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Choosing favorite books by favorite authors is a challenging task. Here are a few…

Favorite Books by Favorite Authors

Author Spotlight

I’m linking up today with That Artsy Reader Girl for Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books by Favorite Authors.
It was difficult to choose only ten. I chose authors who have written at least three books I’ve enjoyed.

***Each book title is an Amazon affiliate Link or linked to my review which contains Amazon affiliate links

Marilynne Robinson: Gilead

I’ve read the four-book, character-driven, loosely connected Gilead series by Marilynne Robinson and the first, Gilead, is my favorite. My full review is here.

“I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.”

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (cover) Image:

Last Christmas in Paris and The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor

OOOOOHHHHH…. this is a difficult one! I loved BOTH of these titles by Hazel Garnor! #myblogmyrules #amirite ?! My reviews of Last Christmas in Paris and The Last Lifeboat here.
Other titles I’ve read include Meet Me in Monaco, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter, and Christmas with the Queen. Some books she co-authors with Heather Webb.

Last Christmas in Paris (cover)
The Last Lifeboat by Jazel Gaynor (cover) Image: soft yellow text and a graphic image of a lifeboat filled with people against a blue background

My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray (and Laura Kamoie)

While I’ve read five by Dray (The Women of Chateau Lafayette, Becoming Madam Secretary, America’s First Daughter, A Founding Mother), My Dear Hamilton is my favorite. My full review here. Dray often co-authors with Laura Kamoie.

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

I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys

I’m a Ruta Sepeteys completest (Salt to the Sea, Between Shades of Gray, The Fountains of Silence, Out of the Easy, The Bletchley Riddle, You: The Story, A Fortune of Sand), and I Must Betray You is my favorite. My full review here.

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

Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman

I’ve read all of Ackerman’s histfic books set in Pearl Harbor during WWII (Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers, The Codebreaker’s Secret, Red Sky Over Hawaii, The Lieutenant’s Nurse), and Radar Girls is my favorite. My full review here. Of her non WWII books (The Maui Effect, The Guest in Room 120), The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West is my favorite.

Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman (cover) Image: two girls sit on a wing of a plane

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See

I’ve read several Lisa See books (The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, The Island of Sea Women, Daughters of the Sun and Moon), and Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is my favorite. My full review here.

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See (cover) Image: white text over a background picture of an Asian woman's face

The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

Of the Susan Meissner books I’ve read, my favorite is The Nature of Fragile Things (closely followed by A Fall of Marigolds and As Bright as Heaven). My full review of Fragile Things here.

The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner (cover) Image: blue-toned picture of a woman and young girl holding hands and walking down railroad tracks with backs to camerai

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

Although I’m not a completist, I’ve read a few Kate Quinn (The Diamond Eye, The Alice Network, The Briar Club, The Huntress) and The Rose Code is my favorite. My full review here.

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

The Little Liar by Mitch Albom

I’ve read a few by Mitch Albom, including the memorable Tuesdays with Morrie, the thought-provoking Stranger in the Life Boat, the entertaining Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, and his personal story of Finding Chika. My favorite of his fiction is The Little Liar. My full review here.

The Little Liar by Mitch Albom (cover) image: a black and white image of a small boy running after a train silhouetted against a peach background

The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman

I’m a Backman completist (Beartown, Us Against You, The Winners, Anxious People, A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie Was Here, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World, My Friends, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer, The Answer is No), and I think my favorite of his is the short story/novella, The Deal of a Lifetime. My full review here.

The Deal of a Lifetime (cover)

 Let’s Discuss!

Gah! So many other authors I adore! Do we share any favorites?

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40 comments

    • I have read See’s new book (ARC) and it’s filled with difficult content (violence toward women). She redeems in the last few pages with a hopeful ending but it’s brutal. If I had known I probably wouldn’t have read it. As always, though, it’s well researched and well written.

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    • Happy to hear we share the author love! I read an arc of Daughters of the Sun and Moon and I struggled with the difficult content..violence toward and ownership of women…so sad. I might not have read it if I had known.

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  9. So many great choices! I have a Lisa See book on my list this week too, and really, could have gone with any of her books! I do want to read more Sara Ackerman for sure, and I’ve loved a bunch of Susan Meissner books, although the one here is one I still need to read! Deal of a Lifetime was beautiful.

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    • Thanks! The newest See book is a trauma filled read. So much violence toward women. Ugh. But well researched and written as usual.

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  15. Gilead is my favorite of Robinson’s, too! And I share favorite authors, though I would make different choices for my favorites—Fredrik Backman is A Man Called Ove, hands down. Lisa See would be Snowflower and the Secret Fan. Gah! So many authors, is right!

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