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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. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
2. Game Change by John Heilemann
3. The Gift by Julie Garwood
4. Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
5. In Death series (first is Naked in Death) by J.D. Robb
6. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
7. Alex Cross series (first is Along Came a Spider) by James Patterson
8. Rememberance by Jude Deveraux
9. Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
10. Look Again by Lisa Scottoline

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 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. Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
2. The Hathaway Series (starts with Mine ‘Til Midnight) by Lisa Kleypas
3. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
4. The Latehomecomer  by Kao Kalia Yang
5. Having It All  by John Assaraf
6. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
7. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
8. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Monday Recommendation List

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books each Monday! I have read and enjoyed each one 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.

Let me know what you think!!

This weeks 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. For the curious…or a gift for the curious: A World of Curiosities by John Oldale
2. Religion focused on love: Love Wins by Rob Bell
3. Creepy…Never seen the movie? Even better!: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
4. Sweet Romance: Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
5. Sassy Romance: Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
6. Emotional/Dramatic: Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
7. Classic/Iconic: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
8. Intriguing: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
9. Crime Drama Series: The Alex Cross series starts with Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
10. Will compel you to support victims of child abuse: A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

Paulo Coelho

For the more serious reader, “Veronika Decides to Die” by Paulo Coelho is a must read. It was my first Coelho book, and he made my “must read more” list.

In the story, Veronika makes a decision to kill herself, but fails. She wakes up in a mental hospital where she decides she wants to live, but is told she has done irreparable harm to her body and will die within a week. This gives Veronika the absolute freedom to experience all the things she has denied herself in the past. But is she really dying? And how does she really feel about life?

I found so much valuable subtext in this book. I may have to read it a second time to go over my thoughts!