Deeply moving and rich with
vivid detail . . . Timothy Schaffert is an exquisite storyteller."—Lara Prescott New York
Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic
Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for
the White Star Line his job was to curate the ship’s second-class library. But the day the
Titanic set sail he was left stranded at the dock. After the ship’s sinking Yorick takes this
twist of fate as a sign to follow his lifelong dream of owning a bookshop in Paris. Soon after
he receives an invitation to a secret society of survivors where he encounters other ticket
holders who didn’t board the ship. Haunted by their good fortune they decide to form a book
society where they can grapple with their own anxieties through heated discussions of The
Awakening or The Picture of Dorian Gray. Of this ragtag group Yorick finds himself
particularly drawn to the glamorous Zinnia and the mysterious Haze and a tangled triangle of
love and friendship forms among them. Yet with the Great War on the horizon and the unexpected
death of one of their own the surviving book club members are left wondering what fate might
have in store. Elegant and elegiac The Titanic Survivors Book Club is a dazzling ode to love
chance and the transformative power of books to bring people together.
