14 Books Strand Fans Are Reading Right Now

Strand goers are starting off the new year with some choice picks

Okay okay, enough about me! Let’s talk about you. We asked what Strandies all over the world chose the as their first read of the new year, and you did not disappoint. Excellent taste and thoughtful reviews abound, and you really know how to take a great picture.

1. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

2. Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein

3. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

4. Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva

5. Barbara the Slut and Other People by Lauren Holmes

6. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

7. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa

8. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

9. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston

10. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

11. Grant by Ron Chernow

12. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

13. The Power by Naomi Alderman

14. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson

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