Retreat by Random House

It’s not often that you read a debut novel that blows you away. Anthony Marra has written such a debut novel. It’s receiving tons of praise and comparisons to Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated. Don’t just take my word for it, read the glowing review on the Chapters-Indigo blog. This book is getting so [...]

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Choosing 20 books to recommend to people in their twenties is difficult! It’s hard to take my experience and generalize across all twenty year olds. So with that said, this list is by no means proscriptive or exhaustive, but it is a list of books that I read (or wish I’d read) in my twenties [...]

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  I don’t usually read memoirs. I have a long-standing bias for fiction for some reason. So a memoir has to sound pretty appealing for me to pick it up. With or Without You by Domenica Ruta came very highly recommended by colleagues. I can’t really remember what they said to make me interested, but [...]

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Chapters-Indigo | Amazon The Dinner by Herman Koch I read this book and immediately wanted to talk about it. But I couldn’t think of a way to talk about it with people who haven’t read it yet. It’s one of those books that you can’t say anything about without spoiling it. Honestly, I think it’s [...]

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I love the Flavia de Luce series! If you’re looking for a great cozy, funny mystery series that already has five books under its belt, you’re in luck! Flavia is our plucky, chemistry-obsessed, 11-year-old amateur sleuth. Somehow trouble follows her around, and not just the trouble she starts when exacting her revenge on her two [...]

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Chapters-Indigo | Amazon I loved Born Weird! I’ve been an Andrew Kaufman fan since I read All My Friends are Superheroes. The five siblings in the Weird family were all, upon their birth, given a blessing by their grandmother–Angie’s blessing is to forgive, always, Richard always keeps safe and so on. But as the children [...]

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In my family, Christmas has always been full of books. We have always given and received books as gifts. And, unlike some families I know, books were never one of the disappointing gifts you passed over to get to the real exciting stuff. Two years ago, I introduced my family to The Hunger Games. I put [...]

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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed Chapters-Indigo | Amazon 2012 has been a pretty good year for Cheryl Strayed, I would guess. She’s had two books published, Tiny Beautiful Things and Wild–which in itself is no small feat for many writers. But to top everything off, Oprah [...]

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There are so many gift guides out there that give you suggestions for what to buy for other people. But sometimes the real problem is answering the question: “What do you want for Christmas?” I don’t know about you, but I always draw a blank–and it’s by no means because I have everything. So we [...]

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It might be even more accurate to say “Ainsley loves Jack Reacher.” When I first started working at Random House, a coworker turned me on to Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series. I started with Gone Tomorrow, the 13th book in the series and I was immediately hooked. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a more [...]

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