Best Books for Twenty Somethings

African American History Month

> 72 Hour Hold: A Novel

by Bebe Moore Campbell

"Fed up with the mental health community and desperate to save her daughter, who is suffering from bipolar disorder, Keri enlists the assistance of the Program, an illegal group of radicals who have rejected the established psychiatric system."

> Some People, Some Other Place

by J. California Cooper

A multi-generational saga chronicles the intertwined lives of the multi-ethnic residents of Dream Street in a town called Place, following one family from the Deep South of 1895, to rural Oklahoma and the industrial Midwest.

Classic Romance> A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster

A story about the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Lucy must find strength to take control of her own faith.

> Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

"A story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed."

Fantasy Classics

> Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson

"He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself."

> The Onion Girl

by Charles De Lint

Life is truly an act of magic in the city of Newford, with its fascinating blend of urban faerie and dreamworld adventures.

Crime Novels of the Year

> Brutal Telling

by Dan Telling

A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier being the killer. Chief Inspector Gamache and his team expose both treasures and rancid secrets.

> The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress; the first novel in the Millennium trilogy.

Non-fiction

War

by Sebastian Junger

Junger turns his empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.

> S**t My Dad Says

by Justin Halpern

"More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern's philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. A chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a new comic voice."

> Unbroken

by Laura Hillenbrand

An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World war II.

Christian Fiction

>Forever

by Karen Kingsbury

Katy Hart is thrilled about her future with Hollywood's Dayne Matthews. But as she plans a wedding and looks for a house, she receives tragic news. Now, she must travel to Los Angeles and sort through her options.