One day before the last day of spring… and here is the annual EDIWTB Crowdsourced Summer Reading List! I asked my Facebook community to recommend their favorite books from the past year, and once again, they didn’t disappoint. Here’s the what they came up with.
I’ve put ** next to those that were recommended by more than one person. When it’s a book I’ve read too, I’ve included a link to my EDIWTB review.
The Library At Mt. Char by Scott Hawkins
The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
**The Girls by Emma Cline (reviewed here)
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
**Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (reviewed here)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
**The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
**Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (reviewed here)
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Fallen Land by Taylor Brown
**News Of The World by Paulette Jiles
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
**The Nix by Nathan Hill
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
**Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (reviewed here)
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
The End Of Eddy by Edouard Louis
The Girls In The Garden by Lisa Jewell
Arrowood by Laura McHugh
**A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
H Is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Untangled by Lisa Damour
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Marlena by Julie Buntin
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Marrow by Elizabeth Lesser
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Harari
Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
**My Name Is Lucy Barton (reviewed here) and **Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
**The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal (reviewed here)
A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable
**When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
**A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry and Beartown by Fredrik Backman
The Red Bandanna by Tom Rinaldi
Golden Son/Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown
**Kitchens Of The Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal (reviewed here)
For The Love by Jen Hatmaker
Crazy Rich Asians and Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
Elena Ferranta Neopolitan Series
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Circling The Sun by Paula McLain
**Before The Fall by Noah Hawley (reviewed here)
The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee (reviewed here)
The Improbability Of Love by Hannah Rothschild
The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve (reviewed here)
**City On Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
What The Lady Wants by Renee Rosen
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
The Secret History Of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel
The Imagination Gap by Brian Reich
Heat And Light by Jennifer Haigh
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Behold The Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
**Fates And Furies by Lauren Groff (reviewed here)
The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close (reviewed here)
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
4-3-2-1 by Paul Auster
Kill Process by William Hertling
**A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
Love, Africa by Jeffrey Gettleman
The Shape Of Mercy and Secrets Of A Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
The Marriage Of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub (reviewed here)
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney (reviewed here)
**Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld (reviewed here)
City Of Thieves by David Benioff (reviewed here)
**Under The Influence by Joyce Maynard (reviewed here)
The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan (reviewed here)
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (reviewed here)
Cooking for Picasso by Camille Aubray
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson (reviewed here)
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
The Book Of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives In North Korea by Barbara Demick
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
All The Ugly And Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics And The Sterilization Of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
Sons And Daughters Of Ease And Plenty by Ramona Ausubel
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Beautician’s Notebook by Anne Barnhill
Louise’s War by Sarah Shaber
The Darcy Monologues by Joana Starnes & others
Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani
Will Your Way Back by James Osborne
Happy Summer Reading! Report back and let me know what you picked.