The Titanic Survivors Book Club A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Perfume Thief, Timothy Schaffert delivers a luminous novel that will enchant anyone who believes in the life-changing magic of books and second chances.

Picture this: You’re listed among the dead, but you’re very much alive. That’s exactly what happens to Yorick, the Titanic‘s apprentice librarian, who was left standing on the dock when the ship sailed into history. Spotting his own name among the lost, he takes this strange twist of fate as permission to reinvent his life—opening a bookshop in Paris, where the pages smell like possibility and the shelves hold more than just stories.

But the real discovery comes when Yorick receives an invitation to a secret society of survivors—people who held tickets but never boarded. Haunted by their impossible luck, they form a book club where they wrestle with guilt, fate, and identity through the pages of The Awakening and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Among them, Yorick finds himself caught in a beautiful, complicated triangle with the glamorous Zinnia and the enigmatic Haze.

The New York Times bestselling author Lara Prescott calls it “deeply moving and rich with vivid detail,” and she’s right. This is a novel about the transformative power of literature, the bonds we form over shared stories, and how sometimes the life we didn’t plan becomes the one we were meant to live. Perfect for fans of historical fiction with heart, LGBTQ+ romance, and anyone who’s ever found refuge between the covers of a good book.

Elegant, elegiac, and utterly transporting—this is storytelling at its finest.

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