Book Lists

Music connects people to not only themselves but to other people. Music has that magic ability to transport people into another time. It can take people to the past, into the arms of the one that got away, or even into dreams of the future. Great love stories were brought to life through the power…

I don’t know when it started, but Kasie West and her writing has me in a chokehold. I see a new book out by her? I must add it to my collection. They are feel-good books that fall into the contemporary clean romance genre. After I bingre-read her books for the millionth time, I decided…

The Accident Season Moïra Fowley-Doyle Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably and unavoidably accident-prone. Some years it’s bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it’s just a lot of cuts and scrapes. This accident season—when Cara, her ex-stepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are 17—is going to be…

The Stars We Steal Alexa Donne Engagement season is in the air. Eighteen-year-old Princess Leonie “Leo” Kolburg, heir to a faded European spaceship, only has one thing on her mind: which lucky bachelor can save her family from financial ruin? But when Leo’s childhood friend and first love Elliot returns as the captain of a…

Goodbye from Nowhere Sara Zarr Kyle Baker thought his family was happy. Happy enough, anyway. That’s why, when Kyle learns that his mother has been having an affair and his father has been living with the secret, his reality is altered. He quits baseball, ghosts his girlfriend, and generally checks out of life as he’s…

Autumn is my favorite time of the year. And I will do everything to fool myself into believing it is always autumn (even in the middle of winter in Northern Minnesota), from decorating my apartment in year-round autumn decorations, to re-watching my favorite fall/Halloween movies. It must also be noted that Halloween is my favorite…

Spicy books that don’t have those spicy covers. (Note: some of these books may have alternate covers that are a *little* spicy, so if you’re looking for an incognito spicy book, make sure you get the correct cover!) Beach Read Emily Henry Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling…

First and Then Emma Mills Devon Tennyson wouldn’t change a thing. She’s happy watching Friday night games from the bleachers, silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon’s cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent for football,…

It All Comes Back to You Farah Naz Rishi After Kiran Noorani’s mom died, Kiran vowed to keep her dad and sister, Amira, close. Then out of the blue, Amira announces that she’s dating someone and might move cross-country with him. Kiran is thrown. Deen Malik is thrilled that his older brother, Faisal, has found…

I was such a Disney kid growing up. My favorite movies were Read It and Weep, Lemonade Mouth, Halloweentown, Motocrossed, etc. So imagine my surprise when I learned that many Disney movies were actually based on books (and there were way more than I had thought!). How many of these did you know were books?…