Pages: 363 📖 Year Published: 1847 🗓️ Days to Complete: 30 🕰️ Author: Emily Bronte is the second youngest of the famed Bronte family. Aside from a brief stint as a student and teacher in Brussels, it's amazing to think that Emily spent most of her thirty years at home in Haworth, England, similar to both Catherine characters in Wuthering Heights . Emily and her sisters often wrote stories as children but each initially published their respective novels under male pen names.

The hottest and most coveted literary award right next to The Pulitzer Prize. The second half of this year brought a succession of books that I really enjoyed and made choosing my top three almost impossible (but if I'm honest, it's always difficult for me to choose). This year's reads further solidified that my favorite genre is historical fiction, but fiction based in more current times also grabbed my attention. My top three picks consist of a part-fantasy novel and a few

Pages: 196 📖 Year Published: 1959 🗓️ Days to Complete: 11 🕰️ Author: John Knowles's early years were much like the main character's in this book. He was born in West Virginia and attended two years of high school there prior to attending prep school in New Hampshire. After graduation, he served for 8 months in the Air Force toward the end of the second world war. When he returned, he attended Yale University where he contributed to the campus magazine and newspaper. This p

Pages: 302 📖 Year Published: 2021 🗓️ Days to Complete: 11 🕰️ Author: Colgan must be one of those authors who never stops writing given the number of books she's published plus books written under her pseudonyms, Jane Beaton and J. T. Colgan. She was born in Scotland and attended the University of Edinburgh. After college, she worked in health services and married her husband, Andrew Beaton. Together, they have three children and split their time between France and London (

Pages: 530 📖 Year Published: 2014 🗓️ Days to Complete: 15 🕰️ Author: Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and has a list of impressive education including Bowdoin College in Main where he earned a degree in history. He spent 10 years writing this book which received many awards, but had previously published his first novel, a memoir, and many short stories. He published his third novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land , also somewhat based in history, in 2021. He current