Books for Sagittarius
Sagittarius, books are portals to other worlds. That’s what makes them worth reading. Fantastical adventures and true stories of risk-taking explorers thrill you. You’re also the philosopher of the zodiac, so as long as you’re learning something new, you’re happy. Whether it’s a collection of travel writing or a weighty tome of information on your latest obsession, the important thing is that the book takes you somewhere and expands your mind. Pack your suitcase. Astrologer Brittany Goss is recommending books that will transport you.
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Add to BookshelfMercury Pictures Presents
by Anthony Marra
Sagittarius, you’re a traveler who knows no borders, and Marra’s recent novel about immigrants making Hollywood films at the beginning of World War II will speak to your wanderer’s heart. Maria Lagana is one such foreigner, who moved from Rome to Los Angeles with her mother years ago after her father was arrested. Now she is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, handling an influx of new talent from war-torn Europe – actors, screenwriters, and film crew, all ready to reinvent themselves. And when someone from her father’s past arrives on the scene, Maria finally must reckon with the skeletons in her closet.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
You’re both a philosopher and a carefree wanderer, so you’ll enjoy this well-written story centered on creativity and play. Zevin’s saga of thirty years and many lands is a love story, but an unusual one. Sam Masur and Sadie Green are creative partners, friends, in love but never lovers, and success has complicated their relationship. They hit the jackpot even before graduating college, designing a blockbuster game that makes them both rich. Money and fame can only go so far, though, and the intricacies of betrayal and connection leave plenty for both to contemplate.
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To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
Sagittarius, this bold, inventive novel spans three centuries of American past, present, and future to bring you stories of people making sacrifices to protect the ones they love. In an alternate version of 1893, a young member of a wealthy family falls in love with a music teacher. A young man keeps secrets from his partner in ’90s Manhattan, and in the year 2093, a woman seeks clues about her husband’s disappearances.
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Burning Questions
by Margaret Atwood
Sagittarius, if there’s one thing you have a lot of, it’s questions. Margaret Atwood will match your curiosity with this collection of brilliant essays on everything from debt to tech to freedom, stories, authoritarianism, and zombies.
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River of the Gods
by Candice Millard
Sagittarius, this one will inspire you to travel and explore, while teaching you some history. Millard tells the story of three men who were sent by England’s Royal Geographical Society to find the headwaters of the Nile River in the 19th century: Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, a decorated soldier and an Army officer who became bitter enemies … and their guide, Sidi Mubarak Bombay, without whom neither Englishman would have come close to their goal.
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Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes
by Phoebe Robinson
Sagittarius, the multitalented Phoebe Robinson — comedian, writer, and actress — shares her humor and wisdom in her latest essay collection. Good for laughing out loud, Robinson shares stories of taking her mom to visit Mrs. Obama, the risky activity of zip-lining, dating a white person from the UK, and becoming a Black lady-boss. She also has sharp insight into our cultural moment, on white allies, motherhood, and mental health in America. With honesty and wit like this, you can’t go wrong.
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Greenwood
by Michael Christie
If you’re a nature-loving Sagittarius, and especially if you enjoyed Richard Powers’ The Overstory, you will love Michael Christie’s intricately forested novel. Four generations of Greenwoods navigate work, activism, belief, secrets, and love in this story. From Jake Greenwood guiding tourists through one of the last remaining forests in 2038, to the ancestor who, in 1934, gets caught up in a web of betrayal that has followed the family for decades, Christie weaves a powerful narrative.
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Vagabonds!
by Eloghosa Osunde
Sagittarius, this novel will speak to your vagabond heart. Set in Lagos, Nigeria, where those who differ from established norms because of their sexuality, poverty, or spirituality are literally outlawed, Vagabonds! follows characters who make lives for themselves in the underground. A celebrated fashion designer who has an otherworldly experience, the driver for a corrupt politician, a lesbian couple with ties to the sex worker community, and a woman attending a secret spiritual gathering — all contend with the darker spirits of the city as they attempt to overcome their various tribulations.
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Solito: A Read with Jenna Pick
by Javier Zamora
Sagittarius, this is a poet’s retelling of what has become, as Sandra Cisneros says, “the mythic journey of our era.” Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and, at nine years old, traveled three-thousand miles through Guatemala and Mexico, across the border of the United States. He left behind beloved family members to reunite with his mother, who left four years prior, and his father, who he barely knew. As a child he was told this would be a trip, “like an adventure.” But in reality, what was supposed to be a two-week journey with a coyote, turned into two months of dangerous encounters among fellow migrants.
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