July 2022: Peggy
Peggy is a part-time bookseller, full-time reader who favors variety in her books. She loves a sad, messy, family epic that shows beauty coexisting with struggle. She also enjoys light, funny, well-told stories, and loves to peek behind the curtain with a good memoir.
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (Back Bay Books $17.99) has us imagining those early days for newly freed slaves and returning Confederate soldiers immediately following the Civil War.
The Maid by Nita Prose (Ballantine $27) is a fun, light-hearted murder mystery set in a boutique hotel with the most lovable protagonist. You will smile along as you enjoy this delightful read.
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday $32.50) is complex in the best way, and thoroughly, thoroughly satisfying. Gorgeously imagined and exquisitely written.
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson (Custom House $16.99) is a fun beach read set on a dude ranch for wealthy wives seeking divorce during the Depression.
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Dr. Susan Wicklund (Public Affairs $16.99) is a first-rate illumination on a complicated and tight-lipped topic. An important read for all of us as our country grapples with Roe vs. Wade.
If you’re looking for a can’t-put-down-thriller-page-turner, look no further than American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (Holt $17.99).
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom (Random House $27) is a brave and honest book that makes you think deeply about what we would do for someone we love.
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press $17) is a beautiful and sad tale of a lonely boy’s love for his alcoholic mother. Set in Glasgow during the 1980s.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders (Random House $18.99) is for lovers of learning and literature. A master class on seven great Russian short stories and why they work.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial $17) is a rags-to riches-to rags novel set in the wealthy Main Line of Pennsylvania. An engaging brother-sister relationship and a beautiful old house are the primary characters.
An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club Pick
In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award-winning “miraculous debut” (Washington Post) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • “A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center” (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine who will steal your heart.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.
“Doesn’t a romantic comedy set on a 1930s Nevada dude ranch teeming with about-to-be-divorced women owe a certain debt to the era’s big-screen classics? Then again, it’s hard to believe a cinematic version could be any more fun.” — New York Times Book Review
A brave account of the social and political forces that threaten a woman's right to choose, this emotionally affecting memoir from a doctor on the front lines of the abortion debate reveals what's really at stake in the Supreme Court
Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over three million copies, is finally available in paperback.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss—that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post)
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA stunning debut novel by a masterful writer telling the heartwrenching story of a young boy and his alcoholic mother, whose love is only matched by her pride.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.
New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year
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