Today’s #read99women recommendation is a fun — and brief! — one. Some books, the less you know going in, the more you get to relish the surprise of getting blown away.

Our recommender is Meg Waite Clayton, a New York Times and USA Today bestseller and book club favorite and the author of seven novels. Her most recent, the international bestseller THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON , is published or forthcoming in 19 languages. Her screenplay of the same story gained her recognition by the prestigious The Writers Lab, sponsored by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman to expand the diversity of narrative film.

Her prior books include the #1 Amazon fiction bestseller BEAUTIFUL EXILES; the Langum Prize honored THE RACE FOR PARIS; THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS, named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time (on a list with The Three Musketeers!); and THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT, a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Runner’s World and public radio, often on the particular challenges women face. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, she has also written a monthly audiobook review for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Meg’s recommendation is WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler, and instead of providing a description, she says this: “Don't read anything about this amazing book before you read the book itself--not even the copy on the back of the book!”

Need a wee bit more? This novel was the first book by an American author ever shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner. And Barbara Kingsolver called it "a novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get" -- praise Meg agrees with and so do I. (The audiobook is bonkers good.)

Find Meg’s recommendation on BookBub here or see more about her, her books, and other recommendations here.