Cornelia's family provides support the friendly and witty kind, thankfully as she navigates big transitions and tough decisions. If you love this, good news: there's a sequel. This is the book that hooked me on her writing. The romance is cheesy, the magic impossible, but put them together and it sings. A few love scenes are a little racy ahem.
If you're not down with supernatural food or a magical apple tree, skip this one—but you should know how many readers call this "a wonderful surprise. Sweet, sparkly, and thoroughly Southern. I first recommended this book to Tsh Oxenreider in Episode 6, "Books for book nerds, author backstories, and simple stories told well" and was delighted to hear it influenced her writing process for At Home in the World.
I later recommended it to a mother-daughter duo in Episode , "A lifetime mother-daughter book club. He found out about the award the same day they brought the twins home from the hospital. Doerr writes beautifully about his year abroad, from the everyday and the extraordinary: grocery shopping, sourcing baby gear for twins! I googled every street, church, and town he referenced. It's not the kind of book I expected to love: the story revolves around a mile cattle drive from a dusty Texas border town to the unsettled lands of Montana in the s, and features a motley cast of characters including illustrious captains, notorious outlaws, ex-slaves, Texas Rangers, sheriffs, and more.
Yet I did—and so have several guests! This title gets the distinction of the most recommended book on the podcast. That means if you want to talk about it, you need a reading companion! When she gets an email from an unidentified boy who calls himself "Somebody Nobody" offering to be her spirit guide to her new school, she doesn't want to say yes—but she really needs his help.
A sweet and fun teen romance, but also a pitch-perfect portrayal of the grieving process. I couldn't stop myself from cheering for Jessie as she put her life together again.
The title comes from a chance encounter one of these women has with a stranger, which is fitting because my favorite parts of the story deal with the small moments that change the course of a person's life, and the unlikely friendships that do the same. This is a wonderful, beautiful, and sad book, and I've been recommending it like crazy since I read it.
I loved discussing this book with Melody Warnick in Episode 39, "Judging a book by its first sentence. This was wise, reflective, and easy to read, and strongly reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior. Stay with Me Author: Ayobami Adebayo. I most recently recommended this in Episode , "Rebuilding your life and your library. The story begins with Yejide's mother-in-law arrives at her door with a guest in tow: her husband's second wife, that she didn't know he'd married.
Home Fire Author: Kamila Shamsie. I recommended this book to a Scottish bookseller in a delightful episode of What Should I Read Next recorded live in Scotland's national book town , that's Episode "A podcaster, a barrister, and a joiner walk into a bookstore.
I'm not sure I would have realized this was rooted in the Greek myth if I hadn't been told: Shamsie's story feels modern, timely, and incredibly relevant to current events. First line: "Isma was going to miss her flight. John Mandel. This is the kind of book I love: a compulsively readable literary mystery , featuring stylish prose plus a plot that keeps you turning the page to find out what happens next , by Emily St. John Mandel, author of bestseller Station Eleven. I was so impressed by the way Mandel unfolded the story piece by piece, introducing us to a seventeen-year-old girl in hiding with piles of cash duct-taped to the underside of her baby's stroller , and slowly revealing how she ended up there—and how the members of the old high school musical group the Lola Quartet are connected to her disappearance.
Set in muggy South Florida, the story is dripping with atmosphere and has a noir feel. Have you ever read a book that made the world around you feeI just a little bit magical? I first raved about this latest from Jon Cohen to the Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club , and we read it together earlier this year. This story features an unlikely friendship, a book-within-a-book, a battle to save the local library, and a mysterious good Samaritan, all set amidst the beautiful Pennsylvania forest.
I loved this emotionally resonant debut about class, culture, regret, and the road not taken so much that I included it on last year's Summer Reading Guide ; it deserves more attention than it's gotten. After twenty years abroad, the Zhens return to their native China to take up residence among Shanghai's nouveau riche.
The backdrop of contemporary Shanghai and a national festival highlights how the family embodies China's current conflicts and complexities: rich vs poor, urban vs rural, old vs new values and I loved talking with Cindy Brandt about the realities of these divides in episode of What Should I Read Next. Previous: 15 fantasy novels that are grounded in reality. Next: Links I love. We loved this book. We listened to audiobook on a long trip. IG: bookbimbo.
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You don't actually have to even sign up for an account to use the site's book recommendations. With Goodreads, you can search for a title, and you'll see a list of other titles Goodreads users also enjoyed. If you sign up for a free Goodreads account and rate books that you've read, the site can also offer up recommendations based on your reading history.
In addition to these features, given that Goodreads is a social network, you can also scan the reading lists of other users and friends to find book recommendations. Some users have also created themed lists which you can use to discover your next read. You can either search for titles you enjoyed and see which lists they appear on, and find other titles you might like. For example, searching for The Alexandria Quartet is featured on a variety of lists such as best post World War II fiction, alongside other greats such as Catch But then it also does wind up on a list of best books ever alongside Twilight.
Goodreads isn't the only site that you can use to catalog your book collection and also benefit from the community's wisdom on what to read next. LibraryThing is another good example. Riffle, much like Goodreads, is more of a social network for readers, so you'll first have to sign up for a free account to use the site. After telling Riffle a little about your reading taste and if you're so inclined following some of their suggested users, you can jump into the recommendations.
Riffle does follow a few accounts for you based on your selections, including the "editor" accounts of your favorite genres. If you follow a lot of users, you'll have an active feed full on potential gems you'll want to read. With all those books, you'll need good methods to organize your book collection. You can also find recommendations based on the books you've read, but unfortunately, this feature only appears to work with certain books.
Many of the more recently released books did not seem to generate suggestions. Unlike other sites listed here, Litsy is actually an app available for iOS and Android users, and it also doesn't rely on an algorithm. Instead, Litsy relies entirely on its userbase for this information. To use Litsy, you'll first have to sign up for a free account after which you can search for books, read reviews, and of course find your next read.
Once you've signed up, you'll get a list of users they recommend to follow. You can also search for other users to follow by searching for your favorite books and seeing who else has left reviews for them. When you want to recommend books for other users, you can't just give the book a thumbs up; you have to leave a short review. And that's how you're going to find your recommendationsby seeing what other Litsy users are reading. Users post photos of the book or screenshots of the ebook , along with their reviews.
To find a good book to read, you'll probably want to go directly to the profile of someone who has read other books you've enjoyed and also given them a ringing endorsement.
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