Books I've Recommended to My Girlfriends

Created byCelina- Updated on March 28^th2023

If I could spend most of the day reading a book and ignoring the rest of the world (and the never-ending laundry in my home), I'd choose something like this.

The nightingale

Hannah, Kristin, author.

From the Publisher

"An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II"--Provided by publisher.

Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel

Semple, Maria.

From the Publisher

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. A whip-smart, hysterical dramedy about a family in crisis after the disappearance of its brilliant, misanthropic matriarch.

The hypnotist's love story

Moriarty, Liane.

From the Publisher

"A novel about a hypnotherapist who falls in love with a man whose ex-girlfriend is stalking him"-- Provided by publisher.

The light between oceans : a novel

Stedman, M. L.

From the Publisher

"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore"-- Provided by publisher.

The husband's secret

Moriarty, Liane.

From the Publisher

Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not only the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. And then imagine that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive…Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and...

The selection

Cass, Kiera.

From the Publisher

"The opportunity to be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and pricelss jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her, and leaving her home to enter a fierce cmpetition for a crown she doesn't want. Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she begins to realize that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a...

My Thoughts

The first in the series, this YA book was impossible to put down. A sort of Cinderella meets the reality show "The Bachelor" with a side of dystopian drama.

Lilac girls : a novel

Kelly, Martha Hall, author.

From the Publisher

"On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war...