Children's Christian
God Sees Me Everywhere
Tiffany C. Jacobs4.8
64 reviewsA picture book about a love that follows a child into every room, every field, and every dark hour.
The Library
Every book on our shelves
A deliberately small, deliberately good collection. Each title here has been read by our editorial team and discussed by our members before it earned a place.
Literary Fiction
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner4.7
211 reviewsTwo couples, four decades, and a friendship that carries more weight than any of the marriages inside it.
Thriller
The Ashes Know Her Name
Denise Nussbaum4.7
140 reviewsShe changes her identity, but terror finds her. A saga of survival, love, and the scars fire leaves behind.
True Crime
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote4.6
328 reviewsThe reporting of a Kansas murder, written with the pacing and interiority of a novel and the discipline of journalism.
Parenting
Happiness is a Superpower for My Children
Sonja Olivia Frey4.6
92 reviewsBe the not perfect real parent, and let genuine connection do the work perfection never could.
Historical Fiction
The Help
Kathryn Stockett4.5
486 reviewsThree women in early 1960s Mississippi risk everything to write down what a town would rather leave unsaid.
Medical Mystery
Plausible Liars
Lin Wilder4.5
118 reviewsA Dr. Lindsey McCall medical mystery where the most dangerous diagnosis is the one nobody will write down.
Contemporary Fiction
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler4.4
397 reviewsA mother, three grown children, and a family meal that has never once been finished together.
Mystery
High Desert Grave Robber
Linda A. Morton4.4
76 reviewsIn the high desert, the ground gives up what a town spent decades agreeing not to mention.
Social & Political Fiction
Native Son
Richard Wright4.3
240 reviewsA novel that refuses the reader any comfortable distance from the society it describes.
Mid-Century Fiction
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger4.2
164 reviewsThree days in New York with a narrator who cannot stop talking and cannot say the one true thing.
