Β Long Bright River by Liz Moore β 496 pages Finished copy from Riverhead Books in exchange for an honest review Book Blurb: In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the...
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell β 384 pages ARC courtesy of William Morrow for an honest review Book Blurb: 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and...
Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland β 320 pages ARC provided by Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for an honest review. Book Blurb: Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to βAmericaβs Playgroundβ and move into...
As always, I wait until after the new year to create this list so that I can include every single book I’ve read through the 31st. Some years I choose the list by genre, while other years I pay no heed to genre; I just select titles that have immensely...
Chariot on the Mountain by Jack Ford β 320 pages Finished Copy provided by Kensington for an honest review Book Blurb: Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named...
Every Stolen Breath by Kimberly Gabriel β 336 pages Finished Copy provided by Kaye Publicity for an honest review Book Blurb: Lia is the only one still pursuing her fatherβs killers, two years after attorney Steven Finchβs murder by the Swarm. Devastated and desperate...
The Flatshare by Beth OβLeary β Audio Book Blurb: After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded,...
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur – 256 pages Book Blurb: On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for...
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson β 272 pages Book Blurb: Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and theyβve barely spoken...
On Division by Goldie Goldbloom β 288 pages Book Blurb: In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws,...
So excited to start @chrisbohjalian newest book coming to you 3/11/25 from @doubledaybooks."In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what sheβs willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical fiction as Hour of the Witch and The Sandcastle Girls." - Goodreads π: Do you prefer books that take place in the past, present or future?#thejackalsmistress #doubledaybooks #2025books#upcomingbooks#historicalficton#bookrecs #addtoTBR #tbrlist #booksmatter #readersmatter #goodbookfairy... See MoreSee Less