I love to share books I’ve enjoyed with friends. Likewise I appreciate when a friend recommends a good book to me. Here are some of my want-to-read, recent reads, and favorite reads of the last several years. Any suggestions?
See my Goodreads bookshelf at Eva’s Goodreads’ Bookshelf.
Recent Reads
Tangled Lies—Karen E. Osborne
The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far—Mary Ellen Bramwell
The Snakes of St. Augustine—Ginger Pinholster
Getting It Right—Karen E. Osborne
Deacon King Kong—James McBride
The Signature of All Things—Elizabeth Gilbert
The Book of Uriel—Elyse Hoffman
A Memory Called Empire—Arkady Martine
Measuring the World—Daniel Kehlmann
Music Is Not Bound by Time—Steve Moretti
The History of Living Forever—Jake Wolff
In Search of Sisters—Mary Ellen Bramwell
Death Comes for the Archbishop—Willa Cather
Winesburg, Ohio—Sherwood Anderson
The Other Hamlet Brother—Luke Swanson
Tyll—Daniel Kehlmann
Cosmic Fever—Eric J. Adams
Blue Gowanus: An El Buscador Noir— Michael Hartnett
Faux Friends—A.J. McCarthy
Rewrite the Stars—Christina Consolino
Halsey Street—Naima Coster
Harry’s Trees—Jon Cohen
Parable of the Talents—Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower—Octavia E. Butler
Some Favorites of the Past Five Years
A Memory Called Empire—Arkady Martine
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity—Rebecca Goldstein
Bonfire of the Vanities—Tom Wolfe
Cloud Atlas—David Mitchell
Fifth Business (trilogy)—Robertson Davies
Girl at War—Sara Nović
Parable of the Sower—Octavia E. Butler
Postcards—E. Annie Proulx
The Birth of Venus—Sarah Dunant
The Fifth Season—N. K. Jemisin
The Golem and the Djinni—Helene Wecker
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World—Andrea Wulf
The Island at the Center of the World—Russell Shorto
The Left Hand of Darkness—Ursula LeGuin
The Milagro Beanfield War—John Nichols
The Road—Cormac McCarthy
The Weight of Ink—Rachel Kadish
The White Tiger—Aravind Adiga
Year of Wonders—Geraldine Brooks
Hi Eva,
I recently joined FFM and came across your comments that led me to this site.
I have a book title for you “Elizabeth is Missing” by Emma Healey, a young British author. I gather this book caused quite the bidding-stir among publishers.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you for the suggestion. Will look it up!