Green Lights Archive
Book
Title
Host
Date
Beautyland
June 5, 2024
It was such a fantastic story—Tender, full of heart, and delightfully weird. I also really loved that it’s a lot about loneliness and belonging.
Lies and Weddings
May 22, 2024
This book is like Succession meets Saltburn meets The Notebook. It's another frothy delight and the perfect summer read!
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
May 22, 2024
Erik Larson is pretty much a season pass for me. In this book, he draws heavily from archives and personal diaries from both the Confederate…
Reboot
May 15, 2024
Very smart and very funny. The writer has an incredible voice, but beware that a shamefully high level of internet and pop culture knowledge is…
The Ministry of Time
May 8, 2024
Truly, my Venn diagram of genres: time travel, thriller, and slow-burn romance. The way that this author sits with Commander Gore as he adjusts to…
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
May 1, 2024
I love Sides’ style of storytelling, and he’s now a season pass because he writes very cinematically without getting stuck in the minutia of the…
Funny Story
April 24, 2024
I’ve greenlit two of her books (Beach Read and Book Lovers), but this is, dare I say, the best one of all the ones she’s…
The Husbands
April 24, 2024
I found this to be such an interesting and unique premise. As someone who's had alternate timeline fatigue, this is a very clever way to…
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
April 10, 2024
It’s as if Practical Magic and The House by the Cerulean Sea had the cutest baby who never cried. It's a cozy delight with troupes…
I Cheerfully Refuse
April 10, 2024
This contained story uses dystopia as the background engine for the premise and focuses on the characters. It is equal parts poetic and gritty. Some…