The 20 Books to Read in Fall 2018

As soon as the temperature drops, it time to start forgetting about the mimosas pool-side and start thinking about hot cocoa, candles, leggings and warm fires. It’s also time to start adding to that book collections because what goes best with hot cocoa and fire? Books of course!

Here are my top 20 picks to read this fall!

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

This motivational book is perfect for the bad-ass chic who takes life by the horns. Rachel Hollis shares lies that she, and all of us, have one time believed. She then dismantles them all and gives readers methods she used to defeat those lies.

Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop

In this straightfoward handbook, Gary John Bishop gives you the tools and advice you need to combat all of the crap weighing you down and help you become the unfu*ked better version of yourself.

The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld

This haunting and suspenseful book will keep you on the edge of your seat. A three year old goes missing while searching for the perfect Christmas tree and her family hires a private investigator to find her. While searching for the missing girl, the investigator battles her own unexplained past.

Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown

A year ago, a mother goes missing in the woods presumed dead. Nearly a year later, her troubled teenager suddenly sees her in a premonition begging her daughter to find her. The daughter and son duo embark on a journey to uncover the truth.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%! by Mark Manson

Being positive is the key to a happy life, right? Wrong. Mark Manson dives into the gut-wrenching, slap-in-the-face reality that crappy things happen, but we all need to get our big boy pants on and handle it. He shares with his readers ways to embrace the chaos, fear and uncertainties of life and confront them head on while pushing forward with courage.

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

This seductive and unpredictable novel follows Anna Fox, a child psychologist, that lives alone in New York. She suffers from agoraphobia which is so bad, she has been unable to leave the house for months until she witnesses something terrible happen to a new family across from her. Battling her own demons, she must try to decide what it is she saw and determine if it was true.

For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt

When in their first year of law school on their first date, Natalie and Will Clarke, bonded over drinks, dinner and whether they could get away with murder. Now married, with an unchecked dander in their community that places their young son ins jeopardy, they look to take justice into their own hands as they fear the legal system will fail.

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade of siege against the powerful Greek army who continues to fight the bloody war over Helen, who was stolen, the queen of one of the neighboring kingdoms. Briseis, Achilles’s concubines, is just one among thousands of women living behind the war scenes who is forced with the fate of her own and the ancient world at large.

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

This personal memoir by Tara Westover tells her personal account of starting school at seventeen and her personal struggle with her troubled home-life.  Her quest for knowledge takes her over oceans, across continents and on a journey of self-discovery.

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

A failed novelist receives a wedding invitation from her boyfriend of the past nine years who is engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes, but you can’t say no-so, what do you do? Do you skip town? How do you do it?  Less, is above all, a love story about venturing out to attend literary events while running from your problems.

American War: a novel by Omar El Akkad

This powerful, post-apocalyptic debut novel follows a second American Civil War, a devastating plague and one family caught in the middle- a haunting story that asks what might possibly happen if American were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

This psychological thriller follows the sudden murder of a single mother whose demise may be linked to a teenage girl found dead the summer prior. Both women found in a river that now raises questions about its history and secrets long submerged. This novel is twisted and hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory and plays on the devastating ways the past can reach a long arm into the present.

52 Lists for Togetherness by Moorea Seal

This book is perfect or those trying to find our more about themselves. Individuals are encouraged to create 52 Lists, one for every week of the year meant to help them celebrate and cherish every relationship that makes up their tribe.

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King

Who doesn’t enjoy a good Stephen King novel? Add in his son, and you have a great father/son collaboration. Together they tell the story of what might happen if women were to disappear from the world of men.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

This absolutely riveting and necessary story follows a young teen torn between two worlds: the poor neighbor where she resides and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The two become an uneasy balance when she witness the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, who was unarmed, at the hands of a police officer. She knows what happened that fatal night now she is forced to chose between her two worlds.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Anyone who has an obsession with the notorious, and up to recently, unsolved murders of the Golden State Killer, this book is the perfect gift. It shares a true crime journalist’s determination in finding out the true identity of the Golden State Killer. Within its pages, she shares information she obtained from police reports, interviews she personally conducted with the victim’s families and her overall obsession with the case. Follow along on her journey to unmask the killer.

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

This bestselling book explores the true weight of secrets, the nature of identity and art as well as the truth on parenthood. Sometimes following the rules can lead to disaster and while long forgotten secrets come to surface, devastation follows.

The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy By Paige Williams

This stunning work of narrative journalism about humans’ relationships to that of natural history and obstinate conflict between money and science.  This page-turner highlights the history of fossil collecting and sheds light on the differences between enthusiast and opportunist which unfortunately tends to blur.

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

Two girls who have three strikes against them because of their being poor, ambitions and the mere fact that they are girls, but when fate steps in and pushes Savitha away, her friend Poornima embarks on a harrowing cross-continental journey to find her. Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within.

The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton

This book confronts the very real threat that could jeopardize not just the White House and Wall Street, but all of America. There are constant whispers of  espionage and traitors, that even the President himself becomes a suspect forcing him to go into hiding. Filled with information that sheds light on the inner workings and vulnerabilities of our nation, this book will give you an authentic and terrifying look into the Commander-in-Chiefs combat.