10 Books to Read This February 2020
As light as we wish February to be as compared to the eventful January, the selection of this month’s releases is making it seem like we can actually get what we desire. But as we know life and fiction narratives, not with a fateful turn of events that unexpectedly disrupt the order.
Whatever the outturn, though, losing oneself in the string of words and worlds sounds like a good love month escapade.
In a Field of Blue
Rudy lost his brother Edgar to the unforgiving nature of war. Four years after, he and his family remain nursing to questions that further worsen their wounds, until the supposed widow of Edgar came knocking on their door. In his mind, she holds the peace to the chaos in their hearts but it’s not looking like it with where Mariette’s revelations are leaning towards.
In a Field of Blue is set in war-torn France, 1992.
Release date: February 1
Last Day
Beth and Kate found themselves amid a tribulation when their mother was taken along the Moonlight painting who holds undisclosed importance. On the brink of recovery twenty years later, they may have thought it’s over but Beth was suddenly found dead in her home, strangled, and the same painting missing yet again.
The primary suspect? Beth’s husband, Pete. The significance of Moonlight? Unknown.
Release date: February 1
The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock
Oliver Clock’s life is as white as it can perfectly be—running the family funeral parlor without major problems, for one. But his lost love Marie became the patch of imperfection on his clean slate that gradually took a bigger scope with their business being in trouble.
This rough road might be easier to navigate if only he knows how to open up. But he does not, and that in itself is a vital matter he has to overcome.
Release date: February 1
The Gravity of Us
Cal is a famed social media journalist boasting of around half a million followers on his stead, so you can say he’s used to how the media world rolls around. But when his father—who is a pilot—was selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, he gradually found himself in a situation where he needed to navigate through the tangles of secrets involving the project without hurting the people close to him.
The only saving grace of this chaos, though, might be him meeting aloof Leon who was his first love.
Release date: February 4
Yes No Maybe So
Within the political sphere lies Jamie Goldberg and Maya Rehman that’s kind of at the opposing ends of the invisible stick. Why and how they are even involved in such, both of them have no clear understanding of and favorable reasoning for. The only comprehensible matter is that their entangled stories will continue despite everything, whether they like it or not.
Release date: February 4
The Authenticity Project
If you found a green notebook where the bareness of a person is there for you to read, will you do it? Or better yet, will you take it as a push to scribble down your own truths as well?
In The Authenticity Project, a green notebook became the catalyst of budding love and friendship between six people who openly laid the unaltered stories they keep within their hearts—thanks to Julian Jessop who started the chain of storytelling (and of course to his firm inclination in the fact that people are never actually honest with each other).
Release date: February 4
Real Life
Like most people who deem themselves disparate to the normal ones (thanks to the unbelievable standards of the society), Wallace intentionally kept his distance from his peers—he’s black and queer, anyway.
But in the midst of a late-summer weekend, he was left with no other resort but to face, head-on, a series of confrontations with his colleagues that gradually interconnect to the unearthing of the long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community.
Does anyone ever get past their own wounded past? What is at stake in order to do so?
Release date: February 18
The Antidote for Everything
Sweeping over the societal issue attached to the transgender community, The Antidote for Everything carefully tells the story of how the two tight-knit doctors—Georgia Brown who’s a urologist and Jonah Tsukada who’s a family medicine doctor—deal with the quandary rooted in the decision of the hospital where they work for to cease providing medical care to transgender patients.
This is on top of Jonah being the first one to be let off from his work just because he is, well, gay.
Release date: February 18
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Splendid and the Vile centers on Winston Churchill’s leadership (and all the things that come with it) as London furtively lives through The Blitz, providing a different peek in his kaleidoscopic tale. It is an amalgamation of narratives taken from diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports.
Release date: February 25
Oona Out of Order
In a world quietly obsessed with orderliness, the littlest of deviance is nothing but a nuisance that spoils everything. And so it isn’t surprising that Oona Lockhart didn’t know what to do when one day, she just woke up as an extremely old version of her current, 19-year old self. Worse, she had to bear living with a different-aged Oona whenever a year passes with only her situation and facade changing—not her heart nor her mind.
Release date: February 25
Which of these books are you excited to grab and read this month? Share it with us in the comments below!
