1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
3. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
4. I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
5. Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
6. Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
7. Wonder - R.J Palacio (see my review)
8. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
9. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
10. Letter to My Daughter - Maya Angelou
11. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
12. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
13. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
14. Tenth of December - George Saunders
15. If I Stay - Gayle Foreman
16. We Are Not Ourselves - Matthew Thomas
17. The Master Butchers Singing Club - Louise Erdrich
18. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
19. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
20. In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist - Ruchama King
21. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
22. Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver
23. Deep Down Dark - Héctor Tobar
24. Orhan's Inheritance - Aline Ohanesian
25. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
26. I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak (see my review)
27. China Dolls - Lisa See
28. On Writing - Stephen King
29. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
30. The Last Policeman - Ben H. Winters
31. The Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling (1/7)
6 1/7 read.
I haven't heard of so many of these books. There's always so much more to be read....
4 comments:
Oh, I hope you are OK Louise! I don't like to think you are down.
Interesting list. I think I've read about 8 3/7 (or 2.5/7 as I didn't finish the third Harry Potter. I would add another book to this list, I shall not hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish. It's a bit in the I am Malala style,
Hi Sue, I'm ok- thanks for checking, I was just being moderately flippant.
I've never heard of the book you'd add, but it sounds interesting. I would add The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen 83 1/4, a delightful Dutch book I read a few months back.
Oh good ... just wanted to check. I reviewed I shall not hate after my reading group did it. It is really an astonishing book on a few levels.
I love the idea of books for restoring your faith in humanity. Mountains Beyond Mountains is definitely a book like that as is Unbroken. I wonder if I could make up my own list.
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