I keep remembering great books I’ve read, so here are more additions to the list!
Fiction
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture and JPod by Douglas Coupland
Non-Fiction
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Laughed Out Loud
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs
Became Great Movies (but I think the books are always better)
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Me Before You by Jo Jo Moyes
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
Room by Emma Donaghue
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Bridge over The River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell (note the book is 1000x better)
Q&A by Vikas Swarup (this is the same as Slumdog Millionaire but has a different ending!)
Little Miss Sunshine by Michael Ardnt
Fantasy
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Belgariad Series by David Eddings
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
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