This week’s Best Book is Shirley by Susan Scarf Merrell! Also recommended is No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

This week’s Best Book is The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson!

This week’s Best Book is Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck! Also recommended: Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken!

This week’s Best Book is Slade House by David Mitchell!

This week’s Best Book is Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey!

This week’s Best Book is The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks!

This week’s Best Book is Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson!

This week’s Best Book is Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope!

This week’s Best Book is The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James! Also recommended is Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor.

This week’s Best Book is Still Alice by Lisa Genova!