Five Books to Give Yourself

For all of you who received gift cards to bookstores this year, a list from NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates:

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas

I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach by Meryl Gordon