Your Recommendations – A List

Posted by kay on March 18, 2012 1:24 am in Book talk | 5 comments

Ten days ago, I presented you all with a special request : recommend me some adult books, or books that are different than the ones I have been reading recently. You answered my cry for help with even more recommendations than I had hoped for and it was exactly what I needed.

Because I am always looking for a reason to make lists, I had to make one for your recommendations (including my own, and excluding those for books I have already read). I was pleased by the number of recommended books that are already on my shelves; I identified those with a (s). In some cases, when I don’t have a specific book from an author I added another that I do have. I don’t need more reasons to buy books, do I?

• If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous (s) (read this week)
• Undress me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman (s)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris
• Holy Fools by Joanne Harris (s) (not a recommendation, but it’s the only one from the author I do own)
• I Thought you Were Dead by Pete Nelson
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (s)
• A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
• The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (s)
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
• The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (s) (added this week to my shelves!)
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (s)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (s)
• Modoc by Ralph Helfer
• Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien
• Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (s)
• 100 Heartbeats by Jeff Corwin
• The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (s)
• Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes
• Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes
• Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes
• This Charming Man by Marian Keyes (s)
• The Human Bobby by Gabe Rotter
• Red, Black, White by Ted Dekker
• The Circle by Ted Dekker
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
• The Likeness by Tana French
• In the Woods by Tana French (s)
• The History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters by Julian Barnes (s)
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• One Day byDavid Nicholls (s)
• Sepulchre by Kate Moss (s)

So, that should keep me busy for a while! 🙂

I thank you all for your help, and if you have any more recommendations, please share them with me! 🙂