Angie Kim’s debut novel MIRACLE CREEK was one of the best-reviewed books of 2019, and if you (or your book club) have been waiting for the paperback, today’s your lucky day! Snap it up. (Most independent bookstores are still offering online shopping and shipping to wherever you are — keep supporting them during these challenging times!)

Angie Kim is the author of the national bestseller MIRACLE CREEK, named a “Best Book of the Year” by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus, Real Simple, Library Journal, The Today Show, Amazon, and Hudson Booksellers, and a Good Morning America Hot Summer Read. Kim is one of Variety Magazine’s “10 Storytellers to Watch,” and has written for Vogue, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Glamour, Salon, and Slate. She moved from Seoul, Korea, to Baltimore as a preteen, and attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. A former trial lawyer, she now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three sons, and is at work on her next novel.

Angie’s #read99women recommendation is THE STARLESS SEA, Erin Morgenstern’s much-anticipated followup to megahit THE NIGHT CIRCUS. You can read her full review here on Goodreads, but here are the highlights that’ll make you want to scoop this one up:

“I could not put it down, as there were so many characters I loved, whose fates I needed to know, and when I finished, I turned immediately back to the first page so I wouldn’t have to leave this magical world.

It's hard to say what it's about because it's about so many things. But more than anything, it's about stories. It's about the power of telling stories, of reading stories, taking part in stories, and protecting them at all costs. It's about how stories can transcend time and space.”