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!
The Marble Collector by Cecelia Ahern. Rad this book in 2 days. It’s about a woman whose father has memory loss. Then a box of his stuff is delivered to her and among it she finds a big marble collection. She never knew her dad had any interest in marbles and then goes on a hunt to find out more about the marbles, in the process learning so much about her mother, her father and even herself.
I’ve had this on my list for awhile, but haven’t found an easy way to get it in the US. Any suggestions!?
Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. I adore it.
I second this! I really enjoyed it and keep meaning to get back into the series!
If you’re not a fan of sex scenes, by book 5 it starts getting graphic. Much too graphic for a designated YA book IMHO.
I’ve heard lots of good things but haven’t read it yet!
“Daring to Drive” by Manal al-Sharif
“The Crossover” by Kwame Alexander. It’s such a departure from what I usually read, but is a quick and delightful middle grade novel written in verse. You could read it easily in an evening.
I listened to the audio of that last year and LOVED it. I need to pick up the companion book.
Along the infinite sea by Beatriz Williams
I concur. Also by Beatriz Williams and very enjoyable: A Hundred Summers and The Secret Life of Violet Grant.
I read A Hundred Summers and really enjoyed it, so I’ll have to try out some of her other books!
That’s one of my very favorite books!
“Well, That Was Awkward” by Rachel Vail. Cute, sweet, funny middle grade novel. I picked it up for the cover and then loved the story.
Lassoing the Sun by Mark Woods.
One of my surprising favorites this year was “I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives” by Martin Ganda and Caitlin Alifirenka. Such a sweet and unbelievable true story about 2 pen pals (1 in America, 1 in Zimbabwe). I think you’d enjoy it, too! 🙂
Yes! Such a great read. I read it with my family book club last year, and I was so surprised by how much I loved it.
I’ve never even heard of this one!
Miss You, by Kate Eberlen. I picked it up at the library on a whim and I just loved it.
I recommend How to Write a Novel by Melanie Sumner (a novel, not a guide to writing), The Hopefuls, Station Eleven, and The Yellow Envelope.
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
I loved this one as well, and it’s so relevant right now.
Third vote for this one! Afterwards I told my whole family to read it (which, despite how much I read, really doesn’t happen often). It’s very thought-provoking!
I’ll have to give this one a shot!
Yep – it’s worth the read! High recommended as it is well written and you get into three different heads surrounding one circumstance.
Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan-An amazing beautiful and sweet middle grade novel! I just adored it.
The Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor-I read this one in a day!
Beartown by Fredrik Backman – I read it this summer, and it’s up there with the best books I’ve ever read.
I liked his other two books better overall, but i thought this one was the most thought provoking and I found myself continuing to contemplate it long after I was done reading.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I’m not kidding when I say that 20 pages into the book, I knew it was going to be the best book I’ve ever read. I was not wrong. I also recommend What Alice forgot and Station Eleven. But first and foremost. The Thirteenth Tale. 🙂 You won’t regret it.
I recently finished “The Thirteenth Tale” and it wasn’t my favorite. But I know several other fans (including my aunt who recommended it!) so I might be an anomaly.
I did like the Thirteenth Tale. Great Book!
Have you read This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel yet? I read it in January and it’s still my favorite book I’ve read this year… maybe even favorite from the last few years.
I also just finally got around to The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd; I don’t read a lot of civil war historical fiction but it was so fantastic it’s all I want to read now.
I’m in the middle of this book right now. I usually don’t like character driven books, but I am enjoying this one. It’s so good to step into someone else’s shoes sometimes.
I second This is How it Always is and Beartown!! Both books are SO MUCH BETTER than their synopses, so keep that in mind too!! Janssen, I feel like you will love the family dynamic in This is How it Always Is.
Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan!
Hmm. Here are a couple: The Yellow Envelope (travel memoir), Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (contemporary fiction), The Things We Wish Were True or We Were Worthy by Marybeth Whalen Mayhew (both contemporary fiction but super compelling), or Reading People by Anne Bogel (non-fiction about personality types).
Because I read that today is the anniversary of the day Pluto got demoted, I’ve been thinking about How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown. He’s the guy who discovered the dwarf planet that forced the issue on Pluto, plus he discovered two of the other dwarf planets, all in the year his first child was born. He also writes about the newborn days and being exhausted from the learning curve of parenting while also trying to decide if he’d really discovered a new planet. It’s funny, a quick read, and made me feel very knowledgeable about Pluto and dwarf planets.
The best book I’ve read this year is a YA novel – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. It has a very well deserved 4.62 rating on Goodreads! I think you’d really love it, too.
I’m reading A Gentleman in Moscow right now and really enjoying it!
I LOVED that one! I think Count Rostov is now one of my all-time favorite literary characters! ❤️