*Book group selection | Bolded means favorite
Picture Books
*Time to Make Art by Jeff Mack
*The Spaceman by Randy Cecil
Middle Grade
*Not Nothing by Gayle Forman
*Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Young Adult
*Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang
Geek Girl by Holly Smale
We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Grownup Fiction
Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly
Between Two Strangers by Kate White
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
The Bridesmaids Union by Jonathan Vatner
Vatner’s Carnegie Hill charmed me by being about self-involved rich people, but also incredibly relatable. I was less charmed by the Bridesmaids Union because the main character really needed to say no. And she didn’t. Repeatedly. So the novel could happen, I guess?
I’m also quite happy that my era of attending weddings was much more low key than the one this book depicts.
That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Weiner finds an interesting and multilevel way into #MeToo.
Grownup Nonfiction
The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Right Thing to Black Panther by Ruth E. Carter
Young Nonfiction
*Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States by J. Albert Mann