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Book Recommendations Summer 2017

Willivia // Book Recommendations

Thank you so much to everyone that gave me so many great book recommendations last night and today! Here’s a little roundup of what some of you are reading right now.

  1. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (Fiction.. recommended a lot!)
  2. Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist (Self-Help)
  3. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (Fiction)
  4. The Rent Collector by Camron Wright (Fiction)
  5. Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (Fiction)
  6. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (History)
  7. Bridge to Haven by Francine Rivers by Francine Rivers (Religious)
  8. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda (Fiction)
  9. The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda (Fiction)
  10. Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
  11. The Selection by Kiera Cass (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
  12. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Fiction)
  13. The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeny (Fiction)
  14. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kruger (Fiction)
  15. Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon (Children’s Book.. now a movie!)
  16. Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch (Fiction)
  17. The Room by Emma Donoghue (Fiction)
  18. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena (Women’s Fiction)
  19. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (Thriller)
  20. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (Thriller)
  21. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers (Religious)
  22. An Astronaut’s Guide to Life by Chris Hadfield (Engineering)
  23. A Story Like the Wind by Laurens Van Der Post (Contemporary Fiction)
  24. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Biographies & Memoirs) 
  25. Love Walked Among Us by Paul Miller (Religious)
  26. Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas (Fiction)
  27. What Alice Forgot by Laine Moriarty (Fiction)
  28. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Teen and Young Adult Fiction)
  29. Uglies Series by Scott Westerfield (Teen and Young Adult Fiction)
  30. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Fiction)
  31. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (Fiction)
  32. The Orphan Keeper (Fiction)
  33. The Price we Paid by Andrew D. Olsen (Religious)
  34. The Universe Has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein (Self-Help, Happiness)

Also, I should probably mention one book that was recommended a lot of times that I’ve already read…

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR by Paul Kalamanthi. Probably in my top 3 favorite books of all time. I’m going to read it again this week. Puts life beautifully in perspective! Please read it!

Also, this is my last post on book recommendations. Hope that helps too.

Happy reading!

-Liv