Book Lover Social Hour Recommendations 2024

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The first Book Lover Social Hour was held on Tuesday, September 17. Below are the recommendations from the 40 participants:

My #1 Recommendation:

  • Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Jefferson’s Daughters by Catherine Kerrison
  • When women were dragons
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • Man of La Mancha
  • The immortal life of Hennrieta Lacks
  • Ordinary grace
  • Hannah Swensen mysteries by Joanne Fluke
  • My sister’s keeper
  • American dirt
  • West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
  • Stones from the river by Ursula Hegi
  • Kite runner by K. Hosseini
  • The women
  • Pillars of the earth

I read it and would recommend it:

  • If you tell by Gregg Olsen
  • Night swim by Megan Goldin
  • Mind of a murderer
  • The book of lost names by Kristin Harmal

I read it and would never recommend it:

  • The Wild
  • Before the coffee gets cold
  • Gone with the wind
  • The memory of animals
  • The 7 ½ deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
  • Lessons in chemistry
  • Les Miserables
  • The Goldfinch
  • One hundred years of solitude

Out of my comfort zone and I loved it:

  • The forbidden notebook
  • Radium girls
  • GED – Goedel, Escher, Bach
  • Equal Rights
  • What about Otto
  • Dark matter by Blake Crouch
  • Cherow Books (biographies)
  • Heaven and earth grocery store
  • An immense world
  • The Kite runner
  • My sister’s keeper
  • Dear Edward by A. Napolitano
  • In god we trust by Jean Shephard
  • Library of Legends by Janie Chang
  • A constellation of vital phenomena

This book really surprised me:

  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The Camino by Shirley MacLaine
  • An Inconvenient truth by Al Gore
  • The seven husbands of Evelyn by Talor Jenkins Reid
  • Warren Buffet (biography)
  • Leading with my nose by Jay Leno
  • The Reading list
  • James by Percival Everett
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Andy Warhol was a hoarder by Claudia Kalb
  • Mad honey
  • Diamond eye
  • The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry by R. Joyce
  • The silent patient by Alex Michaelidies
  • Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by G. Zevin
  • The fellowship of puzzlemakers by Samual Barr
  • Iona Iverson’s rules of commuting
  • Atonement
  • Count of Monte Cristo
  • The red tent

I have read this book many times:

  • Hawaii
  • To kill a mockingbird
  • The Chosen one
  • Gone with the wind
  • Jane Eyre
  • The Giver
  • The Hatchet
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Where the red fern grows
  • Robinson Cruso
  • Count of Monte Cristo
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