
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
The Mothers by Brit Bennettβ 278 pages - Audio Book Blurb: It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own motherβs recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastorβs son. Luke...

Between Shades Of Gray by Ruth Sepetys
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys β 344 pages Book Blurb: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the...

All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood β 346 pages Book Blurb: As the daughter of a meth dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Struggling to raise her little brother, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible "adult" around....

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi β 305 pages Book Blurb: Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is...

Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House by Katheen Grissom β 370 pages Book Blurb: This new, stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white...
2016 Winter Break Reading List
If you're looking for something to read over Winter Break, here's the list you'll need. It includesΒ some of my faves that I've read over vacationsΒ in the past. Hopefully, there's something for everyone to enjoy! Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes - It's a sequel to You,...

The Lost Girls by Heather Young
The Lost Girls by Heather Young - 340 pages Book Blurb: In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her familyβs vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys her mother, who spends the rest of her life at the lake house,...

My Fat Dad: A Memoir by Dawn Lerman
My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love and Family by Dawn Lerman - 336 pages Book Blurb: Dawn Lerman spent her childhood constantly hungry. She craved good food as her father, 450 pounds at his heaviest, pursued endless fad diets, from Atkins to Pritikin to all sorts of...

I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows - 272 pages Book Blurb: Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma...

The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware -340 pages Book Blurb: In this tightly wound story, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. At first,...