The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stefivater
In this award winning novel, Maggie Stiefvater takes readers to the fictional island of Thisby where flesh eating water horses, better known as capaill uisce, inhabit the surrounding waters. Thisby is home of the annual Scorpio Races where islanders attempt to train and race the capaill uisce and tourists travel from all around to see ...
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
In this first installment of the Grisha Trilogy, Leigh Bardugo introduces readers to a fantasy world based on Russian folklore and culture. The land of Ravka has been at war for many years and is divided by the Shadow Fold, an area of complete darkness and flesh-eating volcra. With enemies at all sides, the King ...
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Lena Holoway, seventeen, always looked forward to her eighteenth birthday when she would receive the cure. Before scientists found the cure, people thought that love was a good thing, but now they know better. Falling in love, or catching the deliria, is a disease and once it has taken hold there is no escaping its ...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Renee is the concierge of a building filled with wealthy apartment owners. She appears to be a typical concierge, but only because she desperately tries to cover up her true self: a woman who has a deep love for philosophy, literature, and the arts. Renee muses throughout the novel about the interesting lives of the ...
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
A 16 year old Nigerian girl, a 4 year old who thinks he’s Batman, Sarah, a woman with only 9 fingers, and her husband Andrew are all forced together in this story about survival. Little Bee grew up in the third world country where she changes her name to Little Bee to protect herself. After ...
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is the third and final novel (although their have been rumors of a fourth manuscript) in Stiegg Larsson’s must-read trilogy. If you have not read the first two books in the trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire, you should head ...
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert follows up her best selling novel, Eat Pray Love, with an interesting book that takes a look at the institution of marriage. Throughout the book, Liz talks with women within western civilization and women outside her own culture to discover their thoughts on marriage. Liz, who has already experienced a difficult divorce, is ...
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
The Piano Teacher is set in World War II and Post World War II Hong Kong as Janice Y.K. Lee tells the tale of one man’s interactions during and after the war. Throughout the novel, she skillfully moves from one time line to another. In the beginning we are introduced to Will Truesdale, an Englishman ...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a fascinating tale about an eleven year old chemist/detective, Flavia de Luce. Set in the English town of Bishop’s Lacy, Flavia de Luce battles with her two older sisters who seem to despise her as she attempts to solve a murder that happened in her very ...
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