Tell Me What to Read: Spring 2019 Edition
Tell Me What to Read is basically my favorite thing ever.
Many series on my blog have come and gone over the past 12 years, but Tell Me What to Read is now going on Year 9 (which completely blows my mind).
I’ve gotten more good book recommendations than I know what to do with and I’ve read so many amazing new-to-me authors and titles in that nine years.
I did the last round of Tell Me What to Read in the summer, so it’s clearly time for a new round!
You know the drill – suggest something fun (although that doesn’t need to mean chick-lit – I’m up for non-fiction, memoirs, young adult, middle grade, AND chick-lit), and I’ll pick three to read in March, April, and May.
Or if you’ve been around a while, you know that there is actually no way on earth I’ll finish them in those three months, but I’ll make a (somewhat) valiant effort.
Your job: Comment with the title of a book you think I should read.
My job: Choose three from the suggestions and announce which ones I’ll be reading.
I’ll read one a month (ish) between now and the end of May (hopefully). Feel free to read along and check back every month for my reviews.
And, as always, even if I hate the book, I will not hate you.
And go!
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. Absolutely fascinating!
Just recently read Come As You Are. It was SO good. Also, loved Front Desk.
The Other Einstein: A Novel by Marie Benedict was very good as was her other book – Carnegie’s Maid: A Novel. Currently finishing (listening to) Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Book by Therese Anne Fowler, it’s very interesting. On the YA side, this book has been recommended to me but I haven’t started it yet: Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream
by Ibtihaj Muhammad.
In January I read the middle grade novel Sweep by Jonathan Auxier and couldn’t put it down. You should give it a try.
I’ve heard AMAZING things about that one and it’s on my hold list!
Yes, yes, yes!!! Sweep was SO, SO, SO GOOD!! And it’s absolutely his best book so far. I’m pretty sure it was my favorite read of 2018.
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart. I just finished this today and it was so good! It’s middle grade and the audiobook was really well done.
I’m currently reading Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Everyday and I feel like you would love it. Great nonfiction.
Also loved The Home for Unwanted Girls which I recently finished.
*The Great Alone by: Kristin Hannah
*This is Our Story by: Ashley Elston
*Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by: Benjamin Alire Saenz
You have SO many to choose from! How do you make your choice? Do you read reviews and look at ratings? Or do you go with the top 3 that were recommended the most times? Or some other way? Just curious. This is exciting!
I make a list of all of them and then read reviews of them and make a short list. Then I try to pick ones that are a good mix of genres. No real science 🙂
Last winter I read “To the bright edge of the world” eiwyn ivey. Maybe I got the recommendations from you! Anyhow I really enjoyed it. Follows the story of the Alaskan frontier in 1885 and the lieutenants wife who has her own struggles while waiting for him. It is historical fiction my favorite genre! I learned a lot too. Also I love that you do this because I read every ones recommendation too! So thanks
Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen – I LOVED this book. It was so good. For middle grade, I recommend Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend. It’s the closest feeling I’ve ever gotten to Harry Potter (not super similar or anything but *almost* as exciting and it’s the first in a series :)).
Maid by Stephanie Land and Dopesick by Beth Macy are two excellent nonfiction books I’ve read lately.
Broken Girls by Simone St James is an interesting mystery fiction that I’m still thinking about a few months later, and Vox by Christina Dalcher certainly puts a different spin on women’s issues.
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon is a great YA that is a short read because it pulls you in and you can’t stop reading. The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan is another amazing YA read that quickly made it into my favorite books of all time list. It is truly wonderful and touching.
I love these posts of yours, I get so many new books to read!