Books for Libra
Libra, why can’t life be more elegant? At least if you can’t always find beauty, grace, and fairy tale love in the so-called real world, you can reliably find it in books. Classic novels of high society, the intertwined stories of characters who are lifelong friends, a heartbreaking romance, the biography of a groundbreaking artist — these are the kinds of books that keep you reading late into the night. It’s the relationships between characters and the loveliness of the prose that matter most. Astrologer Brittany Goss has some recommendations for books for Libra that will satiate your desire for aesthetic pleasure.
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by Daphne Palasi Andreades
Libra, yours is the sign of relationships of all kinds, and friendships are dear to you. So you’ll enjoy this debut novel about female friendships and their evolution as girls grow into women. The narrative follows Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, and Angelique as they grow up in Queens, New York. They explore the city together, form crushes and break hearts, and forge bonds that stand the test of time, even as they grow up. With time, some girls choose to stay in the neighborhood, while others move out and search for a place in the wider world, ascending to positions of greater power. Though their choices and desires may conflict, in the end the women return home – to Queens and to each other.
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Lucy by the Sea
by Elizabeth Strout
You’re here to learn and teach about relationships, and, as you know, there really couldn’t be a harder task on Earth. Consider reading Strout’s carefully and empathetically written account of two estranged people forced into intimacy in the wake of world events. Lucy never expected to be living with William, her ex-husband and sometimes-friend, but, then again, she never expected anything like a lockdown. Before she even knows what’s happening, William spirits her away from her home in Manhattan to a small town in Maine, where they spend the ensuing months together. Just the two of them — and their complex history.
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Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Libra, I know you crave romance and humor in equal amounts. This debut novel is about a British-Nigerian woman in her thirties with a fabulous education, a great job, and good friends…but as her aunties keep reminding her, no huzband yet. As Yinka searches for a date for her cousin’s wedding, she finds her way with courageous questions about what love really means.
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Abundance
by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Libra, you love beautiful things, and sometimes your taste is expensive. Luckily, according to Chopra, abundance is available to all. In the spiritual bestseller’s latest book, he delivers a seven-step plan to help you create that abundance: not only material prosperity, but the essential love, creativity, and true power that make a good life.
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion
by Nell McShane Wulfhart
Libra, this one will speak to your keen sense of justice and your values. The sixties were the Golden Age of Travel, and women everywhere were applying to be stewardesses. The job offered glamour, travel perks, and an alternative to traditional occupations for women like nursing and teaching. But there were strict rules for “sky girls”: they had to meet weight limits and wear girdles, and couldn’t marry or have children. They began to push back, and their winning labor movement is worth reading about.
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RamĂłn and Julieta
by Alana Quintana Albertson
Libra, what’s better than devouring a good love story? Alana Quintana Albertson’s star-crossed lovers must reckon with a bitter, generational business rivalry in order to surrender to their feelings for each other. Celebrity chef Julieta doesn’t know, when she kisses Ramon on the Day of the Dead, that he’s the landlord of her failing restaurant. She doesn’t yet know that he is the king of a fast-food empire, or that his father stole her mother’s taco recipe all those years ago. But she’s about to find out, and things are about to heat up.
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The Girls in the Picture
by Melanie Benjamin
Libra, enjoy the glitz and glamour of Old Hollywood through Melanie Benjamin’s historical novel. The true story of screenwriter Frances Marion and star actress Mary Pickford is told in a lively narrative, through dramas of ambition, professional competition, and romance. These two women shaped the fledgling movie industry in the early twentieth century, navigating a man’s world and the vagaries of friendship as they pursued career success with determination.
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The Golden House
by Salman Rushdie
Libra, if you haven’t already read it, you’ll love this gilded mystery set in one of the most exclusive enclaves of Manhattan. Nero Golden, a foreign billionaire with an improbable name, moves with his three sons to “the Gardens”, a neighborhood within the neighborhood of Greenwich Village. Their neighbor, Rene, a young filmmaker who is intrigued by their eccentricity and mystique, becomes a part of their household, and, as a result, learns their terrible secrets. Meanwhile, American politics undergo a dramatic shift, as a certain presidential race changes history forever.
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The Marriage Portrait: Reese’s Book Club
by Maggie O'Farrell
Libra, the details in O’Farrell’s deft historical fiction will take you straight to the heart of the Italian Renaissance. It’s 1550 and the duchess, Lucrezia, sits for a portrait to commemorate her marriage to the duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio. She is here by chance; her older sister having died on the eve of her wedding and the duke requesting young Lucrezia’s hand quickly afterwards. A stranger to her new husband, Alfonso, and unused to the customs of his unfriendly court, Lucrezia knows she must secure her future. Her only role is to produce an heir, and until she does, nothing is certain.
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