Book Recommendations

2013 recommendations:

Fiction:
Straight Man by Richard Russo
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Non-fiction:
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schalbe


2012 recommendations:

Fiction:
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Among the Wonderful by Stacy Carlson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
11/22/63 by Stephen King
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Dancing with Herons by Joni James
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Non-fiction:
Faith & Will by Julia Cameron
Traveling Light by Max Lucado


2011 recommendations:

Fiction:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted by Elizabeth Berg (short stories)
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Winter Garden by Kirstin Hannah

Non-fiction:
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD
Pretty-shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows by Frank B. Linderman
One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Power of Less by Leo Babauto
The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau
The 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss


2010 recommendations:

Fiction:
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Last Seen Leaving by Kelly Braffet
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer

Non-fiction:
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Time and the Art of Living by Robert Grudin