Author: Natalie Jenner
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rating:★★★★☆
This historical fiction novel is a must for any Janeite who has every visited Chawton and Jane Austen’s House museum and Chawton House. It tells the story of the Jane Austen Society forming to secure and protect artifacts from her family. Its very genteel. Sweetly written characters. I enjoyed it very much.
Author: Stephanie Spellers Genre: Religion; Christian Studies Rating: ★★★★☆ Church Tomorrow? by Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers (released in early December 2025) is a clear-eyed, research-forward look at what many churches keep whispering about and avoiding: the rise of the “Nones” and “Dones,” and the spiritual landscape Millennials and Gen Z are actually inhabiting. Spellers frames the…
Author: Various Authors Genre: Anthology Rating: ★★★★☆ Encounters with Jane Austen: Celebrating 250 Years is a wonderfully diverse tribute—part essay collection, part poetry portfolio, part short-story gathering—assembled as a celebration of Austen’s enduring pull on readers and writers across generations. What I appreciated most is the range: scholars bring insight, popular authors bring warmth and immediacy,…
Author: Abbi Waxman Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Abbi Waxman’s Christa Comes Out of Her Shell follows Christa, a quiet marine researcher who has built a comfortable, solitary life studying ocean life—far removed from the family chaos she left behind. That carefully constructed world is disrupted when her father suddenly reappears after twenty-five years, forcing Christa to return home…
Author: Lea Geller Genre: Women’s Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Lea Geller’s The Truth and Other Hidden Things follows Bells Walker, a forty-something mother who suddenly finds herself in that strange middle season of life—her children growing independent, her role shifting, and her sense of being seen slowly fading. When an unexpected pregnancy collides with a husband who doesn’t…
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: Signe Pike Genre: Historical Fiction – Early Britain Rating: ★★★★★ In a season when the world itself feels loud and uncertain, it takes a lot for a novel to truly hold my attention. Signe Pike managed to do it again with The Forgotten Kingdom. From the first pages I was completely immersed in her richly…