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Washington Books: The Best Books Set in the Evergreen State
By: Angela & Melissa
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As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, we may earn a referral fee from qualifying purchases.Whether you’re participating in our Read Around the USA Challenge or simply found your way to our website researching books set in Washington, we’ve curated a diverse list of highly-rated titles about the Evergreen State! If you’re looking for another state, check our comprehensive list of books set in every state.
A Few Things Washington is Known For…
Washington was admitted as the 42nd state of the Union in 1889 and its early years of statehood saw growth spurred by gold rushes, logging, and fishing. By the mid-20th century, the aerospace industry was growing rapidly in Washington, led by Boeing. Towards the end of the century, the emergence of technology companies, such as Microsoft and Amazon, sparked another economic transformation. This established Washington as a global hub for the technology and digital economy.
The Pacific coast of Washington features rugged beaches and rainforests that giveaway to the snow-capped Olympic Mountains. East of the Olympic Mountains is the Puget Sound inlet, along which the cities of Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and Everett are located. On the other side of these metropolitan areas is the Cascade Range.
The iconic, volcanic Mount Rainier is visible from Seattle on a clear day. A bit further south is Mount St. Helens, which erupted in May of 1980 in one of the most significant volcanic events in US history. The 9-hour eruption flattened the surrounding forest, and rivers were clogged with ash and debris, causing severe flooding. Within hours, falling ash closed highways around the region, including I-90 between Seattle and Spokane.
In addition to its natural beauty, Washington is known for its coffee culture and its vibrant music and arts scene. While Seattle may be best known as the home of Starbucks, which was founded in 1971, the state is packed with independent coffee shops that serve as community gathering places. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Seattle also put its name on the global music map as the epicenter of grunge music. Bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains cultivated their raw, alternative sound in the city’s clubs, forever changing the rock music landscape.
The Best Books Set in Washington
The Heart of Winter
Book Summary
Back in college, Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke went on a terrible blind date. Against all odds, that date led to a seven-decades long marriage. Together, the two built a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island where they raised children, fell in and out of lockstep. endured losses. Through it all, they forged a dependable partnership.
Now in their 80s, the live they’ve created together is beginning to fall apart when Ruth’s health begins to fail. As she stuggles with the loss of her independence, Abe wants nothing more than to take care of her. But their adult children are unconvinced of his ability to do so and encourage their parents to sell the farm.
The Book Girls Say…
This character-driven novel provides readers a look at Abe and Ruth’s relationship from the time they meet in the 1950s all the way up to the present day. It is described as a “bighearted and profound portrait of a marriage,” and the island atmosphere feels like an active character in the story.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Book Girls’ Readers Rate This Book
98% Would Recommend to a Friend
Book Summary
In this charming debut novel, Widower Tova works at the Sowell Bay Aquarium to occupy her mind and time. She takes pride in cleaning perfectly every night, even though she doesn’t need the money. She loves all the aquarium life but forms a special bond with the intelligent (and curmudgeonly) octopus named Marcellus.
He’s just as surprised to feel friendly toward this human who visits him nightly. Soon, he connects the sadness he sees in her with something he saw in the ocean long ago. Can he help her solve the mystery of her son’s disappearance 30 years ago?
The Book Girls Say…
Neither of us expected to have a book partially narrated by a giant Pacific octopus on our best books of 2022 list, but Marcellus stole our hearts. Beyond that, we loved each of the human characters and their struggles in different phases of life. Young or older, so many people deal with loneliness and loss. Watching characters process and evolve through that was a heartwarming treat.
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The Light Through the Leaves
Book Summary
This contemporary mystery is set in the remote Washington wilderness. Ellis only left her daughter, Viola, alone for a minute, but now she has disappeared. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone.
A young girl, Raven, has special gifts and spends her days learning how to both use and hide them. Despite her mother’s cautions to keep herself hidden, she longs for more. How will the stories of Ellis & Raven converge?
The Library of Borrowed Hearts
Book Girls’ Readers Rate This Book
98% Would Recommend to a Friend
Book Summary
Librarian Chloe is struggling to take care of herself and her three younger siblings when she stumbles across a rare edition of a book from the 1960s at the local flea market. She’s shocked when her cranky neighbor, Jasper, offers to buy it for an exorbitant price. But then she spots old notes scribbled in the margins between long lovers and realizes some of the handwriting is Jasper’s.
This kickstarts a literary scavenger hunt through not only this book, but others in town with similar notes. Is there more to Chloe cranky neighbor than meets the eye?
The Book Girls Say…
This 2024 novel from the author of The Lonely Hearts Book Club is said to be a light, cozy, and heartfelt read. The story alternates between 1960s & today as Chloe uncovers Jasper’s past. We love the dual-connections over books, first between Jasper and his love, and then between Chloe and Jasper decades later.
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Blackberry Winter
Book Girls’ Readers Rate This Book
98% Would Recommend to a Friend
Book Summary
In May 1933, Seattle was covered with a surprise late snow. When single mother Vera returns from her night shift at the local hotel, she discovers that her three-year-old son Daniel has disappeared into the icy weather. While his teddy bear is found on the streets, new snow has covered any other tracks or clues.
Nearly 80 years later, in 2010, there is another shocking May snowstorm in Seattle. Reporter Claire is assigned to write about the parallels to the 1933 “Blackberry Winter” storm. When she uncovers the story of Daniel’s disappearance, she refocuses her story on his case. The book alternates perspectives between Vera in 1933 & Claire in 2010.
The Book Girls Say…
Several of Sarah Jio’s books are set in Washington. If you are interested in the Seattle music scene in the 1990s, pick up Always. If you love books about bookstores, try Goodnight June, and if you haven’t read Sarah Jio’s debut novel, pick up The Violets of March, which is set on Bainbridge Island.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
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Bernadette lives with her husband and her teenage daughter in Seattle – a city where she’s never felt she fits in. She was once a renowned architect, but now spends most of her time in the house hiding from the other moms of her daughter’s elite prep school.
Unlike her Microsoft employee husband, Elgie, who has fully embraced the granola-eating, public transport-using, bike-riding culture of 2010s Seattle, Bernadette spends her days in the house relying on a virtual assistant in India for many of her daily tasks. This becomes a real problem when her daughter’s stellar report card earns her a family cruise to Antarctica, and Bernadette becomes overwhelmed by the planning and preparations. When Bernadette disappears before the trip, her daughter Bee is determined to track her down, unraveling a web of secrets.
Much of this book is told in epistolary form, including notes from Bee’s school, email exchanges between Bernadette and her virtual assistant, and catty moms communicating about Bernadette’s eccentricities.
The Book Girls Say…
If you’re drawn to quirky and eccentric characters, you might love Bernadette as much as we do! This satirical novel was a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for “Best Humor” when it was released in 2012, and it’s one of our favorite laugh-out-loud reads. But it’s more than just that… Maria Semple managed to create an enjoyable, witty, smart, and emotional novel!
Angela and her husband both enjoyed the audio version of this book, and this is one of the rare instances where we felt like the movie was almost as good as the book!
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Book Girls’ Readers Rate This Book
90% Would Recommend to a Friend
Book Summary
When a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, a Japanese American is charged with his murder. Haunted by the memories of the Japanese internment camps during WWII just a decade before, events during the trial make it clear that much more is at stake in this community than one man’s guilt or innocence.
The Book Girls Say…
This book is on the longer side at 460 pages, but some readers say it feels longer because it’s a slower-paced, descriptive read. This novel was also adapted into a 1999 film of the same title starring Ethan Hawke.
If you are interested in reading about the post-Japenese internment camp era from a YA perspective, pick up Nora & Kettle. The novel is described as simultaneously sad and uplifting.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Book Girls’ Readers Rate This Book
98% Would Recommend to a Friend
Book Summary
Be warned, while this often hilarious and uplifting story will make you smile, you’ll also need lots of tissues to wipe your eyes. Narrated by Enzo, a philosophizing dog, who is recalling all he and his family has been through on his final evening on earth.
Enzo’s master, Denny, is an up-and-coming race car driver who has taught Enzo that life, like racing, isn’t simply about going fast. While this sounds like a quirky concept, it’s actually a beautiful book about the wonders and absurdities of human life.
The Book Girls Say…
Random fact of the day – the adorable dog photographed for the cover of this book belonged to one of Angela’s friends!
Love & Saffron
Book Girls’ Readers Rate This Book
100% Would Recommend to a Friend
Book Summary
Fifty-something Imogen Fortier is a magazine columnist living on Camano Island outside of Seattle. When she receives a fan letter, containing a gift of saffron, from 27-year-old Joan Bergstrom in LA, she writes back. Thus begins an unlikely friendship between these two women.
As the years pass, their letters to one another help them through the ups and downs of the world – the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of President Kennedy – as well as the unexpected twists and turns in their own lives. From world events to romantic relationships, through their letters they discover that food and a good life can’t be separated. Can anything shake the trust they’ve built over their years of correspondence?
This book is fully written in epistolary style, so you’ll be reading the letters back and forth between the women. The author kept the book on the shorter side, hoping it could be enjoyed in one sitting.
The Book Girls Say…
Melissa read this book on a family vacation when she knew time would be limited and she looked for something short and light. Love & Saffron exceeded her expectations! It was such a lovely story of friendship and the power of making a friend through writing first before ever meeting. As Melissa & Angela (the Book Girls) met through online communication, it was fun to be reminded that before computers, pen pals could become your dearest friends.
Don’t miss the author’s note at the end of the book, which shares details about the real-life women who inspired the story.
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So Far Gone
Book Summary
They say you shouldn’t talk politics at Thanksgiving dinner, but in 2016, that was especially hard to avoid. After the conversation escalated to a political fight, Rhys wound up punching his son-in-law. Horrified by his own actions, as well as the state of the world around him, Rhys chucked his smartphone out of the car window and fled for a remote cabin in the woods of the Pacific Northwest.
Seven years later, his grandchildren, whom he barely recognizes, show up on his doorstep seeking help. Their mom has disappeared and they need a refuge away from their father, who has taken up with a Christian Nationalist militia. His home, with no electricity or indoor plumbing, is hardly a place for kids, but he would do anything to protect them.
When the militia members show up and kidnap the children, Rhys has no choice but to reenter the world. With the help of a bipolar retired detective and his caustic ex-girlfriend, he heads up a madcap journey through the rubble of his old life in hopes of saving his grandchildren.
The Book Girls Say…
This novel does not shy away from politics, so skip it if you’re not in the headspace for that.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet
Book Girls’ Readers Rate This Book
97% Would Recommend to a Friend
Book Summary
Henry Lee’s father desperately wants his son to be an American. But at his school, he is ignored by all of the white kids. The one friend he makes is a young Japanese girl named Keiko. Soon, Keiko and her family are rounded up into a Japanese internment camp. Forty years later, Henry finds himself searching to reconnect.
In addition to giving readers a closer look at the Japanese internment camps in America that often get glossed over in our history lessons, this book also peeks into the 1940s Seattle jazz scene.
The Book Girls Say…
Melissa really enjoyed learning about a part of WWII that she knew very little about. This one will make you think, but it’s NOT a graphic look into the horrors of war.
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Weather Girl
Book Summary
Ari loves her job as a TV meteorologist, and she’s eager to learn from her boss Torrance, Seattle’s famed weatherwoman. But Torrance’s ex-husband, Seth, is also the station’s news director, so she’s too wrapped up in her own relationship drama to provide mentorship to Ari.
After a particularly disastrous office party, Ari commiserates with sports reporter Russell. Together, they hatch a plan to get their bosses back together to calm the office storms. Their scheming leads to unforecasted results when it turns out that they are the ones with the real chemistry. Despite their connection, both are skeptical about starting a relationship – Ari is struggling with her mental health and Russell’s heart belongs to his tween daughter, and he’s not sure he’s ready to share it with anyone else.
The Book Girls Say…
Recahel Lynn Solomon’s The Ex-Talk is another fun rom-com set in Seattle.
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This Is How It Always Is
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Claude is the youngest son in a family with five brothers. And he firmly knows that when he grows up, he wants to be a girl. His parents see his sincerity and opt to move out of their smaller town to Seattle, where they expect people to be more accepting of others. However, despite being okay with Claude being whoever he is, they don’t want themselves or Claude to be targeted. In their new city, Claude is Poppy. The entire family keeps the secret until everything explodes one day.
The Book Girls Say…
This story is a timely look at the inner workings of a family with a transgender child. While the book is about a fictionalized family, the author has first-hand experiences with the topic, giving authenticity to the parents’ perspectives.
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Firefly Lane
Book Summary
From 8th grade, Kate and Tully cycle through the highs and lows of long-term friendships as they try to figure out what they want from the world and what they need from each other.
Tully seems to have both beauty and brains while Kate feels doomed to be uncool forever. However, Tully doesn’t have it all. She longs to fill the void left when her mom abandoned her, and she funnels all her feelings into ambition at work. Kate is equally driven, but her life looks different as she becomes a wife and mother.
The Book Girls Say…
In Firefly Lane, Kristin Hannah uses the descriptive talent you know from her historical fiction books to share the story of three decades between friends. The sequel, Fly Away, is set four years after the conclusion of Firefly Lane.
Many of Kristin Hannah’s books are set in the Pacific Northwest, reflecting her deep ties to this region. Her family moved to the area when she was eight, and she attended the University of Washington and the University of Puget Sound School of Law. Other Hannah titles set in Washington that you might want to consider include Home Again, Summer Island, The Things We Do for Love, Night Road, and Wild.
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The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
Book Summary
Zora lives in poverty and spends her days caring for her younger siblings. To make extra money for her family, she works as a seamstress, repairing holes and adjusting hems. But as she works, she dreams of living a more glamorous life as a designer like Coco Chanel or Jeanne Lanvin.
Despite Prohibition, Zora’s friend Rose finds a job at an underground speakeasy. When Zora joins her one night, she’s in awe of the sparkling gowns and couples dancing freely. At the club, she meets Harley, a businessman with a life very different than her own. While Harley can provide Zora with a dream life, will her duty to her family allow her to embrace her true ambition?
The Book Girls Say…
The first and last chapters of this novel take place in the present day at the Smithsonian, as a curator has discovered a label reading “Zora Lily” in a gown initially believed to have been made by a well-known designer. However, the bulk of the book is Zora’s story in the 1920s and the story does not alternate timelines outside of the beginning and end.
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By the Book Mysteries
Book Summary
If your idea of the perfect summer is a getaway to a rustic cabin, then add Buried in a Good Book to your summer reading list.
Tess Harrow is a bestselling writer of thrillers, but this summer, she just wants to take a break to bond with her daughter after her recent divorce. But they’ve barely settled in when an explosion rocks the cabin and Tess finds herself pulled into a murder investigation.
The local sheriff turns out to be the spitting image of the detective that Tess writes in her books, her young daughter is fascinated by dead bodies, and the neighbors are pointing their fingers at Bigfoot. Nothing about this summer is going as she had planned.
The Book Girls Say…
If you love cozy mysteries, you may also be interested in the Seattle-set Spice Shop Mystery Series by Leslie Budewitz.
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Book Summary
Looking to escape the Seattle neighborhood where her husband cheated on her with her neighbor and former friend, Karissa moves with her 9-year-old daughter to the city of Gig Harbor on the bay in Puget Sound. She takes a job as an assistant at a small publishing company, which is perfect for a bookworm, even if her boss seems like a curmudgeon.
In her new neighborhood, she learns that she’s not the only one in need of a fresh start. Her new neighbors, Alice and Margot, are dealing with crises of their own – one grieving her late husband, and the other floundering after the back-to-back blows of divorce and being laid off.
They could all use a distraction, and a book club seems like the perfect answer. Karissa, Margo, Alice, and Alice’s grumpy older sister, Josie, embark on a literary journey as they begin building their best lives.
Crow Talk
Book Summary
Frankie is working on her PhD dissertation in ornithology but needs a quiet place to focus as she’s been distracted by a loss. Her family has a summer cabin at Beauty Bay, a community of lakeside summer homes in the remote foothills of Mount Adams. Due to the treacherous conditions in winter, it’s uncommon for visitors to be in the community, so it’s the perfect place for her to work on her research about the special language of crows.
When she finds an injured baby crow, he not only helps her heal, but is the catalyst to a relationship with a mother and her five-year-old child, who has stopped speaking. Frankie was shocked to find them living in the grand house next door this time of year.
The Book Girls Say…
Author Eileen Garvin also wrote The Music of Bees, which has been a favorite among our readers. Crow Talk dives deep into the language and traits of crows and will leave you feeling more educated about these surprisingly intelligent birds. It is NOT magical realism with crows “speaking,” but the character studying the crows’ real communications.
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Not in the Plan
Book Summary
Feeling the pressure of writer’s block and a looming deadline, Mack escapes New York and heads for Seattle. Her coffee addiction brings her into the nearly bankrupt coffee shop owned by a beautiful woman named Charlie.
Despite being total opposites – Charlie is free-spirited to Mack’s uptight ways – their chemistry is undeniable. Mack has found her muse. She starts using Charlie’s private stories in her novel, but if Charlie finds out, will their budding romance stand a chance?
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The Drowning Woman
Book Summary
When Lee’s restaurant fails, she finds herself unexpectedly living out of her Toyota Corolla. She parks near the beach to lay low. Early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee jumps into action and saves the woman, Hazel, who is furious that she is still alive.
Hazel shares that she’s in an abusive marriage and hoped to escape her toxic life. Hazel returns to her home, but then comes back to the beach the next morning and begins an unlikely friendship with Lee. Eventually, she begs Lee to help her disappear. However, things are often not what they seem. If you love a dramatic twist, pick up this one!
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The Sister Effect
Book Summary
Finley and her sister, Sloane, had a rough childhood. Their mother abandoned them to pursue her Hollywood dreams, then their grandfather walked out on them, too. Traumatized by the chaos of her youth, Finley now does everything she can to keep her life calm and orderly. On the other hand, Sloane is following in her mother’s footsteps. When Sloane walks out on her daughter, Finley finds herself raising her niece.
Finley is determined to give her niece the stability she never had and to ensure she’ll always know she’s loved and wanted. So when Sloane shows back up, Finley is very hesitant to trust her.
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing
Book Summary
We first meet the Eapen family in 1979 when Thomas visits his mother’s home in India. She tries to convince him to stay in India with his young family, but Thomas, a surgeon, has already built a new life for himself in New Mexico. His wife, Kamala, however, would love to stay in India.
In 1998, Thomas’s now-grown daughter is a photographer living in Seattle. She learns from her mother that her dad is sitting on the porch talking to dead relatives, but she assumes her mom is exaggerating. When she returns home, the situation is much more complicated than her mother lets on. To help her father, they’ll all have to come to terms with the family’s painful past.
The Book Girls Say…
Readers say this is a sad story, but it also has plenty of lighter moments that will make you smile. It’s a long book – over 500 pages – so choose this epic when you have plenty of time to cozy up and read.
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Things We Do in the Dark
Book Summary
When Paris is suspected of killing her celebrity husband with a straight razor in their bathtub, she has more to worry about than a possible charge for this crime. Media attention is bringing back people from the past she’s tried so desperately to leave behind.
Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby was convicted of a similar murder. She’s the one who knows who Paris really is, and she’s just been released from prison. After Ruby threatens to expose all of Paris’ secrets, Paris must confront her dark past before she ends up with not just one, but two, murder charges.
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The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
Book Summary
At thirty-two, Lolly still reflects on how her life is different from what she planned each day as she whips up lemon meringue pies. Ten years ago, her mother died and she had to abandon her dream of opening her own restaurant. Instead, she assumed care of her younger sister, grieving father, and their struggling Seattle diner.
As her birthday approaches, Lolly’s quirky great-aunt gives her three lemon drops, each of which allows her to live a single day in a life that might have been hers. Each experience helps Lolly reconcile her life and what could have been, but also gives her the courage to embrace her current life.
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Twenty years ago when she was a teenager, Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s sister vanished. She’s been searching for clues or closure ever since, including her career choice trying to find other missing girls.
Now, she has a glimmer of hope. Local teenager Ellie has been found by hikers. She was still alive in the Washington woods two years after her disappearance. Even though she’s now safe, Ellie won’t reveal where she was or who she was with.
The Book Girls Say…
The complicated backstories of both Chelsey and Ellie make them both compelling and flawed main characters. If you enjoy audiobooks, reviewers praise the engaging full-cast audio recording.
HEADS UP: Flashbacks in this novel include difficult scenes of trauma, including sexual abuse.
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House Lessons
Book Summary
In this memoir, told through a series of essays, author Erica Bauermeister (who you might recognize from fiction titles like The Scent Keeper) shares the experience of renovating a trash-filled house in eccentric Port Townsend, Washington. Along the way, she invites readers on a journey to discover the ways our spaces affect us.
This is a personal and literary exploration of the psychology of architecture and a tribute to the connections we forge with our homes.
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Women Are The Fiercest Creatures
Book Summary
Set against the backdrop of Seattle’s wealthy tech elite, this fast-paced novel follows three women who take on (and try to take down) a manipulative CEO.
Together, Anna and her husband Jake built a company. But after a sudden divorce, Anna finds herself pushed out of the company and struggling to raise their two teenage sons on her own.
On the other side of the city, Samanta still has lingering, unanswered questions from her college relationship with Jake. When she learns that his tech company is positioned for a billion-dollar IPO, she decides maybe it’s time for her to seek answers… and justice.
Then there’s Jake’s new, much younger wife, Jess. She feels her husband pulling away from her just as she’s adjusting to life as a new mom.
As this novel develops, the lives of these three women become intertwined. Long-buried secrets will be revealed.
The Book Girls Say…
This thought-provoking novel will give book clubs plenty to talk about! Told primarily from the viewpoints of Anna and Samanta, each woman is a complex, multi-layered character that you’ll be thinking about long after you turn the final page. With themes of motherhood, friendship, and female strength, readers are likely to see bits and pieces of themselves reflected in the different characteristics of each woman.
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Written in the Stars
Book Summary
Elle is an astrologer who runs a Twitter account called Oh My Stars. When her new business partner sets her up on a blind date with his sister, Darcy, it’s clear they have nothing in common. But Darcy is desperate for her brother to stop playing matchmaker, so she tells him the date went well… and now she has to convince Elle to go along with the lie and pretend that they are dating.
Elle reluctantly agrees on the condition that Darcy will help her navigate her overbearing family during the holidays. The arrangement expires on New Year’s Eve. But what happens if their fake relationship turns into real feelings before the year ends?
The Book Girls Say…
This OwnVoices queer rom-com is not to be confused with Aisha Saeed’s book by the same title, which is set in Pakistan and included on our Southern Asia booklist.
The Shop on Blossom Street
Book Summary
Welcome to A Good Yarn, a new shop on Blossom Street in Seattle where knitters go for yarn, patterns, and lasting friendships. In the first novel in the Blossom Street series, we are introduced to Lydia, the owner of the shop, and her three students who all come from very different walks of life.
Lydia is a cancer survivor who initially took up knitting to help her through her treatments. As the women get to know one another while knitting baby blankets, they learn that each of them has difficult things going on in their lives.
The Book Girls Say…
While Debbie Macomber is well known for writing enjoyably light and uplifting reads, keep in mind that this book also deals with issues that some may find triggering, including illness and infertility.
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Read Around the USA – Books Set in Other States
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You Have a Match
Book Summary
Seventeen-year-old Abby takes a DNA test in order to support her best friend (and secret crush) Leo in his search for his birth family. She is shocked when her test reveals that she has a sister she never knew about who is just 18 months older.
Her secret sister, Savannah Tully, is a popular Instagram influencer who, with her shimmery hair and green smoothies, seems about as a different from Abby as possible.
Eager to find out why Abby’s parents gave Savvy up for adoption, the sisters decide to meet up at summer camp. Abby soon learns that Savvy is a rigid rule-follower and that her parents might have even more secrets than she realized.
To complicate matters further, Leo is at the same camp for the summer, adding another layer to Abby’s confused emotions.
The Book Girls Say…
While this book has a lower rating than we usually look for (3.56), it has been recommended to Angela by several friends and it was also nominated for Readers’ Favorite Young Adult Fiction on Goodreads in 2021. If you are looking for a light, fun read and you are open to YA fiction, this might just be a fun pick.
