Belletrist Book Club - Emma Roberts' Book Club
Belletrist Book Club
- November 2020: Collected Stories by Shirley Hazzard
- October 2020: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
- September 2020: The Lightness by Emily Temple
- August 2020: Luster by Raven Leilani & Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh
- July 2020: The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayetu Moore
Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award–winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories
"We Ride Upon Sticks . . . is for the kind of adults who watch Stranger Things and still have, somewhere, an athletic award inscribed on a paper plate." —NPR
**NPR “Best Books of 2020**
**TIME “Must Read Books of 2020”**
**Book Riot "Best Books of 2020**
“A teen thriller in the vein of the ‘90s horror movie The Craft . . . A beautiful meditation on meditation . . . Frequently hilarious, and thoughtful throughout.” —The New York Times Book Review
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
*BELLETRIST'S AUGUST 2020 BOOK PICK*
"[Mackintosh's] writing is clear and sharp, with piercing moments of wisdom and insight that drive toward a pitch-perfect ending...Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." --New York Times Book Review
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States