| Yesteryear by Caro Claire BurkeWith millions of social media followers, Natalie Heller Mills carefully curates her tradwife life featuring a charming Utah ranch, a cowboy/political scion husband, and five children (with one on the way!). What her followers don't know is that she has nannies and plenty of other help. Then one morning, it's somehow 1805, and she's forced to live the tradwife life for real. Anne Hathaway has snagged film rights for this buzzy, twisty debut that's great for book clubs. Try these next: Anna-Marie McLemore's The Influencers; Alli Hoff Kosik's Too Blessed to Stress. |
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| Laws of Love and Logic by Debra CurtisLily and Jane grow up in 1970s Rhode Island with their feminist mom, who dies when they're teens, and their Catholic boarding-school teacher dad. After Lily falls for the school's star quarterback, a tragedy changes everything, dividing Lily and the boy she loves and sending grief-stricken Jane further off course. Decades later, Lily and her love meet again, and a now-married Lily has to figure out what her future looks like. For fans of: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune; Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors. |
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| You & Me and You & Me and You & Me by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn ReesStuck in a rut after 25 years of marriage, Adam and Jules discover that the old mixtapes they made for each other allow them to travel back in time. Tempted to make changes to their past selves to create a better present, they unintentionally create ripple effects that could tear them apart for good. Co-written by married couple Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees, this affecting romantic time travel novel is perfect for fans of The Second Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss. |
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| Whidbey by T Kira MaddenBirdie Chang travels to Whidbey Island, Washington to escape the massive amounts of publicity surrounding reality star Linzie King's memoir. The bestseller covers Linzie's and others' abuse by pedophile Calvin, who also assaulted a young Birdie. In Florida, Calvin is released from prison and then murdered, but who did it? Focusing on Birdie, Linzie, and Calvin's mom, this multifaceted debut novel by abuse survivor and acclaimed memoirist T Kira Madden (Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls) works great for book clubs. |
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The Things We Never Say
by Elizabeth Strout
Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He goes about his days teaching American history to high schoolers, correcting their casual ignorance, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. But when a startling accident awakens a new perspective in Artie -and he realizes that life has its own secret it's been keeping from him- he charts another course full of grief, hilarity, and heart, to a place where the end marks the beginning. Try this next: Ann Patchett's Whistler.
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John Of John
by Douglas Stuart
John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads holding together the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before. John of John is a singular novel about duty, passion, and the transformative power of the truth.
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| The Wedding People by Alison EspachHopeless Phoebe Stone is ready to end her life at a gorgeous Rhode Island inn. But she’s the only one not there for an expensive wedding, and when the bride learns Phoebe’s plan, she refuses to let Phoebe ruin her nuptials. The two become confidants, as surprising events and characters propel this funny, poignant story forward. Read-alikes: This Disaster Loves You by Richard Roper; Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason. |
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| By Her Own Design by Piper HuguleyThis richly detailed historical novel traces the life of Black designer Ann Lowe, who created the gown Jacqueline Bouvier wore to marry John F. Kennedy. Born in 1898 Alabama, Ann learns to sew from her mother and her formerly enslaved grandmother, endures an abusive marriage, and becomes a teen mom. Eventually attending design school, she opens shops in Florida and New York. For fans of: historical novels by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. |
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| What Is Wrong With You? by Paul RudnickAs a former flight attendant prepares to marry a tech billionaire at his private Maine island, hijinks ensue with the arrival of the guests. They include a 60-something gay editor who just got fired, a sensitivity reader who might be after the groom, and the bride's bodybuilder ex-husband. Fans of eccentric characters and lighthearted stories will want to read this "hilarious farce" (Publishers Weekly). For fans of: Carl Hiaasen. |
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| Women Of Good Fortune by Sophie WanLulu's wedding will be a huge Shanghai society event -- but she doesn't actually want to get married, and her two best friends aren't happy with their lives either. So they hatch a plan to steal the red money envelopes at the wedding in order to procure the different futures they each want. Read-alikes: Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen; Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan. |
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