Stuck in a rut and don’t know what to pick up to read next? Here are some of my favorite books that I have read over time. All of these are considered 4 or 5 stars, or as I like to say:🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
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Favorite Books & Recommendations
Best of the Best – A harmonious blend, a luxurious flight 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
These favorites are books that were un-put-downable and I either devoured and loved or savored every last word, much like the very best wines. Read ’em and weep. Or laugh. Or smile. But you will feel something – I would bet my 🍷 on it!
Sandwich – Catherine Newman
Summer Romance – Annabel Monaghan
Frozen River – Ariel Lawhon
First Lie Wins – Ashely Elston
Atomic Habits – James Clear
These Silent Woods – Kimi Cunningham Grant
Hidden Potential – Adam Grant
Tom Lake – Ann Patchett
The Seven Year Slip – Ashely Boston
The Quiet Tenant – Clemence Michallon
Know My Name – Chanel Miller – I ❤️ed it on audio – Every human being should read this book.
The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne
A Quiet Life – Ethan Joella
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America – Cody Keenan – I ❤️ed it on audio
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story – Bono – I ❤️ed it on audio
Look Closer – David Ellis – very dark & twisty – read author bio, fascinating!
Notes on an Execution – Danya Kukafka
Our Missing Hearts – Celeste Ng
The Happiest Man on Earth – Eddie Jaku
The Lies I Tell – Julie Clark
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
The Violin Conspiracy – Brendan Slocumb
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell – Robert Dugoni
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
More Than You’ll Ever Know – Katie Gutierrez
Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo
The Lincoln Highway – Amor Towles
Taste – My Life Through Food – Stanley Tucci – I ❤️ed it on audio
11/22/63 – Stephen King
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Dear Edward – Ann Napolitano
The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
Long Bright River – Liz Moore
Heft – Liz Moore
The Unseen World – Liz Moore – I ❤️ed it on audio
We Were The Lucky Ones – Georgia Hunter
Oona Out of Order – Margarita Montimore
The Things We Cannot Say – Kelly Rimmer
The Dutch House – Ann Patchett – I ❤️ed it on audio
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe In Another Life – Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves – Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 – Garrett M. Graff – I ❤️ed it on audio
The Stationery Shop – Marjan Kamali
This Tender Land – Willian Kent Kreuger
Ordinary Grace – Willam Kent Krueger
We Begin At The End – Chris Whitaker
The Island of Sea Women – Lisa See – I ❤️ed it on audio
Watching You – Lisa Jewell
The Kind Worth Killing – Peter Swanson – very dark & twisty
Between Two Kingdoms – Suleika Jaouad
Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism – Dan Rather
A Place for Us – Fatima Farheen Mirza
Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens – I ❤️ed it on audio
The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah
The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd – I ❤️ed it on audio
The Humans – Matt Haig
How to Stop Time – Matt Haig
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah – I ❤️ed it on audio
The Life We Bury – Allen Eskens
The Heavens May Fall – Allen Eskens
The Guise of Another – Allen Eskens
Forsaken Country – Allen Eskens
The Secret Wife – Gill Paul
Things You Save in a Fire – Katherine Center
The Dry – Jane Harper
Beartown – Frederik Backman
Before We Were Yours – Lisa Wingate
Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult
Need to Know – Karen Cleveland
A Higher Loyalty – James Covey
I Let You Go – Clare Macintosh
Beneath a Scarlet Sky – Mark T. Sullivan – I ❤️ed it on audio
The Sea of Tranquility – Katjay Millay – I ❤️ed it on audio
I Liked My Life – Abby Fabiaschi
On Living – Kerry Egan – I ❤️ed it on audio
Pope Joan – Donna Woolfolk Cross
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
Women of the Silk – Gail Tsukiyama
The Language of Threads – Gail Tsukiyama
The Samurai’s Garden – Gail Tsukiyama
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
Why Do They Act That Way – David Walsh
Tattoos on the Heart – Gregory Boyle
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
The Choices We Make – Karma Brown
The End of Alzheimer’s – Dale Bredesen
Untangled – Lisa Damour
The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
Like a Fine Wine 🍷🍷🍷🍷
Loved these books too, and highly recommend. All kinds of genres here. Pour yourself a favorite beverage, cozy up and read away!
All the Dangerous Things – Stacy Willingham
A Flicker in the Dark – Stacy Willingham
Hidden Pictures – Jason Rekulak – I recommend the physical book for this one.
Count the Ways – Joyce Maynard
Other Birds – Sarah Addison
A Good Neighborhood – Therese Anne Fowler
Nora Goes Off Script – Annabelle Monaghan
Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
One Step Too Far – Lisa Gardner
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home – Tembi Locke – I ❤️ed it on audio
I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
Carrie Soto is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Big Lies in a Small Town – Diane Chamberlain
The Bodyguard – Katherine Center
Two Nights in Lisbon – Chris Pavone – I ❤️ed it on audio
Book Lovers – Emily Henry
Beach Read – Emily Henry
Goodnight Beautiful – Aimee Molloy
Scandalized – Ivy Owens – much steamier than my other selections
The Night Shift – Alex Finlay
For Your Own Good – Samantha Downing – dark & twisty
Local Woman Missing – Mary Kubica
Falling – T.J. Newman
The Guncle – Steven Rowley
The Plot – Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Last Thing He Told Me – Laura Dave
Writers & Lovers – Lily King
Pretty Things – Janelle Brown
The Last Flight – Julie Clark
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet – Jamie Ford
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators – Ronan Farrow – I ❤️ed it on audio
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone – Lori Gottleib
The Banker’s Wife – Cristina Alger
The Family Upstairs – Lisa Jewell
Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell
I Found You – Lisa Jewell
Before She Knew Him – Peter Swanson – very dark & twisty
Eight Perfect Murders – Peter Swanson
The Shadows We Hide – Allen Eskens
The Family Next Door – Sally Hepworth
Force of Nature – Jane Harper
The Lost Man – Jane Harper
The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
The Art of Racing in The Rain – Garth Stein
An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
News of the World – Paulette Giles – I ❤️ed it on Audible
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng – I ❤️ed it on Audible
Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
The Mountain Between Us – Charles Martin – I ❤️ed it on Audible
Born a Crime – Trevor Noah – I ❤️ed it on Audible
One Perfect Lie – Lisa Scottoline
What Alice Forgot – Lianne Moriarty
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood – I ❤️ed it on Audible
What She Knew – Gilly Macmillan
Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
Friend Request – Laura Marshall
Sister Sister – Sue Fortin
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
Fortune’s Rocks – Anita Shreve
Big Stone Gap – Adrianna Trigiani
Tears of the Giraffe – Alexander McCall Smith
Morality for Beautiful Girls – Alexander McCall Smith
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Girl With A Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms – Gail Tsukiyama
A Map of the World – Jane Hamilton
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
