Tell Me What to Read: Winter 2016 Edition
I’m just about done with my last book from the Fall 2015 Tell Me What to Read (just waiting for it to come back from the library so I can finish it up) and I’m ready for a new round of suggestions!
I’ve had such good reading success this year so far, and want to keep the streak of fabulous books.
So! 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 February, March, and April.
Your job: Comment with the title of a book you think I should read.
My job: Choose three from the suggestions and announce them next week. I’ll read one a month (ish) between now and the end of April. 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.
Hit me with your best recommendations! My many library cards are ready for you.
The most impactful book I have read, maybe ever, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I will be reading it again soon!
I recently enjoyed Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. Also, Bone Gap by Laura Ruby.
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah. I just finished it and it was amazing!! Made me feel every emotion. It is about two sisters in France in World War II and how each of them handles the war. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I finished.
Uprooted by Naomi Novik was one of my favorite books last year – you like Laini Taylor's books so I think you'd like this one too!
Anything by P.W. Catanese. He's a YA fantasy writer and simply fabulous! I read the trilogy of "The Books of Umber" to my 3 boys (9, 11, 13) and we all loved them. Great writing and fun characters! We laughed out loud at some parts. P.W.'s imagination is just fantastic!
I think you should read Red: A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey. I haven't read it myself, but I have a good friend who is reading it, and the whole time she was telling me about it I was thinking about you. It sounds really interesting. I have no redheads in my family, but I really want to read it.
Um, yeah, and Bone Gap, obviously. 🙂
Spare Parts by Joshua Davis
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas
I LOVED Delicious!, first novel by Ruth Reichl, former editor of Gourmet magazine. It has intrigue, GREAT writing, humor, local NY City color, a little romance, great characters and a mystery. I hope Ms. Reichl writes a LOT more. Please read it!! (Others mentioned The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society…..it's WONDERFUL and one of my favorites.)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
I have no idea who you are except for this blog obviously, but when I finished this book I immediately thought of you which is odd.
You've got to read Ok for Now if you've never read it… my favorite YA book of all time (and heart breaking/warming to anyone with a background in education and literacy). The Thing About Jellyfish is the best YA book I read last year, Kitchens of the Great Midwest was my favorite novel (I'm a huge sucker for books told through multiple characters) and Just Mercy was an excellent non fiction read that leaves you really thinking about our justice system.
I would just really love to see you review a middle-grade novel. I don't think I have seen that yet. Maybe there's a reason (like, you secretly despise them or I'm just not very observant), but if someone suggests a middle-grade novel, that's my vote!!! 😀
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Sound of Gravel
I know you already chose but here are books that I have never forgotten after reading them years ago. Sometimes just because I learned so much about a culture I was unfamiliar with and it would make me study up after solidifying the book with non-fiction details. You have probably read some of them. "Golden Urchin" Madeleine Brent, "Green City in the Sun" Barbara Wood, "Listening for Lions" Gloria Whelan, "The Wheel on the School" (1965 Newberry Medal), "How to Listen So Kids Will Talk and Talk so Kids Will Listen"*nonfiction, "Snowflower and the Paper Fan", "The Help", "The Secret Life of Bees". And here are 2 that I read last year that were my favorite "All the light we Cannot See", "Wish You Well" David Baldacci *I am not a Baldacci fan at all, but my dad kept insisting I read this because it is a memoir of his grandmother.
On a side note thanks for the awesome book recs last year of Jim Gaffigan "Food a Love Story" audiobook – I will never look at some foods the same. And "Okay for Now". I can't wait to read Wednesday Wars. And hordes of childrens books.