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Katy Hays is the author of The Cloisters, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, as well as Read With Jenna Pick. In addition to writing, Katy works as an adjunct Art History Professor, teaching rural students from Truckee to Tecopa. She holds an MA in Art History from Williams College and pursued her PhD in Art History at UC Berkeley. Her academic writing has been published by Ashgate, an imprint of Routledge.

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The Cloisters

3.39 avg rating — 71,874 ratings — published 2022
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Saltwater

3.55 avg rating — 11,604 ratings — published 2025 — 11 editions
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Saltwater: A Novel

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“But that was the hardest thing about death: the unrelenting march of time forward, away from the person you’ve lost.”
Katy Hays, The Cloisters

“And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before.

[Ann Stilwell]”
Katy Hays, The Cloisters
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“What if our whole life—how we live and die—has already been decided for us? Would you want to know, if a roll of the dice or a deal of the cards could tell you the outcome? Can life be that thin, that disturbing?”
Katy Hays, The Cloisters

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What book would you like to read for our December 2023 Group Read? The theme is Wisdom.

 
  16 votes 22.5%

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Historical Fiction
 
  12 votes 16.9%

 
  11 votes 15.5%

The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Fiction, Mystery
 
  11 votes 15.5%

Wise Children by Angela Carter
Fiction, Magical Realism
 
  7 votes 9.9%

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Contemporary, Spirituality
 
  7 votes 9.9%

 
  4 votes 5.6%

 
  3 votes 4.2%

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