At age 17, Tara Westover found herself at a crossroads: without a formal education she faced an uphill battle if she wanted a life beyond her father's junkyard. In her memoir, Educated, readers learn that Westover was born into a devout Mormon family led by a patriarch who viewed government-mandated education and healthcare with fanatical skepticism. Raised on a remote mountainside in Idaho with her 7 siblings, Westover would never step into a proper classroom as a child. Mir

In An Untamed State by Roxane Gay, Mireille Duval Jameson is kidnapped as she, her husband, Michael, and her infant son, Christophe, are leaving her father's fortified, Haitian estate. A group of men, led by "the Commander", rip Mireille away from her family and hold her in captivity in hopes they can force a seven-figure ransom from her father, Sebastien Duval. Avoiding a thriller plot focused on how Mireille will be rescued, the story's focus is on the extreme ways Mireille

The Pisces is a book about a woman who is trying to figure out what the hell we're supposed to be doing in this life. She is trying to figure out what love really is and whether we can ever be truly happy with what we have - or are we doomed to always want more? And, most importantly, are the people who say they're happy with what they have just straight up liars? She doesn't believe most of what people say, and constantly makes up her version of their truth in her mind. Lucy