Rad Book Haus
For people who are a little too into books.
Reviews, recommendations, reading lists, and literary rabbit holes from the bookish side of Unrushed Press.
latest from the haus
Books in Conversation: The Midnight Library
We’re turning the page on the second half of our first Books in Conversation pairing. After spending September with Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks, we’re moving into Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, a novel about regret, possibility, and all the lives we imagine we might have lived.
Together, the two books ask a bigger question: What do we do with the one life we’ve actually been given?
Conquer the Cosmere: Our Brandon Sanderson Reading Order
The Rad Bookshelf: 5 Books We’d Hand to You Right Now
book review: a thousand little goodbyes
from the shelf
in my hands
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
by deesha philyaw
An advanced reader copy (ARC) ahead of its September 29 release, following the wife of a powerful megachurch pastor whose polished rags-to-Rolex life starts to unravel when a secret from her past resurfaces. I’m very curious to see what’s hiding behind the perfect public image.
Review to come soon.
in rotation
The Stars look Like Home by TJ Klune
Releasing January 2027, The Stars Look Like Home is a funny and moving adventure novel about finding one’s place in the universe from the perspective of a dog. A promise: The dog does not die in this. If there’s one author I always buy, it’s T.J. Klune.
east of eden by john steinbeck
With Netflix’s new adaptation arriving in October, I’m finally tackling the classic first for a proper page-to-screen read… and apparently this has accidentally become my Florence Pugh reading list, since she also leads this adaptation as Cathy Ames.
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