Follower Book Recommendations
To make things easy, we have linked all of these books below to Amazon. But I’ve included a list of wonderful independent booksellers first, because in every situation (when you can) choose an independent bookstore. Please do!
A Discovery of Witches  | High-brow and so good.B1 |
A Man Called Ove | There is a little sadness but it’s a precious story and one of my all-time faves. |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | A classic from 1943 was so beautiful about a young girl coming of age. |
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man | |
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things | Highly recommend! |
Beach Music | So beautiful! |
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstances | Don’t let the title dissuade you. It’s one of those surprise books that is just full of wonder and joy and speaks to the child in all of us. Also, it’s one of the books Melissa Hartwig recommended. |
Before We Were Yours | It’s amazing in many directions. By far the best book I’ve read in quite a while. |
Behold the Dreamers | |
Being Mortal | |
Beneath a Marble Sky  | |
Beyond the Point | I loved the audiobook! |
Brain on Fire  | A quick read and a true story. |
Brooklyn | Beautiful story and very nice adaptation to film too. |
Call Your Daughter Home | It’s a beau-tiful read. |
| Chasing Cupcakes | This book totally changed my life and gave me a whole new mindset. Every choice is a chance, if you don’t challenge yourself, you won’t change yourself. |
Cinnamon and Gunpowder | Would not have been a usual read for me but I got sucked in and lost in the food and story. |
Circe | SO good! Incredible adaptation on the Greek goddess and very female empowering!!! 10000/10 review |
Come As You Are | |
Confessions of an Imaginary Friend | The most delightful book I have read this summer. My tween and teen daughters and I read it together. |
Crossing to Safety | A thought-provoking book about two couples’ friendship through the decades. |
Cutting for Stone | |
Daisy Jones and the Six | It’s about a 70’s rock-band like Fleetwood Mac. I was very entertained; it was such a great story and on Audible. It’s an ensemble cast so there are several different voices. Loooooved it. |
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende | |
Educated | |
Everything I Never Told You  | |
Evvie Drake Starts Over | Cute romantic story if you’re into that. Lots is humor. |
Genius Food | |
He’s Just Not That into You | |
Honestly, We Meant Well | |
| I Liked My Life | |
I was Emelia Earhart  | A magical book! |
Imagine That | Short book but I fell in love with the kid. |
Interpreter of Maladies  | Collection of short stories from so many different points of view. She writes like she’s lived a thousand lives. |
It Ends With Us | |
Keeping Faith | |
Kitchen Confidential | I Just listened to the audio book, which he narrates, and it was delightful. |
Kitchens of the Great Midwest | We read it for book club and did a whole themed dinner. We all loved it. |
Let’s Take the Long Way Home | |
Lilac Girls | |
Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk | It’s about an octogenarian woman, who was a copywriter for advertising. It’s the mid80s and she spends New Year’s Eve reminiscing about her life, while walking around New York City. I found it absolutely charming. |
Love and Gelato | It’s a story about young love set in the background of Florence/Tuscany. A young American girl is seeking to find out more about her mother. It’s cute and a quick read. |
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand | A really fun read. |
Mama’s Boy | This is not a fiction but, but more a memoir! It’s about how his relationship evolved with his mom, growing up Mormon and gay. He is an incredible writer and speaker! |
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone | It’s not my typical genre but I’m really liking it. |
Me Before You | Amazing! |
Modern Lovers | |
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry | |
Outlander series | |
Pachinko | It is epic in scale and has romance and great characters. |
Park Avenue Summer  | |
Rare Bird | |
Roses | It’s a story about love and work and spans three generations of women. Primarily how the decisions of the grandmother impact the granddaughter. It reads like a historical fiction and is my all time favorite. |
Same Kinda Different Than Me | |
Scarlett | |
Searching for Sylvie Lee | |
Serena | |
Silent Waters  | It made me cry happy and sad tears at the same time. The relationship between the main character and her Father will give you goosebumps. Unconditional love is all I can say. It’s soooo goood!!!! |
Sissy | An amazing book by 27-year old Jacob Tobia, who identifies as queer trans. Life changing for me. |
Small Great Things  | |
So Big  | Great book about the life of a strong, hard-working, beautiful woman |
Someone Knows My Name | |
Southernmost | Very touching story of a parent’s love |
Standard Deviation | Absolutely wonderful book with amazing insight into the human mind, sprite, and heart with laugh-out-loud moments and observations throughout. |
Stargirl | It’s a beautiful story about nonconformity, uniqueness, and kindness”¦ it reads a little young but is a precious message and reminder. |
Talking As Fast As I Can | |
Tell the Wolves I’m Home  | |
That Month in Tuscany | |
The Alchemist | Always a favorite. |
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats  | |
| The Art of Racing in the Rain | |
The Blue Castle | It’s such a satisfying read….and mostly skipped over but soo soo good. |
The Book of Polly  | I still miss these characters and read it over a year ago. It was a great story! |
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | |
The boys and the boat  | This book came out many, many years ago, and it is in my top five favorite books of all time. By far the best audiobook I’ve ever listened to. I recommend it so highly. |
The Bridge Across Forever | |
The Bronze Horseman | It is an epic rollercoaster of emotions. A romance set in Russia, WW2, family, love, loss, war. I had butterflies in my stomach, I cried, I stayed up very, very late to keep reading. |
The Chaperone  | |
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake | |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Very soul redeeming feel to it. It is one of my favorite stories as the main character struggles with revenge and redemption. |
The Friends We Keep | I just read Jane Green’s new book and it was perfect end of summer reading. |
The Glass Castle | One of my all-time faves. |
The God of Small Things | |
The Goldfinch | Very well written and a hell of a story. |
The Great Alone | |
The Great Believers | |
The Guest Book  | |
The Heart’s Invisible Furies | Funny, sad, it was wonderful. About a gay man growing up in Ireland in the 1950s. |
The Lacuna | |
The Language of Flowers | |
The Last Lecture | |
The Last Mrs. Parrish | |
The Light Between Us | I think you’ll love it! |
The Light of the World  | |
| The Long Walk to Freedom | |
The Lotus Eaters | |
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | It’s a kids’ book that will only take a few hours, but it is MAGNIFICENT. |
The Neapolitan Novels (A 4 novel saga) | Ferrante is a ghost writer and nobody knows who she truly is, but she is one of my favorite authors. The way she tells the lifelong story of two friends, is amazing. |
| The Night Circus | The Night Circus is magical realism like Harry Potter, but in one of the most beautiful visually stunning books I’ve read/listened to. There is no real stress and no real suspense, but there are definitely surprises. |
The Orchardist  | |
The Overstory  | An absolutely gorgeous book. |
The Paris Architect | So good so far! I love WWII historical fiction. |
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake  | It’s wonderful! |
The People We Hate at the Wedding | |
The Pillars of the Earth  | Great summer read. |
The River | Beautifully written. Quick read. |
The Rosie Project | |
The Secrets We Kept | |
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | I really enjoyed it! It was a really beautiful story of a fascinating life, definitely recommend. |
The Silent Patient | I’m reading The Silent Patient right now and it’s good |
The Smell of Other People’s Houses  | This book was fabulous. I got completely lost in the characters. |
| The Sound of Glass | |
The Spitfire Girls | |
The Storyteller’s Secret | |
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | |
The Vacationers | |
The Wedding Date | Such a feel-good book! |
The Winter Sea | |
The Year of Yes | |
There There  | |
This Is How It Always Is | It’s the most beautiful book I’ve ever read. It’s a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. |
Thrive | I’m loving this book!!! It’s all about the happiest people in the world. Kind of informational and story and documentation all at once. |
Total Focus | |
Waiting for Tom Hanks | I promise some chuckles because there were times I laughed out loud on the train ride to work. |
What Alice Forgot  | |
| Where the Crawdads Sing | |
Wild | I have read it five times! Completely changed my life and views about transformation, growth and moving on. |
Women in Sunlight | Food. Women and travel all in one with love and kindness |
Written on The Body | |
| Yesterday’s Sun | Beautiful read in my opinion. Sad in parts, but the overall story is just beautiful. I read it years ago and it has stuck with me. |