LWS January Book Club: THEME: The Nanny Diaries - VOTE NOW!

Happy 2026!!!

Our first book club of the year, and we're starting off with wonderful randomness! Our theme for January is ....THE NANNY DIARIES (ironically this book is not on the list), however, you will find 7 nominees that all have to do with NANNIES! Please CAST YOUR VOTE IN THE COMMENTS BELOW. The January Book Club Selection will be announced at December's meeting.

I've added the Amazon Links for your further research and uploaded pictures of the book covers into photos.

And the Nominees Are....

1. 'Count My Lies' by Sophia Stava - Soon to be a Hulu series starring Lindsay Lohan and Shailene Woodley. A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves. Amazon Link.
2. 'All That Life Can Afford' by Emily Everett - a modern retelling of Pride & Prejudice. Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives after college, the real London is a moldy flat and the same paycheck-to-paycheck grind—that fairy-tale life still out of reach. Then Anna meets the Wilders, who fly her to Saint-Tropez to tutor their teenage daughter. Swept up by the sphinxlike elder sister, Anna soon finds herself plunged into a heady whirlpool of parties and excess, a place where confidence is a birthright. There she meets two handsome young men—one who wants to whisk her into his world in a chauffeured car, the other who sees through Anna’s struggle to outrun her past. Amazon Link.
3. Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews- The OG cinematic nanny Julie Andrews starts this memoir with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films -- Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Andrews describes her years in the film industry -- from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she discuss her work in now-classic films, she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, the end of her first marriage, embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children, and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films, including Victor/Victoria, the gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations. Amazon Link.
4. 'Turn of the Key' by Ruth Ware - When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself awaiting trial for murder. Amazon Link.
5. 'Such a Fun Age' by Kiley Reid - Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other. Amazon Link.
6. 'The Lindbergh Nanny' by Mariah Fredericks - When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic, Charles, Sr., is the country’s golden boy, with his wealthy, lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by his side. But there’s someone else in their household―Betty Gow, a formerly obscure young woman, now known around the world by another name: the Lindbergh Nanny. A Scottish immigrant deciphering the rules of her new homeland and bruised from a love affair gone horribly wrong, Betty finds comfort in caring for the child, and warms to the attentions of handsome sailor Henrik, sometimes known as Red. Then, Charlie disappears. Amazon Link.
7. 'Patsy' by Nicole Dennis-Benn - Patsy, leaves her young daughter behind in Jamaica to follow Cicely, her oldest friend, to New York. Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to love whomever she chooses, bravely putting herself first. But to survive as an undocumented immigrant, Patsy is forced to work as a nanny, while back in Jamaica, her daughter, Tru, ironically struggles to understand why she was left behind offering up a vital portrait of the chasms between selfhood and motherhood, the American dream and reality. Amazon Link.