Search


Little Fires Everywhere
Pages: 336 📖 Year Published: 2017 🗓️ Days to Complete: 11 🕰️ Author: Celeste Ng (pronounced "ing") was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and grew up in the setting of this novel, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Ng attended Harvard and the University of Michigan. She has written three novels. Each have been New York Times bestsellers and two of her three have been translated into more than 30 other languages. Ng currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband. Three words
Dec 1, 20251 min read


The Bell Jar
Pages: 268 📖 Year Published: 1963 🕰️ Days to Complete: 10 Author: Slyvia Plath was born in Boston in 1932 and despite her sad death by suicide at the age of 30, she was very accomplished. She attended both Smith College and the University of Cambridge and after marrying Ted Hughes, bounced between living in the US and England. She had two children with Hughes but they divorced one year prior to her death. Plath is most known for her poetry, The Bell Jar, her only novel, and
Nov 1, 20251 min read


The Historian
Pages: 668 📖 Year Published: 2005 🕰️ Days to Complete: 25 Author: Elizabeth Kostova was born in Connecticut and raised in Tennessee. She is well-educated having earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University and master's degree of fine arts from the University of Michigan. Her interest in Bulgarian culture started as a child and she remains an activist for Bulgarian writers. She co-founded the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation to benefit Bulgarian writers and to assist Eng
Nov 1, 20251 min read


The Painted Girls
Pages: 390 📖 Year Published: 2013 Days to Complete: 14 Author: Cathy Marie Buchanan has written three novels with this being her second. She was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario and attended Western University in London, Ontario. She now lives in Toronto and has three sons. Three words to describe this read: Revealing - While I’ve often imagined what life might have been like for Parisians in the late 1800s, I never would have imagined how ruthless life for young ballerinas ma
Oct 1, 20251 min read


The Beautiful and Damned
Pages: 361 📖 Year Published: 1922 🕰️ Days to Complete: 22 Author: While F. Scott Fitzgerald is a name that most people know, some of the finer details of his life are lesser-known. He was born in Minnesota and was in love with a girl from Lake Forest, Illinois prior to his time in the army and New York City. After his wife Zelda and he were married and he had found some success as an author with his first novel This Side of Paradise , they lived quite similarly to how the m
Oct 1, 20252 min read





