In preparation for my FRED (Family, Religion, Education, Development) talk about reading aloud for the Lewis reunion, I decided to come up with book recommendations for adults and not necessarily for reading aloud-ha! But part of it was just fun to see that I could come up with general book recommendations. With these recommendations, I had in mind my siblings and Mom who read a lot and try to pick books that they've probably haven't read yet. But I'll sneak in a few more in this post just in case. Not all of these are favorites but I have read them all and enjoyed them.
Quick fun reads
Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon
The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand (I hear it's great on audio)
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
(Other mentions: Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner, The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen, The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick)
Nonfiction
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg by Irin Carmon
This is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
(Other mentions: Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin, Not in God's Name by Jonathan Sacks)
Fiction
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
(Other mentions: The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood, These is My Words by Nancy Turner, The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom, The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton)
Memoir
Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons by Christie Purifoy
West With the Night by Beryl Markham
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies by J.B. West
(Other mentions: The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines, A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken, For the Love by Jen Hatmaker)
Middle grade/young adult
Restart by Gordon Korman
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
(Other mentions: Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt, The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson, Refugee by Alan Gratz)
Great on audio
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie-read by Dan Stevens
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier-read by Anna Massey
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride by Cary Elwes-read by the author and other Princess Bride actors
Crossover by Kwame Alexander-read by Corey Allen
Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
(Other mentions: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan, Loving vs Virginia by Patricia Powell, Matilda by Roald Dahl)
See any favorites on here? What would you add?
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