Another month has gone by, which means it’s time for another recap of what I read last month and what I recommend.
The Good
- The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth. In New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis’s latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces.
- Beach Read: A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
- Have You Seen Me: From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman’s dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find.
- The Push: A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family—and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for—and everything she feared. The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.
- The Nature of Fragile Things:From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity.
The Just Okay
- The Portrait of a Mirror: This wasn’t a bad book, necessarily, but it suffered from being over-hyped for me. I suspect I would have liked it more if I didn’t go into it expecting to read “the best book of the year.”
- False Witness: This was a solid thriller, but it was 100 pages too long and didn’t stick the landing. The conclusion felt rushed and a little bit unrealistic.
