Jessica Strawser

8 Summer Reads About Friends Bonding Over a Pact

Ever since I was young, I’ve loved a good friendship story — the kind that feels like one long heart-to-heart with a kindred spirit. And when the friends have a shared goal that invites readers in on the fun? Even better. Books about friends helping each other through life’s ups…

Jessica StrawserMay 15, 2026

Fiction Listicles

Explore These 6 Novels About Road Trips

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from chatting with readers about the premise for my new novel, Catch You Later, it’s this: A fictional road trip is the next best thing to the real deal. The instant I say the novel is about two best friends who work at a…

Jessica StrawserOctober 22, 2024

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Overcome Adversity in 8 Irresistibly Triumphant Tales

There’s something irresistible about a fish-out-of-water story — where characters find themselves wildly out of their element. After all, we instantly know it will all come down to a high-stakes choice: Cling to their old ways, gasping and flapping on the shore, or learn to adapt and walk tall. We…

Jessica StrawserSeptember 29, 2022

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Chosen or Discovered: 6 Books About Finding New Family

“You don’t choose your family,” Desmond Tutu famously said. “They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” But sometimes, there turns out to be more to our families than we know: Connections are hidden, bonds are broken, secrets slip from one generation to the next. In…

Jessica StrawserFebruary 24, 2022

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Capturing a Time, an Emotion, and Your Attention

There’s so much to love about a novel that gives us insight into what it was like to be a woman during a certain time in history. Even better if that time was pivotal, unforgettable and hovering on the brink of seismic shifts that will leave the world forever changed.…

Jessica StrawserJuly 22, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: The Tearjerker “You Were Always Mine”

Equal parts tear-jerker and page-turner, Nicole Baart's You Were Always Mine (Atria Books) entwines the heartbreak of a mother's struggle with the urgency of a mystery that won't let her (or you) go. At the start of You Were Always Mine, we meet mother and teacher Jessica Chamberlain on the brink of…

Jessica StrawserOctober 25, 2018

Jessica Strawser

Explore These 6 Novels About Road Trips

Overcome Adversity in 8 Irresistibly Triumphant Tales

Chosen or Discovered: 6 Books About Finding New Family

Tall Poppy Review: The Tearjerker “You Were Always Mine”

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