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Our Favorite Reads Right Now

01/10/2021

New year, new reads… Here are the books we're loving around VB HQ right now—plus, what you've got on your must-read list, too. (Thanks for sharing with us @veronicabeard!)

If You Love the Greats

Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
A collection of the writer's previously uncollected essays, from 1968 to 2000, that traces her journey as a writer.

If You Love Memoirs

Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu
A beautifully written story of identity, Aftershocks follows the peripatetic upbringing of the author, the daughter of a Ghanaian man and Armenian-American woman—from Italy and England to Ghana, Ethiopia and Uganda to the U.S.

If You Love The Great Gatsby

Nick by Michael Farris Smith
A prequel to The Great Gatsby that puts the focus on Nick Carraway. Before he landed in West Egg, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dizzying Jazz Age, he was a soldier in the trenches of WWI, in love with the bohemian Ella…

If You Love Coming-of-Age Stories

The Divines by Ellie Eaton
A freelance journalist reflects on her time at an English boarding school, where the girls flip their hair and chain-smoke cigarettes and scandal thrives…

If You Love the Red Carpet

Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas
The actress' memoir, from her childhood in India to the beauty pageants to the A List in Hollywood.

If You Want to Read What the Veronicas Are Reading

Who's reading Arianna Huffington and who's taking a crash course in Bitcoin? Head on over here to find out.

If You Want to Read What Our Followers Are Reading

The Power of Now Journal by Eckhart Tolle — @kelleybergolet

Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living by Jason Gay — @writinginblackandwhite

The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger — @melissalleblanc

One Word That Will Change Your Life by Dan Britton, Jimmy Page, and Jon Gordon — @kradich0609

This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens— @christinamshea

Verity by Colleen Hoover — @heistyle68 @cal_clem

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins — @lily.friday

Atomic Habits (Mr-Exp): An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear — @pugandkoko

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid — @onepiecedesigns

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett — @bpatelstraub

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan — @kellikansascity @miss_jamie_leigh

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig — @emmacgillette

The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger — @pugandkoko

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid — @kirstenschmidtke

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See — @swclement

The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live by Heather Armstrong — @kellikansascity

Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon by Charles Slack — @jeanjbeard2020

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni — @fudamary

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga — @zinath_k

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart — @alissaross6

Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama — @teresa.poggenpohl @kirstenschmidtke @whlvr87

The Boy On The Bridge by M.R. Carey — @nicholasmenefee

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah — @jenalatriano

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens — @onepiecedesigns

No One Asked For This by Cazzie David — @courtycook

The Push by Ashley Audrain — @jmmizzy

Didn't See That Coming: Putting Life Back Together When Your World Falls Apart by Rachel Hollis — @miss_jamie_leigh

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