Well, this is exciting! Let’s turn some pages and fill book shelves together, shall we? (I’ll be updating the page with links, photos, and descriptions soon! Hold tight buds!)
What I’m reading now:
What’s up next:
2022 Reads & Recommendations:
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land (Book club pick!)
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (MUST READ!)
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
The Turnaway Study by Diana Greene Foster (Book club pick!)
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (MUST READ!)
From The Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
Peoples Future of the United States
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (MUST READ!)
Code Name Varity by Elizabeth Wein
Peoples History of the United States
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
True Biz by Sara Novic (MUST READ!)
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover (TRIGGER WARNING: do not read this book if you’re not ready to read about abusive relationships)
2021 Reads & Recommendations:
Deep by James Nestor
Caste by Isabelle Wilkerson
Rage By Bob Woodward
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (MUST READ for Sci-Fi lovers!)
Luster by Raven Leilani
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
There There by Tommy Orange
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (MUST READ!)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (MUST READ!)
Census by Jesse Ball
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Aria by Nazanine Hozar
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (MUST READ!)
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
The City We Became by NK Jemisin
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Shwab
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong (MUST READ!)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper (Great read for students & teachers)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris (Book Club pick!)
Becoming Ms. Burton by Susan Burton & Cari Lynn (Book Club pick!)
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (MUST READ for history lovers!)
Under The Whispering Door by TJ Klune
2020 Reads & Recommendations:
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (MUST READ!)
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett (MUST READ!)
Educated by Tara Westover
The Book Of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd (MUST READ!)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown