{"id":187,"date":"2025-01-01T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-04-16T21:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:08:02","slug":"2024-book-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"2024 book list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n            <script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"list\" data-list-slug=\"2024-book-list-lexington-ladies-lit\"><\/script>\n          \n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-34.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-34.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-34-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-34-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-34-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-34-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-34-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a\"><strong>An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America&#8217;s first celebrity serial killer in his final murderous spree.<\/strong><br><br>January 1978. A serial killer has terrorized women across the Pacific Northwest, but his existence couldn\u2019t be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University\u2019s campus in Tallahassee. Tonight is a night of promise, excitement, and desire, but Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home\u2014a decision that unwittingly saves her life. Startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she makes the fateful decision to investigate. What she finds behind the door is a scene of implausible violence\u2014two of her sisters dead; two others, maimed. Over the next few days, Pamela is thrust into a terrifying mystery inspired by the crime that\u2019s captivated public interest for more than four decades.<br><br>On the other side of the country, Tina Cannon has found peace in Seattle after years of hardship. A chance encounter brings twenty-five-year-old Ruth Wachowsky into her life, a young woman with painful secrets of her own, and the two form an instant connection. When Ruth goes missing from Lake Sammamish State Park in broad daylight, surrounded by thousands of beachgoers on a beautiful summer day, Tina devotes herself to finding out what happened to her. When she hears about the tragedy in Tallahassee, she knows it\u2019s the man the papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer. Determined to make him answer for what he did to Ruth, she travels to Florida on a collision course with Pamela\u2014and one last impending tragedy.<br><br><em>Bright Young Women<\/em> is the story about two women from opposite sides of the country who become sisters in their fervent pursuit of the truth. It proposes a new narrative inspired by evidence that\u2019s been glossed over for decades in favor of more salable headlines\u2014that the so-called brilliant and charismatic serial killer from Seattle was far more average than the countless books, movies, and primetime specials have led us to believe, and that it was the women whose lives he cut short who were the exceptional ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Marrow Island by Alexis M Smith<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a\">Twenty years ago Lucie Bowen left Marrow Island; along with her mother, she fled the aftermath of an earthquake that compromised the local refinery, killing her father and ravaging the island\u2019s environment. Now, Lucie\u2019s childhood friend Kate is living within a mysterious group called Marrow Colony\u2014a community that claims to be \u201cministering to the Earth.\u201d There have been remarkable changes to the land at the colony\u2019s homestead. Lucie\u2019s experience as a journalist tells her there\u2019s more to the Colony\u2014and their charismatic leader&#8211; than they want her to know, and that the astonishing success of their environmental remediation has come at great cost to the Colonists themselves. As she uncovers their secrets and methods, will Lucie endanger more than their mission? What price will she pay for the truth?<br><br>In the company of <em>Station Eleven<\/em> and <em>California, Marrow Island <\/em>uses two tense natural disasters to ask tough questions about our choices\u2014large and small. A second novel from a bookseller whose sleeper-hit debut was praised by Karen Russell as \u201chaunted, joyful, beautiful\u2026.\u201d it promises to capture and captivate new readers even as it thrills her many existing fans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-644x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-644x1024.jpeg 644w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-189x300.jpeg 189w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-768x1221.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-966x1536.jpeg 966w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-1288x2048.jpeg 1288w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-scaled.jpeg 1610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White&#8217;s tortured masterpiece, &#8220;The Goshawk,&#8221; which describes White&#8217;s struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest.<br><br>When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for \u00a3800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.<br><br>Destined to be a classic of nature writing, &#8220;H is for Hawk&#8221; is a record of a spiritual journey &#8211; an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald&#8217;s struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk&#8217;s taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it&#8217;s a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White, best known for &#8220;The Once and Future King.&#8221; It&#8217;s a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Splinters by Leslie Jamison<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-678x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-678x1024.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-199x300.jpeg 199w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-768x1160.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-1017x1536.jpeg 1017w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-1356x2048.jpeg 1356w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-scaled.jpeg 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage\u2014an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.<br>&nbsp;<br>Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material\u2014scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books\u2014 Splinters enters a new realm.<br>&nbsp;<br>In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents\u2019 complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once\u2014a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover\u2014Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways: pumping breastmilk in a shared university office, driving the open highway in the throes of new love, growing a tender second skin of consciousness as she watches her daughter come alive to the world. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another.<br>&nbsp;<br>How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we\u2019ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page. Jamison has delivered a book with the linguistic daring and emotional acuity that made The Empathy Exams and The Recovering instant classics, even as she reaches new depths of understanding, piercing the reader to the core. A master of nonfiction, she evinces once again her ability to \u201cstitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon\u201d (NPR).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\" style=\"width:280px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3.jpeg 307w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-3-194x300.jpeg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In <em>Braiding Sweetgrass<\/em>, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>All Fours by Miranda July<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-4-677x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-4-677x1024.jpeg 677w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-4-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-4-768x1161.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-4.jpeg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life<br><br>A semifamous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.<br><br>Miranda July\u2019s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July\u2019s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, <em>All Fours<\/em> tells the story of one woman\u2019s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, <em>All Fours<\/em> transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Supper Club by Lara Williams<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-5.jpeg 325w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-5-195x300.jpeg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites&#8211;and their physical spaces&#8211;that posits the question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?<\/strong><br><br>Roberta spends her life trying not to take up space. At almost thirty, she is adrift and alienated from life. Stuck in a mindless job and reluctant to pursue her passion for food, she suppresses her appetite and recedes to the corners of rooms. But when she meets Stevie, a spirited and effervescent artist, their intense friendship sparks a change in Roberta, a shift in her desire for more. Together, they invent the Supper Club, a transgressive and joyous collective of women who gather to celebrate, rather than admonish, their hungers. They gather after dark and feast until they are sick; they break into private buildings and leave carnage in their wake; they embrace their changing bodies; they stop apologizing. For these women, each extraordinary yet unfulfilled, the club is a way to explore, discover, and push the boundaries of the space they take up in the world. Yet as the club expands, growing both in size and rebellion, Roberta is forced to reconcile herself to the desire and vulnerabilities of the body&#8211;and the past she has worked so hard to repress. Devastatingly perceptive and savagely funny, <em>Supper Club<\/em> is an essential coming-of-age story for our times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>The God of the Woods by Liz Moore<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6-679x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6-679x1024.jpeg 679w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6-199x300.jpeg 199w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6-768x1159.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6.jpeg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide<\/strong><br><br>Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn\u2019t just any thirteen-year-old: she\u2019s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region\u2019s residents. And this isn\u2019t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara\u2019s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.<br><br>As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore\u2019s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore\u2019s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Burg<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-7-667x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-7-667x1024.jpeg 667w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-7-196x300.jpeg 196w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-7-768x1178.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-7.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida\u2019s underbelly, from a reality-warping storyteller.<br><br>Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother&#8217;s house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer heat sets in, she wrestles with family secrets and memories of her own troubled youth. Her mercurial sister, who lives next door, spends a growing amount of time using MIND\u2019S EYE, a virtual reality device provided to citizens of the town by ELECTRA, a tech company in South Florida, during the doldrums of a recent pandemic. But it\u2019s not just the ominous cats, her mother\u2019s burgeoning cult, or the fact that her belly button has become an increasingly deep cavern\u2015something is off in the town, and it probably has to do with the posters of missing citizens spread throughout the streets.<br><br>During a violent rainstorm, the writer\u2019s sister goes missing for several days. When she returns, sprawled on their mother\u2019s lawn and speaking of another dimension, the writer is forced to investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA, the famous author, and reality itself.<br><br>A sticky, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of storytelling, Laura van den Berg\u2019s Florida Diary is an interlocking and page-turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style, she reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8-667x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8-667x1024.jpeg 667w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8-196x300.jpeg 196w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8-768x1178.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8-1001x1536.jpeg 1001w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8-1335x2048.jpeg 1335w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-8.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they&#8217;ll never face the same fate.<br><br>Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned other people aren&#8217;t safe.<br><br>After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics\u2015all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"311\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9.jpeg 311w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9-196x300.jpeg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a &#8220;haunting&#8221;; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers\u2014and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12.jpeg 428w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-12-198x300.jpeg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award\u2013winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people\u2019s lives.<\/strong><br><br><em>History is a flood. The mighty red . . .<\/em><br><br>In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding.<br><br>Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can&#8217;t read her future but seems to resolve his.<br><br>Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He\u2019s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker.<br><br>Kismet&#8217;s mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary&#8217;s family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter\u2019s and her own.<br><br>Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day.<br><br><em>The Mighty Red<\/em> is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, <em>The Mighty Red<\/em> is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.<br><br>A new novel by Louise Erdrich is a major literary event; gorgeous and heartrending, <em>The Mighty Red<\/em> is a triumph.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden<\/summary>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-687x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198\" style=\"width:auto;height:384px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-687x1024.jpeg 687w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-768x1144.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-1031x1536.jpeg 1031w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10-1374x2048.jpeg 1374w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonladieslit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-10.jpeg 1718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn&#8217;t mind\u2014she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse&#8217;s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.<br><br>After Vasilisa&#8217;s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa&#8217;s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.<br><br>And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. 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