A Peek at Peak Picks – February 2025

We’re adding eleven books to Peak Picks in February!

In fiction, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eowyn Ivey (The Snow Child) returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question – can love save us from ourselves? – in Black Woods, Blue Sky. TJ Klune is back with a supernatural road-trip thriller featuring an extraordinary young girl and her two unlikely protectors on the run from cultists and the government in The Bones Beneath My Skin; Literary master Ali Smith delivers a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing in the dystopian novel Gliff; Set in 1930s London, Marie Benedict tells a thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder in The Queens of Crime; Anne Tyler’s latest features a socially awkward mother of the bride as she navigates the days before and after her daughter’s wedding in the novella Three Days in June; and from Virginia Feito, the acclaimed author of Mrs. March, comes the riveting tale of a bloodthirsty governess who learns the true meaning of vengeance in Victorian Psycho.

In nonfiction, Pulitzer-Prize winner Geraldine Brooks pens a heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace following the death of her husband in Memorial Days; Andrea Dunlop, the host and creator of the award-winning true crime podcast Nobody Should Believe Me delivers a groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that investigates Munchausen by Proxy in The Mother Next Door; Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey On the Hippie Trail; From Omar El Akkad (American War) comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values in One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This; and from Kelsey McKinney, host of the Normal Gossip podcast, comes a delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with gossip that weaves together journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir in You Didn’t Hear This From Me.

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  We’re adding eleven books to Peak Picks in February! In fiction, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eowyn Ivey (The Snow Child) returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question – can love save us from ourselves? – in Black Woods, Blue Sky. TJ Klune is back with a supernatural road-trip thriller featuring … Continue reading “A Peek at Peak Picks – February 2025” 

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