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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
Hope is one of the most important emotions in literature. It’s the thing that drives us forward, even when things look really, really bad. In every story, there’s a moment when you just don’t think you can do it anymore. Everything is too hard. Maybe you should just give up. “Folk in those stories had
When You Reach Meby Rebecca Stead 199 pages, HardcoverPublisher: Wendy Lamb BooksRelease Date: July 14, 2009My Rating: ★★★★☆ Book Summary Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that
Blindnessby José Saramago 352 pages, PaperbackPublisher: HarperVia (on October 4, 1999)Release Date: January 1, 1995My Rating: ★★★★★ Book Summary From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but
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