With more time at home and little to do, reading can be such a great escape! Between memoirs, thrillers, fantasy and true crime – the options are endless. Check out what books some of our staff are currently escaping in to and let us know what books are on your nightstand.
Memoir
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle depicts the childhood of Jeanette Walls, growing up in a family unwilling to conform to societal norms. They moved as nomads among the Southwest until the money ran out and their ideals faded, and the family of six ended up back in father Rex’s West Virginia hometown, a place he tried hard to escape. Drowning in their father’s alcohol abuse and their mother’s refusal to grow up and be their provider, Jeanette and her siblings had to take care of each other with the most limited of resources. Despite all that she overcame, the story Jeanette tells is one of unconditional love.
Memoir
Pieces of Her
Karin Slaughter’s Pieces of Her follows Andrea Oliver as she tries to figure out her seemingly boring mother, Laura’s past. After protecting her daughter from a random violent act in a shopping mall, Laura becomes the media’s focus for her assassin style moves and takes a bullet from a long-awaited enemy. As Andrea faces imminent danger herself, she uses the few clues she has to trace her mom’s former identity and piece together their future. Bonus – it will be coming to Netflix as a limited series!
https://amzn.to/2Nx1EIw
Classics
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice focuses on the importance of marrying for love, not money or social status. It follows the Bennet family as the mother attempts to marry off her 5 daughters to gain wealth once their father passes and their estate passes to the next male heir. A modern re-telling by Curtis Sittenfeld titled Eligible helps to make the story more relatable, with a Bachelor contestant as a male lead and Instagram models as the youngest sisters. Austen’s complex characters and beautiful storytelling lead to a timeless and captivating novel. Sittenfeld re-worked it for our times, making it almost more entertaining the second time around. Pick up either version and swoon over the characters!
https://amzn.to/383b8Vw
Fantasy
Gardens of the Moon, Malazan Book of the Fallen series
Gardens of the Moon is an epic fantasy from an outstanding voice. This 10-book series follows Gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures as they play out the fate of the Malazan Empire. This first book sets the stage for drama that Star Wars fans will find gripping.
https://amzn.to/2BdAxzH
Crime Author
James Patterson is a household name and one you probably don’t need to see on a list of book recommendations. If you’re looking past the Alex Cross series, check out the Michael Bennett books (a widowed cop raising a brood of adopted kids in NYC) or the Private series (follows a high-end Private Investigator in LA).Patterson has also branched out into true crime, including his books on Aaron Hernandez and Jeffrey Epstein, both of which Netflix turned into docuseries.
https://amzn.to/2VhdNWA
Sports
The Jordan Rules
Michael Jordan is front of mind for most sports fans as “The Last Dance” just wrapped on ESPN, but for anyone looking to supplement their viewing or dive a little deeper, “The Jordan Rules” follows sportswriter Sam Smith as he goes on the road with the ’90-’91 Bulls on their championship season. He gave the world their first look at Michael Jordan as a person instead of a legend.
https://amzn.to/3819u6N
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