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Virginia Campbell Author Of Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty

From Virginia's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

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Virginia's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Virginia Campbell Why Virginia loves this book

Author evokes America in the early 1950s. Characters are compelling and the ending is surprising but satisfying.

If you love Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow...

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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Mo Fanning Author Of Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine

From my list on how we all keep insisting we’re absolutely fine.

Why am I passionate about this?

Maybe it's me, but the stories I tell are often about people who insist they're absolutely fine. When they're not. Perhaps that's the most British thing in the world: to paint on a smile, say 'I'm fine,' and hope nobody asks again. The novels on my list have stayed with me because they catch people in the middle of pretending. They've made me laugh out loud on crowded trains. And nudge my sleeping husband because I had to tell him what just happened. More than anything, they reminded me that when we stop pretending… that's when the real story starts.

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Mo Fanning Why Mo loves this book

If a book kicks off with someone planning to end it all… at a fancy hotel, in the middle of an influencer wedding… I'm in.

The premise suggests anything but romance and comedy. The Wedding People soon becomes warm, strange, and generous. I've been to a fair few pressure cooker nuptials in my time. Guests ratchet up smiles no matter what.

I loved how, in this book, grief collides with celebration. More than that, I love how the story ends on a hopeful note, rather than trying to leave everything neat and tidy. There's a glorious sense of people behaving very badly indeed, and still finding ways to be happy. And in dark times, that's exactly what I ask of a good book.

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29 authors picked The Wedding People as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming…


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