By Faith Zochowski
The holiday season is upon us, and that means everyone is surely culminating items for their Christmas wish list. As an avid reader, books always take up a large portion of my list each year. Check out some of the books below that I have on my Christmas list to see if they are good candidates for your list too.
This book has been on my to-be-read list for months. This book is about a small café in Tokyo that is rumored to offer the chance to travel back in time. The story follows four customers who visit the café to prove if the legend is true. They discover that time travel is tricky, and on top of it their trip can only last as long as it takes for their coffee to get cold. Author Toshikazu Kawaguchi provides his readers with a mysterious and innovative approach to a story of time travel.
This book is on my list because I have read almost every other book by author Taylor Jenkins Reid, and I love her work. This novel tells the story of Daisy who is a girl in her 20s living in L.A. in the late sixties. She is enjoying the rebellious tendencies of her age and soon gains the attention of others through her beauty. The Six, which is a band led by Billy Dunne, is also gaining fame, and Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer puts the two together for a publicity stunt. I am extremely anxious to read this novel and hope it’s under the tree on Christmas morning.
I have seen this book all over my TikTok and love what I’ve read about it. A young woman living in France in 1714 makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and in turn is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets – hence the name of the novel. This interesting concept plays out as Addie Larue travels across centuries and continents to see how far she can go to make an impact on her world. The plot twists when she stumbles across a man 300 years later who remembers her name. This novel sounds intriguing and is a bestseller for the New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and many more.
This book has also been all over my TikTok. The story follows an enemies-to-lovers trope. The two lovers meet in an art institute – he is a doctoral student who has destructive thoughts and she is a bipolar counterfeit artist. Neither of these qualities change once they come together, but they learn from each other. Both have poor outlooks on life and deal with their crappy hand in different ways until six conversations with a stranger changes their entire perception of life. The book explores mental health issues and how those individuals can learn to love as if they aren’t broken. The Goodreads review for this book are insane. I really hope I get this one.
Eden’s world is turned upside down the night her brother’s best friend rapes her. She is unable to tell anyone what happened, so she buries the truth along with who she used to be. The story is told in four different parts divided by her freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year of high school. Not only does the story follow her journey in dealing with her trauma, but it also details her first love and first heartbreak, friendships built and broken, and navigating the hardships of high school. Although heartbreaking, the structure of this novel sounds very intriguing and a good read for any woman to read.
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