THANK YOU for all of the great reading suggestions that came from A Summer Reading List. From your recommendations (and I few I picked up in conversations), I have been very busy reading. Here is an updated list of recommendations…
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Wow, this book stayed with me for a long time. It shares a love for Ethiopia, a love for family, and a love for medicine. It also deals with how a person tries to come to terms with their past. I loved it.
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I was so sure this book was a work of non-fiction when I started reading it that I started Googling information about the band. But this is a work of fiction. It tells the story of a band and the members’ personal journeys through the 70s. Felt a little bit like the movie Almost Famous – which I loved.
Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah is a great novelist and this was an interesting tale about a girl who appears out of nowhere from the forest in the Pacific Northwest. It has all the elements of a good story to keep you intrigued – mystery, personal redemption, sacrifice and love.
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
For someone who loves honey as much as I do, I can’t believe I waited so long to read this book. Set in 1960s South Carolina, you will be frustrated by racism but charmed by three sister beekeepers who take in a child running from her life.
Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies by Anne-Marie Macdonald
These two books are both haunting and hard to read but I couldn’t put them down. They remind us how vulnerable women and children are and how life goes on, tragedy upon tragedy.
Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern
Eric read this camping this year – a gift to him for our anniversary. The book is a series of Stern’s interviews but each begins with a current reflection on the interview from him. It’s a more grown up and less offensive Howard Stern. Eric laughed out loud – a lot.
I am currently reading The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd.
Do you have any more books to add to the list?
A bit more…A list for Fall – including Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.
Sisters and Spies. A true story of women risking their lives in WWII.
The Huntress was excellent, The Lost Girls of Paris, and a bit tough to read, but very compelling is The Tattooist of Auschwitz… Also, anything by Toronto writer Jennifer Robson, specifically The Gown. I also recommend anything by Kristin Hannah, especially The Nightingale…. (I see a theme to my reading here…hmmm lol)
I have the same reading theme!
Yes! Where the Crawdads Sing was a great read. I also enjoyed Home Front by Kristin Hannah, The Alice Network and The Huntress, both by Kate Quinn.
If you liked Taylor Jenkins Reid’s rock band “biography”, you might also like her novel “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” (sorry title should be in italics, but can’t with phone!). We are in Algonquin camping, and I sat in the tent for way too long at one point because I was captivated and wanted to see the ending. This one too could be a piece of non-fiction too, but in fact reflects the reality of old Hollywood. A good summer read!
Sounds so good!!! Adding it to my list. Thanks, Jenn!
‘Educated’ was very good. Secret life of bees is one of my all time favourite books.
Soooo good!
Where the crawdads sing was a great summer read!
I have seen this book everywhere this summer. I’ll read it next. Thanks!