Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix

Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Ibi Zoboi (Format used for this book: Audiobook) In a timely update of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling…

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then,…

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He’s been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents’ lives―or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and…

Health At Every Size

Health At Every Size by Linda Bacon PhD Fat isn’t the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates “thin” with “healthy” is the problem.The solution? Health at Every Size. Tune in to your body’s…

The Silent Patient

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (Format used for this read: Audiobook) The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband – and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.  Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives…

Moon Witch Spider King

Moon Witch Spider King by Marlon James In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened to the…