Have you signed up for MHL's Winter Reading Club? It's running this month for readers of all ages. For the winter reading club, you can read whatever books you'd like. But if you're looking for suggestions, here are some novels and memoirs for adult readers looking for "feels"--big emotions like love, anger, sadness. Big feelings!
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Black cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mother's life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake--when the time is right. |
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Calling for a blanket dance
by Oscar Hokeah Follows the life of Ever Geimausaddle, a young Native American, through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face policy corruption, threats of job loss, constant resettlement and the pent up rage of centuries of injustice. |
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Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver The son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Unsheltered. |
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The furrows
by Namwali Serpell Haunted by the accidental death of her little brother Wayne years ago, Cassandra Williams begins seeing her brother everywhere and meets a man both mysterious and familiar who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world--his name is Wayne. |
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Greenland
by David Santos Donaldson A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl - in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction. |
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A heart that works
by Rob Delaney The co-creator and co-star of the hit series Catastrophe presents a deeply personal memoir about the death of his young son from a brain tumor and takes readers through the grief and pain that followed. |
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I'm glad my mom died
by Jennette McCurdy The iCarly and Sam & Cat star, after her controlling mother dies, gets the help she needs to overcome eating disorders, addiction and unhealthy relationships and finally decides what she really wants for the first time in her life. |
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Ma and me : a memoir
by Putsata Reang An award-winning journalist shares her struggle to make her Ma proud by becoming the consummate good Cambodian daughter, while dealing with the fallout after coming out to Ma, which eventually breaks their bond in two. |
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Nuclear family
by Joseph Han Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, the members of a Korean family living in Hawai'i, when their son tries--and fails--to cross the Korean demilitarized zone, find themselves under suspicion, while their daughter gets constantly high as she witnesses her family's undoing. |
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Our missing hearts
by Celeste Ng In a society consumed by fear, twelve-year-old Bird Gardner, after receiving a mysterious letter, sets out on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese-American poet who left when he was nine years old, leading him to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. |
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Stay true : a memoir
by Hua Hsu A New Yorker staff writer, in this gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self and the solace that can be found through art, recounts his close friendship with Ken, with whom he endured the successes and humiliations of everyday college life until Ken was violently, senselessly taken away from him. Illustrations. |
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Take my hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Townsend, a young black nurse working for the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, grapples with her role when she takes two young girls into her heart and the unthinkable happens, and nothing will ever be the same for any of them. |
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To paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need and loneliness. |
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin Embarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance and money won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart. |
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You made a fool of death with your beauty
by Akwaeke Emezi Learning how to feel joy while healing from loss, Feyi Adekola starts dating the perfect guy, but discovers she has feelings for someone else who is off limits and must decide just how far she is willing to go for a second chance at love. |