I am an avid reader and love books of all genres. This list is a collection of some of my favorite books that I have read and that I recommend to everyone.
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Must Reads
you have to read these books
slow start but wow that ending
Atonement
my favorite Emily Henry book
Book Lovers
a love story and a thriller mixed in one
Wild Dark Shore
taught me so much the 1980 uprisings in South Korea, sad but eye-opening read
Human Acts
some of Kristin Hannah's best work; takes place during the Vietnam war
The Women
beautiful, heartbreaking novel that shares the experience of women in Tehran from the Shah in the 50s to 2022. Feels so important to understand what is going on in the Middle East
The Lion Women of Tehran
the story of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe
Just Kids
one of my favorite books of all time
Rules of Civility
a retelling of Huckleberry Finn through the lens of Jim
James
a nonfiction story that reads like a novel, educating about the Troubles in Ireland
Say Nothing: True Story of Murder in NI
a look into life in Appalachia through the lens of a young boy who loses everything
Demon Copperhead
a book about survival; 4 generations of a Korean family living through oppression in Japan
Pachinko
It's a retelling of Homer’s Iliad but focuses on the romance between Achilles and Patroclus
The Song of Achilles
a man who waits over 50 years for his first love to be widowed so he can finally declare his undying love to her (can you imagine?!)
Love in the Time of Cholera
THIS BOOK!!! It's about a young woman who makes a deal to live forever but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Until, 300 years later, when she walks into a bookstore and someone remembers her name
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
a devastating but beautiful book about the impact of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s
