Here’s a list of blog reader recommendations, including links to the ones I’ve reviewed. New additions are in the first section.
| As of: | 2/28/2021 | |
| New | ||
| Book Title | Author | Recommended By |
| *no specific book | Anne Lammott | Lori |
| A Hundred Summers | Beatriz Williams | Alison |
| Abigail | Magda Szabo | Melisa |
| Before We Were Yours | Lisa Wingate | Molly |
| Burial Rites | Hannah Kent | Karen |
| Chet and Ernie Detective Novels | Spencer Quinn | Julia |
| Dear Edward | Napolitano | Mary |
| Evil Under the Sun | Poirot Christie | Stacy |
| Fifty Words for Rain | Asha Lemme | Laine |
| Flight Girls | Noelle Salazar. | Joanne |
| Greenlanders | Jane Smiley | Sara |
| Hamnet | Maggie O’Farrell | Mgershun |
| Harry’s Trees | John Cohen | Mary |
| Hide and Seek | Ian Rankins Rebus | Karen |
| Inspector Gramace Series | Louise Penny | Sharon |
| King Kong | James McBride Deacon | Randy |
| Last Hope Island | Lynne Olson | Kevin |
| Lisa Gray | Jessica Shaw | Emily |
| Madame Foucade’s Secret War | Lynne Olson | Deborah |
| Moo | Jane Smiley | Julia |
| Red, White and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston | Sarah |
| River of Doubt | Candice Millard | Maria |
| Someone Knows | Lisa Scottline | Deborah |
| Sudden Death | Alvaro Enrique | Karen |
| Tender Bar | JRM | Laine |
| The Crooked Branch | Cummins | Molly |
| The Girl with the Louding Voice | Abi Dare | Laine |
| The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | Martha |
| The Good Earth | Jane Smiley | Sara |
| The Good Lord Bird | James McBride | Melisa |
| The Last Cowboys | John Branch | Patty |
| The Murmur of Bees | Sofia Seqovia | Virginia |
| The Mysteries and Legends of Arizona | Sam Lowe | Karen |
| The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels | Philippa Gregory | Joyce |
| The Stand | Stephen King | T |
| The Time in Between | Maria Buenas | Maureen |
| The Trees | Conrad Richter | Pat |
| The Women | TC Boyle | Julia |
| The Year of Wonders | Geraldine Brooks | Martha |
| Trilogy of the Civil War | John Jakes | Joyce |
| Women Murder Club | James Patterson | Tracy |
| Existing list | ||
| Book Title | Author | Recommended By |
| A Bed of Scorpions | Judith Flanders | Kari |
| A Cold Day for Murder | Dana Stabenow | Susan |
| A Constellation of Vital Phenomena | Peter Maria | Deborah |
| A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | Laine |
| A God in Ruins | Kate Atkinson | Limeade in my teacup |
| A Ladder to the Sky | John Boyne | Megan |
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | Virginia |
| A Path Ahead Transforming Lives, Creating Oppurtunities | Nicolas Kristof | Dana |
| A White House Diary | Lady Bird Johnsons | Alison |
| All The Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | Laine |
| And the Mountains Echoed | Khaled Hosseini | Susan |
| Angels and Demons | Dan Brown | Kristin |
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | Deborah |
| Armstrong and Charlie | Stephen B Frank | Robert |
| At Home in Mitford | Jan Karon | Susan S |
| Before I met You | Lisa Jewell | Deborah |
| Before the Fall | Noah Hawley | Jenifer |
| Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Katherine Boo | Susan |
| Being Mortal | Atul Gawande | Jeanne |
| Betsy- Tacy Series | Maud Hart | Martha |
| Birds Without Wings | Louis de Bernieres | Julia |
| Calebs Crossing | Geraldine Brooks | Martha |
| Captain Corellis Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres | Julia |
| Catch 22 | Joesph Heller | Cherrie |
| Chet and Bernie series | Spencer Quinn | Cynthia |
| Christmas Shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella | Mark Magers |
| Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis | Cherrie |
| Commonwealth | Ann Patchett | Susan |
| Convenience Store Women | Sayaka Murata | Karen |
| Crossing to Safety | Wallace Stegner | Deborah |
| Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | Laine, Julia |
| Dark, Dark Wood | Ruth Ware | Mark |
| Deception Point | Robert Langdon | Kristin |
| Defending Jacob | William Landay | Patty |
| Destiny of Republic | Candice Millard | Mark |
| Earthcore | Scott Sigler | Jenifer |
| Elephants Can’t Remember | Agatha Christie | Karen |
| Empty Mansions | Bill Dedman | Susan |
| End of the World Running Club | Adrian Walker | Stephen |
| Eureka Street | Robert Mclian Wilson | Karen |
| Eye of Sun | Ahdaf Soueifs | Julia |
| Faithful | Alice Hoffman | Susan |
| Finding Dorothy | Elizabeth Letts | Alison |
| Flight Behavior | Barbara Kingslover | Mary, Martha |
| Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | Cherrie |
| Going Bovine | Libby Bray | Cherrie |
| Heroin Diaries | Nikki Six | Cherrie |
| Hillbilly Elegy | JD Vance | Cherrie |
| Holy Cow | David Duchovny | Cherrie |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | Rosie |
| House of Sand and Fog | Andre Dubus III | Dana |
| In Death Series | J D Robbs | Merile |
| In the Heart of the Sea | Philbrick | George |
| Inferno | Dan Brown | Kristin |
| Infidel | Ayana Hirsi Ali | Deborah |
| Inspector Gamache | Louise Penny | Rosie |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Murata | Karen |
| Issac’s Storm | Erik Larson | Stacy |
| It Ain’t So Awful, Falfel | Firoozen Dumas | Robert |
| Just Kids | Patti Smith | Cherrie |
| Kindred | Octavia E Butler | Jeanne |
| Knitskreig: A Call to Yarns | Joyce Meader | Alison |
| Legend | Eric Blehm | Susan |
| Life After Life | Natalie Meg Evans | Limeade in my teacup |
| Life and Other Near Death Experiences | Camille Pagan | Susan |
| Lost Symbol | Robert Langdon | Kristin |
| Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz | Jenifer |
| Map of Lover | Ahdaf Soueifs | Julia |
| Maude | Donna Mabry | Susan |
| Murder Of Magpies | Judith Flanders | Kari |
| My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry | Fredrick Backman | Susan |
| My sister is a Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite | George |
| Naked | David Sedaris | Dana |
| News of the World | Paulette Jiles | Susan, Molly, Virginia |
| Nora Webster | Colm Toibin | Laine |
| Okay For Now | Gary Schmidt | Robert |
| Ordinary Grace | William Kent Kruger | Laine |
| Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline | Susan |
| Out of My Mind | Sharon Draper | Robert |
| Pandemic | A.G. Riddle | Jennifer |
| Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingslover | Emily, Martha |
| Prairie Fires | Caroline Frasers | Alison |
| Presumed Innocent | Scott Turow | Robert |
| Prodigal Summer | Kingslover | Martha |
| River of Doubt | Candice Millard | Mark |
| Rubbernecker | Lisa Jewell | Deborah |
| Rules of Civility | Amor Towles | Dana |
| Santaland Diaries | David Sedaris | Dana |
| Sarah’s Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | Virginia |
| Smoke | Donald Westlake | Jeanne |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | Kelly |
| Some of my Best Friends are Black | Tanner Colby | Wendy |
| Special Topics in Calamity Physics | Marissa Pessl | Deborah |
| Spoonbenders | Daryl Gregory | Jenifer |
| Stand By Me | Stephen King | Tom |
| Station 11 | Emily St. John Mandel | Deb Resnick |
| Stephanie Plum Series | Janet Evanovich | Kristin |
| Still Alice | Lisa Genova | Susan |
| Still Life With Bread Crumbs | Anna Quindlen | Susan |
| Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman | Richard Feynman | Stephanie |
| Tara Road | Maeve Binchy | Virginia |
| The Art of Scouting | Art Stewart | Patty |
| The Bean Trees | Kingslover | Martha |
| The Book of Evidence | John Banville | Bill Webb |
| The Book Thief | Marcus Zusak | Julia |
| The Bright Edge of the World | Eowyn Ivey | Kathy |
| The Chaperone | Laura Moriarty | Susan |
| The Chemist | Stephanie Meyer | Jenifer |
| The Deptford Trilogy | Robert Davies | Deb |
| The Diary of Mattie Spenser | Sandra Dallas | Kelly |
| The Divers Clothes | Vendela Vida | Mark |
| The Woman in Cabin 10 | Ruth Ware | Deborah |
| The Girl with all the Gifts | M R Carey | Stephen |
| The Girl with No Past | Katherine Croft | Susan |
| The Girls in the Garden | Lisa Jewell | Deborah |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Annie Barrows | Tom |
| The Hope Chest | Viola Shipman | Mary |
| The House we Grew up In | Lisa Jewell | Deborah |
| The Invention of Wings | Sue Monk Kidd | Susan |
| The Jungle | Uptown Sinclair | Cherrie |
| The Language of Flowers | Vanessa Diffenbaugh | Susan, Laine |
| The Last Kind Words Saloon | Larry McMurtry | Deborah |
| The Last Season | Eric Blehm | Susan |
| The Little Friend | Donna Tartt | Deborah |
| The Long and Faraway Gone | Lou Berney | Jenifer |
| The Man Who Fell From Earth | Walter Tevis | Martha |
| The Martian | Andy Weir | Deborah |
| The Masters Butcher’s Singing Club | Louise Erdrich | Susan |
| The Midwife of Hope River | Patricia Harmon | Susan |
| The Most Dangerous | Daniel Ellsberg | Robert |
| The Mountain Between Us | Charles Martin | Mark |
| The Museum of Extraordinary Things | Alice Hoffman | Susan |
| The Nightingale | Kristen Hannah | Laine |
| The Other Side of Everything | Lauren Doyle Owens | Stacy |
| The Paris Architect | C. Delfoure | Patricia |
| The Passenger | Lisa Lutz | Molly |
| The People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks | Dianne |
| The Pocket Wife | Susan P. Crawford | Mark |
| The President is Missing | James Patterson | Merile |
| The Residue Years | Mitchell S Jackson | Dana |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | George |
| The Scorpio Races | Maggie Stiefuaters | Robert |
| The Secret Chord | Geraldine Brooks | Martha |
| The Secret Keeper | Kate Morton | Tara |
| The Seven Husbands | Evelyn Hugo | Katherine |
| The Shack | William Paul Young | Susan |
| The Shining Girls | Lauren Beukus | Melisa Burns |
| The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | Martha |
| The Stolen Marriage | Diane Chamberlain | Katherine |
| The Storied Life of AJ Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin | Laine |
| The Storyteller | Jodi Picoults | Virginia |
| The War That Saved My Life | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | Robert |
| The Wednesday Wars | Schmidt | Robert |
| The Woman in the Window | AJ Finn | Mark |
| The Woman Who Smashed Codes | Elizabeth Friedman | Mary Lincoln |
| To the Bright Edge of the World | Eowyn Ivey | |
| Trail of Broken Wings | Sejal Hadini | Susan |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbit | Maria |
| Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand | Virginia |
| Watchers | Dean Koontz | Emily |
| We Were Liars | E. Lockhart | Robert |
| What Alice Forgot | Laine Moriarty | Kristen |
| Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | Deborah |
| Years of Wonder | Geraldine Brooks | Martha |
Book Thoughts from Bed 