Reading Recommendations

How to Get the Girl by Anita Kelly

Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball as the author of Love & Other Disasters delivers a sapphic romance full of humor and heart.

My Husband by Maud Ventura

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?

Out by Natsuo Kirino

“A gutsy, unflinching foray into the darkest, most dangerous recesses of the human soul. And the book’s riveting, hair-raising final scenes, although definitely not for the faint-at-heart, serve as an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom has the potential to set any ordinary individual among us off down a very dark and lonely road.” –Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Mothering by Ainslie Hogarth

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A darkly funny take on mothers and daughters, about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane

Finalist for the Libby Book Awards

Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance state.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

“I Who Have Never Known Men is about as heavyhearted as fiction can get, but all the loneliness and oblivion of a deserted world won't stop us from following the narrator as far as she can go. We may share the nameless young woman's frustration when she learns that freedom is not enough, but each revelation that directs her steps is a small miracle.”—The New York Times

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade―abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan

"[An] enticing debut... Harlan’s prose is beautiful and vivid, and each story has elements of beauty and horror... Harlan captures the essence of the collection: much splendor and quite a bit of squirm. This is well worth diving into."
― Publishers Weekly

4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

I went through a phase where I was very into reading productivity books; then, I read this book, and it changed my perspective.  This is not so much a time management book as much as a manifesto on the need for readers to accept that time is finite, and we will never feasibly do all the things we wish or hope or think we should, so we ought to spend more time prioritizing what is most important.