Exploring everything from mother-daughter relationships to aspiring rappers and mysterious bowling balls, here are nine books we highly suggest getting your hands on this month.
9 Books We Can't Wait to Read in February
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the Hunting Party By Lucy Foley
Nine college friends meet up for a New Year’s getaway at a remote estate on 50,000 acres in the Scottish Highlands. After a blizzard cuts them off from the outside world, one of them disappears. Dun dun dun…
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the Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
A famous painter abruptly upends her own privileged life by shooting her husband—and then refusing to speak. Enter a renowned criminal psychotherapist, whose drive to get her to talk takes over his life.
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the Last Romantics By Tara Conklin
In 2079, a 102-year-old poet looks back on her childhood and the years she and her three siblings essentially raised each other. A sweeping family saga for fans of Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings.
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bowlaway By Elizabeth Mccracken
A woman is discovered unconscious in a Massachusetts cemetery. Her only possessions? A bowling ball, a candlepin and 15 pounds of gold. Bowlaway charts three generations of her unconventional family’s lives.
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on The Come Up By Angie Thomas
The latest from best-selling YA author Thomas (The Hate U Give) tells the story of a 16-year-old determined to become the greatest rapper of all time, and doubles as a love letter to hip-hop.
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brave, Not Perfect By Reshma Saujani
Based on her popular TED Talk, Reshma Saujani’s third book is a self-help gem, packed with suggestions about how to live without the fear of not being good enough. Ditching the idea of perfection in favor of living more authentically? We’re in.
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lost Children Archive By Valeria Luiselli
In this timely novel, a family embarks on a road trip from New York City to the former Apache territory in Arizona as a modern-day immigration crisis rages on America’s southwestern border.
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the Care And Feeding Of Ravenously Hungry Girls By Anissa Gray
Mother-daughter relationships are at the center of this powerful debut novel about three grown sisters reckoning with their family’s troubled past.
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the Art Of Leaving By Ayelet Tsabari
Award-winning Israeli writer Tsabari’s father died when she was nine years old. His passing, her grief and the subsequent search for identity make up the essays in this intimate memoir.