For a mother who likes family saga
VANTAGE POINT, SARA SLIGE
An uncomfortable brother and sister – heirs of steel happiness – chase the family curse and compromise videotapes (maybe fake) that support the Senate campaign of the brother. Read our review.
Consider also: ”The reason to see you again“Jami Attenberg;”Playworld“Adam Ross;”The god of the forests“From Liz Moore
For a mother who loves history
The fate of the day, Rick Atkinson
There is no better writer of narrative history than Pulitzer Prize-playing Atkinson, who is able to transport readers to a different time and place without minimizing the differences from the past from the present. This book – the second in his planned trilogy about the American Revolution – is so compulsively legible that it is difficult to postpone it. Read our review.
Heartwood, Amity Gaige
In this slow burns of the book set on Appalachian Trail, an experienced tourist on behalf of Valerie must disappear and must break the case two other women-flowers and lonely, but a dynamic 76-year-old stuck in the pension community. Read our review.
Consider also: ”The victim of the truth“Lauren Francis-Shama;”Impossible“Belinda Bauer;”Your steps on the stairs,“Antonio Muñoz Molina;”Beautiful ugly“Alice Feeney
For a mother who likes fun, old -fashioned CVs
Dazzling sisters Paget, Ariane Bantes
Our critic Alexandra Jacobs, who loved the book, described it in the same way: “He was born in 1916, orphaned at the age of 12 and educated unconventionally, grew up in living but fragile manderers between the high wave of wheat stems of intellectualism: George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Koestler, Bertrans Russellis, Arthur Koestler. Arthur Koestler, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Koestler, Arthur Koestler Edmund Wilson, André Malraux, Benjamin Britten. ” Read our review.
Consider also: ”Gold hour: the story of the family and the strength of Hollywood,“Matthew Specket;”Yoko: CV,“David Sheff;”Surreal: Extra Life of Gala Dali,“Michèle Gerber Klein.”
For a mom who loves a historical fiction
Isola, Allegra Goodman
On the basis of a real historical incident, Goodman’s novel The Fate of the French nobleman from the 16th century Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval, who loved the wrong man and was subsequently declared with him on the unmissive island of St. Lawrence. Read our review.
Consider also: ”Mutual interest“Olivia Wolfgang-Smith;”Fagin thief,“Allison Epstein;”Jacka“Chris Bohjalian;”A case of missing maid“Rob Osler
For a mother who longs to withdraw from her routine
Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd
This beautiful meditative book about spending time in the Scottish Cairngorm Mountains is an inspiring guide on how to resign from comfort and routine. “I can recognize the feathers of Ptarmigan and the petals of St. John of her descriptions without the help of a single picture,” wrote our reviewer. Read our review.
Consider also: “Devotion of the stone yard,“Charlotte Wood;”Colony“Annika Norlin;”Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a helpless craftsman“By Patrick Hutchison
For a mom who likes to laugh
The usual desire to kill, Camilla Barnes
This book, telling their middle-aged Miranda’s daughter, has recorded several months in the lives of a 70-British couple who has a hairy and garden and suffers from much deafness, small dementia and time personalities in Vinné, who is struggling in a country French. Read our review.
Peepshow, Kate Summerscale
The case of a foreigner rather than fiction unpacks a number of sensational murders that swung London from the 50 years. Summerscale “brings the eye of a novelist and understanding to a sociologist into an exciting material,” wrote our reviewer. Read our review.
Consider also: “Murder Story: Wife, Lady and Dr. Crippen,“Hallie Rubenhold;”TESPASSERS U GOLDEN GATE: A real description of love, murder and madness in Gilded-point San Francisco“Gary Christ;”Sinners all bow: two authors, one murder and real hester prynne“By Kate Winkler Dawson
For Foodie Mom
The Secret of Crooked Man, Tom Spencer
Spencer’s debut debuts the reader to the world of Agatha Dorn, an irritated archivist and a passionate devoted mysterious fiction, who becomes famous to find out what seems to be a lost manuscript of a loved author of the Golden Age. Read our review.
Consider also: “Murder in seagulls Nest“Jess Kidd;”Famous days“From Danielle Arneceux;”Guide Vera Wong to Snooping (on Dead Man)“Jesse Q. Sutanto
For a mother who likes reading fiction in translation
We don’t expect Han Kang
The new novel of Nobel’s laureate, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, revises a violent chapter in South Korean history: between 1947 and 1954 at the Jeju, an idyllic island on the coast of South Korea, was mostly killed in government anthrocia. The novel focuses on a character that reveals the depths of a friend’s obsession with a massacre. Read our review.
Consider also: “Calamity of noble houses,“Amira Ghenim;”Tokyo Suite“Giovana Madalosso;”The city of fiction,“Yu hua
For a mother who loves art
Rogues and scholars, James Stourton
The Anthony Bourdain’s Art-World version “Kitchen Confidential” is an erudite and absolutely entertaining rim. Read our review.
Raising Hare, Chloe Dalton
During the Covid Pandemy Dalton – a British writer and political advisor – came across an abandoned newborn brown hare or left in the English countryside and decided to raise it, although he knew nothing about the hare. Her sweet memory, accompanied by naturalistic illustrations, describes how this choice changed her view of life during and outside the pandemic. Read our review.
Consider also: “Commemorative days“Geraldine Brooks;”Color problems: American family memory“Martha S. Jones;”Non -perception people: a warning story of power, greed and lost idealism“By Sarah Wynn-Williams
For a mother who likes scary, scary things
Victorian Psycho, Virginia
Feito’s deliciously scary novel, about the murderous governors of the 19th century, announces from the beginning of the horrible intentions of the narrator: “In three months each will be dead in this house,” he announces several pages. Read our review.
Consider also: “Acidic cherry,“Natalia Theodoridou?”Beta vulgaris“By Margie Sarsfield;”Something on the walls“By Daisy Pearce
For a mother who is a fan of baseball
For mum loving poetry
Helen of Troy, 1993, Maria Zoccola
Zoccola’s collection of poetry is transmitted by the well -known story Helena of Troy from the Greek myth and the world of Sparta, Tenn. Read our review.
Consider also: “Doggerel,“Reginald Dwayne Betts;”Nearby“Stephen Kuusisto;”Pay“From Lindsey Webb
