Top 5 Books to Read This Fall

If you know me, you know I love a good book. It is one of my favorite things to do if I get a moment to myself. So light your pumpkin spice candle, cozy up with a warm blanket and get to reading one of my top 5 book picks for this Fall:

1. Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton - Cleeton does a beautiful job transporting you into this book. It is rich in history and love and family, with a hefty side of revolutionary. You will fall in love with both of the main characters and find yourself dreaming of life in Cuba.

2. Small Great Things by Jodi Piccoult - This is a gripping novel that will have you hooked from the very first line. It is one of my favorite books of all time. A black nurse is forbidden from caring for the baby of white supremacists but when the baby dies, guess who is blamed. This book dives into issues of racism and social justice, bringing you to tears in every chapter.

3. In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware - I love a spooky read during the fall. You could read any of Ruth Ware's books if that's what you're into, but this one remains my favorite. In A Dark, Dark Wood was truly scary and left me guessing during the entire book.

4. Not That I Could Tell by Jessica Strawser - This book follows a group of friends/neighbors after a girls night around the backyard fire pit. The next morning, one of the women goes missing along with her young children. The women, the community, and the husband are panicked trying to figure out what happened to her...and it's definitely not what or who you think!

5. What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman - Do you love a book that will give you a good cry? I'm pretty sure I sobbed through much of this. A young woman, Clara, is committed to a psychiatric hospital when her parents find out she's pregnant and a foster girl, Izzy, is helping her foster parents catalog old journals and letters from that same asylum that has long been shut down. Izzy quickly becomes enamored with Clara's story as she pieces together the devastating fate she was met with over 70 years prior.

Now get to reading and tell me your recommendations too!

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