Nadia Hashimi, A House without Windows (William Morrow, 2016) This is an exquisite tale of a despicable crime and the women who committed...

You can see how we members of Five Directions Press spent our holidays: reading! Lots of heavy-hitters on this month’s list, and yes,...

Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, Last Christmas in Paris (William Morrow, 2017) We first meet Thomas Harding in 1968. He’s nearing the end...

Eve Chase, The Wildling Sisters (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017) Applecote Manor is an English country house with a history. In 1954 the...

Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist (Ecco, 2015) The Miniaturist is an emotionally rich and marvelous novel. In seventeenth-century Holland,...

Sofia Grant, The Dress in the Window (William Morrow, 2017) World War II has just ended, and the survivors are ready to abandon the...

Thelma Adams, The Last Woman Standing (Lake Union, 2016) As a teenager, Josephine (Josie) Marcus, the daughter of a Jewish baker in San...

A little late this month, because June 15, when we would normally have posted about the Books We Loved, marked the release date for our...

For the first time, two of our members chose the same novel as their monthly pick, so this is definitely one to look for! But check out...

Aliette de Bodard, The House of Binding Thorns (Ace, 2017) This novel, set in a turn-of-the-century Paris devastated by a magical war, is...

T.C. Boyle, The Terranauts (HarperCollins, 2017) You may remember Biosphere 2 from the early 1990s. Basically it was a huge, privately...

Bren McClain, One Good Mama Bone (Story River Books, 2017) Once in a while, a novel comes along that is just extraordinary, in the best...

Tana French, The Trespasser (Penguin, 2016) Tana French is Irish, and all her books take place in or outside Dublin. To say that they are...

Pauline M. Campos, Baby Fat: Adventures in Motherhood, Muffin Tops, and Trying to Stay Sane (CreateSpace, 2015) When I had my first baby...

Martha Conway, Sugarland (Noontime Books, 2016) It’s 1921, and Prohibition is in full swing, but you wouldn’t know it from the nightclubs...

Stephanie Cowell, Claude and Camille (2011) Lyrical novel about Claude Monet and the woman who loved him despite the opposition of her...

Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden (Thomas & Mercer, 2016) Not for the faint of heart, The Butterfly Garden is creepy crime fiction...

Jennifer Robson, Moonlight over Paris (William Morrow, 2016) This novel about post-war Paris and the Lost Generation is as sparkling and...

Anjali Mitter Duva, Faint Promise of Rain (She Writes Press, 2014) A rare rainstorm greets the birth of a girl into the family of the...