A compellingly written, addictive thriller in a nostalgic New England summer camp setting. I loved every minute of this book — until the very end. Read on to discover why I found the ending disappointing.
A list of the top books my friends, family and I read in 2024. Use the dashboard filters to search by genre, decade published, and more, or check out the infographic for highlights.
My first time reading Jane Austen far exceeded expectations! What a funny, delightful story filled with believable quirky characters.
Modern fiction feels whittled down, simplified in comparison to the wandering conversations, philosophical musings and side characters in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
1984 is often ranked as one of the most quintessential books in the dystopian genre. But while I was reading it, I couldn’t look past the main character’s attitude toward women. Eventually, I found myself questioning whether the attitude belonged to the character, or to the author himself.
My first time reading Jane Austen far exceeded expectations! What a funny, delightful story filled with believable quirky characters.
The Great Believers is staggering in its level of detail, in the number of characters you fall in love with, in the beauty of the prose, and in the scope of the tragedy it covers. Rebecca Makkai paints a picture of the 1980s AIDS epidemic in Chicago that is devastating and poignant, but also hopeful.
Books about passing make up an important and unique genre in American literature and film, and Bennett’s novel undoubtedly is a new essential read in this genre. The story follows Desiree and Stella, identical twins who grow up in a small town in Louisiana. At age 16, they run away from home, and Stella makes a choice that alters her life forever.
If there ever was a book for our times, Oryx and Crake is it. This novel is a story about a pandemic that is even more shocking than the one we are living through. Yet, in spite of the dystopian plot, Oryx and Crake gave me hope.
I’m finally ready to come clean about my real thoughts on Sarah J Maas.