EBEven though this is the Harper Perennial blog, I want to start sharing my love for the books I’m reading that are published by other imprints (both within and outside of HarperCollins) more often. After all, though sometimes it may seem that way, I don’t only read Harper Perennial books. And since I was a Harper Perennial fan long before I was a Harper Perennial employee, it stands to reason that other Harper Perennial fans might have similar tastes. Anyway, here are some books I’ve loved recently:
Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother’s Compulsive Hoarding by Jessie Sholl
If you like Hoarders, you’ll probably like this book. But beyond that, it’s also a memoir about growing up with a mentally ill parent and having to parent yourself. There are no hoarders in my family, but I still found myself reading passages aloud to my boyfriend, astonished at how well they described my own feelings.
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
I’m a big, BIG Kate Atkinson fan. Not only have I read all her Jackson Brodie detective novels, of which this is the fourth, but all of her earlier books as well. If you have any interest in literary mysteries, I beg you to read this, or to start with Case Histories, the first Jackson Brodie book.
Anyone else read these?
