The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
The story then jumps forward several years, and follows each character around the time of their given death date, showing the different ways information like this can change one’s life. The psychic agrees, but on one condition – each must sit with her privately, and pay a small fee. Four young siblings meet with a psychic in the hopes of learning their death date. The two may have to venture into Hazel Wood, even though Alice’s mother warned her from ever going back there.Ĭhloe Benjamin’s novel The Immortalists is a quiet and breathtaking musing on grief, death and what it means to truly be alive.
When Alice’s mother goes missing, she and a fellow classmate – who happens to be a fan of the cult fairy tales – will go on an adventure to try to find her. The story follows 17-year-old Alice, the granddaughter of a famous, reclusive author of fairy tales who has a cult following. Taking its inspiration from the dark history of fairy tales, The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert is both an atmospheric and eerie tale – perfect for late-night fall reading. With honest and beautifully-crafted prose, Westover shows readers how she grew into the intelligent and strong woman she is today. Growing up in a survivalist family, Westover never went to school and was forbidden by her father to seek any kind of medical attention, be that a doctor, a nurse or a trip to the hospital. Similar to Walls, Westover provides a very detailed and heart-wrenching account of her childhood. The novel takes place in a fantasy world where magic has been eradicated by the monarchy, and follows Zélie Adebola, a young maji, as she tries to bring back magic and avenge the murder of her own mother.ĭebut author Tara Westover took cues from Jeannette Wall’s 2005 hit memoir The Glass Castle in her own story Educated. While it had a generally quiet release, it has since blown up with great critical acclaim and media coverage. Here are eight New York Times bestsellers from 2018 that you need to read.Ĭhildren of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiĬhildren of Blood and Bone, the first book in Tomi Adeyemi’s Legacy of Orisha series, is a 2018 must-read. As a way to simplify the book-picking process (very technical term), The New York Times offers up a weekly list of bestsellers, including everything from fiction to nonfiction, and adult to middle-grade.
Each week, upwards of 20 books are released, one sounding just as intriguing as the next. Last year, this same list included forty percent authors of colour.Let’s face it: being a reader can be overwhelming. Similarly, other books on the above list also fell under the Time’s 2021 best of non-fiction: Juneteenth, How The Word Is Passed, Invisible Child, and The Copenhagen Trilogy.įifty percent of the books nominated were written by authors of colour. It was also nominated for Time’s best books of 2021. The Love Songs Of W.E.B Du Bois was one of the picks of Oprah’s Book Club 2021. Likewise, you’ll find several important works around social justice themes, including class and race, both fiction and non-fiction. Or, if we are in the mood to be pedantic, we can say it actually includes four, since Ditlevsen’s are actually three books put together and they can be found and purchased on their own (nice little way to include 12 books in a list of 10, New York Times!). This year’s list includes two books in translation.
As it’s common with the New York Times 10 Best Books Of The Year lists, the first five books are labelled under the genre literary fiction, and the other five are works of non-fiction, although Labatut is said to stand on the edge of both.
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