I’m a huge lover of fantasy, romance, and historical fiction; my mom is interested in starting to read, but she won’t like anything I normally recommend.
Context:
She’s JW so she won’t read anything supernatural/paranomal, with sexual content, adultry, excessive cussing, drugs, etc.
Basically needs to be G rated but good for adults.
She likes sci fy movies so I was thinking about trying skyward by Brandon Sanderson.
Also does anyone know of a resource where I can screen books with out reading them. Like where I can pick a book and read about its details that could make it inappropriate for kids? Kind of like kidsinmind.com but for books.
by cara_dawn
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A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Hunger Games. So well written I wasn’t able to put it down until finished
All six Jane Austen books!
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If she likes romance there are a lot of religious romances. You could look at Amish ones or stuff like the Inspired lines from Harlequin. If you want to screen romance, romance IO has filters. Search for innocent or fade to black. The Sweet Magnolias by Sherryl Woods is a good series.
Cozy mysteries in general should be safe.
The Irish Doctor series by Patrick Tailor and the All Creatures Great and Small by James Heriot are also safe.
The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey — absolutely charming, hilarious memoir written in 1948 (so nothing to worry your mom!)
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff — letters exchanged by a lovely woman in NY and a used books bookseller in London (completely wholesome)
I wonder if your mom might like Agatha Christie? Try, maybe Murder on the Orient Express, or any of the Poirot novels
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (and its sequels)