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: 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

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

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