2019 - Down the River Unto the Sea, Walter Mosley, 336 pages
Former NYPD cop wrongly accused of a crime investigates a murder ten years later as a private investigator.
2019 - Down the River Unto the Sea, Walter Mosley, 336 pages
Former NYPD cop wrongly accused of a crime investigates a murder ten years later as a private investigator.
2019 - Down the River Unto the Sea, Walter Mosley, 336 pages
Former NYPD cop wrongly accused of a crime investigates a murder ten years later as a private investigator.
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Good Morning America Book Club Selections
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The GMA book club started in 2019 and has become a force for suggesting new reads. Here is the complete list of their recommendations. Check back each month for the current pick. Books I've read are in bold and reviewed books are in bold and purple.
February 2023 - Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoori; 544 pages
Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family — loved by some, loathed by others, feared by all. (added to my TBR)
January 2023 - Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoori; 544 pages
Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family — loved by some, loathed by others, feared by all. (added to my TBR)
December 2022 - The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton; 352 pages
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels gradually wreak havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it.
November 2022 - Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli; 352 pages
A stunning, witty, and heartbreatking debut novel about a young woman’s emotional journey through the unimaginable loss of her husband's suicide, pulled along by her tight-knit Nigerian family and a posse of new friends.
October 2022 - Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult; 464 pages
A soul-stirring story of what we choose to keep from our past and what we leave behind. Secrets, a doomed love story, suspense as a teen boy is accused of murder.
September 2022 - The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh, 272 pages
An estranged Vietnamese American family who all believe they have been cursed by a witch and are unable to know love or happiness but an unexpected prophecy may change everything.
August 2022 - Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean, 384pages
A whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood, and love—how we find it, keep it, and how it always returns (from the blurb).
July 2022 - The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston, 368pages
A ghost writer for a successful romance author has a terrible break up and gives up on love. When her dad dies suddenly and she returns to a town she hates, to a eccentric family she loves, and the family business of a funeral home, she meets - a ghost. And finds love.
June 2022 - More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez, 448pages
A successful woman has a husband and family in Texas and in Mexico. The truth is discovered and one husband is murdered. Years later a woman reporter finds the story and decides to investigate further, and secrets held by both women come to light.
May 2022 - The Change by Kirsten Miller, 480 pages
Three women in their late 40s from various backgrounds notice physical changes - the ability to see dead spirits, the ability to grow any plant and know its powers, channeling anger into physical strength and power. These women become friends and pool their powers to solve the murders of several young women, while also trying to come to terms with their new abilities.
April 2022 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, 400 pages
This debut novel set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show. Replete with strong women, a wonderful dog, found family, told with humor, this sounds like a winner. (added to my TBR)
March 2022 - The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh, 384 pages
A love story wrapped up in a mystery with a dark secret at its core. When a man's wife gets sick and he looks into her past, he discovers he doesn't know her at all - in fact, he doesn't even know her name. (added to my TBR)
February 2022 - The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb, 352 pages
A black classical musician's quest to recover his stolen violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. (on my TBR)
January 2022 - The Mail by Nita Prose, 304 pages
A debut novel about a maid at a ritzy hotel who is slightly autistic and is the prime suspect of a murder because she's "different". Friends she didn't know she had come to her aid (if you liked Eleanor Oliphant, you'll enjoy this one). (added to my TBR)
December 2021 - Dava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti, 384 pages
A debut novel about a multicultural family where the dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her upcoming death so she can examine her legacy but her secrets come out.
November 2021 - Still Life by Sarah Winman, 464 pages
This sweeping story told in beautiful prose is set in Italy during WWII. A British soldier meets a middle aged art historian in a wine cellar that sets a series of events in motion and when the soldier receives an inheritance, he returns to Italy. (added to my TBR)
October 2021 - We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza, 336 pages
A story told in alternating perspectives between two lifelong friends, one black, one white, as lives are changed by a tragic event. A book encompassing race, friendship, justice, and forgiveness. (added to my TBR)
September 2021 - Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke, 256 pages
Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is The Office for a new world.
August 2021 - The Husbands by Chandler Baker, 346 pages
The story of a successful attorney who in addition to working hard, manages the kids, the house, the doctor appts, etc. When the family moves to a new neighborhood filled with successful wives and supportive husbands, the story takes on a reverse Stepford Wives vibe.
July 2021 - The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, 341 pages
This book is the story of J.P. Morgan's personal librarian, hired to manage his art, manuscripts, and books. Little did the world know, this smart woman is a black woman who needs to pass as white. (on my TBR)
June 2021 - The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris, 357 pages
A debut novel about tensions that unfurl when two young black women meet in the starkly white backdrop of the NYC book publishing industry.
May 2021 - Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann, 318 pages
Another debut. Full of big characters, Texas swagger, marriage struggles and flaring rivalries, with a clever wink toward classical mythology. (on my TBR)
April 2021 - Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia, 207 pages
In this multi-generational debut novel, a current-day Miami woman is determined to learn her family's history from her mom, a Cuban immigrant.
March 2021 - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Isiguro, 303 pages
An AI robot becomes friends with a sick little girl and the author explores the world and people through the eyes of a robot. He poses the question 'what does it mean to love'? (on my TBR)
February 2021 - How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones, 278 pages
Set in Barbados, it's a debut novel about four people trying to escape their legacy of violence. Trigger warnings. (on to my TBR)
January 2021 - The Push by Ashley Audrain, 307 pages
A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared. (on my TBR)
December 2020 - This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens, 352 pages
With a touch of humor, a dash of romance, a bit of family dynamics, this New Years story spans 30 years as the two main characters find their way to each other.
November 2020 - Memorial by Bryan Washington, 320 pages
A funny, sexy, profound dramedy about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship and the limits of love.
October 2020 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, 304 pages
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. Do you want to see how things would be if you had made other choices? (read May '21)
September 2020 - Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie, 449 pages
From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance in post–World War II Japan. (on my TBR)
August 2020 - The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis, 354 pages
Set in 1913, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces. (on my TBR)
July 2020 - Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan, 336 pages
A glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds–the WASP establishment of her father’s family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with, by the author of Crazy Rich Asians.
June 2020 - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, 336 pages
Twin sisters growing up in a small, southern black community until they run away at 16 and their lives diverge as one returns home with to raise her children in their home town and one passes for white and her white husband has no idea. (read May '21)
May 2020 - The Book of V by Anna Solomon, 320 pages
This kaleidoscopic novel intertwines the lives of a Brooklyn mother in 2016, a senator’s wife in 1970s Washington, D.C., and the Bible’s Queen Esther, whose stories of sex, power and desire overlap and ultimately converge—showing how women’s roles have and have not changed over thousands of years.
April 2020 - Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore, 339 pages
A remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those moments are out of order. Each New Years Eve, a young woman jumps to another age at random. (on my TBR)
March 2020 - In Five Years by Rebecca Serle, 255 pages
A young woman has her perfect life mapped out but when she wakes up one morning, she discovers she's in a different apartment, married to a different man and it's 5 years in the future! (on my TBR)
February 2020 - Long Bright River by Liz Moore, 482 pages
Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different, one a cop and one a drug addict. When the addict goes missing, the cop sister searches for her.
January 2020 - Children of Virtue and Vengeance #2 by Tomi Adeyemi, 404 pages
Follow up to Children of Blood and Bone; magic returns to the land but now the warring factions must be reunited to save the planet. (on my TBR)
December 2019 - The Family Upstairs #1 by Lisa Jewell, 340 pages
The can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets and they are about to be discovered as a young woman receives a letter telling her about her parents and her inheritance. (on my TBR)
November 2019 - Dominicana by Angie Cruz, 323 pages
A 15 year old girl marries a much older man who takes her from the Dominican Republic to NYC, but life is nothing like she expected. Political turmoil forces her husband to leave and Ana learns to find her way in her new home. (on my TBR)