| There There, La Rose, Educated, Hillbilly Elegy, Salvage the Bones (should I keep going? :), Everything I Never Told You. . . |
| Becca Lindamood - Neurotribes: the Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman |
| There There, La Rose, Educated, Hillbilly Elegy, Salvage the Bones (should I keep going? :), Everything I Never Told You. . . |
| Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe. |
Sapiens: a brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Evolutionary socio-psychological walk through the origin of the species and our impact on each other and the world. Witty and wise, raising more questions than it answers. I'm halfway through and planning to finish it by early summer.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Kind of a Gone with the Wind on the Korean Peninsula. Epic multi-generational story of a family and it's interactions with culture, politics, oppression, and resiliency. Compelling read!
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Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- Robin Cicchetti
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| Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens |
The Irregulars, Jennet Conant
Miracles on the Water, Tom Nigorski
Rebecca Gurley |
Nora Murphy
The Wicked Pavilion by Dawn Powell |
| Stefanie Cloutier -- News of the World. Beautifully written story that takes place five years after the end of the Civil War, and touches on the mood of the country at the time and the issue of child kidnapping by native tribes. Characters are fully realized, the setting is magnificently described -- it's a pleasure to read for the prose alone, but the story is compelling. More than worth your time. |
Furious Hours, Casey Cep
Continuing my fascination with Harper Lee, I am reading this true crime story about a trial which Harper Lee tried to write about in the 1970s, without success apparently. The crime story is fascinating; I haven't yet gotten to Harper Lee's part in it, but it's a great read so far. |
Madeleine Pooler
ROAD TO VALOR:
A TRUE STORY OF WWII ITALY, THE NAZIS, AND THE CYCLIST WHO INSPIRED A NATION
By AILI MCCONNON and ANDRES MCCONNON
Description:
Gino Bartali is best known as an Italian cycling legend who not only won the Tour de France twice but also holds the record for the longest time span between victories. In Road to Valor, Aili and Andres McConnon chronicle Bartali’s journey, from an impoverished childhood in rural Tuscany to his first triumph at the 1938 Tour de France. As World War II ravaged Europe, Bartali undertook dangerous activities to help those being targeted in Italy, including sheltering a family of Jews and smuggling counterfeit identity documents in the frame of his bicycle |
| The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Korey Stamper. You'll never look at words the same after reading this... |
| Florence |
| (Mx. Hull) White Houses by Amy Bloom compellingly uses fiction to explore the real-life romance between first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok from Hick's perspective during Roosevelt's White House years and beyond. |
| Kimberly Magee - The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin |
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| Priscilla Guiney- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens- a beautifully written story of a tough, resilient young girl name Kya who finds her solace in the marshy wilds of North Carolina. This lyrical read sweeps you up in Kya's longing for human connections while a murder mystery unfolds |
| 100 Things to see in the Night Sky by Dean Regas |
| The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Games of Thrones book 1- both are outstanding and make for great companions to the film/ show but also stand alone...it did not feel redundant to read them after watching them... |
| Maia Raber- Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs |
| Dora Golding: Gingerbread, by Helen Oyeyemi |
| Victoria Moskowitz -- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai |
| Jen Greeley—There, There by Tommy Orange |
| Stephen Lane - Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, by Richard Thaler (one nerd book) |
