May Book - Educated by Tara Westover Educated is a 2018 memoir by American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world. She details her journey from her isolated life in the rural mountains of Clifton, Idaho to completing a PhD program in history at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. […]

June 2026 Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland In this story we follow the life of Lisette, a young Parisian woman who is forced torelocate to a small Provence village when her husband's only living relative, an oldgrandfather who reared him, writes to tell them he is failing and needs Andre to care forhim. This is […]

July 2026 Crying in “H” Mart  by Michelle Zauner. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner provesherself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart,she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene,Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, […]

August 2026 Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos tomake it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severedepression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life tothe fullest. Furiously Happy is about depression and […]