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Best Books for a Rainy Night
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items It's a dark and stormy night. You're snuggled under your favorite blanket and your kitty is snuggled in your lap, napping. On your side table, you have a nice cup of tea/coffee/hot chocolate. You can hear the rain pattering against the window, and ev...
The Shadow of the Wind is one of my favorite books of all time. Carlos Ruiz Zafon is one of my favorite authors. It has so many things to love: it's a mystery that appeals to people who love books (it's the first in the Cemetary of Forgotten Books se...
The Shadow of the Wind
From a Buick 8 is not one of King's most famous books. It has not been made into a movie or tv show. That doesn't matter to me. It's still one of my favorites from the author I love the best. It's set primarily at the headquarters of the state police...
From a Buick 8: Stephen King
I love The Thirteenth Tale. On its surface, it's a mystery, but it's also a story about family, and love. Vida Winter is a reclusive author of 12 famous books. But she is aging and ready to finally reveal the truth about her extraordinary background ...
The Thirteenth Tale: Diane Setterfield
This is such a delightful book! It is sweet, charming, funny, and full of animals and characters you can't help but fall in love with. James Herriot tells about his life as a young vet starting out in the beautiful, but remote Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s and 40s. A very different time, but still funny and wonderful. There is a reason this book is still beloved today. Do yourself a ...
All Creatures Great and Small: Herriot, James
Agatha Christie's wonderful Hercule Poirot! One of the most beloved characters of the mystery genre! Christie is the master of mystery and Poirot is her masterwork. This book collects all of the Poirot short stories into one collections for you - yea...
Hercule Poirot Complete Short Story Collection: Agatha Christie
This is no secret any more: Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King. And he is a great author in his own right. The Fireman is my favorite Joe Hill book, and that's saying something, because he really is great. It's been described as a “chilling post-apo...
The Fireman: Joe Hill
I know I already have a King book on this list, but he's my favorite author and short stories are perfect for rainy nights! This is King's first collection of short stories and it is great set of stories too! There is something for everyone. From mut...
Night Shift: Stephen King
This is a heartwarming book that I actually discovered when I was living in France! I was enchanted. It's 1946 and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. She finds it in a letter from a man she’s never met, who's a native of the i...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
One Of Time's 100 Best Mystery And Thriller Books Of All Time! Patricia Cornwell writes great mysteries and Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is by far her best character - Scarpetta is her Hercule Poirot. One of the things I like about the Scarpe...
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta): Patricia Cornwell
Stephen King says of Winslow work that it's, “The best crime fiction I've read in twenty years.” I have to agree. Don Winslow knows how to write. He knows how to create characters that seem to spring off the page. And he really knows how to create en...
The Final Score: Don Winslow
Oh my gosh, this book is so much fun! If you love short stories, you'll like it. If you are a fan of the old 80s horror stories, you will LOVE it! I'm a Gen X'er, so I grew up with horror from this time period. It's a real hoot! Lots of stories and v...
The Rack: Stories Inspired By Vintage Horror
P. J. O’Rourke wrote some of the most brilliant political commentary ever set to the page. The Wall Street Journal considered him, "The funniest writer in America." Sadly, this is the last book he wrote before he passed away. If you like your rainy n...
A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
Holidays in Hell is another PJ O'Rourke book. Tired of writing about politics, O'Rourke decided to travel all over the globe looking for the most outrageously bad places he could find on the planet. His adventures included storming student protesters...
Holidays in Hell : P. J. O'Rourke
Dave Barry is one of the funniest men on Earth! He has a Substack now, which you should look up, but for decades he wrote a column for the Miami Herald. This book is something different. Here, he asked his readers to share their least favorite songs ...
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
I love Dave Barry. One of the things I love about his writing is that he is a dog lover and it comes out in his essays. This book is a work of love about his old dog, Lucy. He realized Lucy was handling old age better than he was (he had just turned ...
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog