This post is dedicated to Jennifer Galet who has been a good friend to me for 13! years despite the distance between us. Her birthday is July 5, but I will be in Berlin, busy with 18 teenagers, so I don't know if I will be able to get in touch.
Jen is has asked me before for book recommendations (and she has given me many, too, one on this list was from her, I believe). So I thought this would be an ok gift.
So here's a list of books that I still think about. Many are new reads for me, some are not.
Happy Birthday, Jen!
And to my other book worm friends, I love you, too!
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
Historical Fiction
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender
Fantasy
Safe Haven
Nicholas Sparks
Quick Read
Stieg Larsson's books
Crime, Adventure
Fly Away Home
Jennifer Weiner
Quick Read
Little Bee
Chris Cleave
Novel
This is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper
Dude Lit
Every Man Dies Alone
Hans Fallada
Historical Fiction
Women, Food and God
Geneen Roth
Self Help
Testimony: A Novel
Aneta Shreve
Quick Read
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Historical Fiction, Civil Rights
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards
Novel
Will To Live
Adam Starkopf
Holocaust Memoir
Mila 18
Leon Uris
Historical Fiction
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Short Stories
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Novel
The Runaway Jury
John Grisham
Quick Read
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
Non fiction
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
Novel
The Heidi Chronicles
Wendy Wasserstein
Plays
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Classic
Bread Givers
Anzia Yezierska
Historical Fiction
2 comments:
Thanks for the book recommendations. I actually haven't read many of these. I'll add some to my summer reading list. I've just discovered Wilkie Collins. I think you'd like The Moonstone. Enjoy your trip.
Thanks Sharona! I am honored to be included in your blog and thank you for all the book recommendations! I hope we can be in touch and catch up properly when you are home - maybe even see each other in person sometime soon! In the meantime, have a fantastic trip and check out these two books: Secret Daughter and One Day. Both very enjoyable reads!
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