The Hotel Nantucket Book Club Questions and Ideas (+ PDF)

Quick Summary of The Hotel Nantucket With Themes

The Hotel Nantucket, published by St. Martin’s Press, is the setting for a summer on Nantucket Island. The revitalized hotel seeks to earn a renowned “5 key” review by a famous travel blogger.

But, the whole story of the storied Nantucket hotel itself begins in the Gilded Age, one hundred years earlier, when an old chambermaid died in a suspicious fire and now haunts the hotel.

As the summer heats up, so does the gossip of its hauntings, filling the rooms with excited guests for the entire season as the staff awaits word of their Hotel Confidential review.

One of the best Elin Hilderbrand books, The Hotel Nantucket is contemporary fiction that defies genres and offers an immensely satisfying page-turner to which you will want to return. Elin’s trademark Nantucket settings, pop culture references, and food descriptions make your mouth water.

This good book club book offers themes for discussion such as rebuilding and reinvention, love and relationships, family secrets, loyalty, healing, forgiveness, community, belonging, personal growth, and change.

Elin Hilderbrand’s The Hotel Nantucket: Book Club Questions (Without Spoilers)

Have you visited Nantucket? If so, how did the descriptions compare?

What was your favorite detail of The Hotel Nantucket?

What was your favorite food description?

Book Club Ideas For Food and Fun

This preppy book will have you envisioning the lush details of the hotel: hydrangea-blue throws, Nest Amalfi Lemon and Mint candles (a personal favorite), and Matouk sheets, Heartbreaker cocktails, the disco ball that drops from the ceiling at 9 p.m., the oyster shell tiles, and complimentary minibars filled with bluefish pâté.

The Hotel Nantucket is a good book to read on vacation, filled with tons of details to explore further, so dive into these book pairings for your book club to get the full aesthetic:

• Check out The Nantucket Hotel (on which The Hotel Nantucket is loosely based).
• Explore the restaurants of Nantucket (so many references in the book, like Cru, a personal favorite of mine)
• Make the signature Heartbreaker cocktail that mimics the color of Nantucket red or the complimentary bluefish pâté.
• Listen to this Spotify playlist of the songs on Mario’s playlists for Lizbet.
• Watch Bravo’s Below Deck for a similar vibe, but on a yacht.
• Read Elin Hilderbrand’s book in order. Or, at least read the author Elin Hilderbrand books referenced in this novel — The Blue Bistro and The Beach Club — or books from authors like Elin Hilderbrand, like The Five Star Weekend.
• Shop these ChappyWrap hydrangea-blue throws (my favorite Martha’s Vineyard brand), Nest Amalfi Lemon and Mint candles (a personal favorite), and Matouk sheets, just like those at the hotel.

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remember, it’s a good day to read a book. – jules