I don’t know about you, but Feb. was a boffo month. Either I’m terrified I won’t make my goal for the year, or just inspired by all you readers out there, but I managed 11 books for the month which is 7 more than last year!
To recap, from my favorite, to read if you want.
📚’Know My Name’ by Chanel Miller. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Miller’s harrowing account of sexual assault and the grueling judicial system. A must read.
📚’Real LIfe’ by Brandon Taylor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A young gay black man in graduate school at a mostly white university tries to find his footing with racial,gender, and sexual identity all converging during one weekend. Read it!
📚’Scythe’ by Neil Shusterman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
In a future where death is a thing of the past two young people are chosen to be a part of an elite group in charge of population control. For fans of ‘hunger games’
📚‘Weather’by Jenny Offill ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💫
Offill’s often funny story told by a working mother focused on the end of the world while distracted by motherhood, her marriage, and a mundane job, all on the eve of Trump’s election. Read it!
📚‘Gay Like Me’ by Richie Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Jackson’s part biography part cautionary advice to his gay son.
Read it!
📚‘Interior Chinatown’by Charles Yu ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A young Asian actor growing up in LA’s Chinatown, in this part linear book, part screenplay, and one of the most original stories this year.
Read it!
📚’Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’by Olga Tokarczuk
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Part murder mystery, part fascinating character study of quirky locals and an animal rights protagonist in a remote Czech town.
📚’Topics of Conversation’ by Miranda Popkey
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Conversations between different women in all walks of life, Popkey’s prickly narrator is not always likable, but nonetheless compelling.
📚’Wanderers’ by Chuck Wendig
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It’s the end of the world as we know it thanks to a manufactured super flu.
📚’Sundown Hotel’ by Simone St. James
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A ghost story thriller where the girls are for once not written as hapless victims.
📚’Out of the Woods’by Luke Turner
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A Bisexual man, the son of a conservative minister grapples with sexual identity.
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