Author: Matt Haig
I've been eying this one for awhile, so when I saw it available in my local library, I had to check it out. So this one will be crossed off of this list very soon. This book is about a library that contains an infinite number of books containing all of the possible lives any person could have lived based on different decisions he or she makes and a woman who finds herself within its stacks weighing the possibility of exchanging her current life for a new one.
Author: Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix has become a new favorite author for me. I love how he takes these traditional ideas of the supernatural and puts a fresh and oftentimes unconventional spin on it. This book was not on my radar, but when I saw it in my local library, I couldn't pass it up. It's about a pair of siblings who do not get along trying to sell their late parents' home. But this house doesn't want to be sold.
Author: Carolyn Brown
The cover of this one is what drew me in. Lila moves back to her hometown after her aunt Gracie passes and leaves her everything. Aunt Gracie had a secret, though, that no one ever got out of her. Now, Lila is uncovering clues about what that secret was and learning about an aunt that no one really knew.
Author: Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Y'all know this is one of my favorite historical fiction authors, so I'm looking forward to this one. At the end of World War II, three women go to Germany to run a Displaced Persons camp. There they are helping more than two-thousand people are trying to rebuild their lives and in the process their own as well. Martha leaves behind an abusive marriage in Brooklyn. Kitty is an orphan from England hoping to get closer to her parents who were last seen before the war began. And Delphine is trying to find meaning in her life once more after losing her husband and son in Dachau.
Author: Buck Turner
Ellie and Jack spend the summer of 1962 falling in love, but their romance is not meant to be. Twelve years later, Ellie is a renowned astronomy professor. One day, she receives a mysterious package containing novel that tells her and Jack's love story. Hidden in the pages is a detail that has Ellie questioning everything, so she makes her way back to where it all began.
Author: Laura Barrow
After the success of my May book club pick, I'm really excited to see where this novel by the same author takes me. Effie is a stay-at-home mom who's getting back out in the world after her marriage ends. When she has a vision of Patsy Cline telling her to "set things right," Effie knows it must have something to do with her grandmother and must determine what her grandmother's past has to do with her future.
Author: Amy Gail Hansen
This was one of the books I picked from the Amazon First Reads for June (We got to choose two last month, and I already shared one with y'all in my Summer Reading Guide). When Maggie gets an invitation from her great aunt Alice to visit her farm in Wisconsin, Maggie knows it's the break she and her daughter, Hannah, need. There, Maggie learns more about her family's history, meets a charismatic pastry chef, and reconnects with her love of cooking.
Author: Janice Hallet
Full disclosure. This novel has made a previous appearance on a TBR list from last year, but at the time it was just something on my radar and not a title that I actually owned. I just bought it for myself, so I think it deserves another spot on this list. I am super excited for this one. It is written in the same style as The Appeal, which I absolutely loved (It made my best books list of 2024). Six students from all walks of life -- a sculptor, an art gallery curator, an art supply store manager, a single mom graphic designer, a marketing executive, and a seemingly-overqualified successful artist -- are chosen to complete a master's program in Multimedia Art at Royal Hastings University. The students are trouble from day one. Then the person hired to grade their final works becomes convinced someone is in danger or already dead.
Author: Diana R. Chambers
Who knew that before she became a cooking legend, Julia Child was a secret agent? When she was 30 years old, Julia McWilliams took a job working with America's first espionage agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). This novel follows Julia's journey from Pasadena to DC to becoming the head of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's secret File Registry. She travels to South Asia -- Ceylon, India, and China -- where she meets her future husband, Paul Child, a mapmaker.
Author: Meagan Church
This one just sounds so good! Lulu is the perfect 1950s housewife until she has her second child and gets a new neighbor. The more Lulu fixates on what's wrong with Bitsy, the more she questions everything she thought she knew. Soon, others begin questioning her sanity.
Author: Shelby Van Pelt
I've looked at this one several times and finally gave in to the idea of an octopus as an MFC. Tova is working as the overnight janitor at the Sowell Bay Aquarium where she befriends a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus. Marcellus figures out what happened on the night that Tova's son disappeared on a boat in Puget Sound more than thirty years ago and will do whatever it takes to unearth the truth before it's too late.
Author: Virginia Evans
Sybil Van Antwerp has spent her life writing letters. To everyone. But there's one she updates but never sends. One day, she begins receiving letters from someone in her past, and she must examine one of the most painful times in her life. Now she realizes that the letter she's been writing but never sends needs to be read.
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
This book has been everywhere lately it seems, and I like this author, so I added it to my wish list. Joan is a physics and astronomy professor who dreams of going to space. In 1980, she's chosen to train at Houston's Johnson Space center with five other candidates. There, Joan finds unlikely friends, passion and love. Everything leads up to mission STS-LR9 in December, a mission that will change everything.
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Yes, yes. I know I usually don't include multiple books by the same author in one list, but I've been wanting to read this TJR novel for forever. In fact, I've got it on hold with the library right now, but the estimated wait time is so long it simply says months. I'm 26th in line! When Carrie Soto retired from tennis, she was the best with twenty Grand Slam titles and her name on every record. But six years later at the 1994 US Open, Carrie watches another player take it all. Now, 37-year-old Carrie decides to come out of retirement for one year to try to reclaim her record.
Author: Clare Leslie Hall
Beth and Frank's happy marriage relies on the past staying buried. When Beth's first love returns to the village, she's pulled back into his life. Tensions rise and secrets and jealousies from the past come back to the surface with deadly consequences. Now Beth must choose between the woman she used to be and the woman she became.
Author: Vanessa Miller
This is a historical fiction novel set around the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. In the wake of the tragedy, sisters Margaret and Evelyn Justice flee, eventually stopping at the Threatt Filling Station. There they find a safe haven to process their pain and recover, but they soon realize they must return home.
Author: Christina Lauren
When Olive's twin sister, Ami, gets married, Olive is forced to spend the wedding day with the best man, Ethan, who happens to be her nemesis. When the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, somehow Olive and Ethan are spared. In order to take the free honeymoon that's suddenly up for grabs, the two strike a temporary truce and agree to pretend to be the happy couple.
Author: Kathryn Stockett
This is a historical fiction novel set during the Great Depression in Mississippi. Meg is an 11-year-old orphan who's been deemed unadoptable. Birdie is a young woman who's been sent to ask her wealthy older sister for a loan to save the family farm. Charlie is a woman who's luck has run out. Together, the three women form a plan to take control of their own lives.
Author: Kasie West
Sutton doesn't deny that she needs therapy. She's taking care of a sick, ungrateful parent while remotely managing her newly-opened restaurant, and her boyfriend just broke up with her over the phone after two years of dating. But her relationship with her therapist is anything but typical. For one thing, she's agreed to be his fake fiancé.
Author: Emilia Hart
This one has been recommended to me so many times, I figured it was time to finally put it on a list. This is the story of three women across five centuries. In 2019, Kate flees her abusive partner to Weyward Cottage, hidden since the witch trials of the 17th century, which she inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers but whom she suspects had a secret. In 1619, Altha, who has a deep yet misunderstood knowledge of the natural world, is accused of witchcraft after a local farmer is stampeded to death by her herd. And in 1942, Violet is constrained to her family's estate where she longs for her deceased mother who was rumored to have gone mad before death, leaving behind only a locket and the word 'weyword' scratched into a baseboard.
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