Holiday Reads Our Community Is Loving
Looking for a great holiday read? Us too! We crowdsourced recommendations from our community and pulled together a list of books Scarsdale residents are loving right now. Whether you’re traveling, relaxing by the fire, or stealing a quiet moment, these books are perfect companions. See below to discover your next read. 📚
Note: All images and book descriptions from Good Reads
Heart the Lover By Lily King
Genre: fiction, romance
In the fall of her senior year of college, the narrator meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world. She quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. She soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.
The River is waiting By wally lamb
Genre: fiction, mystery
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that's before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart.
Sisters of Fortune By Esther Chehebar
Genre: historical fiction
Three Syrian Jewish sisters chase love and grapple with the growing pains of young womanhood as they seek their place within and beyond their Brooklyn community.
Broken Country By Clare Leslie Hall
Genre: historical fiction
A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
The Women By Kristin Hannah
Genre: historical fiction
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.
Beach Read By Emily Henry
Genre: contemporary romance novel
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Carrie Soto is Back By Taylor Jenkins Reid
Genre: historical fiction
By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record.
The Wife Upstairs By Frieda McFadden
Genre: psychological fiction
Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems. Then she’s in a terrible accident… and everything falls apart.
Blue Sisters By Coco Mellors
Genre: contemporary fiction
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family.
Guided By Laura Lynne Jackson
Genre: spirituality, self help
In Guided, Jackson shares the unforgettable and moving experiences of regular people who have learned how to respond to the messages sent to them by their Teams of Light in order to discover their higher paths. Offering solace and comfort though times of grief, and chockfull of inspiring, motivating stories, Guided points the way toward an illuminated life for us all.
The Alice Network By Kate Quinn
Genre: historical fiction
In an enthralling historical novel, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.