A wife reflects on her marriage, chronicling the wayward steps she takes to maintain her husband‘s interest.

Possessive✨ Neurotic ✨ Toxic

A retelling of Charles Dickens‘ David Copperfield against the setting of rural West Virginia

Appalachia ✨ Rise and Fall ✨ Cycles of Abuse

The story of Andrew Bevel and his wife, Mildred Bevel, told from 4 different points of view.

Literary ✨ Fabrication ✨ Story Within a Story

A group of four friends with different backgrounds join Babel (Oxford‘s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation), but are soon torn apart by war.

Academia ✨ Appropriation ✨Moral Qaundry

Alex drifts from home to home in the Hamptons plotting her next move.

Transient ✨ Leech ✨ Drifter

Despite having Red Blood, Mare Barrow discovers she has Silver Blood powers.

Young Adult ✨ Love Triangle ✨ Royal

The story of the Padavano sisters and William Waters

Family ✨ Grief ✨ Generations

For fans of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A wife, a husband, and the wife‘s best friend destructively navigate their ever changing dynamic over the course of 24 hours.

Jealousy ✨ Perspective✨ Short

Five years after their mother‘s disappearance, Zadie and Finn set out to discover what happened to her.

Mystical ✨ Migration ✨ Memory

Leah Kempler moves to Wisconsin to begin her MFA, and falls in love with a recovering heroine addict.

Codependency ✨ Addiction ✨ Perception

A prequel to the Hunger Game trilogy, following Coriolanus Snow and his transformation from ambitious student to murderous villain.

Ambition ✨ Human Nature✨ Origin

Comedy writer, Sally Milz, catches the eye of a pop music superstar.

SNL ✨ Pandemic Setting ✨ Simple

Budding author, Isabelle Manning, learns her late mother ghost wrote her father‘s best selling novels.

Ambition✨ Legacy ✨ Deception

Interconnected lives grapple with the invention of a new app that uploads memories.

Authenticity ✨ Isolation vs Connectivity ✨ Vignettes

A memoir by Dolly Alderton in which she reflects on love, friendships, and growing up in her late teens, twenties, and early thirties.

Friendship ✨ Intimacy ✨ Self Realization

After finally moving out of her childhood home, Maddie must learn how to reconcile her identity as both a twenty-something in the UK and an obedient second generation Ghanaian daughter.

Slice of Life ✨ Growing Pains ✨ Womanhood

Two Puerto Rican sisters from Staten Island think they have spotted their missing third sister on a trashy reality show years after her disappearance.

Family ✨ Snarky✨ Startling

For fans of The Jersey Shore (and shocking endings)

An interwoven story centering on the residents of an affordable housing unit in Vaca Vale, Indiana and a shocking act of violence that pulls them all into each other‘s orbit.

Weird ✨ Classism ✨ Loneliness

For fans of the Bell Jar…but honestly, I don‘t think I‘ve ever read or watched anything like this.

Jamaica Kincaid‘s short, but powerful reflection on her home country of Antigua.

Literary ✨ Corruption ✨ Cynical

For fans of Toni Morrison, and the books you analyzed in college/high school (hopefully)

Two lonely and bored teens befriend each other for a summer and accidentally cause one of the country‘s biggest panics.

Nostalgia ✨ Domino Effect ✨ Summer

For fans of That 90s Show

A moving story of a 12 year old girl trying to find meaning in the unexpected death of her best friend.

Friendship ✨ Loss ✨ Loneliness

For fans of Eight Grade (the movie)

A group of young girls grapple with the disappearance of the local preacher‘s daughter.

Lurking ✨ Loss of Innocence ✨ Blurry

For fans of The Diary of a Teenage Girl

This isn‘t a book I can review in the conventional sense. It‘s meant for the reader alone to interpret and make their own meaning.

Emotional ✨ Connected ✨ Legacy

The heartbreaking finale to the Beartown Series.

For fans of Friday Night Lights…and crying.

Elizabeth Zott masters chemistry and home economics to prove women are anything but average.

Feminist ✨ Quirky ✨ Feel Good

For fans of WandaVision

Sneha, a young twenty something, navigates love, friendship, family, and self discovery in 2008 Milwaukee.

Aimlessness ✨ Millennial ✨LGBTQ

For fans of books about the regular-ness of life (I.e. Writers and Lovers)

An expose on the secretive Sackler family and their decisive role in the opioid crisis.

Corruption ✨ Avarice ✨ Investigative

For fans of Succession

Three individuals struggling to adjust to life after traumatic events find purpose in beekeeping.

Rustic ✨ Healing ✨ Function

For fans of Remarkably Bright Creatures

Transgenerational ✨ Inheritance ✨ Determinism

NOTES: I am confused why a male author would decide to write a book about mothers, daughters,and their shared trauma when the idea of epigenetics and race is interesting enough to stand on its own. The women‘s experience is central to Ford‘s narration, and I feel like the overall story lost credibility for me, knowing it is being told from someone who can only imagine what that experience is like.

Abby and her husband, Ralph, are haunted by her vengeful mother-in-law.

Trauma ✨ Horror ✨ SMother

Notes: Not a book for the faint of heart. Similar to Milk Fed and The Bell Jar, the unstable mental state of the narrator makes you feel crazy too.

Daisy Darker and her family reunite to celebrate her Nana‘s 80th birthday, but events take a dark turn when people are murdered one by one.

Clue ✨ Agatha Christie ✨ Dysfunctional

NOTES: Thrillers are not my thing, but I‘ll keep searching for one that will finally surprise me.

After his recent release from a juvenile facility, Emmett‘s plans to take his eight year old brother, Billy, to California are derailed when two stowaways steal his studebaker and flee to New York.

Odyssey ✨ Debts ✨ Multilayered

NOTES: This book is long! The overall build up felt dull, but the last 100 pages took me for a loop in a good way. The ending felt jarring and left me thinking. I‘m just not sure it‘s worth the 600 page commitment.

Workaholic Nora thinks she‘s escaping the fast paced New York bustle by going on a three week getaway with her younger sister, but instead she runs into her surly work rival and unexpected romance.

Steamy ✨ Banter ✨ Familiar

NOTES: A typical Emily Henry novel - Almost identical to Beach Read, but way better than People We Meet on Vacation. I‘m giving it a so-so review because I think her books follow a similar format that‘s easy to predict.

A transfer student joins an exclusive Classics program at Hampden College and finds himself lured in by the dark influences of his colleagues.

Academia ✨ Paranoia ✨ Haunting

NOTES: TSH reminds me of books I read in high school and college, and is meant to be dissected well after the book is finished. Obvious inspiration is driven from The Great Gatsby and Greek tragedies as characters serve as the causes of their own destructive trajectories.

Holly Darling, a descendant of the famous Darling family, suspects Peter Pan is behind her daughter‘s mysterious disappearance.

Motherhood ✨ Sinister ✨ Retelling

NOTES: I found the plot to be slow moving and boring, and felt robbed of a satisfying showdown at the end of the story. I also get incredibly frustrated with stories in which the character creates additional problems just because they refuse to ask for help or call the police.

One of the most abrasive players in women‘s tennis comes out of retirement to defend her world record.

Athletic ✨ Inspiring ✨ Comeback

NOTES: While “Carrie Soto is Back” felt predictable and cliche at times, I couldn‘t help but get sucked into the intensity of the matches. This book inspired me to get back into shape.

Two recovering addicts who have overdosed on the new, experimental drug, Memoroxin, sift through their corrupted memories at a rehab facility only to find that they may know each other from a time they can no longer remember.

Thoughts: The writing in this book, especially the author‘s description of Los Angeles, is beautiful. However, the book itself feels too long and disjointed to appreciate.

Memory ✨ Addiction ✨ Jumbled

In a dystopian future where mankind has conquered death, Citra Terranova and Rowan Damisch are chosen to be apprentices to a Scythe charged with gleaning people in order to keep the size of the world population under control.

Mortality ✨ Virtue ✨ Action Packed

An unlikely friendship between an octopus, a seventy year old janitor, and her wayward replacement reveals hidden truths about both of their families.

Familial ✨ Aquatic✨ Adrift

A hockey town rebuilds it‘s team in the fallout of a rape scandal.

Consequences ✨ Rivalry ✨ Grief

Four high school students are accused of murder when one of their classmates dies under suspicious circumstances. The Breakfast Club meets Riverdale.

Juvenile ✨ Gossip ✨ Cliche

Childhood friends with a complicated relationship reconnect and decide to make a video game.

Millennial ✨ Gamer ✨ Emotional

A collection of essays and reflections on American life in the 1960s.

Counter Culture ✨ Nostalgic ✨ California

Multiple timelines converge when seemingly unconnected characters experience the same time anomaly. An unofficial sequel (or prequel?) to the Glass Hotel.

Speculative ✨ Time Travel ✨ Interwoven

Charlie Hall, a retired thief, is pulled back into an underground world of shadows and magic after an important book goes missing.

Secretive ✨ Cat and Mouse ✨ Heist

A personal account from author Joan Didion following the year after her husband‘s sudden death.

Grief ✨ Stream of Consciousness ✨ Retrospective

An epic novel that follows the preservation of a manuscript over three different points in time - 15th century Constantinople on the brink of war, a present day Idaho town, and a future space expedition on a ship called the Argos.

Expansive ✨ Survival ✨ Rediscovery

A novel that centers on Deaf teenagers and their headmistress as they navigate school, hormones, and civil liberty.

Rebellious ✨ Educational ✨ Bridging

Maggan Watterson oscillates between sermon, personal experience, and reflection as she assesses the Catholic church‘s treatment of women, specifically Mary Magdalene, throughout history.

Introspective ✨ New Wave ✨ Religious

Note: The content of this book is more religious than historical. While it does provide insight on the church‘s treatment of women, it does so under the assumption that Christ is real. Not hateful, just not what I believe.

Viktor E. Frankl discusses his time in Nazi concentration camps and how we can maintain spiritual survival in spite of our environments.

Logos ✨ Spiritual ✨Existential