Featured Guide: I AM YOU by Victoria Redel
At eight years old, Gerta Pieters is forced to disguise herself as a boy and sent to work for a genteel Dutch family. When their brilliant and beautiful daughter, Maria, sees through Gerta’s ruse, she insists that Gerta accompany her to Amsterdam and help her enter the elite, male-dominated art world. While Maria rises in the ranks of society as a painting prodigy, Gerta makes herself invaluable in every way: confidante, muse, lover. But as Gerta steps into her own talents, their relationship fractures into a complex web of obsession and rivalry --- and the secrets they keep threaten to unravel everything.
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Our Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks for October
Each month, we share top book picks from Indie Next and LibraryReads. We also feature a number of other prominent selections, including the Barnes & Noble Book Club, the "Good Morning America" Book Club, Oprah’s Book Club, the PBS Books Readers Club, the "Read with Jenna" Book Club, Reese's Book Club, and the Target Book Club.
OVERDUE is October's Top LibraryReads Pick. This sparkling adult debut from beloved New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Perkins is a beautiful, slow-burn romance full of lust and longing about new beginnings and finding your way.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of THE SWEETNESS OF WATER comes a gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to escape a former master still intent on their bondage.
Set in mid-century America, AT LAST explores a rich family saga centered on two fierce and competitive matriarchs whose intertwined lives reflect the complexities of family, tradition and personal ambition.
Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, THE CORRESPONDENT is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person.
Megha Majumdar’s electrifying novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, A BURNING, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other.
From the New York Times bestselling author of WRITERS & LOVERS comes a magnificent and intimate novel of desire, friendship and the lasting impact of first love.
A mesmerizing historical novel, I AM YOU is a meditation on gender, an ode to artistic creation, and an unforgettable love story that reimagines the life of renowned still-life painter Maria van Oosterwijck during the Dutch Golden Age.
In this debut, for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Mary Beth Keane, three adult sisters grapple with a shared tragedy over a Thanksgiving weekend as they try to heal strained family bonds through the passage of time.
A mysterious book with a legacy spanning from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day unites three women --- and their secrets --- in this unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton.
From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding America’s social fabric comes her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometown.
What if you got to do everything in your life --- twice? The heart of Mitch Albom’s novel is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we’ve had all along.
THE WILDERNESS is an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their 20-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife.
From fan favorite Kirsten Miller, the author of THE CHANGE and LULA DEAN'S LITTLE LIBRARY OF BANNED BOOKS, comes a witty, spectacular and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy.
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