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I’m asked quite often for book recommendations. My answer varies based on the day or mood I’m in. But I have quite a long list of standby favorites that I recommend, no matter what.
No rhyme or reason, no alphabetization, no genre sorting, no sorting at all. Not all of these received 5 stars from me, but all of these have stuck with me. And that’s the mark of a “favorite”, if you ask me!
I reserve the right to add books and delete titles at my discretion, ha!
Soooo here we go! Enjoy. ♡
The Bergman Brothers series by Chloe Liese
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Bromance Book Club series by Lyssa Kay Adams
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (audio)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (audio)
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (audio)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (audio)
Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
Bebe and Weezie Series by Mary Kay Andrews
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Something Like Happy by Eva Woods
A Million Junes by Emily Henry
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Oona Out of Order by Margaret Montimore (audio and paper)
The Mother in Law by Sally Hepworth
The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley (audio)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
UNSUB series by Meg Gardiner
In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn
The Wayward Pines series by Blake Crouch
The Line Between series by Tosca Lee
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis-Graves
The Lido (now called Mornings with Rosemary) by Libby Page
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Brown Sisters series by Talia Hibbert (some audio, some paper)
Beyond the Point by Claire Gibson
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney
Dear Child by Romy Hausmann
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Be Frank with Me by Julia Johnson Claiborne
Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (best audiobook of all time, also own in paper)
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Wonder by RJ Palacio
Like a River from Its Course by Kelli Stuart
The Feathered Bone by Julie Cantrell
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets by Molly Fader
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Right as Rain by Lindsey Stoddard
The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal
Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
The Language of Cherries by Jen Marie Hawkins
Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
When We Were Vikings by Andrew MacDonald
The Astonishing Life of August March by Aaron Jackson
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
We are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
Ill Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (audio)
His& Hers by Alice Feeney (audio)
Verity by Colleen Hoover
How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper
The Great Unexpected by Dan Mooney
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Love You Hard by Abby Maslin
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
Bossypants by Tina Fey
As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
The Last Flight by Julie Clark
What You Wish For by Katherine Center
The Comeback by Ella Berman
Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Ask Again,Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Notes from a Public Typewriter by Michael Gustafson
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Into the Jungle by Erica Ferencik
Ellie and the Harpmaker by Hazel Prior
No Exit by Taylor Adams
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Matchmaker Bay series by Jenny Holiday
Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Hunting Wives by May Cobb
The Need by Helen Phillips
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
The Banker’s Wife by Cristina Alger
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
The Love Proof by Madeleine Henry
The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland
We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop (audio)
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Idiot Girl’s Action Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro
One Day in December by Josie Silver
Happy Reading!
xoxo
S
Great list. So many good reads on it. I’ve found such diverse & wonderful stories from following you.
Super list! I would have to add “The Poison Wood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver which may be even better in its audio book form.
What a great list! A couple of yours are also on my all-time favorites as well…put there because you recommended them. I’ll never stop recommending The Heart’s Invisible Furies. Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you for sharing! Funny I was going to scroll through the blog to find some new authors!
Great list. A handful that I’ve already read (at your recommendation). Curious as to whether you would only recommend the audio version of Addie LaRue or if that is just the only one that you read personally? I just started the paper copy last night.
It’s just the way I listened to it. Julia Whelan is my all time favorite narrator and her narration on this is PHENOMENAL.
Julia Whelan’s My Oxford Year is worth reading 🙂
Not one of my faves but definitely cute !
Thanks!!!
I have either read or added a lot of these to my TBR list just because you say so! Sometimes I don’t even read what they are about because I know if you say they are good, it doesn’t matter what they are about! I love all of your recommendations.
I enjoyed daisy but for some reason it’s not one I’m prone to recommend. I chose Evelyn for this list but have enjoyed all Tjr books.
Wow! Thanks for this list. I’ve read many of these books after seeing them on the Bloom FB page and have recently been scrolling for new titles. I try not to buy books until I’ve read what I have, usually 2-3 in my TBR pile. I know I’ll be referring to this list throughout the year, so thank you for taking the time to put it together.
happy to see ‘how to walk away’ on your list! I loved this book and absolutely adore Katherine Center’s writing style. I got ‘What You Wish For’ for Christmas and can’t wait to read it 🙂 Thanks for doing this! xoxo
Books I’ve read that you recommended –
The Girl with the Louding Voice
A Man Called Ove
The Nightingale
Eleanor Oliphant
Tell Me More
Bossypants (didn’t enjoy that so much)
The top 3 books I have only read this year).
On my TBR pile –
All the Light we Cannot See
The Great Alone
Something Like Happy
My 2 recommendations to you would be –
Away with the Penguins by Hazel Prior. I really think this would be right up your street. I read A Man Called Ove on the back of it as it was said to be similar. I loved both.
Also, Lucinda Riley’s Seven Sisters series. Love!
Thank you! I love that there are so many series on the list. Love those.
Wow.. a great list. I have already read so many of these.. will check out the others.