1. "The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah – A beautiful and heartbreaking story of two sisters in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
2. "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens – A captivating novel about a young woman living in the marshes of North Carolina and the mystery surrounding her life.
3. "Educated" by Tara Westover – A memoir about a woman who grew up in a strict, survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually went on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
4. "Circe" by Madeline Miller – A retelling of the Greek myth of Circe, the witch who turns Odysseus' men into pigs, from her perspective.
5. "The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides – A psychological thriller about a woman who shoots her husband and then stops speaking, and the therapist who tries to uncover the truth behind her silence.