Women’s Prize 2021 Shortlist Announced
The 2021 Women’s Prize Shortlist was announced yesterday, and I’m so impressed by this list! I’ve read three of the titles on the shortlist (Piranesi, The Vanishing Half and Transcendent Kingdom) and thought they were all terrific books. It always makes me excited to see great books being recommended, so I was delighted to see …
The Good Sister
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth is a family drama slash mystery novel that’s narrated from the point of view of two twin sisters, Rose and Fern Castle, who were raised by an unstable mother. When the book opens, they are both adults in their late twenties, and Rose is having difficulty conceiving a child. …
The Man Who Lived Underground
The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright is a novella published in April 2021, the truncated form of which was published as a short story in Wright’s Eight Men collection. Written in the early 1940’s, Wright’s publisher declined to publish it in its full form, fearing it was too graphic and controversial. While many …
50 Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of
For Independent Bookstore Day on April 24th, I wanted to celebrate lesser known books that many people have never heard of! Okay, let’s be honest, if you’re a book lover, you’ve probably heard of some of these books. But hopefully in this list of the 50 Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of, there will at …
Books Like The Midnight Library: 9 Great Books to Read Next
If you finished reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and are looking for something similar to read, here’s a list of readalikes and Books Like The Midnight Library to read next! As a quick refresher, The Midnight Library is about a woman who ends up in limbo in a magical library where she is …