Nothing short of excellent (per usual), Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin was published in 2000 and is Atwood’s second best-selling novel after The Handmaid’s Tale. It won several literature awards and Time magazine even named it best novel of the year.

It is an incredibly tragic, well-written, and in-depth narrative, so realistic that after about fifty pages, the reader flips back to the front cover to check if they picked up an autobiography or true story.

New season, new books. There’s just something about the changing of seasons and the cool, fall weather that makes me want to cuddle up with a blanket and a good book and just read the day away. I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite books that are must-reads to add to your list this fall.

Swimming Lessons is a beautifully sculpted, poetic and tragic piece of fiction, hooking readers from the start until you close the book.

Educated is a fascinating read on so many different levels. It is a nonfiction memoir written by a young woman who was raised in an extremely conservative and oppressively authoritative household in rural Idaho.

The fictional novel, Tell the Wolves I’m Home, is written from the perspective of fourteen year old June Elbus, whose beloved Uncle Finn contracts AIDS, slowly and painfully succumbing to the disease. Tthe aftermath of this traumatizing loss and the unusual circumstances of Finn’s death reverberates throughout June’s entire family, both bonding and disconnecting them.

Everyone has heard the phrase “Eat Pray Love” or watched the film adaptation starring Julia Roberts, but what about the book behind these references?

The Girl on the Train is the kind of book that you can’t put down until your eyes have devoured every line from cover to cover. It is a psychological thriller that immediately draws you in with its mysteries, twists, and turns.

Published in 2005, The Glass Castle follows Jeannette Walls’ tumultuous and nomadic youth, from four years old into adulthood.

In place of a true romance novel for this month full of chocolates, hearts, and roses (yuck!), here is a novel rife with despair, ruined relationships, treachery, and triumph! Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride is fraught with turbulence and tension as readers follow the intertwining stories of four very contrasting women.

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Untamed is the story for all women. For women who are trapped in unhappy relationships. For women who are continually silenced. For women who yearn to exist, to live fully. Untamed encourages women to break free of the social confinements and live their truest life — a life unburdened by boundaries, cultural conditioning, and expectations. Glennon Doyle encourages us all to let it burn in order to be free.

A memoir-in-essays from R. Eric Thomas, this book is a tale of the author’s growth, as he learns to navigate what it means be Black and gay in America.

Big Summer delves into the deep depths of relationships, body positivity, the complexities of social media and what matters most.

For each of us, this time is a test to not only stand in solidarity with the Black community but take the necessary steps to move forward on lasting actions towards equality.

A woman, who, by public perception, was to be both envied and desired. But, as her story unfolds, we learn that there is much more to Evelyn than meets the eye.

What quickly begins as a search for a missing girl turns into something much bigger, as another teenager disappears shortly after. Did the two high schoolers run away together? Were they kidnapped? Are these teenagers in danger?