Because of You, Dawn French Because of You follows two pregnant women, one of whom gives birth to a healthy…
Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason Sorrow and Bliss, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, portrays mental illness and the…
Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers Small Pleasures was longlisted for the Women’s Prize in 2021, and follows the story of Jean,…
The Idiot, Elif Batuman The Idiot is the book that comes before Either/Or, which I read a few months ago…
Here are my final reads of the year—I whizzed through these last five books to boost my count up to…
The Wren, the Wren, Anne Enright Shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize, The Wren, the Wren follows the mother-daughter relationship…
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss is set on a mountain side on the border of…
Verity, Colleen Hoover Well, as you can see, I finally decided to see what all the hype is about. After…
The Oasis, Mary McCarthy This slim novel by Mary McCarthy surely made an enormous splash in her social circle when…
Valentine, Elizabeth Wetmore Valentine was given to me by one of my closest friends (shout out to Allie!) for my…