2016 Best Books
Best Books from 2016! My list is finally decided. It's never easy to whittle this list down as I've read a lot of good fiction this year. Enjoy these selections and Happy Reading! Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The One Man by Andrew Gross Mischling by Affinity Komar All The...
Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner
Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner– 454 pages Book Blurb: In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther...
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
The Mothers by Brit Bennett– 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 mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke...
Between Shades Of Gray by Ruth Sepetys
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 includes some of my faves that I've read over vacations 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 family’s 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...
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