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My favorite book recs
31
items A bunch of my favorite reads from various genres - cozy comfort, non-fiction, literary, thriller and everything in between!
Sections
6
Page to Screen
Cozy Reads Collection
Nonfiction Necessities
Beautiful Tragedies
Fantastic Fiction
Mysteries & Thrillers
Page to Screen
Read these books before you see the movie/series. 📖 👀 🎥
Through unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel
A college girl gets pregnant by her professor, so she turns to OF to support herself and her baby. And reconnects with her estranged father, who shares wisdom gleaned from his wrestling days
Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel
Elizabeth Banks and Succession alum Matthew Macfadyen star in the new Peacock Original dramedy as a couple who, after an accident, find themselves dealing with a whole new type of relationship imbalance that you can guess by the title. The show is ba...
The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories
When his neighbor asks him to take care of his cat, a former baseball prodigy now working as a bartender finds himself in the middle of gangsters without knowing why (tw: animal abuse in the book)
Caught Stealing: A Novel
Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet died at the age of 11. I HIGHLY suggest listening to the audiobook version, Buckley does a phenomenal job.
Hamnet Audiobook on Libro.fm
A robot girl designed to prevent loneliness tries to save a heartbroken family of humans.
Klara and the Sun
Disgraced ex-cop Ted Conkaffey is falsely accused of a disturbing crime. He escapes to the wilds of Far North Queensland and becomes entangled with an eccentric private investigator.
Crimson Lake: A Novel
When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
The Ballad of a Small Player: A Novel
DCI Jeanette Kilburn and eminent psychotherapist Dr. Sophia Craven join forces to hunt the killer of young men. The investigation takes Jeanette and Sophia into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder.
The Crow Girl
On an unnamed island, things have begun to disappear. However, a rare few are able to remember all that no longer exists, but the Memory Police are determined to make sure that what has been erased, remains forgotten forever.
The Memory Police: A Novel
Colter Shaw travels the country in his old-school RV, helping police and private citizens solve crimes and locate missing persons--until his latest case changes everything.
The Never Game
Heartrending story about the grumpy old man next door that’s an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a reminder that life is sweeter when it is shared with other people
A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
The Dry: A Novel
Cozy Reads Collection
Low-stakes, feel good, cozy reads. A mix of mild romance, cozy mystery, and literary.
People We Meet on Vacation is like tossing your suitcase in the back of a car, rolling the windows down, and letting best-friend-chemistry do the driving. A rom-com that proves two things: opposites attract, and annual vacations should come with emot...
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry, Paperback
The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony—until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case.
Shady Hollow
A compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms a small Irish town
Time of the Child: Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award
Nonfiction Necessities
One of the most powerful and deeply affecting reads I’ve had in awhile. The honesty, grief, and frankness make this an emotionally demanding one - but a necessary one for all of us to question our unconscious biases about what makes a “perfect victim...
Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
Based on extensive archival research and meticulous, original reporting, Challenger follows a handful of central protagonists—including each of the seven members of the doomed crew—through the years leading up to the accident, and offers a detailed ...
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor
Poverty, by America
Beautiful Tragedies
Books with deeply moving plots and characters that will make you cry
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books with beautiful characters and heartbreaking stories
I highly recommend listening to this one on audio. The narration is phenomenal with such deep emotion.
The Song of Achilles Audiobook on Libro.fm
Fantastic Fiction
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce tal...
Demon Copperhead: A Novel
A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself.
The Family: A Read with Jenna Pick
Book 1 in this trilogy about former Chicago police officer Cal Hooper who retires to a bucolic Irish village hoping to live in peace and quiet. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers...
The Searcher: A Novel
Mysteries & Thrillers
A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush—and the witness who looks all too familiar—draws a woman back to the very place she swore she’d never return to in this breakneck debut thriller.
The Vanishing Place
When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late?
She Didn't See It Coming: A Novel
A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she ...
Yesteryear: A Novel
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time—that’s all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free man—and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees...
Crimson Lake: A Novel
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
The Dry: A Novel