THE BOOKSHELF

RATED AND REVIEWED

READ, RATED, but NOT REVIEWED:

The Soul of Things: Memoir of a Youth Interrupted by Eva Fahidi

Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins (BOTM April ’21)

The Bad Muslim Discount by Sayed M. Masood

The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson

I Can’t Sleep by J. E. Rowney

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (BOTM March ’21) 

Stuck in Manistique by Dennis Cuesta

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

Outlawed by Anna North (BOTM January ’21)

There are a lot of reasons why I may not write a review.  Time is always the biggest reason. But if you want to talk about a book we’ve both read, I am always game.  Shoot me an email and let me know you want to see a review on one of the titles below and I’ll do my best to get it out there!  – Abigail

The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (BOTM February ’21)

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

BOTM BOOKS

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid – June 

Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson – July

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy – August

Outlawed by Anna North – January

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel – February

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner – March

What Comes After by JoAnne Thompkins – April

Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang – May

BOOKS I CAN’T WAIT TO READ!

Biographies/Autobiographies

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Soul of Things by Eva Fahidi

Rodham by Curtis Stifled

The Light of Days by Judy Battalion

Olive the Lionheart by Brad Ricca

The Dragons, The Giant, and the Women by Wayetu Moore

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames by Justine Cowan

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

 

Crime Fiction/Mystery/Psychological Thrillers

His and Hers by Alice Feeney

Snow by John Banville

The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

I Can’t Sleep by J.E. Rowney

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor

Fiction

The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

Stuck in Manistique by Dennis Cuesta

The Bad Muslim Discount by Sayed M. Masood

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

 

Historical Fiction

Universe of Two by Stephen Kiernan

The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Carmel

A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne

The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenny

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

 

NonFiction

Think like a Monk by Jay Shetty

A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin

Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz