Reading

This month, we’re flush with recommendations for books that will draw you in.

Every December, I file away the list of books I read over the year and look forward to sharing favorite books with friends in order to clear the cache for a new year. As we head into the final days of 2015, our staff share some of their current picks to kick off a new year of reading.

Our staff help readers prepare for the post-Thanksgiving, leftover-laden weekend with a great selection of books. Add your current favorites to our stack!

As we head into cooler months, I’ve got my eye on my rocker, where I long to curl up in a with a blanket, a cat, and a book. This month our staff give us plenty of varied options, from a fiction anthology to nonfiction and memoir.

At the Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the US, I snapped up a stack of classics from a used book tent. Find out more about these selections and other staff and contributor picks.

As summer comes to a close, must our reading passion also wane with the season? I am happy to report the opposite to be true this month for me. The kids are back in school but not yet inundated with projects; thus, my mounting stack of books topples over with new selections now more than ever. Check out our recent favorites, some of which are hot off the presses.

We’re now a month past the solstice, and summer is in full swing. If you’re reaching the end of a book or bottom of your stack, our writers and editors offer you some smart and award-worthy titles to round out and refresh your summer reading selections.

In June, we Literary Mamas read on, certain that reading will carry us forward with the reminder that there is more out there in the world than our own hustling hive.

This time of year brings delightful signs of rebirth and change. I find myself seeking commencement speeches to read in the hope I might soak up their heady optimism for positive growth. But while I have my head in the clouds, I am happy to learn that literary mamas back on earth have been reading lengthier pieces they can share with us.

Brief moments of delightful silence during spring break have summoned my pen to paper; I am drafting a summer reading list. This month we recommend titles to kick off your summer reading list.

There are times you pick up a book that becomes a fast friend you can’t imagine letting go. I haven’t read a book in a while that I couldn’t put down, but I do so love that feeling. Literary Mama contributors shared what they’re reading, which might just enchant you enough to become your next best friend.