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The Best Books I’ve Read So Far
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items A collection of books I’ve loved and can’t stop thinking about — stories that made me feel, dream, and escape.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a powerful novel that spans over thirty years of Afghan history, from the Soviet invasion to the rise of the Taliban. It follows the intertwined lives of two women, Mariam and Laila, who come from very d...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel is a historical novel inspired by true events from World War II. It follows Eva Traube, a young Jewish woman who flees Nazi-occupied Paris after her father’s arrest. She finds refuge in a small French village,...
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros is an emotional contemporary romance about Ella, a single mother running a small-town resort, and Beckett, a soldier who becomes part of her life through a heartfelt letter.
After his best friend—Ella’s brother—is k...
The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant is a quiet, suspenseful novel about Cooper, a man living off the grid in a remote cabin in the Appalachian wilderness with his young daughter, Finley.
For eight years, they’ve lived in isolation, hiding fr...
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh is a powerful young adult novel set during the Syrian civil war. It follows Salama Kassab, a young pharmacy student who volunteers at a hospital in Homs after the war tears her country apart. Haunted b...
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
Drowning by T.J. Newman is a tense and emotional thriller that begins when a passenger plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean just after takeoff. As the aircraft sinks to the ocean floor with a handful of survivors trapped inside, rescue teams race aga...
Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 by T.J. Newman
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo is a historical coming-of-age novel set in 1950s San Francisco during the Red Scare. It follows Lily Hu, a Chinese American teenager who begins to question her identity and sexuality when she befriends K...
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson follows Ruth Tuttle, a successful Black engineer who returns to her struggling hometown in Indiana after years away. Beneath her accomplished life lies a painful secret: the baby she gave up as a teenager. When she go...
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson