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Most Recommended Books #TopTenTuesday

For Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, I’m talking about my most recommended books.

What is one book you recommend to everyone?

What makes a book recommendable? For me, it’s a book that I remember months and years later!

I’m a bit late posting this today because I found this list difficult to curate! I recommend so many books to a variety of readers, and my list of recommendable books is long! Have I mentioned that I’m an over-thinker?! 

Most Recommendable Books (photo of books on a book cart)

(background image source: Canva)

I’m linking up today with That Artsy Reader Girl for Top Ten Tuesday: My Most Recommended Books

*** Titles are links to my reviews or Amazon Afiliate LinksTop Ten Tuesday (meme)

Most Recommended Books

For Histfic Readers

(I have so, so many recs for this genre….I’ll  recommend one new realase and one older release)

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
(older release)

The Intention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (cover) (white lettering over a goldish redish sky background) featuring a few small flying birds)

The Girl From Geurnica by Karen Robards
(newer release)

The Girl From Guernica by Karen Robards (cover) Image: a young woman looks to the side and behind her at planes circling a town

For Fans of SciFi and Audio Book

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
(definitely recommend the audio book for this one! IYKYK)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (cover) Image: an astronaut floats in space tethered to a gold and black object

For Fans of Family Drama and Own Voices

A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
(that last section though….IYKYK)

A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (cover)

For Fans of Books About Books

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (cover)

For Fans of Books Set in Bookshops

(I have an entire post here!)

The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin (cover) Image: a young woman stands near shelf lined books next to a window holding an open book

For Fans of Histfic/Thriller

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

a woman dressed in a rose dress stands with her back to the camera overlooking a balcony and a gold wall

For Fans of Diverse Voices

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare (cover)

For Fans of Literary Fiction

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (cover) Image:

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
(***Trigger Warning: death of a child)

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (cover) Image: head shot of a young boy wearing a felt hat and a large feather lies horizontally across his eyes

For Fans of Epistolary

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (then watch the film adaptation!)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society y Mary Ann Shaffer (cover) Image: black text on a postcard....a woman dressed in a red coat stands at a railing overlooking the ocean

For Fans of Fictionalized Biography

My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoi

My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie (cover)

For Fans of New Release

West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (cover) Image: black text over a grayed out map

For Fans of Novellas

(see my recent Novellas in November post here)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (cover) Image: white text over the rooftops of homes and a green background

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

For Fans of Light Women’s Fiction/Romance

The Moonlight Harbor Series by Sheila Roberts
Welcome to Moonlight Harbor is #1 (out of 7)

Welcome to Moonlight Harbor by Sheila Roberts (cover) Image: wooden steps lead down to the beach

For Fans of Nonfiction

The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defede
(followed by the musical Come From Away…streaming on Apple TV+)

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
(great companion read with Project Hail Mary)

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Col. Chris Hadfield (cover) a graphic picture of an astronaut in space above the earth

Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown

Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown (cover) a graphic picture of multiple images combined in a heart shapped collage against a red background with gold text

The Choice by Dr. Edith Eva Eger

The Choice by Dr. Edith Eva Eger (cover) Image: black text on a white background and a black stemmed reddish flower is placed on the entire left margin

For Fans of MG

A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus

A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus (cover) Image: three children stand on the steps of a library

The War That Saved My Life and The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga

For Fans of YA

(or mature Middle Grade)

I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys

I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys (cover) Image: grayscale image of a man standing outside a building holding a blue/yellow/red torn flag

Refugee by Alan Gratz

Regugee by Alan Gratz (cover)...back view of a child rowing a boat in a story ocean

Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott

Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott (cover)

QOTD:

How many of my recs have you read?
Do you have a favorite book recomendation?

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19 comments

  4. Great list, Carol! I like how you broke it down here. I have read 14 of these and have a couple more on my TBR.

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  5. Slightly more than ten then? 😄 Some excellent choices there including a few which I haven’t read and have caught my eye.

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  6. We have similar reading tastes, so I’m not surprised that I’ve read seven of these and that many of the others are on my TBR list. There are a few, though, that I hadn’t heard of so I’ll definitely take a closer look at those. Thanks for all the great recs! I’m glad you overthink the topics so I have more books to check out 🙂

    Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

    Susan
    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

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  7. You have some of my often recommended books here – “Small Things Like These”; “Louding Voice” and “Hamnet”. As you say it’s a tough question to answer because so much depends on the reader.There are books I recommend to my husband that I would never recommend to my mum for example – and vice versa.

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