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