The Read More! Reading Challenge suggestions for the month of September are to read a book that’s set in school or to read a book with leaves or trees on the cover!
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A Book That’s Set in School
The Maidens – Alex Michael
Genre: Gothic fiction; Psychological suspense
Description: When a member of a secret society known as The Maidens is murdered, a brilliant, but troubled, group therapist finds her obsession with proving the guilt of an untouchable Cambridge University professor spiraling out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her life.
Bunny – Mona Awad
Genre: Black humor; Canadian fiction
Description: Invited to join a popular clique at her university, a misfit artist with a dark imagination is drawn into ritualistic activities that transform her perspectives on reality.
My Oxford year – Julia Whelan
Genre: Contemporary romances
Description: Offered a fantastic job in a rising star’s political campaign on the condition that she will work abroad and return to Washington after spending a dream year at Oxford, Ella clashes with, and then falls for, an outspoken literature professor with a life-changing secret that forces her to rethink her ambitions.
Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo
Genre: Urban fantasy
Description: Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university’s secret societies.
A Book with Leaves or Trees on the Cover
Where They Found Her – Kimberly McCreight
Genre: Multiple perspectives; Psychological suspense
Description: Struggling with memories over the loss of her own baby while investigating the discovery of an anonymous infant in the woods, journalist Molly Anderson traces a string of unreported assaults spanning 20 years.
The Most Fun We Ever Had – Claire Lombardo
Genre: Family sagas; Literary fiction
Description: The four adult daughters of two Chicago parents who have been madly in love for decades recklessly ignite old rivalries, until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they built.
The Family Remains – Lisa Jewell
Genre: Multiple perspectives; Psychological suspense
Description: In this sequel to The Family Upstairs, two women are faced with complicated mysteries that are linked to a cold case that left three people dead in a Chelsea mansion 30 years ago.
Seasonal Fears – Seanan McGuire
Genre: Love stories; Relationship fiction
Description: An ambitious young lawyer on the brink of having it all disregards a vivid dream about how different her life will be in five years, before meeting the man in her vision nearly five years later.