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My favorite book recs

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Books to add to your TBR pile and help you reach your reading challenge for the year! Looking for your next book club read? These are great choices! You will want to share these with friends/family and then keep them on your bookshelf for life.
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Must Reads 🙌

These are books that will forever be on my bookshelf!
 
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The Great Alone was absolutely captivating from start to finish. Kristin Hannah's beautiful prose brought the Alaskan wilderness to life in such vivid detail that I felt transported into Leni's world. The characters were so well-developed and memorab...
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, Paperback
 
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This book will stay with you forever. Such a beautiful, raw, heartfelt memoir. If you’re going to read anything this year, let it be this. *affiliate link
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
 
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A book that will stay with you. The writing style is easy to digest and the story will captivate you from the start. *affiliate link
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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The story will grip you from the beginning. There is love, loss, resilience, strength, courage, and heartache throughout each page. An emotional read that you won’t soon forget. If you’re going to read one book this month - let this be it! *affiliat...
The Nightingale: A Novel - Hannah, Kristin: Books
 
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Jedidiah’s writing will capture you from the first page to the last. His literary style is so honest. His writing is vulnerable, beautiful, almost lyrical. I love this book.
Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us ...
 
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Finished this book in a day! Book of the year for a reason. SO good! The story is captivating from start to finish and one you’ll want to read again.
James (2024 B&N Book of the Year) (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National ...
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Best audiobook I’ve listened to in years. Viola is an incredible narrator, storyteller and human. Viola shares her raw, painful, heroic, resilient, empathetic life story. Absolutely love this woman ❤️
Viola Davis - Finding Me

Magical Fantasy 🐉✨

fourth wing series
 
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Hooked from the first chapter! Did I like dragons before this book? Nah - not really my thing. Have I sense bought a few dragon figurines, yes yes I have 🫣 Prepare to be entertained! Great story and character development. *affiliate link
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, Paperback
 
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The second book in the series … it’s good, but definitely not my favorite of the three. Keeps the story moving and you continue to fall more in love with the characters. *affiliate link
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2) by Rebecca Yarros
 
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This is a bestseller for a reason! Your anticipation for the ending will keep you turning the pages. And when you get to the end you will be gasping! *affiliate link
Onyx Storm (Wing and Claw Collection, 3)

Series I love 📚💕

 
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Whimsical, entertaining, and laugh out loud fun!
THE GUNCLE Series
 
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Such a great sapphic series! Great character development, friendship goals, and health relationships. Enjoyable series!
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Given our current climate in 🇺🇸 this series is a must read! Incredible writing, raw emotional and at times difficult story to consume, but important reading for today’s world.
Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set|Hardcover