Tell Me What to Read: Fall 2017 Edition
Tell Me What to Read might be my very favorite book posts.
I LOVE seeing all your recommendations and over the past 8 years I’ve been doing this, I’ve found so many amazing new authors and titles.
This summer’s edition was particularly good, with three total winners – I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed a set so much!
With those three books done, it’s time for a new round and I cannnnnnnot wait.
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 September, October, and November!
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 November (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!
I’m reading Sorcery and Cecelia: or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot, by Patricia Wrede. 5 stars! It’s so much fun! A cross of Georgette Heyer/Jane Austen’s Victorian London and Harry Potter.
We Are Called to Rise, by Laura McBride. Great on audio too!
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed The Crown’s Game. Two competing magicians in Russia and their duel.
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
I’ve been reading your blog for years and honestly I pretty much only read books you recommend. BUT as far as I can tell on your Goodreads you’ve never read any of Betty Macdonald’s adult books. She wrote the mrs. Higgle Piggle kids books (which are great!) but she’s more famous for The Egg and I and a few other memoirs. She was such an important author during the 1950s, her celebrity status was incredible and I think it’s crazy how little known she is now. So anyway, I just really really think you should get to know this hilarious and brave and intensely interesting woman.
Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin A fun read about a girl who is missing out on life because she is always lost in a book
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas about a town in Colorado where the goverment opens a Japanese internment camp during WWII (even better if you also read it with Red Berries, White Clouds and Blue Sky by Sandra Dallas . A story told from inside an internment camp)
The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett & Amanda Pressner – amazing travel memoir that I picked up at the library on a whim but about life, expectations and friendship through traveling the southern hemisphere for a year!
10% Human- Alanna Collen.
It is non- fiction, about the microbes in your gut and how your diet can affect your microbiome and your health. An eye opening read about conscious decisions for our health. I couldn’t put it down.
The Vanishing American Adult by Ben Sasse. I’m only about halfway through, but I am loving it. My kids are young yet but I am getting so many great ideas to be more intentional in my parenting to ensure that thy are prepared for “real life” when they’re adults.
You should read Dealing with Dragons, which is the first book in he enchanted forest chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. My family and I loved this series when I was growing up. It is so fun! We would listen to the audiobook on road trips and driving around with my mom. The audiobook is so fun because it is read by multiple people and each character gets a different voice which makes it a little easier to follow. I hope you love it as much as we did!
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. A YA book that hits on fandom and mental illness. It was a read that really stayed with me.
I just read You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie and highly recommend it. It’s the first book of his I have read but now I want to read more.
Words in Deep Blue was a YA novel that I recently really enjoyed. What to Say Next, the newest by Julie Buxbaum, is also WONDERFUL YA and I feel that you would probably like it. It’s very cute. Other books I’ve enjoyed this year include Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (on audible!), Maud, by Melanie Fishbane, a fictional but semi-biographical account of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s adolescent years, and Salt to the Sea.
“Hour of the Bees” is a wonderfully unique middle grade fiction that has some magical realism in it. A YA nonfiction: Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin. So fascinating. An adult fiction but part non fiction because the story is based on her ancestor’s incredible survival story in WWII is “We Were the Lucky Ones” by Georgia Hunter.