MF Book Club
It's been a very weird, scary, and unsettling time but we are trying to find joy in all the little things while we're social distancing at home. And there's nothing better than curling up in a comfy blanket with a page-turning book! So we've started a virtual book club and compiled a list of our favorite books we've read recently, in case you need some recs to get through this quarantine.
Fiction
Stories on Social Outcasts, Insecurity, and Coming-of-Age:
Normal People - Sally Rooney
This is How it Always is - Laurie Frankel
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
Circe - Madeline Miller
Stories on Survival with Strong Female Characters:
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
Stories on the Complexities of Family:
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult
Historical Fiction
WWI Stories with Fearless Female Leads:
The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
WWII Stories with Fearless Female Leads (sensing a trend?):
The Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Romance
Heartbreaking, Sad, and Beautiful:
All the Light We Lost - Jill Santopolo
Lighthearted, Giggle-worthy, and just for Fun:
One Day in December - Josie Silver
The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
Memoirs
True Life Stories on Overcoming Where You Came From:
Educated - Tara Westover
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
Suspenseful Thrillers
Dark and Addictive Stories, Full of Twists (just how we like them):
The Last Mrs. Parrish - Liv Constantine and Lynne Constantine
The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
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