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items Welcome to my collection of five-star book recommendations! Every book on this list is one I’ve personally loved and confidently recommend. From unforgettable characters and thought-provoking stories to page-turning plots and beautifully written pros...
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Five star book recommendations
I don’t hand out stars willy nilly so if I give a book five whole stars you have to know it was worth it! Some of the reasons I may rate a book five stars are that it was memorable, I connected emotionally, I couldn’t put the book down or couldn’t wa...
“Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.
Through a kaleidos...
Notes on an Execution (Edgar Award Winner)
This was epic! I am 2/3rds of the way through the series. The ending of this book was amazing and really set up the excitement for continuing!
“A century has passed since the gods fought and drove themselves to extinction. Now only their bones remai...
The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)
A standalone dark academia. Extremely well written. Great story and characters.
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
I couldn’t put this book down! It has been almost 30 years since I read it and I still think about it! This is the first book in the Kingsbridge Series.
“The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourc...
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
I read the physical book and paired it with the audiobook and I loved this book! I felt like I lived there with them. Cannot recommend enough!
“No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world.
For eight years, Cooper and his young dau...
These Silent Woods: A Novel: Grant, Kimi Cunningham
This was incredible! It made me very emotional. Check TWs!
“So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit in the rural town of ...
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
This was very well written and the plot twist was nuts!!!
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
This was very dark. A mother’s desperate attempt at finding her daughter’s killer. It was excellent
The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel
“A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs sink villages, a young En...
Still Life (GMA Book Club Pick)
“When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter tr...
One Italian Summer: A Novel
“Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she’d spend three days with Marti...
Expiration Dates: A Novel
“One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn’t explain much about where he came from or why he’s there—but when he visits the local coffeehouse, where pencil portraits of the people of Golden hang ...
Theo of Golden: A Novel
“Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle --...
Replay
“Romance channel screenwriter Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. But when her too-good-to-work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage’s collapse into cash, writing the best script of her life. When it...
Nora Goes Off Script
“In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the ma...
The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel
“Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll—bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and the writer behind the Netflix adaptation starring Mila Kunis—delivers an “unflinching and evocative” (Laura Dave, New...
Bright Young Women: A Novel
“The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself i...
The Rage of Dragons
“Tau and his Queen, desperate to delay the impending attack on the capital by the indigenous people of Xidda, craft a dangerous plan. If Tau succeeds, the Queen will have the time she needs to assemble her forces and launch an all out assault on her ...
The Fires of Vengeance
“I am a Weyward, and wild inside.
2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abus...
Weyward: A Novel
“Reality is broken.
At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first sho...
Recursion: A Novel
“In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured...
Heartwood (A Read with Jenna Pick): A Novel
“Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she i...
Four Treasures of the Sky: A Novel
“Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company … though...
When the Cranes Fly South: A Novel
“Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en route to the United States with the spirit of her dead sister as her only companion. Desperate to survive the hell that awaits her at their destination, Yetunde finds help in an unexpected form—the Devil himsel...
The Devil Three Times: A Novel
“Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly...
Chain Gang All Stars
“Gracetown, Florida.
June 1950.
Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins R...
The Reformatory: A Novel
“Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants—the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the ones too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall, and local legend says the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over thei...
The Broken Girls
“Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating. And he’s about ...
I See You've Called in Dead: A Novel
“Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her.
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom she calls home—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head...
One Dark Window
“Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'...
Just for the Summer
“Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him—he walked out on her and she has no idea where he is. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. And it’s a rumor that just won’t die.
It turn...
The Bandit Queens: A Novel
“True love is more divine than any ruthless god.
Born in the firelit domain of the under realm, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a land where gods often kill each other to steal power and allia...
Wild Reverence: A Novel
“What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life?
From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection wi...
The Collected Regrets of Clover: A Novel
“A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger's van. No help for miles. What would you do?
On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassab...
No Exit: A Novel
“Oxford, Mississippi, 1933.
Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep h...
The Calamity Club: A Novel
“When Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, Massachusetts, she falls head-over-heels for Van Whittaker, a fleece-wearing, litter-collecting kayak enthusiast with long, floppy hair and the personality of a Border collie. Born and raised in this pictures...
The Shampoo Effect (Read with Jenna Pick)
“Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he'd been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his regist...
It Could Have Been Her: A Novel
“Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivor...
FantasticLand: A Novel
“This isn't the kind of fairy tale where the princess marries a prince.
It's the one where she kills him.
Marra - a shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter - is relieved not to be married off for the sake of her parents' throne. Her older sister w...
Nettle & Bone
“Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past—now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices: wait to get laid off from her job as a video producer or, at her coworker Cole’s request, take a career-making gig profiling Tom “Hutch...
The Love Haters: A Novel
“She’s got his back.
Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and...
The Bodyguard
“Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's a total pro at other people's tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to give u...
Things You Save in a Fire
“A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.
Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there’s no future in the man he used to be: known ...
Blacktop Wasteland
“Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem...
All the Sinners Bleed
“When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah...
King of Ashes: A Novel
“Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything. It couldn’t save their marriage.
Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life f...
Before I Let Go
“New Orleans, 1866. The Civil War might be over, but formerly enslaved Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they’ve been promised. Two years ago, the siblings were separated when their old master, Mr. Harper, took June away to Mexico, where ...
Amity: A Novel
“Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing.
Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she’s the opp...
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
“Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master’s daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and ...
Junie (GMA Book Club Pick)
“True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two pe...
The Overnight Guest: A Novel
“There are places on earth where nature’s powers gather. Girls raised there are bequeathed strange gifts. A few have powers so dark that they fear to use them. Such a place is Wild Hill, on the tip of Long Island. For centuries, the ghost of a witch ...
The Women of Wild Hill: A Novel
“A deluxe hardcover edition of the year’s breakout novel, The Correspondent, featuring:
• Printed case wrap with textured debossing
• Deckled edges
• Full-color designed endpapers
• Bookmark ribbon
• Exclusive letter from author
“Subtly told and fi...
The Correspondent: Deluxe Edition (Women's Prize for Fiction Winner)
“Most people don't even notice them-three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows...
My Friends: A Novel