Oh my goodness! Yesterday on Facebook, I asked for your book recommendations. And wow, did you ever blow me away with your responses. You recommended more than 125 books — enough to keep most of us busy reading for the next several years.
As promised, I created this post for you as a master list of all those recommendations. Stay tuned, because I am planning to share the 12 books that I will be reading this year. I hope to organize a virtual book club, too, for any of you whom would like to read along with me. I will be posting my 2016 Reading List tomorrow morning.
In the meantime, you can start to build your own reading list right here:
Your Recommended Reads: Fiction (listed in alphabetical order by title)
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
After the War is Over by Jennifer Robson
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Amazonia by James Rollins
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Assault in Forgotten Alley by David Y. B. Kaufmann
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina HenrÍQuez
Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
The Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
Cup of Dust by Susie Finkbeiner
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock
The Devil in Jerusalem by Naomi Ragen
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Flamenco Academy by Sarah Bird
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
The Girl Without a Name by Sandra Block
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Land, Sea, Sky Trilogy by Lynne Cantwell
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Last Bus To Wisdom by Ivan Doig
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Life List by Nori Nelson Spielman
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Marriage of Opposites by Hoffman
The Martian by Andy Weir
Me Before You: A Novel
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
My Name is Mary Sutter By Robin Oliveira
The Nightingale by Kristin Hanna
Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
The Pipe Woman Chronicles by Lynne Cantwell
The Pipe Woman’s Legacy by Lynne Cantwell
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Saving Sophie by Ronald H. Balson
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Place by Tana French
Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Sigma Force Series by James Rollins
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson
The Song of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel
The Theory of Death by Faye Kellerman
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Tiffany Girls by Deeanne Gist
The Time In Between by Maria Duenas
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Trusting Calvin by Sharon Peters
Una by Mary Elizabeth Raines
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
The Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Non-Fiction
1776 by David McCullough
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
For the Benefit of Those Who Can See by Rosemary Mahoney
The Catcher Was a Spy: Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff
Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson
The Girls of Atomic City: Untold Story of Women Who Helped Win WWII by Denise Kiernan
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty by Dan Ariely
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Lady at the OK Corral: True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Living Emunah by Rabbi David Ashear
Mindsharing: The Art of Crowdsourcing Everything by Lior Zoref
The Mountain Family: An Appalachian Family of 12 – and their Fascinating Journey to Judaism by Tzirel Rus Berger and Penina Neiman
Nothing to Envy About North Korea by Barbara Demick
Not in God’s Name by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Outliers: The Story of Success
Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind by Sarah Wildman
Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin
The Prime Ministers by Yehudi Avner
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner
Sipping from the Nile by Jean Naggar
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Start-Up Nation by Dan Señor and Saul Singer
This Is Not a Love Story by Judy Brown
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Phew! Talk about a BIG list! As I said, you guys really blew me away. I apologize in advance if I missed a book that you mentioned. Putting this post together took me quite a bit longer than I had anticipated (you guys suggested a lot of books!), and it’s possible that a few were added once I was already in the process. Please feel free to keep the suggestions going in the comments.
And stay tuned for tomorrow when I share my 2016 Reading List.
Thank you all!
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