Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: May 4, 2021 Page Count: 448 When Thea realizes her husband is having an affair with one of her friends and plans on leaving their marriage, she’s left heartbroken, blind-sighted, and confused. Then, she gets a call about a distant relative, an Uncle who she never met, but who left […]

Publisher: Harper Perennial Page Count: 118 Year Published: 2020 Genre: Poetry Poetry hasn’t always been my preferred genre. I have memories of reading Wordsworth and Byron in AP English classes, looking at the words, rolling them around my mouth, trying to make sense of the words. I always preferred novels. However, somewhere in my twenties, […]

Publisher: Berkley Books Page Count: 320 Year Published: 2021 This is the story of August, a progressive heiress from New York, and Evan, a Duke from England who finds his inheritance floundering after his father left the estates in financial ruin. Soon, Evan’s mother encourages a marriage between August’s younger sister, Violet, and Evan with […]

Publisher: Doubleday Books Page Count: 464 Published: 2020 I’ve read many WWII-focused books about women’s roles in the War, but none were as affecting as this. Lawhon is an incredible storyteller who constructs an incredible story about the real-life character Nancy Wake. Synopsis: “This book is based on the life of Nancy Wake, an Australian […]

Publisher: Washington Square Press Page Count: 391 Year Published: 2018 Taylor Jenkins Reid is quickly becoming an auto-buy author for me. I fell in love with her writing when I read Daisy Jones and the Six when it was first released, and thoroughly enjoyed The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I am eagerly anticipating her […]

Publisher: Pantheon Page Count: 83 Year Published: 2019 Synopsis: “Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the […]

“As you made your way through life, there were people who stuck, the ones who stayed around forever and whom you came to need as much as you needed water or air. Others were meant to keep you company for a time. In the moment, you rarely knew which would be which.” ⁣ Friends and […]

Publisher: Riverhead Books Page Count: 368 Year Published: 2007 Synopsis: “A celebrated writer’s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American […]

Publisher: Avon Books Pages: 384 Year Published: 2020 Sexy and steamy, this romance is so fun but also has depth. ⁣⁣Synopsis: “After a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. When she returns to her hometown of New York City to film the starring role in […]

Publisher:  Avon Books; Total Pages: 384; Year Published: 2000 (original publication year) Trigger Warnings: child abuse; marital rape; sexual assault I have a new obsession and it is certainly Regency England with a Gossip Girl twist. When I saw bookstagram raving about Bridgerton, Netflix’s adaption of The Duke & I by Julia Quinn, I decided […]