January Reads

Ms.Bjork here,

Welcome to my first January Reads on bookstagram! It’s been an enjoyable month for reading and hopefully a predictor of the good still yet to come. This month, the 14 books I read are in tiers of MUST READS, Add these to your TBR, and Read them if they come your way.

Favorite Book This Month:

Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones

Runner-up:

A Knock at Midnight by Brittany Barnett

TIER 1: MUST READS #5stars

• Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones

The story of three children growing up in the late 70s in Atlanta while a child abductor is at large.

• A Knock at Midnight by Brittany Barnett

A lawyer fighting to free those wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for mandatory minimums.

• The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris

Memoir by Madam Vice President about her career and personal history.

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A woman sent to the Mexican countryside to save her cousin from something strange and evil.

TIER 2: Add these to your TBR (all 4 & 5 star books)

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Nine short stories of Black women and how they come to terms with their sexuality, family, and identity in relation to the Black church

• Long Bright River by Liz Moore

A police officer in search of her sister while a killer hunts vulnerable women in Philadelphia.

• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

How to bring courage, compassion, and connection into your life and love yourself as you are.

• The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

Three sisters trying to hold the family together amongst prison, addiction, and abuse.

• Things Fall Apart by China Achebe

The clashing of tradition and change in Nigeria when white missionaries first arrive.

TIER 3: Read them if they come your way (3 & 4 star books)

• Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagoski

How to stop being so stressed all the time.

• Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo

History of mediocre white men in America over the last century.

• The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Someone is killed while a couple is getting married on a remote island and everyone has a motive.

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

A woman attempts suicide and is taken to a library between life and death where each book represents an alternate reality of life had she made different decisions.

• Just Us by Claudia Rankine

A conversation about whiteness.

Read any of these?

What did you read this month?