Smart, funny, charming – an original. Read and Enjoy! You deserve it!
Judy B.
Category: Staff Picks
Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
Love, murder, Iceland. What more could one need?! Based on the true story of Agnes Magnusdottir sentenced to death, it’s clear from the start we don’t have the whole story but I had no idea how much truth would be exposed by the end. For the last 100 pages I couldn’t put it down.
Emily B.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove – Karen Russell
I’ve never been a fan of short stories, but these are mythical and spooky. Each story will suck you in and send a chill down your spine.
Mia C.
The Crooked Branch — Jeanine Cummins
Cummins introduces us to two very different mothers. Majella in present-day New York and Ginny in Ireland during the famine of 1840. Beautfully told. I could not put it down.
Janet V.
The Tennis Partner — Abraham Verghese
A very tender account of a deeply-moving friendship between two doctors, one struggling with addiction and isolation, and the other with a compassionate need to understand and save his life.
Vivian E.
The Liars’ Club — Mary Karr
Some books stay with you forever. That’s The Liars’ Club. Mary Karr is a brilliant writer and her family is one you will be thankful is not yours. But you will laugh as you give thanks!
Judy B.
Sisterland – Curtis Sittenfeld
I love this sometimes overlooked Sittenfeld novel about twin sisters with the gift — or is it a curse — of foretelling the future. One tries to hide it, the other exploits it. More great storytelling from a true modern master.
Cynthia C.
Telex From Cuba – Rachel Kushner
This beautiful novel is set in Cuba when it was a colonial outpost, and playground, for American companies. There’s drinking, philandering and violence, but also love and humor. A big, spirited book about a small world on the precipice of revolution. And Hemingway is there, too.
Cynthia C.
Dancer – Colum McCann
Vivienne says: “Swirl and twirl, float and free-fall through the tragic yet wild abandon of the heartbreaking life and death of Rudolf Nureyev. A full life, fully lived.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
Judy Blume says: The best book I read last year and the most original and surprising. Highly recommended. Delicious.