Please share some great books that have nothing to do with WWII or this time period. I’ve apparently OD’d!
Please share some great books that have nothing to do with WWII or this time period. I’ve apparently OD’d!
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Totally agree! I feel like I have read way too many books from this time period and it got so depressing, I OD’d too!
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradl.
The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, This Is How It Always Is, The Almost Sisters, The Dry, The Widows of Malabar Hill, Home Fire….I could probably come up with a few more!
@Jackie I really loved The Widows of Malabar Hill, and have the next book pre-ordered. It’s out in May. Fascinating plot and people!
I’ll have to look out for the sequel!
This is how it always is. An American Marriage. The Radium Girls. Meet me at the museum. The Dream Daughter.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248416-the-all-you-can-dream-buffet?from_search=true
MIRROR IMAGE – BY SANDRA BROWN, TAKING THE HEAT -BY BRENDA NOVAK.
MARY HIGGINS-CLARK – TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE.
Has anyone read, the things we keep? Is it good?
I’m reading outlander and so far it’s pretty good. I’m on the first book
The Great Alone, Before I Let You Go, Help Me!
The Ocean Between Us by Susan Wiggs
I just started it!
We should chat when you’re done!
Anything by Diane Chanberlain.
@Aileen just finished Necessary Lies and loved it. Looking forward to more of her books.
All great books!
I think these two are really great!
2 of my absolute favorites!
@Colleen yes, I agree they are fantastic!
@Dorressia — others in this elevated status are: Memoirs of a Geisha, Seabiscuit, Pillars of the Earth, The Red Tent, Snowflower & The Secret Fan, 1000 White Women.
@Colleen thank you for this! I am adding them to my TBR List!
@Colleen I love The Red Tent
11/22/63 by Stephen King… I’m reading it now and so enjoying it
@Cheryl, OMG I love everything about 11/22/63. It is fantastic!
@Melissa , I love the story, and he sure knows how to tell a story effortlessly
The Kite Runner is a great book.
Hogarth Press published a series of contemporary novels based on Shakespeare’s plays. I’ve read Margaret Atwood’s Hag-seed based on The Tempest and Jo Nesbo’s Macbeth. Very different books but both good. Especially Atwood. http://hogarthshakespeare.com/
@Suroor, I tried Vinegar Girl from this series, pass on that. But I want to read Hag-Seed.
I know what you mean!!! Ugh!!! Too much WWII! So, here are books I’ve enjoyed in the past year: An American Marriage, Where the Crawdads Sing, Behold the Dreamer, A Place for Us, The Night Circus and Just Kids.
@Cori loves Night Circus!
I agree! I’ve taken a break from them for a while.
Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered
Educated, by Tara Westover
Louise Penny : start with Still Life
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline
The End of Hatred by Rebecca Hefner
I agree. What is with all the WWIIbooks? I have read several and they are still being published. I’m taking a break.
Yes, it is overdone.
It does seems as if there are an excessive amount of books out right now about WWII and Nazi Germany.
@Darla I thought maybe it was just me thinking this subject was excessive. I have enjoy most but time for a change.
I agree! I love reading about that era but I’ve had to take a break too. I finished reading Firefly Lane and Fly Away (both by Kristin Hannah) which I thoroughly enjoyed.
My daughter is into Alan Gratz (Gernade, Projekt 1065, Refugee, ect. )
I think she is looking for non-World War II books
The Reckoning by John Grisham is a good read.
Except I didn’t enjoy it and it is set in WWII.
@Jackie Yes, part of it is set in the Philippines during WW2. I learned a bit of history. Most books I have read have been set in Germany, England or France during WW2.
Flight of the Sparrow…historical but not WWII. Based loosely on a real life woman. I loved it.
Amazing story
Barbara Taylor Bradford has some great reads. I feel that way when I read about Hitler in books it so sad that I need to have a break
Once Upon a River; Circe; Book of Essie; Lulelemons; On Turpentine Lane; The Great Believers; and about a zillion others.
I really enjoyed The Goldfinch and The Little Friend, both by Donna Tartt.
Where the crawdads Sing, Educated
I am just finishing Where the Crawdads Sing !!! It is so good !!!
Best book I’ve read in a long time.
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
I know this much is true wally lamb
My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray.
The Great Alone and After Anna by Alex Lake.
How about something contemporary? Good Luck with That by Kristan Higgins.
A GREAT novel….5 stars!
My very favorite by Jodi Picoult….<3
The acclaimed #1 “New York Times” bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother’s tragic loss and one man’s last chance at gaining salvation. Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?
Lisa See has some great novels….The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane our book club loved and then I read on my own Snow Flower and the Secret Fan….our book club will read this year her new novel The Island of Sea Women.
@Ruth — I LOVE Lisa See!
Eleanor Oliphant, any Thursday Next books, Ghosted?,
@Jill loved Eleanor! Will add the others!
@Jill I have Ghosted in my TBR pile. Should I take it this weekend for a road trip?
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (complicated mystery, very different from anything else I’ve read). The Count of Monte Cristo – I really love that novel! Then follow up with The Black Count – nonfiction about Dumas’ father and real-life inspiration for his swashbuckling heroes. Lolita – one of my favorite – the writing is incredible. Keep upper most in mind, though, that Humbert is an unreliable narrator. We’re hearing the story with his particular depraved reasoning, excuses and rationalizations. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (very different – in a good way). The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series. The Red Tent. Some oldies but goodies: By John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Cider House Rules, A Widow for One Year, The Hotel New Hampshire. By Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale (of course!), The Blind Assassin, Cat’s Eye. Wally Lamb: She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True. How about some classics? Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations. Anything by Jane Austen. For light humor: anything by Elinor Lipman. I could go on and on, but I’ll leave it at that for now. 🙂
When Crickets Cry
Have you read A thousand splendid suns by Khalid Hussein
@Christine very good book
Christine Barrett, Yes. Good but not as good as the Kite Runner.
Beartown by Frederik Bachman. Could not put it down. Sequel was almost as good…Us Against You.
Three Junes