book recommendations

The Best Books to Bring Holiday Cheer to Your Shelves. Gift yourself and those on your list with seasonal reads. Read more about The Best Books to Bring Holiday Cheer to Your Shelves

Fans of stories that have a “behind the scenes” of Hollywood feel, especially fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid novels (Daisy Jones & The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo or Malibu Rising) will find it hard to put down The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta.

This page-turning novel follows the on again-off again relationship of Hollywood starlet Win and charming man-about-town Leo, alternating between their present day reunion in southern France and events over the course of the preceding decade.  Read more about Love and Fame Create a Page-turner

Were you hot or cold? Did you have coveted snacks to share, or did you spend time at the table longingly looking at other kids’ goodies? Did you sport the latest lunch box, or were you a brown bagger? Sit alone or with your crew? Face it; school lunch could serve up a whole lot more than rectangle-shaped pizza slices, late-in-the-week hotdishes made from early-in-the-week entrée leftovers or trade-worthy goodies from home. Read more about It’s Lunch

Samantha Specks brings Minnesota history to life through her first novel, Dovetails in Tall Grass. Published in August 2021, the historical fiction book is a tale of two women, one Dakota Sioux and one settler, during the U.S. Dakota War. The women are connected by the fate of one man. Read more about Dovetails in Tall Grass

After spending the holidays eating delicious food and, possibly, considering a fresh start in the new year, Lucy Knisley’s graphic food memoir is the perfect book to kick off 2022.

Knisley has an art degree and an MFA in cartoon studies and has had comics published in a wide array of outlets, including Marvel. However, she’s most beloved for her autobiographical comics, and Relish: My Life in the Kitchen is the New York Times bestselling book that brought her wide acclaim. Read more about Relish a “quick, delightful read.”

In 2018, Andy Greene commemorated the 10th anniversary of one of The Office’s (TV series 2005–2013) most iconic episodes—Dinner Party—by publishing an oral history of the episode in Rolling Stone magazine. It was extremely popular, and Greene went on to give people more of what they wanted with this book, an oral history of the entire show. Read more about Discover the Untold Story of an Iconic Sitcom

Based on the historical BBC radio program The Kitchen Front, this novel by Jennifer Ryan follows four women on the World War II home front in Britain when food rationing was in full swing.

Ryan factionalizes a cooking competition between four women, attempting to win a co-host spot for The Kitchen Front radio program, which helps give British women recipes, tips and tricks to cook healthy, tasty meals with very limited ingredients. While the four women competing have different qualifications and backgrounds, they all desperately need to win. Read more about The Kitchen Front is a Recipe for a Good Read

Fans of WWII historical fiction, take note—The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is set on the British home front during WWII and follows three young women, who work at the highly-classified Bletchley Park. Read more about Read

Brit Bennett was only in her mid-20s when The Mothers, her debut novel, was released. She took the publishing world by storm with this book, which seemed as if someone with many more years of experience had written it, and was a finalist for multiple prestigious book awards. Read more about Debut Novel Makes an Impact

Anyone who’s missed traveling will enjoy vicariously exploring the Caribbean through the pages of this novel. Float Plan’s heroine, Anna, struggled with grief since the death of her fiancé and desperately needs a change.

She sets out alone on the sailing trip through the Caribbean, which the two of them had planned to do together. After swiftly realizing she’s ill-equipped to do the entire trip on her own, she takes on a crew member, who’s journeyed through his own loss. Read more about Do you have a Float Plan?