The Complete 2022 List
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. There are some months missing, but that’s only because a new book wasn’t chosen for that given month. Don’t worry, there are still plenty of great ones to choose from!
/ October 2022 /
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Demon Copperhead: by Barbara Kingsolver: From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity. Read more here!
/ September 2022 /
That Bird Has My Wings
-17% 
That Bird Has My Wings: by Jarvis Jay Master: Thirty-two years after his conviction, Masters is still on Death Row. A growing movement of people believe Masters is innocent, and are actively working within the legal system to free him. Read more here!
/ June 2022 /
Nightcrawling
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Nightcrawling: by Leilia Mottley: A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system—the debut of a blazingly original voice that “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole. Read more here!
/ April 2022 /
Finding Me: A Memoir
-21% 
Finding Me: by Viola Davis: Finding Me is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you. Read more here!
/ February 2022 /
The Way of Integrity
-40% The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck: Presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us—people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits—all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole. Read more here!
The 2021 List
/ September 2021 /
Bewilderment
-36% Bewilderment by Richard Powers: With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet? Read more here!
/ August 2021 /
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
-29% The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors—Indigenous, Black, and white—in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story—and the song—of America itself. Read more here!
/ June 2021 /
The Sweetness of Water
-20% 
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris: With candor and sympathy, debut novelist Nathan Harris creates an unforgettable cast of characters, depicting Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. Equal parts beauty and terror, as gripping as it is moving, The Sweetness of Water is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances. Read more here!
/ May 2021 /
Oprah’s new highly-anticipated book is What Happened To You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing.
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What Happened To You? – This book is going to change the way you see your life.
Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives.”―Oprah Winfrey
If you’re interested in learning more you can read more here!
/ April 2021 /
This time around Oprah has chosen 4 (yes, four!) books for the month and all come from the amazing author Marilynne Robinson. The four include: Gilead, Jack, Lila, and Home. Here’s the breakdown and even some sale prices!
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Gilead: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by Marilynne Robinson, one of our finest writers–a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part. Read more here!
-50% Jack: Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now. Read more here!
-59% 
Lila: Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Read more here!
-92% Home: Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions. Read more here!
The Complete 2020 List
August 2020 / Caste
-41% Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. Read more here!
June 2020 / Deacon King Kong
-55% From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, one of the most anticipated novels of the year: a wise and witty tale about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. Read more here!
April 2020 / Hidden Valley Road
-34% 
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease. Read more here!
January 2020 / American Dirt
-40% American Dirt will leave readers utterly changed. It is a literary achievement filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity on every page. It is one of the most important books for our times. Already being hailed as “a Grapes of Wrath for our times” and “a new American classic,” Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer of hope. Read more here!
List of Popular Best Sellers
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