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Continue reading →: Edwin of the Iron Shoes Has a 1970s Vibe
Authored by Marcia Muller; Published 1977; Mystery ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Edwin of the Iron Shoes has to be one of the earlier mysteries featuring a non-detective inserting themselves into an investigation. A private eye isn’t too outside the norm as a hero, but Sharon McCone needs to make an effort…
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Continue reading →: Last Night Was Fun Will Curl Your Toes with Delight
Authored by Holly Michelle; Published June 2025; Romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️ You know what rom com still gives me happy tingles every time I watch it? You’ve Got Mail. And Last Night Was Fun has a lot of those same vibes. In Last Night Was Fun, Emmy is dedicated to…
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Continue reading →: Transcription Embodies the Modern Era
Authored by Ben Lerner; Published April 2026; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Transcription is certainly a 2026 novel. Centered around the COVID pandemic and concerns about the effects of technology, the novel made it easy for me to forget I was reading fiction. In Transcription, the narrator is sent to Rhode Island to…
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Continue reading →: Titus Groan is Slow Going
Authored by Mervyn Peake; Published 1946; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ I am the first to admit that books without an abundance of action are my downfall. An excellent example of this weakness: my experience with Titus Groan. Titus Groan tells the story of the birth of the fifty-seventh earl of…
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Continue reading →: The Calamity Club Brings Humor to an Era of Incredible Poverty
Authored by Kathryn Stockett; Published May 2026; Historical Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I love a book that I cannot put down, and The Calamity Club certainly had me driving through these 600 pages as fast as I could. It’s not exactly uplifting, but boy did it get me laughing. In…
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Continue reading →: Missing Sam Squeezes a Lot into an Abduction Thriller
Authored by Thrity Umrigar; Published January 2026; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Missing Sam is about a lot more than a missing person. Parental estrangement, Islamophobia in America, the modern-day difficulties of gay marriage—it’s all in this thriller about an abducted woman. In Missing Sam, the titular woman has no idea…
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Continue reading →: I Am the Messenger is an Ode to Community
Authored by Markus Zusak; Published 2002; Mystery (kind of?) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️ I Am the Messenger has quirky vibes, but at its heart is a sweet and loving core. It’s an ode to the beauty of community—and how easy it can be to create if we get out of our…
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Continue reading →: Go Gentle Somehow Makes Me Care About Philosophy
Authored by Maria Semple; Published April 2026; Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️🏖️🏖️ I have to love a book that somehow manages to make me care about Stoicism. I couldn’t have predicted the direction of Go Gentle, and I definitely didn’t think I would love it as much as I did. In…
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Continue reading →: Meet Me at the Crossroads Juxtaposes Real Grief with a Fantastical Premise
Authored by Megan Giddings; Published June 2025; Fantasy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Meet Me at the Crossroads juxtaposes a fantastical premise with down-to-earth loss in a way that makes the novel impossible to put down. I just had to know just how the heroine would choose to come to terms with…
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Continue reading →: Presumed Innocent Shows Just How Much Strategy Goes Into Trials
Authored by Scott Turow; Published 1987; Thriller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 🏖️ Crime thrillers generally feature an intense search for the perpetrator of whatever horrific deed serves as the centerpiece of the plot, but not Presumed Innocent. For this novel, all of the drama comes from the trial, and the strategies that…
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