Books Via Ashley discussion

This is where you can nominate new books to be considered for the book club!

I want to branch out and read books across a wide-range of genres, such as:
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Biography
Non-Fiction
YA
Sci-fi
Fantasy
LDS
Humor
etc.

Please give the title, author, and genre, and no more than five suggestions a month please!

In no particular order:
1 - "Empress of a Thousand Suns" by Rhoda Belleza - YA, Science Fiction.

2 - "The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature" by Richard Fortey. Non-Fiction.

3 - "The Ice Twins" by S.K. Tremayne. Fiction, Mystery, Thriller.

4 - "A Murder in Time" by Julie McElwain. Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction.

5 - "A Green and Ancient Light" by Frederic S. Durbin. YA, Historical Fiction, Fantasy.

Reminder that you can submit suggestions for the coming months!

"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri. Fiction, Short stories (Goodreads says Cultural --> India, too).

"Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson. Fiction, Historical, Religion.

"The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" by Jonathan Weiner. Nonfiction, Science.

"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. Science Fiction, Classics.

"The Evolution of Civilizations" by Carroll Quigley. Non-fiction, History.