A mystery or thriller: The Last Juror by John Grisham
A Biography: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet: The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty
A Pulitzer Prize winning book:
A book your mom loves:
A book that scares you:
A book more than 100 years old: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't: Animal Farm by George Orwell
A book you are able to finish in a day:
A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit:
A book that came out the year you were born:
Your best friends favorite book: The Hididng Place by Corrie ten Boom
A book set in high school: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
A book that made you cry:
A book that is currently on the bestseller list: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
A book that makes you laugh:
A book in a genre you don't usually read:
A book to help you understand a different culture: Walk 2 Moons by Sharon Creech
A banned book:
A book set at Christmas: The Mistletoe Murder by P. D. James
A book based or turned into a TV show or Movie: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
A book you started but never finished: The Chronicles of Narnia
Key:
2018 goals
Need a good pick:
Also, for my own organization, here is a list of books I wanted to read. I made this list back in 2011. I am going to refer to this as I work on the above list.
Alan Bradley: The sweetness at the bottom of the pie
Anita Diamant: Day after Night
Beth Hoffman: Saving Cee Cee Honeycut
Catherine Clinton: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Chris Cleave: Little Bee
Christian Moerk: Darling Jim
Christina Baker Kline: The way life should be
Colm Toibin: Brooklyn
Cornelia Nixon: Jarrettsville
CS Richardson: The end of the alphabet
Dan Chaon: Await your reply
David Cristofano: The girl she used to be
Dolen Perkins-Valdez: Wench
Eileen Goudge: Woman in red
Elizabeth Berg: The last time I saw you
Elizabeth berg: The year of pleasures
Elizabeth berg: What we keep
Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Harry Bernstein: The invisible wall: A love story that broke barriers
Hester Young: The Gates of Evangeline
Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard: Hidden In Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and The Underground Railroad
Jandy Nelson: I'll Give You The Sun
Jandy Nelson: I'll Give You The Sun
Jeanette Walls: The Glass Castle
Jerry Seinfield: Sein Language
John Grisham: The Client
John Grisham: The Last Juror
Kate Braestrup: Marriage and other acts of charity
Kathleen George: The odds
Kristin Hannah: Firefly lane
Larry Schweikart: A Patriots History of the United States
Laura Moriarty: The rest of her life
Lisa Grunwald: The irresistible Henry House
Marisa De Los Santos: Belong to me
Michelle Hoover: The Quickening
Mildred Armstrong Kalish: Little Heathens: hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the great depression
M. L. Stedman: The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman: The Light Between Oceans
Murial Barbery: The elegance of the Hedgehog
Neil Gairman: Anansi Boys
Nick Hornby: An Education
Nick Hornby: Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby: Juliet Naked
Nick Hornby: Slam
Nora Ephron: I remember nothing and other reflections
Paul Harding: Tinkers
Rick Braggs: The prince of Frogtown
Robert Goolrick: A reliable wife
Sophie Hannah: The wrong mother
Steve Martin: Born Standing Up: A Comics Life
Susan Gregg Gilmore: Looking for salvation at the dairy queen
Susan Richards: Chosen by a horse
Suzan Colon: Cherries in Winter: My family’s recipe for hope in hard times
Tess Callahan: April and Oliver
Todd Johnson: The Sweet By and By
Tom Franklin: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Willo Davis Roberts: The view from the cherry tree
Yoko Ogawa: The housekeeper and the professor