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 Forgotton Garden by Kate Morton. Amazing.
That is a great one. Have you read The Secret Keeper yet? I think it's her best one!
I've read the Secret Keeper (and loved it!) and am currently reading The Lake House, but haven't done the Forgotten Garden yet.
I've read The Secret Keeper, Distant Hours and the Forgotten Garden. The Forgotten Garden is my favorite of hers and just one of my favorite historic novels, in general.
My best reads lately have been What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (so interesting and you may have already read it!), Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz & a YA recommendation is the Every Breath/Every Word series by Ellie Marney – I really enjoyed them 🙂
And also Winter & the whole Lunar Chronicles series if you haven't read them yet – Winter is the last one but seasonally appropriate! 😉
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Have you read The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis? Our book club read it and loved it. It's a little hefty, so it might take you a little over a day 😉 (it took me 3 weeks of vigorous reading.) I love when you do these posts, I always find tons of great suggestions!
I've read To Say Nothing of the Dog by her, which I loved! But not Doomsday, which I've heard raves about.
Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis are really good too. In those books the time traveling historians go to the London Blitz. I learned so much.
I thought I had heard about it from your blog but when I searched just now I didn't find a review… Have you read French Women Don't Get Fat? Also I recommend Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and anything by Rebecca Stead. I just discovered her YA books and they're really good.
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I feel like you'd enjoy One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson. It's hard to describe it without making it sound like a snooze – which it definitely is NOT – but essentially it's about a bunch of incredible things that happened in the US in the summer of 1927 and how they are all interconnected & how they changed the 20th century (Charles Lindbergh's flight, Al Capone, the first talkie moving pictures, Babe Ruth, etc.) He is such an entertaining writer, and it's done in that "narrative non-fiction" style that makes you feel like you're reading a novel. I found myself thinking, how did I not know this already??! and who knew how interesting baseball home run records are??? so many times over. I'm not doing it justice here…
this one is really good!
I recommend Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon or The War That Saved My Life. Actually, you should read both!
I've read both of them! (In fact, I just read Everything, Everything a few weeks ago).
The best fiction I've read recently is "The Lost Sisterhood," by Anne Fortier. The premise sounds sketchy (Amazons? real ones? hmmm), but it was really good.
The best non-fiction was "Consider the Fork," by Bee Wilson. Again, the subject seems like it would be lame (a whole book about utensils and kitchen implements? hmmm), but it was great.
Both examples of the rule that in the hands of a good writer, anything can be made interesting.
Read: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katerina Bivald – it's a charming book about the power of books. For non fiction – The Curious Mind: the secret to a bigger life by Brian Grazer. And one more fiction – Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart – good historical fiction/mystery based on real life people.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche- one of my recent favorites
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein! A really cute and fun middle grade that takes place in a library- what more could you want? It's easily the most fun middle grade book I've read in a while- especially is you love board games and libraries. I think a sequel was just released too… need to get on that.
Circling the Sun by Paula McClain – This is the first book that I have read in a while where I found myself addicted to the story. I think I said the phrase "just one more chapter" about twenty times in one day.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Would love to read a discussion on this.
Whoa, this looks amazing!
I'm reading Where'd You Go Bernadette this week and it's excellent. We also just read a little YA book called Hope Was Here for my book club, and it was absolutely delightful.
I second Where'd You Go Bernadette. It's a fun and quirky read!
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. So very powerful and important.
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Neilsen was an amazing YA read. I am recommending it to everyone!
Have you read Gone with the Wind? It's long…1500 pages…but I ate it up in two weeks and I'm sure you'd do it even faster!
One of my all-time favorites. I love this book so much.
Apologies if I read about either of these from you, but I loved both A Murder of Magpies, by Judith Flanders, which is sort of light mystery (not cozy) with a very entertaining main character, and Friends for Life, by Andrew Norriss, which is YA and was fantastic.
Nurture Shock.