A Few of My Favorite...BOOKS!

As it is summer, a time when many are looking for books to devour, I figured I would put a list together of some of my own must-read recommendations.  Here they are, in no particular order:

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger  is one of my all-time favorites.  But NOT the movie.  The movie is terrible.  Don't judge the book by the movie, if you saw it.  
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden is a recent read of mine.  It was recommended by a friend, and is not a choice I would usually make, but it was fantastic!  A little slow to start, but then I couldn't put it down.
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The 5th Wave series by Rick Yancey
• Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
• The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Divergent series by Veronica Roth
• Almost anything written by Jodi Picoult - she's my FAVORITE!!!  I especially love The Storyteller and My Sister's Keeper
• Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
• Dark Places, Sharp Objects, and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
• Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
• I Know This Much is True and The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Giver quartet by Lois Lowry
• The DaVinci Code series by Dan Brown
• Breakthrough series by Michael C. Grumley
• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• A Perfect Evil and the rest of the Maggie O'Dell series by Alex Kava
• Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery
• Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

I'm sure I could list many more, if I sit and think a while longer.  But this seems like a good start.  I hope it helps you come up with some titillating summer reading choices!  Enjoy!

Edited to add:

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
• All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
• What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan
• The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecelia Galante
• The Will Trent and Grant County Thrillers series by Karin Slaughter
• The Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• If I Stay and Where She Went by Gayle Forman
• Orphan Train: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline
• A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans by W. Bruce Cameron
• Wonder by R. J. Palacio
• The Bern Saga and the Wool Omnibus by Hugh C. Howey
• Holes by Louis Sachar