Author: Lauren Edmondson Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Lauren Edmondson’s Wedding of the Season centers on Cass, who returns to Newport, Rhode Island, hoping to recover from emotional wounds left by a trip gone terribly wrong. Instead of the quiet reset she expects, she finds herself pulled back into the complicated orbit of her family just as her sister’s…
Author: Terri-Lynne DeFino Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Terri-Lynne DeFino’s Varina Palladino’s Jersey Italian Love Story is a warm, character-driven family drama set in a lively New Jersey Italian-American community. Varina Palladino finds herself in a rut—her children are grown, her husband has been gone for years, and her fiercely present mother still looms large in her daily life….
Author: Kat Clayborn Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Kate Clayborn’s Georgie, All Along follows Georgie Mulcahy, a capable but directionless woman who returns to her hometown after losing her job and realizes she has no clear plan for the future. While sorting through her belongings, she discovers an old high school “friend fiction” journal filled with the dreams and…
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Carrie Soto Is Back follows legendary tennis champion Carrie Soto, a fierce and unapologetically driven athlete whose record-breaking career is suddenly threatened when a younger player begins closing in on her titles. Refusing to let her legacy slip away, Carrie comes out of retirement for one final…
Author: Julia Whelan Genre: WOMEN’S FICTION Rating: ★★★★☆ Julia Whelan’s Thank You for Listening follows Sewanee Chester, a once-promising actress whose career and confidence were shattered by a tragic accident, leaving her physically scarred and emotionally guarded. Now working as an audiobook narrator, Sewanee survives by “faking it till she makes it,” convinced she’ll never fully heal…
Author: KJ Dell’Antonia Genre: Women’s Fiction Rating: ★★★★☆ KJ Dell’Antonia’s In Her Boots centers on Rhett Gallagher, a woman whose restless desire to prove herself—and escape the feeling that she was never quite good enough for her mother—leads her far from her family’s New Hampshire farm and into a life of reinvention. When her grandmother dies, Rhett…
Author: Kristan Higgins Genre: Women’s Fiction Rating: ★★★★☆ Kristan Higgins’s Out of the Clear Blue Sky is a compelling piece of contemporary women’s fiction that begins when Lillie’s seemingly stable marriage is shattered by her husband’s sudden decision to leave, forcing her to navigate the upheaval of divorce, middle-age parenting, and the complicated loyalties of family. Set…
Author: Sonali Dev Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Sonali Dev’s The Emma Project brings her Austen-inspired Raje series to a satisfying close, centering on Vansh Raje, the youngest and most easygoing of the brothers, and Naina, the former fiancée of his brother whose life has already been deeply entangled with the family. When their paths cross again, the…
Author: Abbi Waxman Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Abbi Waxman’s Adult Assembly Required returns readers to the warm, chaotic world first introduced in The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, but this time the focus shifts to Laura, a young woman who arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over. She comes to the city with two goals: to attend…
Author: Brian D. McLaren Genre: Religion; Christian Faith Rating: ★★★★☆ Brian McLaren’s Do I Stay Christian? addresses a question many believers are quietly asking in the midst of cultural and political upheaval: whether the Christian faith can still be a meaningful and ethical home in the modern world. McLaren structures the book in two parts, first presenting…
