Good Reads for Adults
Our staff read a lot of good books and they want to pass the titles on to you!
We’ve been compiling these recommended reading lists since 1994. We hope that this latest Good Reads for Adults list (created in September 2010) introduces you to some new authors, or reminds you to re-read a few old favourites.
Armstrong, Lance - It’s Not About the Bike (BIO)
Bauermeister, Erica - School of Essential Ingredients
Bruhns, Wibke - My Father’s Country (BIO)
Bryson, Bill - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (NF)
Canon, Patrick - Prairie Metropolis (NF)
Colt, George Howe - The Big House (NF)
Connelly, Michael - The Brass Verdict
Damrosch, Phoebe - Service Included (BIO)
Davis-Goff, Annabel - The Fox’s Walk
Dawson, Jill - The Great Lover
Delinsky, Barbara - Family Tree AND While My Sister Sleeps
Ebershoff, David - The 19th Wife
Enright, Anne - The Gathering
Fallada, Hans - Every Man Dies Alone
Flynn, Michael - The Wreck of the River of Stars
French, Tana - In the Woods AND The Likeness
Galloway, Steven - The Cellist of Sarajevo
Gold, Glen David - Sunnyside
Goolrick, Robert - A Reliable Wife
Graham, Jo - Black Ships
Green, Jane - The Beach House AND Dune Road
Grove, Bonnie - Talking to the Dead (MYS)
Gulley, Philip - I Love You Miss Huddleston (NF)
Hay, Elizabeth - Late Nights on Air
Hill, Lawrence - The Book of Negroes
Hodgkinson, Tom - The Idle Parent (NF)
Hoelterhoff, Manuela – Cinderella & Company: backstage at the opera… (NF)
Hoshowsky, Robert - The Last to Die (NF)
Humphreys, Helen - Coventry
Ignatieff, Michael - True Patriot Love (NF)
Jacobs, A.J. - The Year of Living Biblically (NF)
Jeremiah, David - What in the World is Going On? (NF)
Johnson, Denis - Tree of Smoke
Jones, Lloyd - Mr. Pip
Kagan, Daryn - What’s Possible: 50 true stories … (NF)
Kent, Kathleen - The Heretic’s Daughter: a novel
Livingstone, Thomas - Tommy’s War (NF)
Mann, Charles - 1491: the new revelations of the Americas before Columbus (NF)
Mantel, Hilary - Giving Up the Ghost (BIO)
Marillier, Juliet - Daughter of the Forest
McCall Smith, Alexander - Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
McGowan, Kathleen - The Expected One
McGrath, Patrick - Trauma
Moss, John - Grave Doubts (MYS)
Noble, Elizabeth - Things I Want My Daughters to Know
Peacock, Shane - Eye of the Crow
Rice, Luanne - Light of the Moon AND Last Kiss
Richards, Linda L. - Death Was in the Picture (MYS)
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos - The Shadow of the Wind
Rushdie, Salman - The Enchantress of Florence
Rushdie, Salman - Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Saxton, Judith - You Are My Sunshine
Scott, Robyn - Twenty Chickens for a Saddle (BIO)
Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Swift, Graham - Making an Elephant (NF)
Thomas, Rosie - Iris and Ruby
Tuchman, Barbara - The Guns of August (NF)
Vargas, Fred - Chalk Circle Man (MYS)
Vowell, Sarah - The Wordy Shipmates (NF)
Wagamese, Richard - One Native Life (NF)
Walters, Barbara - Audition: a memoir (BIO)
Wiggs, Susan - Just Breathe
Willett, Jincy - The Writing Class
