And don't miss the conclusion to Gabrielle Mathieu’s wonderful Falcon Trilogy, The Falcon Soars, released just this month! After causing...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) In these times of racial strife, when our divided nation sees Kanye...

Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (Washington Square Press, 2015) A totally lovable book is A Man Called Ove—deceptive in its simplicity,...

In addition to these great reads, don’t miss our own Claudia H. Long’s Chains of Silver, released just last week. You can find out more...

Nadia Hashimi, A House without Windows (William Morrow, 2016) This is an exquisite tale of a despicable crime and the women who committed...

You can see how we members of Five Directions Press spent our holidays: reading! Lots of heavy-hitters on this month’s list, and yes,...

Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, Last Christmas in Paris (William Morrow, 2017) We first meet Thomas Harding in 1968. He’s nearing the end...

Eve Chase, The Wildling Sisters (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017) Applecote Manor is an English country house with a history. In 1954 the...

Charlene Ball, Dark Lady (She Writes Press, 2017) It’s not easy to find a new take on the Tudors, especially Elizabeth I. But Charlene...

Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist (Ecco, 2015) The Miniaturist is an emotionally rich and marvelous novel. In seventeenth-century Holland,...

Sofia Grant, The Dress in the Window (William Morrow, 2017) World War II has just ended, and the survivors are ready to abandon the...

Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing (Lake Union, 2016) As a teenager, Josephine (Josie) Marcus, the daughter of a Jewish baker in San...

A little late this month, because June 15, when we would normally have posted about the Books We Loved, marked the release date for our...

For the first time, two of our members chose the same novel as their monthly pick, so this is definitely one to look for! But check out...

Aliette de Bodard, The House of Binding Thorns (Ace, 2017) This novel, set in a turn-of-the-century Paris devastated by a magical war, is...

M. R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts (Orbit, 2015) The unofficial queen of our book group is a tiny Californian with a loud voice and...

Where did you get the idea for Precious Pawn? At Mount Holyoke one of my best friends taught in the French Department and used the...

Tana French, The Trespasser (Penguin, 2016) Tana French is Irish, and all her books take place in or outside Dublin. To say that they are...

Kate Braithwaite, Charlatan (Fireship Press, 2016) Think of Louis XIV, and we think of Versailles. But the City of Light also played host...

Courtney J. Hall takes a detour from sixteenth-century Europe in A Holiday Wish, the first book in the Silver Bells series. In what is...