Some of my favorite ‘livingroom’ books.

Naturally, the best place to read a book.

Recommended:  From the books I have read in the last couple of years, these are not all the books I have read, but the ones I would recommend for others to read.  (The star means I was lucky enough to meet the author!)

• The Big Door Prize – M.O. Walsh
• The Last Mrs. Parrish – Liv Constantine
• His Only Wife – Peace Adzo Medie
• In Five Years – Rebecca Serle
• The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Bear Town – Fredrik Backman
• Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
• Dirt – Bill Buford
• American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins
• Golden Child – Claire Adam
• The Consolations of the Forest – Sylvain Tesson
• Miller’s Valley – Anna Quindlen
• Normal People – Sally Rooney
• Oona Out of Order – Margarita Montimore
• Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
• Run – Ann Patchett
• Fruit of the Drunken Tree – Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• Olive, Again – Elizabeth Strout
• Less – Andrew Sean Greer
• Atomic Habits – James Clear
• Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker, PhD
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb
• *The Secrets We Kept – Lara Prescott
• The Lobster Chronicles – Linda Greenlaw
• Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
• A Stranger in the Woods – Michael Finkel
• Becoming Michelle Obama – Michelle Obama
• *Maid – Stephanie Land
• Educated – Tara Westover
• The Female Persuasion – Meg Wolitzer
• There Will Be No Miracles Here – Casey Gerald
• *Ohio – Stephen Markley
• *Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver
• Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
• Lab Girl – Hope Jahren
• The Reason You’re Alive – Matthew Quick
• *A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
• *Rules of Civility – Amor Towles
• Lie to Me – J.T. Ellison
• Guantanamo Diary – Mohamedou Ould Slahi
• The World of Tomorrow – Brendan Mathews
• *Emma in the Night – Wendy Walker
• *Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
• The Misfortune of Marion Palm – Emily Culliton
• Stay With Me – Ayobami Adelbayo
• The Radium Girls – Kate Moore
• The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
• The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn
• My Absolute Darling – Gabriel Tallent
• *The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See
• It Ends With Us – Colleen Hoover
• The Magnolia Story – Chip & Joanna Gaines
• The Perfume Collector – Kathleen Tessaro
• Wishful Drinking – Carrie Fisher
• The Tennis Partner – Abraham Verghese
• Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
• Lady Bird and Lyndon – Betty Boyd Caroli
• The Nest – Cynthis D’Aprix Sweeney
• An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth – Col. Chris Hadfield
• Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
• *Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
• Home is F*&^ing Burning:  A Memoir – Dan Marshall
• All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• City on Fire – Garth Risk Hallberg
• Neverhome – Laird Hunt
• Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink
• The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
• *Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
• We Are Not Ourselves – Matthew Thomas
• The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
• My Sunshine Away – M.O. Walsh
• The Short & Tragic Life of Robert Peace – Jeff Hobbs
• The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• *The Interestings – Meg Wolitzer
• The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
• *And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
• The Round House – Louise Erdrich
• The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom
• The Whipping Club – Deborah Henry
• The Paris Wife – Paula McLain
• The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka
• *Wonder – R.J. Palacio
• Gold – Chris Cleave
• *The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
• *American Dervish – Ayad Akhtar
• *1,000 Places to See Before You Die – Patricia Schultz
• *Little Princes – Connor Grennan
• *Yes, Chef – Marcus Samuelsson
• Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter – Melissa Francis
• *The Shoemaker’s Wife – Adriana Trigiani
• *State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
• *22 Britannia Road – Amanda Hodgkinson
• *I Know This Much is True – Wally Lamb
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
• Crow Lake – Mary Lawson
• Those Who Save Us – Jenna Blum
• *The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet – Reif Larsen
• April & Oliver – Tess Callahan
• The Help – Kathryn Stockett
• *Still Alice – Lisa Genova
• *Let the World Spin – Colum McCann
• Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
• The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
• *Hotel On the Corner of Bitter & Sweet – Jamie Ford
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
• Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
• Sarah’s Key –  Tatiana de Rosnay
• One Day – David Nicholls
• Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind – Ann B. Ross
• The Dress Maker of Khair Khana  – Gayle Tzemach Lemman
• The Breakdown Lane – Jacquelyn Mitchaud
• Secret Kept – Tatiana de Rosnay
• *Snowflower & the Secret Fan – Lisa See
• *Shanghai Girls – Lisa See
• *Memories of Joy – Lisa See
• Lost in Translation -Eva Hoffman
• Unbroken – Laura Hillengrand
• Orange is the New Black – Piper Kerman
• The Orchard – Theresa Weir
• Q – Evan Mandry
• Defending Jacob – William Landay
• The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey
• Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
• Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
• Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Klingsolver
• Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
• *The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
• *The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• *The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet – Reif Larsen

Lighthearted

• *Wishin’ and Hopin’ – Wally Lamb
• Bossypants – Tina Fey

Better Mind/Health

• Younger Next Year – Chris Crowley