Pssst...We have some recommendations for you!

As a customized book subscription service, we appreciate that different people like to read different types of books--in fact,
our business is based on picking books that are uniquely right for individual readers! So rather than coming up with a definitive best-of list (which seems impossible!) we're sharing here some of our favorite books of the year in various categories.

FOR A GOOD LAUGH
  


Bossypants
by Tina Fey

 The Family Fang
by Kevin Wilson
 What Alice Forgot
by Liane Moriarty

 

TO LEARN SOMETHING



 

Reckless Endangerment
by Gretchen Morgenson

Swerve
by Stephen Greenblatt

Catherine the Great
by Robert K. Massie

 

TO VISIT FAR-AWAY PLACES


 

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra Fuller

State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett

The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain

 

 FOR A TASTE OF HISTORY

 		  

The Dovekeepers
by Alice Hoffman

In the Garden of Beasts
by Erik Larson

Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles

 

TO GLIMPSE THE (DYSTOPIAN) FUTURE

               

                    
When She Woke
by Hillary Jordan
 Zone One
by Colson Whitehead		 The Revisionists
by Thomas Mullen

 
TO MEET SOME MEMORABLE CHARACTERS



We the Animals
by Justin Torres
  The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach
 The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides

 

FOR A JUICY MYSTERY
 
Turn of Mind
by Alice LaPlante		 Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. James		 The House of Silk
by Anthony Horowitz

 

Browse the full archive of our reading guides from this year:
Summer Reading Guide Part I and Part II
Fall Reading Guide Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

And our most recent - Winter 2012 Reading Guide, Part I

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