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

1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2. Running the Books by Avi Steinberg
3. Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean
4. Eve Duncan series (first is Face of Deception)  by Iris Johansen
5. Don’t Cry  by Beverly Barton
6. Blood Vines by Erica Spindler
7. Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
8. It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
9. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
10. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
3. The Heart of Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
4. Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
5. The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross
6. Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
7. Sweet Return by Anna Jeffrey
8. Traveling Light by Katrina Kittle
9. Eat This, Not That by David Zinczenko
10. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Bell Jar

Another difficult, engaging character driven story is "The Bell Jar" by Syliva Plath. The descent into mental illness was told in a startling, vivid way. Perhaps it felt so realistic because it may be semi-autobiographical, and Plath committed suicide shortly after publication.

This one will leave you feeling disturbed, but is worth the time.