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Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
2. Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg
3. Voices: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
4. The Intellectual Devotional by David Kidder
5. The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
6. Having It All by John Assaraf
7. Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
8. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
9. Stitches by David Small
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Monday Recommendations (On Tuesday...Again!)

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Awaken the Spirit Within by Rebecca Rosen
2. At Home by Bill Bryson
3. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
4. Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
5. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
7. The Gift by Julie Garwood
8. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
9. Voices: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
10. How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper

Voices of a People's History of the United States

Show more Voices of a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn & Anthony Arnove

Amazon Description:

“Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.”

My Thoughts:

A must read for the passionate history lover. I have gone back to this book many times and will continue to go back. Masterful! Show more

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Monday Recommendations

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This weeks 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Passionate about history?: Voices: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
2. Sweet Romance: What I Did For Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
3. Creepy Classics: The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
4. Scary!: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
5. Thought Provoking: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
6. Hilarious: Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
7. Unique: Stitches by David Small
8. Dystopian: Genesis by Bernard Beckett
9. True Crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen
10. Suspense: Look Again by Lisa Scottoline