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Jan 19, 2024 | 
offtheshelf.com | Katya Buresh |Zeniya Cooley |Emily Lewis |Alice Martin
|+| Add to Your Shelf Beartown From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
offtheshelf.com | Juliet O'Connor |Karen Bellovich |Katya Buresh |Alice Martin
We love getting our social follower’s responses to Readers’ Choice prompts because they always come through with amazing new books—and we emerge with a brand new pile of books to devour. This most recent prompt was essential for the end of the year: What’s your favorite book you read in 2023? Check out a few of the books that captured reader’s hearts this year below.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
offtheshelf.com | Chris Gaudio |Jana Li |Sara Roncero-Menendez |Katya Buresh
There exists a style of humor that is defined by its understated, dry wit, capable of both confounding you and making you cackle. It’s as distinct as its country of origin. I’m, of course, speaking of British humor, which when weaved into novel form often results in the most side-splitting and satisfying stories you’ll ever consume.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
offtheshelf.com | Maddie Nelson |Alice Martin |Karen Bellovich |Katya Buresh
|+| Add to Your Shelf The Writing Retreat Meet your next read-in-one-sitting thriller! This suspenseful debut by Julia Bartz had me hooked from the first page. THE WRITING RETREAT is about a famous author who invites five up-and-coming female novelists to her home in the Adirondacks for a month-long writing competition. The retreat is fierce, but there is a whole lot more at stake than just winning.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
offtheshelf.com | Zeniya Cooley |Chris Gaudio |Karen Bellovich |Katya Buresh
|+| Add to Your Shelf The Square of Sevens “From the very first pages, the character of Red gripped me like few have in recent years. Fierce, vulnerable, and clever, she's a character to root for throughout these many pages. Many books promise secrets, but few unfurl with the elegance and alacrity of these.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
offtheshelf.com | Katya Buresh |Zeniya Cooley |Alice Martin |Holly Claytor
|+| Add to Your Shelf Beartown A small town in Sweden that revolves around hockey finds itself suddenly divided when the star of the junior hockey team gets involved in a scandal. Through a cast of well-rounded characters, Backman shines light on the many troubles of a once peaceful community (including blackmail, bullying, and the weight of traditional masculinity) and illustrates how people can find their way back to one another. Don’t love hockey?
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
offtheshelf.com | Juliet O'Connor |Jana Li |Katya Buresh |Jordyn Martinez
When a bestselling author pops up one too many times it can be a dangerous thing for us readers. We must let the hype compel us forward without getting too excited, lest we risk the dreaded misfortune of an overhyped reading experience. Fortunately, we’re reporting on the books and authors with hype that never went away even after reading.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
offtheshelf.com | Laura Jackson |Katy Hays |Karen Bellovich |Katya Buresh
The most popular books of October are in and let’s just say that this list isn’t for the faint of heart. This month’s literary lineup leads us into dimly lit streets, haunted pasts, and daunting mysteries, cultivating the kind of suspense that keeps you reading under a blanket, with one eye over your shoulder.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
offtheshelf.com | Karen Bellovich |Katya Buresh |Sarah Woodruff |Jana Li
|+| Add to Your Shelf We Are the Light This is the story of Lucas Goodgame, a man who loses everything that he ever held dear in a matter of seconds after an unimaginable tragedy. Lucas’s pain and grief come through in the letters he writes to his former Jungian analyst, Karl, which detail his search for answers that don’t seem to exist as he comes to grips with the loss of his wife, Darcy (who visits him every night in the form of an angel).
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
offtheshelf.com | Juliet O'Connor |Jana Li |Katya Buresh |Alice Martin
|+| Add to Your Shelf Crow Mary Does your book club like to read richly researched historical fiction about resilient and inspiring women? If so, look no further than CROW MARY, by Kathleen Grissom, and the handy reading group guide, which includes several recipes. It’s a novel inspired by the life of Goes First, an Indigenous woman in Montana in the late nineteenth century who married a white fur trader.
