Book Reviews & Recommendations
Few memoirs manage to be both devastating and laugh-out-loud funny, but Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President by E. Jean Carroll pulls off that extraordinary feat. Known for her sharp humor and fearless candor, Carroll delivers a remarkable behind-the-scenes look […]
Glennon Doyle’s Untamed is part memoir, part manifesto, and very much a cultural lightning rod. It invites readers to question the habits and stories that keep them small, to set boundaries, and to live with a fiercer honesty. It also polarizes, sometimes […]
Hanako Footman’s Mongrel is a quietly devastating and beautifully wrought debut that examines what it means to exist between worlds. Told through three interconnected narratives spanning England and Japan, it explores the legacy of grief, shame, and longing that passes through generations […]
Mia McKenzie’s These Heathens is a vibrant, emotionally charged, and deeply human story that captures how one weekend can alter the course of a life forever. Set in 1960 Georgia, this novel unfolds through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Doris Steele, a small-town […]
Édouard Louis’s brief, blazing portrait of his mother is both elegy and emancipation narrative. In fewer than a hundred pages he traces a life hemmed in by class and by men, then records the moment at forty five when that life breaks […]
Bonnie Garmus’s breakout novel has been called funny, sharp, and empowering. It is also divisive in the best conversation-starting way. Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist in the early 1960s whose career is derailed by sexism at every turn. […]