What We're Reading This Spring
How are you doing with your reading goals this year? Do you set a goal for the number of books you will try and read in a year? We love to keep track of what we’re reading on our Reading Log layout. Do you have any books you’re looking forward to reading this spring? Any books on your wish list or on hold at the library? Today we’re sharing some books we’ve read recently and a few we’re anticipating reading this spring! Hopefully you’ll find one to add to your Reading Log too!
Fiction
By Tayari Jones
Best known for her book, An American Marriage, Silver Sparrow is set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s. The novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families—the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode.
For readers who enjoyed: Maame, Black Cake, and The House of Eve
By Rachel Khong
Rachel Khong tells a story of family, class, race, and inheritance through the stories of Lily Chen, Matthew, the man she falls in love with, and 20 years later, her son, Nick Chen. When twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Despite all this, Lily and Matthew fall in love.
In 2021, fifteen-year-old Nick Chen has never felt like he belonged on the isolated Washington island where he lives with his single mother, Lily. He can't shake the sense she's hiding something. When Nick sets out to find his biological father, the journey threatens to raise more questions than answers.
For readers who enjoyed: Bear, Memory Piece, and Wandering Stars
Mystery
By Kristen Perrin
A fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer.
In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances. But by the time Annie arrives in the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, Frances is already dead. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder. Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer?
For readers who enjoyed: Off the Air, The Woman in the Library, and Close to Death
Romance
By Abby Jimenez
Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soulmate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work.
Emma hadn't planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka. What if this time fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?
For readers who enjoyed: The Paradise Problem, Part of Your World, and The Unhoneymooners
Nonfiction
By Simone Gorrindo
When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia— a town so foreign she might as well have landed on the moon. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone; until she meets the wives.
Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of women and a tender, unflinching portrait of a marriage. A love story, an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, and a bracing tour of the intractable divisions that plague our country today.
For readers who enjoyed: After Annie, The Berlin Letters, and The Things We Didn’t Know
We’d love to hear from you! Let us know in the comments what you’re reading these days and which books you’re looking forward to starting!