Friday Five – January 10th, 2020

That’s Mental by Amanda Rosenberg was called a 2019 book not to miss by Shondaland.

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins was called a book worth reading by TIME, named a best book of 2020 so far by Real Simple, featured as a must-read book of January by Entertainment Weekly and a best new book of the year by PopSugar.

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe, Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald, The Opposite of Fate by Alison McGhee, The Wife Who Knew Too Much by Michele Campbell, The Tenant by Katrine Engberg, Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore, Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier and A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers were called 10 of the most anticipated books of 2020 by Parade.

Harley in the Sky by Akemi Bowman and Anna K by Jenny Lee were called two of the top YA book releases by The Nerd Daily.

Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald and Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore were featured as two hot winter picks on Readers Lane.

Behind Every Lie author Christina McDonald had a personal essay about the heaviness of motherhood featured on Scary Mommy.

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, A Star is Bored by Byron Lane and The Half Sister by Sandie Jones were called titles to look out for this year by Library Journal.

Rea Frey’s Until I Find You had an exclusive first look featured on She Reads.

Anna K by Jenny Lee was named a YA release to watch out for by The Nerd Daily.

Behind Every Lie author Christina McDonald and The New Husband by D.J. Palmer were named two of the most anticipated thrillers of 2020 by Goodreads.

The Tenant by Katrine Engberg, Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier and The Half Sister by Sandie Jones were featured as three of the most anticipated crime books of 2020 on CrimeReads.

Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier and The Book of V by Anna Solomon were featured as books to ring in the new decade by the Palm Beach Daily News.

The Book of V by Anna Solomon was featured as a most anticipated book of the year on The Millions.

Greedy Heart author A.P. Murray had a piece about the small business debt crisis in the US featured on Medium.

Jamie Schmidt, author of Supermaker, had a personal essay about the top things most startup plans are missing featured on Entrepreneur.

The Half Sister by Sandie Jones was featured on The Real Book Spy’s 2020 Reading Guide.

Rachel Howzell Hall’s They All Fall Down was called a thriller that’s better than any Netflix show by BookBub.


What an incredible week for our BookSparks authors!