1. The Magicians by Lev GrossmanQuentin Coldwater is brillant but miserable. He's a senior in high school, and a certifiable genius, but he's still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a kid, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. Compared to that, anything in his real life just seems gray and colorless. Everything changes when Quentin finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. But something is still missing. Magic doesn't bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he though it would.Then, after graduation, he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real.
2. Love, Fiercely by Jean ZimmermanIn Love, Fiercely Jean Zimmerman re-creates the glittering world of Edith Minturn and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. Contemporaries of the Astors and Vanderbilts, they grew up together along the shores of bucolic Staten Island, linked by privilege—her grandparents built the world’s fastest clipper ship, his family owned most of Murray Hill. Theirs was a world filled with mansions, balls, summer homes, and extended European vacations. Newton became a passionate preserver of New York history and published the finest collection of Manhattan maps and views in a six-volume series. Edith became the face of the age when Daniel Chester French sculpted her for Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, a colossus intended to match the Statue of Liberty’s grandeur. Together Edith and Newton battled on behalf of New York’s poor and powerless as reformers who never themselves wanted for anything. Through it all, they sustained a strong-rooted marriage. From the splendid cottages of the Berkshires to the salons of 1890s Paris, Love, Fiercely is the real story of a world long relegated to fiction.
3. The Cookbook Collector by Allegra GoodmanEmily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriends, not so much. National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has written a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.
4. The Runaway Princess by Hester Browne"The Princess Diaries" meets "Runaway Bride" in this wonderful novel about a London career girl who embarks on a whirlwind romance with a mysterious man-only to discover that he's a prince.Renowned for her fresh and lively characters and sharp wit, Hester Browne, bestselling author of the "Little Lady" novels, delivers a tale that strikes a perfect note in these royal-obsessed times. As a high-rise gardener in London, Amy Wilde can make roses and salad leaves spring out of nowhere. But it's love that blossoms when the normally withdrawn Londoner meets Leo at one of the parties thrown by her socialite friend. Tall, blond, and startlingly handsome, Leo is incredibly easygoing, as if he's been brought up to make small talk with complete strangers. In fact, he was-and after a delightfully romantic date, he admits that his real name is Leopold-"Prince" Leopold III of Nirona, a wealthy European principality. After the two become engaged, a scandal makes Leo the heir to his nation's throne and his mood abruptly changes. As the extravagant wedding plans consume the little country, Amy feels increasingly apprehensive and unsure of whether she's the girl Leo thinks she is-especially with a scandal brewing within her own family. But can she run from her true love-and the glitter of royalty-and return to life as a commoner?
Link your Friday Finds below, I can't wait to add them all to my TBR list!
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