Publisher: Liverlight Page Count: 368 Year Published: 2017 Synopsis: In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real […]

Publisher: HarperCollins Page Count: 410 Year Published: 2006 (originally published in 1938) Synopsis: The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is […]

Publisher: Scribner Page Count: 304 Publication Date: Feb. 2, 2021 Synopsis: A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, […]

Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons; Total Pages: 293; Year Published: 2019 Trigger Warnings: Disordered eating, sexual assault, emotional abuse, self-harm (cutting) I saw Kally of @mycaffeinatedbookshelf recommend Supper Club for lovers of Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler and I knew I had to read it. Then, when I found it in the bookstore, the back cover said […]

Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC Page Count: 400 Genre: Historical Romance Published: February 9, 2021 Synopsis: The marriage game is afoot in this clever blend of My Fair Lady meets Pride and Prejudice with a twist! Edward Stanhope, the icy Duke of Thornfield, likes his life in a certain order. Give him a strong drink, a […]

“But he did think about the ways in which his body wasn’t his own and how that condition showed up uniquely for everyone whose personhood wasn’t just disputed but denied. Swirling beneath him were the ways in which not having lawful claim to yourself diminished you, yes, but in another way, condemned those who invented […]

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Page Count: 152 Year Published: 2015 *Anti-Racist Reading List* Synopsis: In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. […]

Publisher:  Black Cat/Grove Atlantic Genre: Literary Fiction Page Count: 453 Year Published: 2019 Synopsis: From one of Britain’s most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women. Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and the […]

Publisher: Doubleday Books Year Published: 2019 Page Count: 532 Synopsis: A multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple–still madly in love after forty years–recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they’ve built. When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, […]

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Release Date: March 2, 2021 Page Count: 352 Brief Summary: Trust fund baby, Skye Starling, has always struggled to make relationships work. So when Burke Michaels comes into her life and seems to love everything about her, including Skye’s OCD, which has often been a point of contention with other men, […]