This document provides recommendations for 8 books to read. It summarizes the plots of 5 books: 101 Black Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, which profiles influential Black women in STEM fields; Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, which explores what it means to love through the eyes of an AI narrator; Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay, which involves a murder and a brother's secret about what he witnessed; The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, which links a modern woman's discovery of an old vial to unsolved murders from centuries ago; and Infinite Country by Patricia Engel, which follows an undocumented Colombian family in the US as they