This will be the year I finally get into a good habit of reading. I tend to put it off in favor of magazines, blogs, articles, even the news (depressing)… and I miss a good book in my life. I feel like if we all scrolled through Instagram for 20 minutes less per day, we could finish a few more books a year. Whose with me? Anyone want to start a virtual book club?
Finding book reviews can be overwhelming so I asked all of YOU for your favorite recommendations. Bookmark this post so you can refer back to it! Below is the grand list.
Self-Help/Reference
Smart Women Finish Rich – David Bach
You Are a Badass – Jen Sincero
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Elizabeth Gilbert
Fiction
The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah (Tons of you recommended this!)
The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah
Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens (A Reese Witherspoon book club pick)
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy – Kevin Kwan (I loved the movie, so I should probably read ALL these..)
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
Luckiest Girl Alive – Jessica Knoll (Fans of Gone Girl book/movie will love this too!)
Paris For One – Jojo Moyes (Called a “good old fashioned, feel-good love story.” Yes please)
An American Marriage – Tayari Jones (On Oprah’s list)
The Lilac Girls – Martha Hall Kelly
The Rosie Project – Graeme Simison
The Nest – Cynthia Daprix Sweeney (Soon to be a major movie!)
The Alice Network – Kate Quinn (an NPR best book of the year)
A Place For Us – Fatima Farheen Mirza
Truly Madly Guilty – Liane Moriarty
All Your Perfects – Colleen Hoover (an instant NYTimes Bestseller)
The Dinner List – Rebecca Serle
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho (a classic – and I actually haven’t read it yet)
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Suspense/Thriller
The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn
The Cuckoos Calling – Robert Galbraith (this is actually written by J.K. Rowling! It’s a murder mystery series penned under a fake name)
The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
The Couple Next Door – Shari Lapena
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize for fiction)
A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
The Light We Lost – Jill Santopolo (Another Reese Witherspoon favorite)
Nonfiction & Biography
Becoming – Michelle Obama (I loved this book so much – her story is incredible. Whatever your politics, this is a MUST.)
Just Kids – Patti Smith and M Train – Patti Smith (Both follow the singer’s life)
Educated – Tara Westover (New York Times called it a 10 best of the year)
The Library Book – Susan Orlean
The Rational Optimist – Matt Ridley
Soul of an Octopus – Sy Montgomery (this one looks really interesting)
I am I am I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death – Maggie O’Farrell
A House in The Sky – Amanda Lindhout & Sarah Corbett
