I’m a sucker for books that fill the gap between genre and literary fiction, good young adult stories, and the odd dose of self-help. Here are the ones I find myself thinking about time and time again:
Fiction
- A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin)
- The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gayle Honeyman)
- Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason)
- Bridget Jones’ Diary (Helen Fielding)
- Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)
- Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
- The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
- The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion)
- Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
YA Fiction
- Emergency Contact (Mary H.K. Choi)
- Eleanor & Park (Rainbow Rowell)
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Becky Albertalli)
- We Are All Made of Molecules (Susin Nielsen)
- Love & Gelato (Jenna Evans Welch)
- The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
- Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)
- Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (Peter Cameron)
- The Lioness Quartet (Tamora Pierce)
- To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (Jenny Han)
- Our Chemical Hearts (Krystal Sutherland)
- Words on Bathroom Walls (Julia Walton)
Non-Fiction
- Big Magic (Elizabeth Gilbert)
- Bird By Bird (Anne Lamott)
- The Happiness Project (Gretchen Rubin)
- Better Than Before (Gretchen Rubin)
- Being Mortal (Atul Gawande)
- Becoming (Michelle Obama)
- On Writing (Stephen King)
- The Gifts of Imperfection (Brene Brown)
- Braving the Wilderness (Brene Brown)
- Essentialism (Greg McKeown)
- Quiet (Susan Cain)
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