While I noticed the novel, Yesteryear by Caro Clarie Burke, on The New York Times best-seller-list for several months, it was my husband’s recommendation that nudged me to put it at the top of my reading list for August. I’m glad I did. I like books best when I don’t know much about them. All I knew about Yesteryear was its intriguing logline: “Natalie Heller Mills, a privileged tradwife social media influencer, wakes up to find she is living in the comparatively difficult

I noticed Theo of Golden by Allen Levi, on the New York Times list for weeks, read about its jump from a 2023 self-published novel to being picked up by Atria, a Simon & Schuster imprint two years later, and noticed it was a Katie Couric Book Club Pick. None of that enticed me enough. It took word of mouth from a friend telling me how much she liked the book to decide it was time to see why so many people did. I listened to the audio version, narrated by David Morse. At fir

Solitary Walker: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft was a gift from my husband. I had heard of her, a writer mostly known for the book, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792. But it wasn’t until I read this historical novel by N.J. Mastro about her struggles and contributions that I understood the impact she made in her thirty-eight years of life. While A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was a manifesto about the social equality of women and a trailblazing s