Vignettes:: Books & Essays

2024

Private Rites - Julia Armfield
Absolution - Alice McDermott
Go By Boat - Dr Chuck Radis
Blue Sisters - Coco Mellors
There are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel - Elif Shafak
Playground - Richard Powers
The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters
Long Island Compromise - Taffy Brodesser-Akner-Akner
Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks - Stephen Davis
Tell Me Everything - Elizabeth Strout
Hero - Lesley-Ann Jones
The Life Impossible - Matt Haig
Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
A Man Called Ove - Frederik Backman
Bear - Julia Phillips
Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
Know my Name - Chanel Miller
A Year of Last Things: Poems - Michael Ondaatje
Surviving to Drive, a Year Inside Formula 1 - Guenther Steiner
Strangers to ourselves - Rachel Aviv
North Woods - Daniel Mason
Beartown: A Novel - Frederik Backman
Between two kingdoms: a memoir of a life interrupted - Suleika Jaouad
I am Homeless if This is Not My Home - Lorrie Moore
Family Family: A Novel - Laurie Frankel
All This Could be Yours - Jami Attenberg
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
North of Normal - Cea Sunrise Person
Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon
Dirtbag, Massachusetts - Isaac Fitzgerald
The Women - Kristin Hannah
By Nightfall: a Novel - Michael Cunningham
Afterlife - Julia Alvarez
After Annie - Anna Quindlen
Dinosaurs: A Novel - Lydia Millet
James - Percival Everett
My Ex-Life - Stephen McCauley
Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
Cult Classic -Sloane Crosley
How to Read a Book - Monica Wood
Day. A Novel - Michael Cunningham
Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín
I Was Told There'd be Cake - Sloane Crosley
Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
The House of Hidden Meanings. A Memoir - Ru Paul
Heart Berrries - Terese Marie Mailhot
Anita de Monte Laughs Last - Xochitl Gonzalez
Help Wanted -Adelle Waldman
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey - Florence Williams
Olga Dies Dreaming - Xochitl Gonzalez
The People We Keep - Allison Larkin
Splinters - Leslie Jamison
Beasts of a Little Land: A Novel -Juhea Kim
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI- David Grann
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen - David Brooks
Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry
America Was Hard to Find - Kathleen Alcott
The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer
Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
Come and Get It - Kiley Reid
There There - Tommy Orange
The House of Broken Angels - Luis Alberto Urrea
The Fetishist - Katherine Min
Things I Wish I Told my Mother -Susan Patterson & Susan DiLallo with James Patterson
You Only Call When You're in Trouble - Stephen McCauley
The Boston Girl - Anita Diamant
Radical Acceptance: Embracing your Life with the Heart of a Buddha - Tara Brach
Mother Brain - Chelsea Conaboy
Fury. A Memoir - Koren Zailckas
Where Snow Angels Go - Maggie O'Farrell
A Dangerous Business - Jane Smiley
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

2023

Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing - Jen Waite
Chances Are - Richard Russo
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections - Eva Jurczyk
The White Mosque - Sofia Samatar
Elsewhere - Richard Russo
Hatchet Island - Paul Doiron
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
Home Safe - Elizabeth Berg
The Way Life Should Be - Christina Baker Kline
Call Me American - Abdi Nor Iftin
Sometimes I Lie - Alice Feeney
L.A. Weather - Maria Amparo Escandón
Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout
Gathering Moss - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Lucy by the Sea - Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Lionel Asbo - Martin Amis
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Flight - Lynn Steger Strong
Not That Bad - Roxanne Gay (editor)
Finding Me - Viola Davis
Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Fortune's Daughter - Alice Hoffman
Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout
A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty - Emezi Awaeke
Black Cake: A Novel - Charmaine Wilkerson
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
Mean Baby - Selma Blair
Maid - Stephanie Land
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Deacon King Kong - James McBride
M Train - Patti Smith
The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell
Memorial Drive - Natasha Trethewey
Down the River unto the Sea - Walter Mosely
Bunny - Mona Awad
I Am Malala - Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai
Four treasures of the sky - Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Kabul Beauty School. An American woman goes behind the veil - Deborah Rodriguez & Kristina Ohlson
I'm glad my mom died - Jennette McCurdy
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie - Alan Bradley good
Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby van Pelt
Matrix - Lauren Groff
A Snake Falls to Earth - Darcie Little Badger
Clock Dance - Anne Tyler
Final Draft - Shelley Burbank
A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
I am, I am, I am - Maggie O'Farrell
Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff
Aliens, Drywall and a Unicycle - Kevin St. Jarre
Rock Paper Scissors - Alice Feeney
Do No Harm - Henry Marsh
Searching for Caleb - Anne Tyler
Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
Clarity. A Memoir - Diana Estill
Not a Happy Family - Shari Lapena
Euphoria - Lily King
The Family Remains: A Novel - Lisa Jewell
Horse - Geraldine Brooks
Find me - Andre Aciman
All my Rage - Sabaa Tahir
The House We Grew Up In - Lisa Jewell
Deaf Utopia; A Memoir—and a Love Letter to a Way of Life - Nyle DiMarco and Robert Siebert
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
The Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett
Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman
The Untelling - Tayari Jones
The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
Surrender - Bono
Solito - Javier Zamora

2022

Sadie - Courtney Summers
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Stationery Shop - Marjan Kamali
I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys
Lost and Found - Kathryn Schulz
One Last Lie - Paul Doiron
When Breath becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
The Rabbit Hutch. A novel - Tess Gunty
Surrender, White People - D. L. Hughley
LaRose - Louise Erdrich
Nowhere is a Place - Bernice McFadden
Home Baked - Alia Volz
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
The Sentence - Louise Erdrich
Grandpère - Janet Romain
Night of the Living Rez - Morgan Talty
All the Little Live Things - Wallace Stegner
Golden Poppies - Laila Ibrahim
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
Fellowship Point - Alice Elliott Dark
The Candid Life of Meena Dave - Namrata Patel
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek -Kim Michele Richardson
Beautiful Country: A Memoir - Qian Julie Wang
Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland - Ken Ilgunas
Blue-Skinned Gods - SJ Sundu
Sorry I'm late, I didn't want to come - Jessica Pan
Sugar - Bernice L McFadden
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth - Sarah Smarsh
Finding Freedom - Erin French
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
Ghosted - Rosie Walsh
The Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris
Lucky Turtle - Bill Roorbach
Monday's Not Coming - Tiffany D. Jackson
Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
This is My America - Kim Johnson
Amal Unbound - Aisha Saeed
High Achiever - Tiffany Jenkins
A Slow Fire Burning - Paula Hawkins
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing - ReShonda Tate Billingsley
The Long Petal of the Sea - Isabel Allende
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Robert Dugoni
Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter - Lisa Patton
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
The Shoemaker's Wife - Adriana Trigiani
The Love of my Life - Rosie Walsh
Beautiful World, Where are You? - Sally Rooney
Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind - Julie Metz
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honoree Fannone Jeffers
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Some Luck - Jane Smiley
A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler
French Braid - Anne Tyler
The Swimmers - Julie Otsuka
The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir - Reyna Grande
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Nuval Noah Harari
Ordinary Love & Good Will - Jane Smiley
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Angel Landing- Alice Hoffman
Honor - Thrity Umrigar
House of Sticks - Ly Tran
Bewilderment - Richard Powers
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
Henry's Sisters - Cathy Lamb
Secrets We Left Behind - Susan Elliot Wright
The dry grass of August - Anna Jean Mayhew
Sad Sacked - Lix Alterman
The Tiger's Wife - Téa Obreht
The Rocking Chair - Steven Manchester
Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

2021

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Everything's F@cked - Mark Manson
Father of the Rain - Lily King
The Searcher - Tana French
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
When we Believed in Mermaids - Barbara O'Neal
Travelers: a Novel - Helon Habila
Perennials - Julie Cantrell
A Promised Land - Barack Obama
The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
Beneficence - Meredith Hall
What my Mother Taught Me - Alice Hoffman
The Moon Sisters - Therese Walsh
The Girl who Wrote in Silk - Kelli Estes
Seventh Heaven - Alice Hoffman
Beneath the Shadows - Sara Foster
Whisper me This - Kerry Anne King
The Kindest Lie - Nancy Johnson
GodPretty in the Tobacco Field - Kim Michele Richardson
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
Patriarchy - Philip Roth
Hunger - Roxane Gay
Upon Reflection - Sting
Of Women and Salt - Gabriela Garcia
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch
Famous Adopted People - Alice Stephens
Mouths Don't Speak - Katia D. Ulysse
Letter to a Bigot: Dead but not Forgotten - Myriam Gurba
Town and Country - Jess Walter
A Marriage Story - Bill Roorbach
Letter to my Rage - Lidia Yuknavitch
The Uncertain Sea: Fear is Everywhere. Embrace it. - Bonnie Tsui
The Lager Queen of Minnesota - J. Ryan Stradal
We are All the Same in the Dark - Julia Heaberlin
Lies the Mushroom Pickers Told - Tom Phelan
The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
Libertie - Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev - Dawnie Walton
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
Heavy: an American Memoir - Kiese Laymon
Why be Happy when you could be Normal - Jeanette Winterson
Fire Shut up in my Bones - Charles M. Blow
San Diego Noir - Maryelizabeth Hart
The Parting Gift - Evan Fallenberg
In Plain View - Juliy Shugekuni
True Porn Clerk Stories - Ali Davis
Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane
Yellow Wife - Sadequa Johnson
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
Just as I am: a Memoir - Cecily Tyson
Grace: a Novel - Natashia Deón
A Piece of the World - Christina Baker Kline
Small Fry - Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Between Earth & Sky - Amanda Skenandore
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt - Andrea Bobotis
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: a hip-hop feminist breaks it down - Joan Morgan
The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright - Yvette Johnson
Once We Were Sisters - Sheila Kohler
Where the Light Gets In - Kimberly Williams-Paisley
The Sisters of Glass Ferry - Kim Michele Richardson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Keepers of the House - Shirley Ann Grau
Blackberry and Wild Rose - Sonia Velton
Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones
A Fair Maiden - Joyce Carol Oates
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
The Indigo Girl - Natasha Boyd
The Myth of Perpetual Summer -Susan Crandall
A Well-tempered Heart - Jan-Phillipp Sendker
The Overstory - Richard Powers
All the Best People - Sonja Yoerg
Small Moving Parts - D.B. Jackson
Mr. Loverman - Bernardine Evaristo
The Gunners - Rebecca Kauffman
The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
This is Happiness - Liall Williams
The Hand that First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell
The Marriage Lie - Kimberly Belle
The Other Black Girl- Zakiya Dalila Harris
The hate U give - Angie Thomas
Now I see you - Nicole Kear
Milkman - Anna Burns
Normal People - Sally Rooney

2020

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Still Alice -Lisa Genova
Writers and Lovers - Lily King
Grandma Gatewoods Walk -Ben Montgomery
The Gretchen Question - Jessica Treadway
The One in a Milllion Boy - Monica Wood
Why Bowie Matters - Will Brooker
The Memory of Butterflies - Grace Greene
Before I Knew - Jamie Beck
Sorry I Missed You -Suzy Krause
Forever is the Worst Long Time - Camille Paglia
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
The Wind-and-Wing - James Fenimore Cooper
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine -Gail Honeyman
Broken for You -Stephanie Kallos
Quentins - Maeve Binchy
Your Blue is not my Blue - Aspen Matis
Widow's Cabin - L.G. Davis
The Boy Between - A Mother & Son's Journey from a World gone Grey - Amanda Prowse, Josiah Hartley
Where the Forest Meets the Stars - Glendy Vanderah
If You Must Know - Jamie Beck
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
This is How it Always is - Laurie Frankel
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty First Century - Jessica Bruder
Sigh, Gone - Phuc Tran

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