Tag: Friendship

The Island of Missing Trees |Elif Shafak

A few days ago, when someone asked what I was reading, I mentioned this book and added that my reading session was supported by a box of tissues and a tub of ice cream. Of course, that humorous quip was just to highlight how emotionally captivating this novel is. I want to keep the same […]

The Second Chance Trailer Park | Katie Powner

This novel begins on a promising note, where we meet Meredith McGillicutty as a fifty-two-year-old self-made career woman. So far, she has done well, progressing steadily at work. Financially, too, she seems secure, flipping multiple homes and making a decent profit. Till one day, it all comes crashing down when she is denied a long-overdue […]

From Words To Views | The Crystal Cuckoo

Clara Merlo is a medical student attending to a patient as a trainee doctor on the ward. While stabilizing the patient, she herself collapses and suffers a fulminant heart attack. She wakes up in the hospital several days later, only to realize that she has almost died and came back from the brink of death […]

Bad Intentions | Iliana Xander

Josie Boots is embarrassed, tired, and doesn’t want to rejoin the social media fandom because of whatever happened. She fears people might recognize her from that shameful episode. So, she does the only logical thing possible- she decides to move back to her childhood home in Burnville. Besides saving her face, she has taken additional […]

Library of Forbidden Books | Mario Escobar

A woman tries to save books and manuscripts to preserve Germany’s literary history during its most devastating time is the byline of this novel. So, the story begins in the 1930s, when a young librarian named Helene Nathan notices changing and charged sentiments in her country. Soon she realizes these changes won’t be limited to […]

Mad Mabel | Sally Hepworth

She is an old pensioner who has lived in a nondescript house for over 50 years.  Sure, she is a bit eccentric with a very wry sense of humor. Well, you have to agree that if an octogenarian would like to remark on something and get a few chuckles out of it, maybe she deserves […]

Best Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Buy in August 2026

August 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting months for book lovers, with publishers releasing a diverse mix of literary fiction, fantasy, thrillers, historical novels, memoirs, history, and thought-provoking nonfiction. Whether you’re looking for the best books of 2026, new book releases August 2026, must-read fiction, or top nonfiction books, this […]

Happy Place | Emily Henry

This is another novel from Emily Henry, carrying all the hallmarks of her other novels, like the bright candy colour cover, a large group of friends, friends becoming lovers, and then drifting apart with the heart-searing pain.  But these recurring features, penned beautifully with a solid plotline, make her books such a pleasure to read. […]

The Housewife | Natalie Barelli

This is my second book by Natalie Barelli that I read in the span of a year, as I am certainly amazed by her writing style. Like the previous one, this novel also follows a complicated mystery from its female protagonist’s perspective Jodie dreams of being the perfect housewife, as it’s been her only dream […]