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Books to Make You Love Reading Again ✨
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items I’ve always been a book lover, but between full-time work and life’s endless distractions, I (like many others) strayed from my love for literature. Now, I’m finding my way back—and I’m sharing the books that are helping me reconnect with it. This is...
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Modern Favs
Memoirs
"Classics"
Modern Favs
Books released in recent years-- read these to be up on the latest at your next book club meeting or with your bookish friends 🩷
A true page turner — great for people who love fantasy, romance, and adventure. Also part of a series, so great if you want to immerse yourself in a new fictional universe ✨💓
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and …
Very fun read shining light on the tension of the current tradwife trend – yet somehow still hilarious and lighthearted 🌞
Yesteryear (GMA Book Club Pick) by Caro Claire Burke, Paperback
For lovers of prose, poetry, and Jane Austen – this is a beautifully written romance novel, with a touch of futurist dystopianism. A short albeit dense read, but so worth it. I'll likely return to this one
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Recommended to me by a bookshop owner in Nairobi who said “This book changed how I think about literature.” Enough said.
The Most Secret Memory of Men A Novel - Other Press
A heartbreaking but beautiful coming of age of a young gay boy in Nigeria-- switches perspectives between the main character and his mother. I LOVED this book, but definitely read with a box of tissues nearby 🥲
Blessings: A Novel - Chukwuebuka Ibeh - Barnes & Noble
Memoirs
Memoirs often feel like a private conversation with an author at their most vulnerable. I have frequently found them among the most moving books I've ever read-- several of the ones listed below have changed my life, literally.
This book changed my life, seriously — great for adventure lovers, memoir geeks, and of course all fans of incredible storyteller Shonda Rhimes :)
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
One of my favorite reads in a long time. A memoir from award-winning author Arundhati Roy-- this book is for anyone with complicated parental relationships and an even more complicated relationship with running away…
Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
Part biography, part short stories, part fiction — this book by the legendary Maya Angelous taught me lessons that I still carry with me. Great if you’re looking for wisdom (and you want to laugh and cry while you do it) ❤️
Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
This is a deeply personal memoir about learning to see and understand yourself. If you're figuring out your relationship to yourself and your body, this one's for you. Note that the book covers very heavy themes, as Gay explores her trauma history
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay - Barnes & Noble
"Classics"
Books that have stood the test of time-- often exploring key aspects of what it means to be a human-- love, death, conflict, identity, and morality. Read these to sound really smart at your next dinner party 🤓
My favorite book of all time and a true classic. A true page turner with vivid imagery and a touching story. To me, this book represents everything there is to love about reading 💓✨
The Giver by Lois Lowry
This one is far from lighthearted-- a dystopian novel highlighting themes of community, violence, and morality. Butler wrote this in the 90s, and it's meant to take place 2024-26, and it's pretty haunting how much of America's current landscape she w...
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, Paperback
It's considered one of the classics for a reason. A hauntingly beautiful novel interrogating questions of character, superficiality, and beauty (both inside and out) ✨
The Picture of Dorian Gray