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.
Impersonator by Mary Miley. Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald. The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston. Iron Trial by Holly Black.
It's a little old, but The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton, remains one of the best works of nonfiction I have ever read.
Buzzkill by Beth Fantaskey–a YA modern Nancy Drew that is just so fun
The Runaway Princess by Hester Browne–kind of like The Royal We but so much better and so much more British
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman and Fish in A Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt–all three of these are excellent on Audio. Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
I heartily second A Man Called Ove!
I'm going to suggest Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr for nonfiction and Station Eleven for fiction.
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. Then go watch the incredible movie. So amazing!
I just finished The Fall of Marigolds and I really enjoyed it. I think you might too!
Kitchens of the Great Midwest! SO unique and engrossing.
Breaking Busy by Alli Worthington.
Have you read Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing? If not, then I highly highly recommend it. It's riveting nonfiction, and it totally made me think my winter wasn't all that bad.
my favorite book club book of 2015 – Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Whoa. Great read.
I wrote this last time, but These Is My Words–amazing! And then a couple people commented with Literary Potato Peel Society (or something like that, I always forget the name) and I second them! I LOVED it! Also I just read Outliers (nonfiction) just recently, and I am not a nonfiction fan, but it was so fascinating!
I second the Lunar Chronicles series (Cinder is the first and so good, I also LOVED Scarlet). Also, I know fantasy isn't your favorite style, but Girl of Fire and Thorns was so good. And not crazy fantasy-like, honestly. All The Light We Cannot See was excellent as well.
"All The Truth That's In Me" by Julie Berry. This book intrigues you, confuses you, breaks your heart just a little bit, and then closes with revelations that inspire you. It was one of those books I read into the wee hours of the morning simply because I couldn't put it down without knowing what happened. I wouldn't say it is my favorite book, but it is a book I think about regularly. Her style of writing is so unique and refreshing and I loved the fact that I didn't completely understand it until I finished it.
Symphony for the City of the Dead (YA nonfiction), All the Bright Places (YA), My Brilliant Friend (Book 1 of the Neapolitan Novels), The Doldrums (JF).
Girl Waits with Gun, really enjoyed this one!
Before Green Gables
Of of my most favorite memoirs EVER is Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil In Saudi Arabia. It's the story of a opulently wealthy woman who was born in the royal Saudi Arabian family. Women there have next to no rights. It's illegal for a woman to drive a car, but legal for a boy 9 years old to drive. Women are property. She is rich and has a lot of influence, but not enough to free herself from her veil. She is lucky to be married to a man to whom she is in love, but most women are not so lucky. She fights very hard for women's rights and makes friends with powerful people who help her in her quest. She is bright, smart, strong, generous, and stubborn. It will really open up your eyes to how other people in the world live. This is her first book, but she went on to write three more and there is a fifth being released late this year. I swear you will finish it in less than two days, it's so hard to put it down you won't want to stop! You won't regret this read! 🙂
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/613283.Princess?from_search=true&search_version=service
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!!! I'm not a zombie fan, and this was the first book I've ever read from this genre, but I LOVED it!!! it was hilarious–the same Pride and Prejudice story with such a funny twist. I couldn't put it down!
I feel so smart that I actually have titles to really contribute to this for once! I finished The Dorito Effect last month which I thought was SO interesting! I just heard of Room today about a woman who has been in this room for 10 year and has a son who is 7 and knows nothing about life outside of said room. I'm reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry right now, and on my overdrive account I also have Divergent, Unbroken (Still haven't finished it from last year!), and A lucky Life Interrupted which is Tom Brokaw's memoir and battle with cancer… really excited to read that one.