18 Recommended Reads From Your Favorite Bookworm, Reese Witherspoon

Many years after enduring a shocking public humiliation in high school, Ani FaNelli is this close to living the perfect life she's worked hard to achieve. But something private and painful buried in her past threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything. This is a twisty, page-turning, stay-up-all-night read.

This modern love story brings together two people who couldn't have less in common — a paraplegic ex–Master of the Universe and the very ordinary young woman who is hired as his caregiver. This is a heartbreaking romantic story that asks what happens when love isn't enough.

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head after she refused to be silenced or give up her right to go to school. Her memoir is the remarkable story of a family uprooted by global terrorism. I Am Malala will make you believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world.

A young artist agrees to forge a stolen Degas for a renowned gallery owner in exchange for a one-woman show. But she soon suspects that this long-missing masterpiece may itself be a forgery.

This is the true story of Ashley White, who was part of a special pilot program that hand-picked women in the army to play a unique role on special operations teams. Ashley and her colleagues were tasked with gathering intelligence from mothers, sisters, and daughters of Afghani insurgents. They built relationships woman to woman, in ways that male soldiers in an Islamic country never could.

A coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture. After surviving a car accident, supermodel Charlotte Swenson undergoes extensive surgery to reassemble her shattered face. Still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, she becomes a virtual stranger in a world she once effortlessly occupied.

In this candid collection of personal essays, actress and producer Lena Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one’s world: falling in love, being perpetually ten pounds overweight, having to prove yourself in a room full of men twice your age, and believing your story is one that deserves to be told.

The Engagements is an exhilarating novel about Frances Gerety, the real pioneering ad woman who coined the famous slogan, “A diamond is forever,” and four unique marriages that will test how true those words are.

Julia’s quest to solve her sister’s murder quickly evolves into an alluring exploration of her own darkest sensual desires. Her search for answers will jeopardize her marriage, her family, and her life. A tense and unrelenting novel, this is a masterwork of suspense.

An imaginative and poignant adult fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror. This bewitching and harrowing story of mystery, survival, memory, and magic makes the impossible all too real.

A brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. And it’s slated to be a limited TV series, starring Nicole Kidman and who else but Reese Witherspoon.

Perhaps you’re a fan of B. J. Novak’s from The Office or his many film appearances. One More Thing is his acclaimed, entertaining first collection of short stories that has at its heart the inner stirring for the one elusive element that just might make a person complete.

This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is the powerful, moving story of a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II.

During a weekend away with a friend in an eerie glass house, crime writer Leonora wakes up in a hospital bed injured wondering not “What happened?” but “What have I done?” This one is for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.

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