When You Ask Friends for Book Recommendations...
...be prepared to be OVERWHELMED. Take it from me! I posted a simple Facebook status this week asking friends to share their favorite book with me, and before I knew it, I had a list of more than 60 recommendations! Now, I just want to read ALL THE BOOKS.
The back story to that post? My friend Amber and I host a monthly book club called #collaboreads, where we pick a theme and every one picks a different book that fits the theme to read and review on their blog. We all link up at the end of the month, and it's so fun to see what everyone read and what they thought! It's a different kind of book club, and we're in love with it.
December's theme is "A Friend's Favorite," hence why I asked my friends about their favorite books.
Because this list is SO GOOD, I decided I would share it all with you! And if you're looking for a book to read so you can join us, feel free to pretend my friends are your friends and choose one from this list! They've all come highly recommended, and I wanted to make sure I saved the list so I can revisit it and tackle these over the coming months!
Now, which to read first...
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
Same Kind of Different as Me by Rod Hall and Denver Moore
Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Bridge to Haven by Francine Rivers
Edge of Honor by Gilbert Morris
Hadassah by Tommy Tenney
PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
Iscariot by Tosca Lee
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Bonhoeffer by Erica Metaxas
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul by Jennie Allen
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Nobody’s Cuter Than You by Melanie Shankle
Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber
A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 by W. Phillip Keller
Let Me Be A Woman by Elisabeth Elliot
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Tis by Frank McCourt
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
As Simple As Snow by Gregory Galloway
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Smoke & Mirrors by Neli Gaiman