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
Green Grass, Running Water—Thomas King
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead—Olga Tokarczuk
Hot Season—Susan DeFreitas
In the Name of the Family: A Novel of Machiavelli and the Borgias—Sarah Dunant
A Tale of Love and Darkness—Amos Oz
The Sisters of the Winter Wood—Rena Rossner
The Emigrants—W.G. Sebald
Three Ways to Disappear—Katy Yocom
The Tourist Trail—John Yunker
Caleb’s Crossing—Geraldine Brooks
Exit 8—John Bragg
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine—Gail Honeyman
The Road—Cormac McCarthy
Number9Dream–David Mitchel
The Underground Railroad—Colson Whitehead
The Song of Achilles—Madeline Miller
State of Wonder— Ann Patchett
The Peppered Moth—Margaret Drabble
Everything I Never Told You—Celeste Ng
The Dogs of Babel—Carolyn Parkhurst
There, There—Tommy Orange
The Which Way Tree—Elizabeth Crook
Some Favorites of the Past Five Years
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
Postcards—E. Annie Proulx
The Birth of Venus—Sarah Dunant
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!