In Honor Of Banned Book Week
You are not gonna believe this list provided by BuzzFeed of the 15 most outrageous books that had serious attempts at banning. Read on and READ WHATEVER YOU PLEASE. Note, new young adult book Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell is also now trying to be banned by the...

The Laws Of Gravity by Liz Rosenberg
The Laws Of Gravity by Liz Rosenberg - 364 pages Book Blurb: An exquisite tour de force, The Laws of Gravity is a testament to what it means to be a family, what it takes to save a life, and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love. Two families, bound by...

The Bear
The Bear by Claire Cameron - 208 pages ARC from Little, Brown and Company Book Blurb: While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, 300 pounds of fury, is attacking...

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - 336 pages ARC from Little Brown/Hachette Book Group Book Blurb: Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated...

The Bone Season
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon - 452 pages Book Blurb: It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven...

You Are One Of Them
You Are One Of Them by Elliott Holt - 304 pages Book Blurb: Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones are best friends in an upscale part of Washington, D.C., in the politically charged 1980s. Sarah is the shy, wary product of an unhappy home: her father abandoned the...

The Mouse-Proof Kitchen by Saira Shah
The Mouse-Proof Kitchen by Saira Shah - 352 pages Book Blurb: Anna is a planner. So when she discovers she’s pregnant, she prepares for a perfect new life in Provençe, France, with her perfect new baby-to-be. Anna’s partner, the easy-going Tobias, shouldn’t have too...

The Longings Of Wayward Girls
The Longings Of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown - 336 pages ARC courtesy of Atria Books Book Blurb: It’s an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence. It seems like July and August will pass lazily by, just as they have...

Invisibility by Andrea Cremer and David Levithan
Invisibility by Andrea Cremer and David Levithan - 358 pages Book Blurb: Stephen has been invisible for practically his whole life — because of a curse his grandfather, a powerful cursecaster, bestowed on Stephen’s mother before Stephen was born. So when Elizabeth...

The Ghost Bride
Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo- 368 pages Book Blurb: Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt...