With spring right around the corner, warmer weather is on the way and what better way to celebrate than filling up your TBR with some amazing contemporary fiction! Here are some great reads to check out when you’re thinking of a TBR for the warmer and (hopefully) sunnier days!
The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers by Sarah Tomlinson (2/13)
Anke Berben led an interesting life as a model and fashion icon as well as romances with three members of the popular rock band the “Midnight Ramblers.” This band was notorious for their drama as well as their music and the only person who has the full story is Anke, especially when it comes to the mysterious deal of their founder, Mal. Now, Mari Hawthorn has just accepted a job to help Anke write her memoir and is determined to solve Mal’s death once and for all.
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Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman (3/5)
In a small town in upstate New York, members of the Team Movement clock in at 4am for their shift at a big box store. While the job is quite demanding, these employees feel like the biggest downfall of their job is not getting enough hours to allow them to have a livable life. When the store manager announces he is leaving, the Team Movement members see an opportunity for one of them to land a job in which their money problems will no longer be an issue. With a plan so crazy it might actually work, three coworkers put the plan in motion.
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Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel (3/12)
Eight teenage girls are on their way to Reno, Nevada to compete to be named the best boxer in the country. With their own reasons, each girl has a powerful story about what was sacrificed to be here, including an unexpected tragedy at a community pool and a family’s relentless expectations of success.
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Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (3/12)
Ana Magadalena Bach has been married for twenty-seven years and is happy with the life she has with her husband and children. However, every August, Ana takes a ferry to the island where her mother is buried and takes a new lover for a single night of passion. With the Caribbean blue waters as her backdrop, Ana’s taste in men range from lotharios to conmen as she gets closer and closer to her deepest desires.
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Memory Piece by Lisa Ko (3/19)
During the 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are the three best friends who claim to be brought together by their weirdness and dream of bright futures. As adults, their dreams haven’t exactly gone as planned and what they once thought was important changes. From 1980s to the 1990s and up until the 2040s, this is a story of three friends trying to have happy lives in an unpredictable world.
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Perris, California by Rachel Stark (3/26)
Abandoned by both her father and mother, Tessa is forced to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother, finding survival using her inner strength and the comfort of another teenage girl named Mel. When Tessa loses Mel as well, she finds herself being comforted by Henry and his mother, Angie, as she becomes a mother and ventures into adulthood. Then one day, Tessa runs into Mel, who has just returned to Perris after being away for years.
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A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (3/26)
The Shah family has just arrived to their new home in Pacific Hills, California; a gated community with ocean views and well-manicured lawns. While the Shah parents came to America twenty years earlier, the children have been raised in America. When the twelve-year-old son is arrested, the fallout from that even will change the family forever.
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Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris (5/14)
The Solomon siblings are reuniting in North Carolina upon their father’s death to prevent their family estate from being transformed into a resort by developers. When brought together, they are forced to confront their own hidden truths. Junior’s concealed love for another man, Mance’s unrestrained anger, CeCe’s illicit financial actions and Tokey’s feeling of alienation within her own family. As they endeavor to save the property, their personal challenges surface, compelling them to address their secrets and the complex dynamics of family bonds.
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Fire Exit by Morgan Talty (6/4)
Charles Lamosway has stared across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation for decades watching Roger and Mary raise their daughter, Elizabeth. From the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties, Charles has kept the secret that he is Elizabeth’s father. When Charles finds that it’s been weeks since he’s seen Elizabeth, he is forced to confront his childhood on the reservation and a love affair that changed his life. Now Charles wonders if he shouldn’t have kept this secret and wonders if Elizabeth would even want to know the truth.
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