Favorite Classics

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marguez

Native Son by Richard Wright

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Favorite Moderns

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure

Mila 18 by Leon Uris

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Favorite Recent Reads

Lady Tan her Circle of Women by Lisa See

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ozawa

The Secret Knowledge by Donna Tartt

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

All the Broken Places by John Boyne

The Overstory by Richard Powers

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihora

The Hours by Micheal Cunningham

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Favorite memoirs/ Journalistic writing/nonfiction

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuchinski

Things that Matter by Charles Krauthammer

The Book of Joy by Douglas Abrams

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

The Great Believers by Rebecca Mekkai

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor

The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich

Walden by Henry Thoreau

Favorite Science fiction/Fantasy/ AI

Klara and the Sun by Kazu Ishiguro

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Second After by Douglas Adams

The Light Pirate by Lucy Brooks Dalton

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Origin by Dan Brown

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Gorgeous writing

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin

The End of Drum Time by Hanna Plykainen

Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

A River Runs Through It by Norman McClean

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Lighter reading

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Mary Jane by Jessican Anya Blau

Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes

Verity by Colleen Hoover

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Anxious People by Fredric Backman

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Remarkable Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Outside the box/or Dystopian

Perfume by Patrick Suskin

Kafka on the Shore by Haruku Mirakami

The Invincible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Grein

Piranesi by Susana Clark

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

The Night Circus by Sue Morgenstern

We have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch