Wreckage by Emily Bleeker Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the… Read more

This is another title that my cousin, Ann, donated to the collection. She wasn’t 100% sold on it, but I still want to give it a try. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2013 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW New York magazine’s number one book of the… Read more

Another helpful title: Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin: The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change?    Gretchen Rubin’s answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once… Read more

This is another title I hope to read very quickly: Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life by Dr. Brian Wansink: In Slim by Design, leading behavioral economist, food psychologist, and bestselling author Brian Wansink introduces groundbreaking solutions for designing our most common spaces–schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and home kitchens, among others–in order to make positive changes in how… Read more

I love short stories, and I’m betting by the time this post shows up, I’ll have already reviewed this one. Lucky by Jonathan Lethem: Jonathan Lethem’s third collection of stories uncovers a father’s nervous breakdown at SeaWorld in “Pending Vegan”; a foundling child rescued from the woods during a blizzard in “Traveler Home”; a political prisoner in a hole in a… Read more

This came to The Shelves from my cousin, Ann. I love audiobooks and I think this will be particularly good to listen to: Life by Keith Richards: The long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and… Read more

Another great new novel – The Whites by Harry Brandt: The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege—by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge. Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime… Read more

This one sounds interesting – a woman with an unusual background and a husband who may not be trustworthy. Monday’s Lie by Jamie Mason: From the acclaimed author of the “ripping good” (The New York Times) debut novel Three Graves Fullcomes a new thriller about a woman who digs into her unconventional past to confirm what she suspects: her husband isn’t… Read more

This sounds so unusual! Of Things Gone Astray by Janina Matthewson:  Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. On a seemingly normal morning in London, a group of people all lose something dear to them, something dear but peculiar: the front of their house, their piano keys, their… Read more

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay: A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are… Read more