So you want to join a book club?
Where The Crawdads Sing has been on my reading list for far too long and I’m so glad to have checked it off my list because truthfully, it lived up to the hype. Although I did not finish four books this month, I will be sharing a few other titles of some previously read books I would recommend for your next digital book club.
Where The Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
I could not put this book down’; I plowed through it staying up late a few nights in a row because I was hooked. Kya, abandoned as a child by her family, survives for years alone in a shack along the marsh in a quiet, coastal North Carolina town. When local town hero, high school quarterback, Chase Andrews turns up dead, most of the townies suspects Kya, who they refer to as “The Marsh Girl’.
The book is a coming of age story, following Kya, her life in the marsh and her interactions with the town, the water and those who live nearby. The book is immersed in nature and the author does a phenomenal job describing the surroundings. One of my favorite books I’ve read this year. Soon to be motion picture.
The Woman In The Window, AJ Finn
“It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening . . .Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family.
But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems. Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock. “
In development as a motion picture.
The Last Mrs. Parrish, Liv Constantine
“Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne—a socialite and philanthropist—and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale. Amber’s envy could eat her alive . . . if she didn’t have a plan.
Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life—the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long, Amber is Daphne’s closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past may undermine everything that Amber has worked towards, and if it is discovered, her well-laid plan may fall to pieces. With shocking turns and dark secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end, The Last Mrs. Parrish is a fresh, juicy, and utterly addictive thriller from a diabolically imaginative talent.”
Into The Water, Paula Hawkins
From the author of The Girl On The Train, “A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl.
Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother’s sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she’d never return. With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present. Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.”
Check out my March recommendations here and and April here.
