There is nothing better than curling up with a good book. I am a total book worm! This list reflects the books worth the time I spent on reading. They are the ones that left me satisfied at the end and transported me away from the stresses of life.
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The Earth is threatened by an alien race. A young genius is recruited to the space military, forced into isolation so he will train as a commander. I was at the edge of my seat throughout the story and the ending blew me away!
Ender's Game|Paperback - Orson Scott Card
In 2045 the planet is on the brink of chaos and collapse, but people find salvation in the OASIS: an expansive virtual reality universe created by eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he promises his immense fortune to the first person to di...
Ready Player One: A Novel: Cline, Ernest - Books
This is the first book in a great book series. I highly recommend the read.
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries
This is the first book in the series. It is a great read. They made it into a TV series on Netflix. The series is as good as the book series. Very rare!
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1)
This is a fantastic sci-fi stand alone book. I read it while I was on vacation when I was in high school. It was so good, I couldn't put it down.
Armor - Steakley, John: Books
What an amazing story. The struggles and hardships the family went through and seeing it all through young eyes.
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank ...
This is a great nature story. It was a great read!
The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Hardcover
What an amazing story!
It was on one of those "100 best books of all time that you must read" lists.
It was not what I was expecting at all.
Glad I read it.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Paperback
Dauntless by Jack Campbell is the first book in The Lost Fleet series, about Captain John "Black Jack" Geary who emerges from a century of cryogenic sleep to find his fleet stranded behind enemy lines in a losing war against the Syndics. Though rever...
Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) by Campbell
Follow Harry, an orphaned boy, as he discovers on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard and is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns the truth about his parents' death at the hands of the dark wizard Voldemort an...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Stenciled Edges) ...
To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story set in 1930s Alabama, told through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch. The novel follows Scout, her brother Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a lawyer who defends a Black man, Tom Robinson,...
To Kill a Mockingbird (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell is a historical fiction novel set in Elizabethan London that follows Richard Shakespeare, the younger brother of William Shakespeare. The story centers on Richard's struggles as a struggling actor in the competit...
Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell, Paperback
The "Orphan Train" movement was a real-life program from 1854 to 1929 where thousands of orphaned, abandoned, or poor children from cities like New York were sent via train to the Midwest to be placed with new families. Christina Baker Kline's fictio...
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, Paperback
The Long Flight Home is a historical fiction novel by Alan Hlad inspired by true World War II events. The story follows Susan Shepherd, a young woman who raises homing pigeons, and Ollie Evans, an American pilot who joins the Royal Air Force. Their l...
The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad, Paperback
During a wartime evacuation, four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, discover a magical wardrobe that leads to the land of Narnia, a world trapped in eternal winter by the evil White Witch. The children join forces with the great lion...
This is a fantastic book series. For such a heavy subject matter I found the book series to be somewhat light and whimsical! I loved it.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia ...
Old Man's War is a military science fiction novel by John Scalzi about 75-year-old John Perry, who joins the Colonial Defense Forces (CDF) to fight in an interstellar war, receiving a new, young body and advanced combat enhancements in exchange for a...
I loved this book and some of the themes that it explores under the cover of a space war science fiction book. I loved it!
Old Man's War (Old Man's War Series #1) by John Scalzi, Paperback