some books I love.
This is not a comprehensive list, nor is it consistent (i.e. I love different books for different reasons - the writing, the plot, the characters - or some combination thereof.)
in no order of preference….
Beartown/Us Against You – Fredrick Backman
Tell the Wolves I’m Home – Carol Rifka Brunt
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
Tiny Beautiful Things – Cheryl Strayed
Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Educated – Tara Westover
Notes on an Execution – Danya Kukafka
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
A Complicated Kindness – Miriam Toews
A Woman Is No Man – Etaf Rum
Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
I’ll Give You The Sun – Jandy Nelson
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
The Paris Wife – Paula Mclain
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Commonwealth – Ann Patchett
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Anything Is Possible – Elizabeth Strout
The Clay Girl – Heather Tucker
Fight Night – Miriam Toews
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
– Annie Dillard