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3 Books Worth Their Hype in 2019
If a book gets a lot of buzz, I probably won’t like it. This year, there were three exceptions.
I don’t tend to read many books with excessive hype. Generally speaking, the more buzz a book has surrounding it, the more likely it’s not going to be one for me. And if it gets a celebrity’s endorsement?
Forget it.
Of course, there are exceptions. The three I selected as being worth their hype are three which received a lot of attention in the book universe this year. What’s interesting to me about this trio is that they are all written by women authors. And with the exception of Flash Count Diary, all were audiobooks. (I’m a big audiobook listener.) That wasn’t intentional, but just how it happened.
For the purposes of this post, I’m limiting this to books I read this year that were also published in 2019.
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver is a novel about two families who inhabit the same Vineland, New Jersey house more than a century apart. We meet the Knox family — Willa, a middle-aged, freelance writer; her husband who has lost his tenured position at a…
