★★★★★
Chanel Miller’s raw, unflinching memoir, Know My Name, takes an in-depth look at Chanel’s high-profile sexual assault and subsequent years-long battle in court.
Know My Name: Chanel Miller
In Five Years: Rebecca Serle
★★★★★
Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years is the wonderfully surprising and heartbreaking story of a very Type A corporate lawyer in New York City who has stringently planned her future, but who may have to learn that life doesn’t always go exactly as planned.
Thank you to Atria Books for the free book!
Continue reading “In Five Years: Rebecca Serle”Such a Fun Age: Kiley Reid
★★★★★
Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age is the
Thanks to Putnam for the free book!
Continue reading “Such a Fun Age: Kiley Reid”Chasing the Bright Side: Jess Ekstrom
★★★★★
Jess Ekstrom’s Chasing the Bright Side: Embrace Optimism, Activate Your Purpose, and Write Your Own Story is a wonderfully uplifting, joyful, and honest exploration of the ways in which entrepreneurs and go-getters of all kinds and in all stages can stay positive, live a life with purpose, and achieve their dreams.
Thanks to the amazing author, Jess, for sending me a free copy of her book!
Continue reading “Chasing the Bright Side: Jess Ekstrom”Just Mercy: Bryan Stevenson
★★★★★
Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy is an utterly astounding account of the heinous ways in which the American justice system gets incarceration and the death penalty so wrong – disproportionately in the lives of disenfranchised and marginalized people.
Station Eleven: Emily St. John Mandel
★★★★★
Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven tells the story of a pandemic that kills a majority of the population, leaving the survivors in a shockingly realistic post-apocalyptic world.
In the Dream House: Carmen Maria Machado
★★★★★
Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is a fantastically unique, searingly honest memoir of one woman’s experience with abuse in a same-sex relationship.
Good Boy: Jennifer Finney Boylan
★★★★★
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs is a beautifully written, heartwarming memoir of the life – in stages from boyhood to womanhood – of trans activist, mother, and professor, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and the lessons that the many dogs in her life left her with.
Thank you to Celadon Books for the free advanced copy of this book!
Continue reading “Good Boy: Jennifer Finney Boylan”Catch and Kill: Ronan Farrow
★★★★★
Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill is a fast-paced, quick-witted investigative account of the inquiry into Harvey Weinstein’s wrongdoing and the network that tried to keep the reporting quiet.
She Said: Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
★★★★★
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s She Said is an explosive, eloquent tell-all about New York Times journalists’ investigations into the crimes of Harvey Weinstein and the subsequent rise of the #MeToo movement.
