Starr Struck's 2018 Winter Reading List

Winter reading list time! Since I know we're all in [or want to be in] hibernation mode, here's a list of books to add to your list + read under a snuggly blanket while you wait for spring to arrive. 

This time I've only read 2 out of the 7 books listed below (it hasn't been that long since my holiday reading list!), so that means I've got lots of reading to do this winter ;) 

Here's what's on my list...

• The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn: If you like suspenseful thrillers (Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train), I've heard that this book is the real deal and should be your [my] next read. It's about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnesses a crime through her window.  
  
  
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo: I've been seeing this book pop-up on every "must-read" list of 2018, so have obviously added it to my list. From what I understand it is a *very* in-depth +  informative exploration of today's racial landscape in the US. Sounds like required reading, doesn't it? 
  
  
• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles: This book comes highly recommended by one of Ben's aunts who has a similar taste in books and is a big fiction reader like yours truly. It also has 7,174 reviews on Amazon and an average rating of 4.7/5 stars. That's enough for me!
  
  
• Wreckage by Emily Bleeker: I just started reading this book the other night when I found it for free on Prime Reading (I'd finished the book I was reading on my Kindle and was too tired to go back downstairs and pull up my library account on my laptop!). I didn't know much about it before starting it but wow, is it a page-turner! I've stayed up way too late reading it for the past two nights and can already tell you that I recommend it. 
  
  
• Brave by Rose McGowan: A memoir about Rose McGowan's childhood in a cult and her similarly challenging time in the "cult" of Hollywood, where she was repeatedly sexualized and taken advantage of. I keep hearing about this book and it seems like a very appropriate read in the age of #metoo. 
  
  
• The Awkward Age: A Novel by by Francesca Segal: I just read this book and really enjoyed it. It was a somewhat lighter read about family dynamics, romance, and parenting a teenager (eek!), but it definitely kept me both interested in the characters and totally freaked out about the fact that Charlie Mae will become a teen someday and could quite possibly hate her mom for a few years in there (OMG I hope not!).  
  
  
• Beartown by Fredrick Backman: Another book that comes highly recommended and has great reviews! It's by the author of A Man Called Ove, which has been on my list for FOREVER now, but which I still haven't read somehow. I need to get on that one, too! 

What's on your list this winter? What have you read recently and loved? I'd love to hear your recommendations!

You can peruse all of my past reading lists here.