The Powerby Naomi Alderman 341 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Little, Brown and Company (on October 10, 2017)Release Date: October 27, 2016My Rating: ★★★★★ Book Summary ‘She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across …
My Sister, the Serial Killerby Oyinkan Braithwaite 226 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Doubleday (on November 20, 2018)Release Date: July 17, 2018My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll …
The Book of Lost Namesby Kristin Harmel 388 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Gallery BooksRelease Date: July 21, 2020My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she …
May We Be Forgivenby A.M. Homes 480 pages, PaperbackPublisher: Grata (on April 4, 2013)Release Date: September 1, 2012My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV …
Man’s Search for Meaningby Viktor E. Frankl 165 pages, PaperbackPublisher: Beacon Press (on June 1, 2006)Release Date: January 1, 1959My Rating: ★★★★★ Book Summary Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the …
The Humans: A Novelby Matt Haig 320 pages, PaperbackPublisher: Simon & SchusterRelease Date: May 9, 2013My Rating: ★★★★★ Book Summary When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a leading mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor wants to …