For many years Mimi desperately insists on keeping the family’s troubles private, clinging to the preservation The oldest of the sisters is sent away to live out her school years as a privileged guest of wealthy genetic material from the family--both those affected by and those free from mental illness—begins to bear

) bitingly funny novel about politics and family; I'm listening to Seth Rogen’s funny, silly memoir Yearbook book, scheduled for publication tomorrow (April 5), courtesy of NetGalley and Henry Holt & Company. 02 Yearbook If you're familiar with actor Seth Rogen (Freaks and Geeks, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Steve Pineapple Express), you won't be surprised by the breadth and depth of drug-related stories he includes in Yearbook books I loved), check out the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year

When the characters from the two rich stories that make up Wingwalkers briefly intersect, it's fantastic

My book club has been together in some form for thirteen years, and for a good while I've been (surprise intriguing book is likely to be generally widely available from the library, vary our genres throughout the year Here are my personal book club favorites from last year. favorite book club reads of 2020, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction and Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year

In Kathryn Stockett's newest novel--her first since her debut 17 years ago--we dive into dual, linked

last of his own shaky family, they're unable to take him in and he's sent into foster care, beginning years His rock-bottom--it isn't a moment; it feels as though he drags the bottom for years--sets up a situation

It's been ten years since she made the biggest mistake of her life in the wondrous place where she spent

Twyford's largely condemned, simplistic, prejudiced stories and the vanishing of his teacher so many years

Twenty years later, Hazel is working in a rare bookshop when she unwraps a package and can't believe

I loved listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she read her memoir in audiobook form and feel Mary Deerfield is a twenty-four-year-old, faithful Puritan wife trying to escape her violent, often drunk

Stevie Bell solved one mystery last year--the mystery of her murdered classmate.

This fantastic book is the first in Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series.

Professor Lyall is one of my favorite characters, as is Lord Akeldama, a fantastic, over-the-top, preternaturally

Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo

Both of these books are listed in my Greedy Reading List of Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic

I read Conversations with Friends a few weeks ago (and I loved Normal People last year). . 03 Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans Rachel Held Evans was the author of Faith Unraveled, A Year

I can't stop thinking about this fascinating near-future climate-change story of desperation, loyalty In a near-future Kolkata, India, Ma is the manager of a food pantry for those in need. As the time for departure from India nears for Ma, her elderly father, and her small daughter, a few

That pedestal kept me stuck, emotionally stunted, living in fear, dependent, in a near constant state

Except...Andra soon realizes she wasn't sleeping for 100 years. She was asleep for 1,000. Henry has made me laugh repeatedly out loud, and I have a suspicion that she might bring me to tears #lightfiction, #heartwarming, #booksaboutbooks 03 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ​ It's been years since

Someone will need to stand up to the ruthless thugs ruling the area with fear and corruption in order I had to force myself to come around to living with the fear, that feeling of being overwhelmed by a

If you read or have read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

Period, but I wanted it too badly and he was like a cat, solidly rejecting my overzealous interest for years

Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years

Will There Be Good News, and many more books. 02 Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson Sixteen-year-old

subpar and cursory trials, sometimes hinging on incorrect evidence or corrupt setups that occurred years I listened to this one as an audiobook and found it really powerful to hear Stevenson narrate.

her marriage--the give and take (or lack thereof), the power imbalance, the resentment, the unspoken yearnings Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

The girl's confusion about the word "savages" was particularly poignant; she hears it used by the British Kline's research and resulting detail is fantastic, and I'm in for all the Christina Baker Kline books

femininity and control within the male-controlled power structures of the time, Shoulder Season spans forty years Clancy's first novel, The Second Home, was published last year, when the author was 52.

This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. If you're game to roll with hearing about his unique viewpoint and approach to life, Greenlights is a

young people from different worlds within the same small Irish town and how they come together and tear This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls.

After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes

extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter, a spunky and fantastic

something of a recluse in her quiet seaside Maine town ever since her husband's death in a car crash a year But having a listening ear in Dean, who is completely separate from Evvie's "before" life, means she

01 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles It's June 1954, and eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has just served Emmett's planning to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head west to start a new life.

In Tracey Lange's new novel We Are the Brennans, twenty-nine-year old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a haze Five years earlier she'd abandoned her family and friends and anyone tied to her past, including her

I love a brave-young-protagonist setup, and the brothers' love and determination were fantastic.

of The Ragged Edge of Night, which I mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year

I looooooved the wonderful dark humor and unexpected details in A Deadly Education and the fantastic

At various turns, DeLozier showcases historically accurate, dangerous demonstrations of men's fears of The religious fervor, fears, and the queasily specific medical practices of the time (lancing buboes!

I mentioned another title (The World's Most Adventurous Kid) from the Atlas Obscura series last year the co-owner of Nashville's Parnassus Books. 06 A Course Called America by Tom Coyne Coyne spent a year indies that keep readers swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year

Bill Harley's newest work, the middle-grade novel Now You Say Yes, we follow newly orphaned fifteen-year-old Mari and her nine-year-old stepbrother, Conor, who is on the spectrum, as they strike out on a cross-country

I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? Yael, a tough young woman who escaped from a concentration camp, has been training as a spy for years

In The Last Thing He Told Me, Hannah has just celebrated her one-year anniversary of marriage to Owen information; and the only lawyer Hannah knows to turn to for help is her ex-fiancé, who she left at the altar years

implausible premise--one in which a famous singer doesn’t recognize the person who provided the pivotal years-long adult Josie is Girl One, the first of nine baby girls who were famously conceived without male sperm years Joseph Bellanger, who tragically died in a fire on the commune years earlier.

Wizenberg fears that her life will unravel if she explores her complex sexuality--but she is even more you might also like to take a look at the Greedy Reading List Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton is spent in the hospital during a mysterious illness Lucy experienced many years adores but who requires careful avoidance of certain topics or realities, and who she hadn’t seen in years ruthlessness, I think, comes in grabbing onto myself, in saying: This is me, and I will not go where I can't bear interesting—Lucy recounts a passing (but consequential for her) encounter with an author in New York City years

But two years ago on their vacation, something BIG happened. Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List

Geraldine Brooks is also the author of The People of the Book, March, Year of Wonders, Caleb's Crossing

The sisters are meanwhile trying to find a way back together after grave betrayals and years of broken Harrow provides a villain you'll love to hate: he oppresses women, smugly and sneakily instills fear,

Mariana lost her husband a year ago in a holiday accident in her coastal Greek hometown, and she's still its accuracy or inaccuracy seems likely to create a crisis for her later in the book, but we don't hear