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