I got a $50 gift card to Barnes & Noble for my birthday! That should get me somewhere between about 1.5 and 4 books. I’d love to discover some books and authors I’ve never read before.
Although there are genres and subjects I tend to gravitate toward, I care much less for genre than quality! I’m open to anything you recommend.
Here are the last 10 fiction and nonfiction books I rated 5 stars on Goodreads, to give a general idea of what I often like:
Fiction:
1. *We Have Always Lived in the Castle* by Shirley Jackson
2. *The Island of Dr. Moreau* by H.G. Wells
3. *Hamnet* by Maggie O’Farrell
4. *The Vegetarian* by Han Kang
5. *The Water Dancer* by Ta-Nehisi Coates
6. *City of Thieves* by David Benioff
7. *Wuthering Heights* by Emily Brontë
8. *Parable of the Sower* by Octavia Butler
9. *Hell of a Book* by Jason Mott
10. *The Lincoln Highway* by Amor Towles
Nonfiction:
1. *Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage* by Alfred Lansing
2. *The Art Thief: A True Crime Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession* by Michael Finkel
3. *In Cold Blood* by Truman Capote
4. *Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI* by David Grann
5. *Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption* by Laura Hillenbrand
6. *West with the Night* by Beryl Markham
7. *Bird by Bird* by Anne Lamott
8. *Happy-Go-Lucky* by David Sedaris
9. *The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy* by Michael Lewis
10. *On the Move: A Life* by Oliver Sacks
by Katharine_Heartburn
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And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot!!
Since you liked some true crime, I’d recommend Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
SO happy to “City of Thieves” on your list. Absolutely loved that book!
Some suggestions:
1. Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
2. Unruly by David Mitchell
3. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
4. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
5. Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. Maus by Art Spiegelman