A year ago I asked all of you for your must-read favorite book recommendations.
I posted a list of my top favorite books, which included The Little Prince, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Furiously Happy , A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Practical Magic, to name a few.
And then I asked for your help finding my next favorite book.
Here was the original post:
I’m really bad at picking favorites, but a while back I tried to narrow it down to my TOP 10 favorite books. Except, there are actually only 9 books here! I’d love to hear about favorites of yours that you think everyone should read/ or that I would love!
At first glance these books are all vastly different, varying in genre, format, spanning decades in publication date, subject matter, length, and many more things.
They are all very well written, make me feel deeply; I laugh and cry along with all of them, and they are ones I’ll want to reread regularly. Most importantly, they have something important to talk about, show me something about life, and have stories and characters that stick with me.
These are qualities I look for in a favorite, and my number ten will be no exception. Also, I’m not really looking for genre reads here, unless there is something you feel is truly exceptional that transcends it’s genre.
Well, the bookstafam delivered, and gave me 40 recommendations for books they love and recommend– so I figured it was high time that I shared that list.
Maybe you’ll find your next favorite book here too?
These books all came highly rated and personally recommended to me.
There are a bunch of genres to choose from; everything from classics to nonfiction, historical fiction to fantasy.
Your list made my TBR grow.. a lot and introduced some new titles to me, as well as gave me a nudge to read ones that I’d had on my mind for a while.
Take a look at the 40 recs and see if there’s something you’re ready to finally move to the “read pile.”
Classics:
1. Pride & Prejudice
2. Dracula
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. Jane Eyre
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. Little Women
7. The Old Man and the Sea
8. The Outsiders
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
Contemporary Fiction:
10. Queenie
11. Angle of Repose
12. Close Enough to Touch
13. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
14. Summer Sisters
YA:
15. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Everything, Everything
- Life After Theft
- The Giver
- Boys Don’t Cry
Historical Fiction:
21. The Nightengale
22. All the Light We Can Not See
23. The Book Thief
24. Cold Mountain
25. The Beekeeper of Aleppo
26. Forty Rules of Love
27. The Girl You Left Behind
28. Sarah’s Keys
29. The Bronze Horseman
Nonfiction
30. Life After Life
31. Tuesdays With Morrie
Thriller
32. Pretty Girls
33. The Eight
34. Verity
35. . The Whisper Man
Romance:
36. The Kiss Quotient
Fantasy / Sci-Fi
37. A Darker Shade of Magic
38. Serpent & Dove
39. Flowers for Algernon
40. The Selection
Wow! 40 awesome books- maybe one of them could be your next favorite?
Are any of these titles already among your favorites?
What other books would you add to the list?
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