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I am looking for some new authors or good books. Any recommendations?

I am looking for some new authors or good books. Any recommendations?

Becky #recommend

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BeckyQuestion author

Hi, wow you are 20 mins away from me!! No I haven’t seen any books people habe suggested. Where should I look?

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Denise

Becky, not anymore I couldn’t take the snow. I live in Greenville, SC now. Cathy Lamb just posted the list of books we for the year we’ll be talking about. That is a great place to start

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Denise

Also if you look at the cover picture banner you’ll see a list of the groups founding authors.

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Heather

Jodi Picoult, Cathy Lamb, Amy Harmon, @Camille, @Camille. How could I ever forget @Steena.. love all you wonderful ladies

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Camille

Thank you, @Heather!

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Cathy

I’m reading The Mountains Between Us and I love it. Plane crash. Two people trying to survive in the mountains and snow…relationships

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Denise

As always the book was 100% better than the movie!

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Anne

I agree Lisa! I listened to the audio of this book (SO Good!) and was so excited when I saw that a movie based on the book had been made. UGH they changed the whole plot of the book. Sad.

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Donna

@Steena

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Shelby

Water From My Heart by the same author, Charles Martin, was also amazing. I recommend it!

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Jenny

@Cathy: Charles Martin Is My favorite male author. I’ve read all of hs books.

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Cathy

@Jenny I had never heard of him. He’s great

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Jenny

@Cathy Ck. out his FB page and google him. My favorite When Crickets Cry, Water From My Heart, Chasing Fireflies. He is from Florida. Christian. I adore his books. He writes from the heart.

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BeckyQuestion author

Oh, I’m going to get this boom

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BeckyQuestion author

Who is the author for the mountains between us?

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Kris

Charles Martin’s “Thunder and Rain” was great too!

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Lesley

Windy City Blues by Renee Rosen

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Pat

Catherine Ryan Hyde is a wonderful author.

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Kate

@Meredith joslyn westbrook @Cindy @Tracie Sally Hepworth @Barbara @Cathy Steena Holmes @Elena I can keep going. All the Lake Union Authors and all the Tall Poppies writers.

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Elena

I am honored to be included ❤️

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Steena

awww…thank you Kate!!!

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Barbara

Thank you, thank you. <3

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Susan

I’d start with the books of the founding authors; @Barbara, @Cathy, @Laura, @Kimberly, @Steena, @Catherine, @Jo-Ann. There is something for everyone to love in their books!

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Kimberly

Speaking on behalf of all of us founding authors, we sure do <3 you, [user slug="u-496443438" first_name="Susan" last_name="Peterson"]. 🙂

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Susan

@Kimberly aw, I love you all, too!!

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Steena

amen!

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Barbara

Group hug!

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Elaine

Karen White, Susan Meissner, Beatriz Williams, Susan Haught! So many but just to suggest a few!

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Jules

Kristen Ashley, I love her books!

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Caryn

The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

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Angie

Anything by Elizabeth Berg, Sara Addison Allen, or Kate Morton.

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Terri

Love Kate Morton

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Brenda

Need more info…what is your preferred genre? I’m mostly sci-fi, I enjoy Mercedes Lacky, Orson Scott Card, Douglas Adams, and DeLint. Amy Reichert, and Julie Cantrell are new favorites.

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Barbara

Which genre are you interested in?

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BeckyQuestion author

I like contemporary romance and I actually like some YA books

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Barbara

@Laura. <3 Have you read any of Laura's books?

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BeckyQuestion author

No but I will look into it

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Barbara

And if you like YA, you can’t beat Eoin Colfer.

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Harshi

Nora Roberts

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Janie

http://www.jhsiess.com/2018/02/05/book-review-need-to-know/

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BeckyQuestion author

Hey I just got this book. Did you like it?

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Tonni

I am really enjoying it!

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Ena

do you want stand a long books or a series?

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BeckyQuestion author

Either is fine!

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Roxie

Try @Michelle, @Susan or @Nancy, they have terrific books to read..give them a try.

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Susan

❤️Thank you, @Roxie.

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Sissy

Anything by Deborah Raney

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Cathy

Also Geraldine Brooks.

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Heather

Jill Mansell, Sophie Kinsella

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Joan

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. Also The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin. Both great reads.

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Tonni

Before We Were Yours by @Lisa is my top favorite of 2017!

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Tammy

Kate Morton

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Kris

Yes!!! Her books are great-especially “The Forbiddin Garden” and “The Secret Keeper”!

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Tammy

I haven’t read The Forgotten Garden yet or House of Riverton. I love her writing and the fact that they are nice big books. I just finished The Secret Keeper and wow, that was amazing!

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Marianne

Nicole Baart

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Bea

have you read Brenda Sue Novak? she has great reads , I’m ten books in , has different types , romance , thriller

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Jessica

Omg read a Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole!!!!! Hawthorne and heathcliff by Rk ryals

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Jessica

The Bright side series by Kim Holden!

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Cynthia

Emilie Richards, Colleen Hoover,Brenda Novak, Kristan Higgins, JoJo Moyes, Kristen Proby,Robyn Carr, Mary McNear, Susan Wiggs,Nancy Thayer, Mary Alice Monroe, Kristin Hannah, Sherryl Woods

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Cathy

The Elm Creek Quilter Series by Jennifer Chiaverini

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Lisa

Stephan haughan the peshwari nans

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Marilyn

@Camille, author of Woman Last Seen In Her Thirties.

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Marilyn

Christine Nolfi

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Marilyn

@Loretta

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Marilyn

Here is Loretta Nyhan’s new book

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Barbara

So good!

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Tonni

I havent started it, but looking forward to it!

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Barbara

@Tonni It is OUTSTANDING.

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Renee

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Patti

Anything by Greg Iles, Mary Kay Andrews, Cathy Lamb or @Dorothea???

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Tonni

@Susan, @Susan, @Heather all come to mind and I did not see them already listed.

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Barbara

@Julie‘s Calling Me Home, ML Steadman’s, Light Between Oceans, and Jessica Brockmole’s, Leters From Skye. All three are wonderful if you haven’t read them!

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Cathy

@Becky Now you see what happens to new members! You ask for great book selections and pretty soon your TO READ list is a hundred miles long. My kindle is HEAVY with books I’ve bought from readers’ recs here

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Sharlene

What genre do you like to read, that will help. 🙂

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Diane

Bette lee Crosby

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Joan

Yes…any book by Bette Lee Crosby. She’s a great writer.

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