Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover I have to admit: almost all nonfiction I read, memoir or not, either bores me…
The Mountains Sing, Nguyen Phan Que Mai There are few books I’ve read that have been as painful or as…
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman If you couldn’t tell, I am catching…
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power, Lola Olufemi This book reads like a feminism-for-beginners manual: its ten chapters are parsed out the…
Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson Black Cake is a novel spanning three generations and three countries, following Eleanor Bennett and the…
The Boleyn Inheritance, Philippa Gregory It’s been a hot minute (aka years) since I have read a Philippa Gregory book,…
The Other Americans, Laila Lalami After this novel having sat on my shelves for years, I randomly picked it up…
The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak This novel by Shafak follows, on the one hand, a housewife who finds…
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue follows the 300-year life of Addie,…
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak The Island of Missing Trees tells the story of Cyprus’s ancient division between…