Book Suggestions - Ones I LOVED

Book Suggestions
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Don’t miss these books:

  1. THE CHAMPAGNE LETTERS by Kate Macintosh
  2. THE FRENCH WINEMAKER’S DAUGHTER by Loretta Ellsworth - FABULOUS READ
  3. THE SUNFLOWER HOUSE by Adriana Allegri
  4. CHRISTMAS WITH THE QUEEN by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
  5. THE MEMORY DRESS by Jade Beer
  6. LAST TWILIGHT IN PARIS by Pam Jenoff
  7. THE PRESIDENT’S LAWYER by Lawrence S. Robbins
  8. THE LOVE ELIXIR OF AUGUST STERN by Lynda Cohen Loigman
  9. THE BOOKLOVER’S LIBRARY by Madeline Martin
  10. WHEN THE WORLD FELL SILENT by Donna Jones Alward

I have TONS more, but that should keep you busy and happy. :slight_smile: THANKS for “listening.” :slight_smile:

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I’m reading The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern right now!

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Thank you so much for your recommendations!

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When I did Readers Advisory while working at the public library, I always suggested “Ordinary Grace” & “River We Remember” by William Kent Krueger, “Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown, “Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer, “Bookish Life of Nina Hill” by Abi Waxman, & “Man Called Ove” by Fredrk Backman. Personally, I love the Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt–those are comfort reads for me.

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Are these cozy mysteries?

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Are you LOVING the book and Augusta?

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@Elizabeth thank you for these book recommendations. I will work my way through them. They sound so good.

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You are very welcome!!

I LOVED each one.

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@Elizabeth I think I posted elsewhere that I finished The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern last night. I did enjoy it - nice, fast feel-good novel. “Second chance” romances have been a favorite for me since I read Persuasion (jeez, has to have been more than 40 years, LOL). It was a lovely break from reality for a few hours.

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It was SO good. Loved Augusta!!

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You are most welcome!! Enjoy them all.

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You are very welcome!!

I LOVED each one.

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Historical Fiction Favs:

The Island of Missing Trees (Elif Shafak)

There Are Rivers in the Sky (Elif Shafak)

A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)

The Island of Sea Women (Lisa See)

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Kim Michele Richardson)

All the Light You Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

Take My Hand (Dolan Perkins-Valdez)

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window… (quirky pseudo historical fiction - Jonas Jonasson)

Burma Sahib (Paul Theroux)

Eleanore of Avignon (Elizabeth deLozier)

And a few others-

Becoming Madame Secretary (Stephanie Day)

The First Ladies (Marie Benedict)

The Roaring Days of Zora Lilly (Noelle Salazar)

The German Girl (Armando Lucas Correa)

The Personal Librarian (Marie Benedict)

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See)

The Book of Lost Names (Kristin Harmel)

And so many more!!!

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Non-fiction favs in no particular order:

Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA (Liza Mundy, History)

The Six - The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts (Loren Grush, History, Science)

The Library Book (Susan Orlean, True Crime)

The Art Thief (Micheal Finkel, True Crime)

Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann, History)

The Wager (David Grann, Nautical History)

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (Patrick Bringley, Memoir)

Free: A Child and A Country at the End of History (Lea Ypi, History, Memoir)

Empress of the Nile (Lynne Olson, Current History, Archeology)

A Most Beautiful Thing (Arshay Cooper, Sports, Human Interest)

They Called Me Lioness (Ahed Tamini, Current History)

Running with Sherman (Christopher McDougall, Sports, Nature)

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World (Lauren Fleshman, Sports, Health)

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town (Barbara Demick, History)

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I (Raja Shehadeh, History)

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Lots of good ones.

LOVED The Roaring Days of Zora Lilly and The Book of Lost Names

Thanks for your list.

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You can recommend books for me anytime. I’ve loved nearly all of these.

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This is a fabulous list of nonfiction. I’ve read many of them but I made a list of all the rest so I can check them out. Thanks, Gabi!

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Thank you for this great list. I have read quite a few of them and wanted to mention The Wager. I bought that as a gift for my husband because he loved the Patrick O’Brien books. I didn’t think I would like that kind of book, but when I read The Wager, I loved it. Great book!

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