Here are some of my favorite titles, ones that I suggest to others the most. In alphabetical order:
| Title |
Author |
| A Fall of Marigolds |
Susan Meissner |
| The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
| A General Theory of Oblivion |
Jose Eduardo Agualusa |
| A Gentleman in Moscow |
Amor Towles |
| A Man Called Ove |
Fredrik Backman |
| A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
| A Woman in Jerusalem |
A.B. Yehoshua |
| Alanna: The First Adventure |
Tamora Pierce |
| All the King’s Men |
Robert Penn Warren |
| All the Light We Cannot See |
Anthony Doerr |
| Americanah |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| An American Marriage |
Tayari Jones |
| An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic |
Daniel Mendelsohn |
| And the Mountains Echoed |
Khaled Hosseini |
| Anne of Green Gables |
L.M. Montgomery |
| Anxious People |
Fredrik Backman |
| Astrid and Veronika |
Linda Olsson |
| Baking Cakes in Kigali |
Gaile Parkin |
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
Dai Sijie |
| Beartown |
Fredrik Backman |
| Before We Were Yours |
Lisa Wingate |
| Bel Canto |
Ann Patchett |
| Big Little Lies |
Liane Moriarty |
| Black Cake |
Charmaine Wilkerson |
| Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood |
Trevor Noah |
| Breakfast of Champions |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| Bridge of Sighs |
Richard Russo |
| Burial Rites |
Hannah Kent |
| Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Daisy Jones & The Six |
Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| Eleanor & Park |
Rainbow Rowell |
| Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows |
Balli Kaur Jaswal |
| Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
| Fall of Giants |
Ken Follett |
| Flight Behavior |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| Girl in Translation |
Jean Kwok |
| Go Ask Alice |
Beatrice Sparks |
| Gone Girl |
Gillian Flynn |
| Gone to Soldiers |
Marge Piercy |
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet |
Jamie Ford |
| Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body |
Roxane Gay |
| I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives |
Caitlin Alifirenka |
| In Cold Blood |
Truman Capote |
| In the Midst of Winter |
Isabel Allende |
| In the Time of the Butterflies |
Julia Alvarez |
| Inherit the Wind |
Jerome Lawerance |
| Klara and the Sun |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Landline |
Rainbow Rowell |
| Lessons in Chemistry |
Bonnie Garmus |
| Lilac Girls |
Martha Hall Kelly |
| Look for Me |
Edeet Ravel |
| Mansfield Park |
Jane Austen |
| Mary Coin |
Marisa Silver |
| Men Explain Things to Me |
Rebecca Solnit |
| Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Next Year in Havana |
Chanel Cleeton |
| Night |
Elie Wiesel |
| Nine Perfect Strangers |
Liane Moriarty |
| Notes on Grief |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Irin Carmon |
| Olga Dies Dreaming |
Xochitil Gonzalez |
| Once We Were Brothers |
Ronald H. Balson |
| Pachinko |
Lee Min-jin |
| People of the Book |
Geraldine Brooks |
| Please Look After Mom |
Shin Kyung-sook |
| Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
| Sarah’s Key |
Tatiana de Rosnay |
| Snow Falling on Cedars |
David Guterson |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
| Song of Solomon |
Toni Morrison |
| Station Eleven |
Emily St. John Mandel |
| Still Alice |
Lisa Genova |
| Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness |
Tracy Kidder |
| Ten Thousand Lovers |
Edeet Ravel |
| Ten Women |
Marcela Serrano |
| Tender Is the Night |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Alchemist |
Paulo Coelho |
| The Alice Network |
Kate Quinn |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
Michael Chabon |
| The Book of Longings |
Sue Monk Kidd |
| The Book Thief |
Markus Zusak |
| The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek |
Kim Michele Richardson |
| The Buried Giant |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| The Cellist of Sarajevo |
Steven Galloway |
| The Dovekeepers |
Alice Hoffman |
| The Eyre Affair |
Jasper Fforde |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer |
| The Hate U Give |
Angie Thomas |
| The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
Brian Selznick |
| The Island of Sea Women |
Lisa See |
| The Japanese Lover |
Isabel Allende |
| The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
| The Lake Shore Limited |
Sue Miller |
| The Last Thing He Told Me |
Laura Dave |
| The Light Between Oceans |
M.L. Stedman |
| The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America |
Bill Bryson |
| The Lovely Bones |
Alice Sebold |
| The Martian |
Andy Weir |
| The Nightingale |
Kristin Hannah |
| The One & Only |
Emily Giffin |
| The Only Woman in the Room |
Marie Benedict |
| The Painted Drum |
Louise Erdrich |
| The Pearl |
John Steinbeck |
| The Pearl That Broke Its Shell |
Nadia Hashimi |
| The People We Keep |
Allison Larkin |
| The Personal Librarian |
Marie Benedict |
| The Pillars of the Earth |
Ken Follett |
| The Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| The Queen of Water |
Laura Resau |
| The Queen’s Gambit |
Walter Tevis |
| The Red Tent |
Anita Diamant |
| The Rent Collector |
Camron Wright |
| The Rosie Project |
Graeme Simsion |
| The Secret Chord |
Geraldine Brooks |
| The Secret Garden |
Francis Hodgson Burnett |
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo |
Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| The Shadow of the Wind |
Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
| The Shell Seekers |
Rosamunde Pilcher |
| The Snow Goose |
Paul Gallico |
| The Storyteller |
Jodi Picoult |
| The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane |
Lisa See |
| The Underground Railroad |
Colson Whitehead |
| The Unseen World |
Liz Moore |
| There There |
Tommy Orange |
| Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
| Three Daughters of Eve |
Elif Shafak |
| Trinity |
Leon Uris |
| Trust |
Hernan Diaz |
| We Should All Be Feminists |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Winesburg, Ohio |
Sherwood Anderson |
| Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran |
Shahrnush Parsipur |
| Wonder |
R.J. Palacio |
| Year of Wonders |
Geraldine Brooks |
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