The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
It’s a terrible thing to admit that so far, the best thing about this book is that I got a signed copy of it after
Case Histories: A Novel (Jackson Brodie, 1), by Kate Atkinson
You know something is about to go horribly wrong from the first line of this crime fiction book, even though the line reads innocuously enough—“How
A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
This is one of those friend group books, where you meet one person, and they introduce you to a bunch of other cool people you’re
Interred with their Bones, by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Okay, so I teach Hamlet (check out David Tennant’s Hamlet, if you haven’t yet!) and couldn’t help but try out this book, which is basically
Orphan Train Girl, by Christina Baker Kline
This book opened the door to historical fiction for me, and I’m never looking back. It might be the laziness in me, but I genuinely
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
So I’m giggling now, (even though this book is surely the cure for the giggles), but I’m giggling anyway because I just did a quick
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Everyone has recommended this book, but I will too, since popularity doesn’t always negate worth. And this is a worthy book—for its characters, its time
Little Altars Everywhere, by Rebecca Wells
Read this one for the voice alone. Sidda lived in my head for a little while as she led me through this story. I’m in
How to Be Good, by Nick Hornby
Oh, to be British! And to be funny! Both of which I will inevitably try and joyfully fail at doing. Some of my favorite lines:
The Passage, by Justin Cronin
Yes, ok vampires, but these “virals” surprisingly take a back seat to Cronin’s apocalyptic (and forever timely, it seems) tale that ultimately pumps more human
The Year of Fog, by Michelle Richmond
If books let us live out various vicarious lives, this one guided me through one of my deepest fears—the disappearance of my child. The writing