Hardcover, 400 pages Published April 10th 2018 by Lee Boudreaux Books In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that … More Circe by Madeline Miller
Hardcover, 310 pages Published September 13th 2016 by Doubleday (first published August 2016) Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood – where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent … More The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Hardcover, 492 pages Published April 19th 2016 by Random House Eligible is the witty and modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Here you will find the Bennett sisters in the 21st century, complete with artificial insemination, yoga, and fad workout obsessions among other more raucous taboos. Here you will also find nearly 200 chapters—oh … More Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Hardcover, 304 pages Published April 5th 2016 by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux “How do you know you didn’t ruin my life forty years ago?” “From what I can see, you never looked back.” “I looked back, believe me,” she says. “That makes two of us.” Firstly, let me say to those who have … More The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Hardcover, 368 pages Published March 22nd 2016 by Ecco The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney did absolutely nothing for me. I had high hopes for this one going in—another brilliantly written cover flap did the trick—but my expectations were never met, and by mid-way, I stopped hoping and assuming that they eventually … More The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Hardcover, 720 pages Published March 10th 2015 by Doubleday First of all, let me say that A Little Life was exactly what I’ve been looking for. This novel was so rich in raw, uninhibited emotion, in the true unveiling of life’s effervescence, horrors and humanity, that I didn’t feel that I was trudging through a … More A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Hardcover, 304 pages Published June 26th 2014 by Penguin Press “How suffocating it is to be loved that much.” Everything I Never Told You centers around the Lee family: James, the Chinese-American professor who lectures on the epitome of what was never attainable for him—true Americanism, Marilyn, the blond wife who’d always dreamed of being … More Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
