Cloud Library Booklists

Top Picks From our “Book Lovers” Book Club

Anything is Possible – Elizabeth Strout

Becoming – Michelle Obama

Born a Crime – Trevor Noah

Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner

Educated – Tara Westover

I Am The Messenger – Markus Zusak

Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson

Library Book – Susan Orlean

Lilac Girls – Martha Hall Kelly

Olive, Again – Elizabeth Strout

Secrets Between Us – Thrity Umrigar

Testaments – Margaret Atwood

These Truths – Jill Lepore

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

Eclectic Reads for Dreary Days

A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara

Furiously Happy – a funny book about horrible things- Jenny Lawson

If Not For You – Debbie Macomber

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Keeper of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan

Little Book of Hygge-Danish Secrets to Happy Living – Neik Wiking

My Not So Perfect Life – Sophie Kinsella

Outsider – Stephen King

Quiet – the Power of Introverts in a world that can’t stop talking – Susan Cain

Windhaven – George R.R. Martin

It’s Always a Good Time for Psychological Suspense

An Anonymous Girl – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Better Sister – Alafair Burke

The Invited – Jennifer McMahon

Last Time I Lied – Riley Sager

Miracle Creek – Angie Kim

The Nanny – Gilly Macmillan

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell

Turn of the Key – Ruth Ware

Whisper Man – Alex North

Books to Read for Earth Day

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle- Barbara Kingsolver

Death and Life of the Great Lakes – Dan Egan

Falter – Bill McKibben

Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wohlleben

Larose – Louise Erdrich

Nature’s Best Hope – Douglas W. Tallamy

Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

Song of Trees – David George Haskell

Uninhabitable Earth – David Wallace-Wells

Celebrate National Couple’s Month – Read a book together!

Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein

At Home – Bill Bryson

Before I Die – Jenny Dunham

Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin

Fictional Pandemics

Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton

Dog Stars – Peter Heller

Dreamers – Karen Thompson Walker

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood

The Passage – Justin Cronin

Severance – Ling Ma

The Stand – Stephen King

Station 11 – Emily St. John Mandel

Wilder Girls – Rory Power

Social Distancing is Nothing New

“Braving the Wilderness-Quest for True Belonging” – Brene Brown

“Great Alone”- Kristin Hannah

“Light Between Oceans” – M.L. Stedman

“Lonely City-adventures in the art of being alone” – Olivia Laing

“The Martian” – Andy Weir

“Overcoming The Destructive Inner Voice “ – Robert Firestone

“Speak” – Laurie Halse

“Touching Spirit Bear” – Ben Mikaelsen

“Walden”- Henry David Thoreau

“We Have Always Lived in the Castle” – Shirley Jackson

Outdoor Adventures

Call of the Wild – Jack London

Change in Altitude – Anita Shreve

Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer

Lost City of Z – David Crann

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard

Stranger in the Woods – Michael Finkel

A Walk in the Woods –Bill Bryson

Wild – Cheryl Strayed

World Beneath Their Feet – Scott Ellsworth

Stay Connected With Some Family Sagas

Dutch House – Ann Patchett

Guest Book – Sarah Blake

Island of Sea Women – Lisa See

Most Fun We Ever Had – Claire Lombardo

Olive, Again – Elizabeth Strout

Pachinko – Min Jin Lee

Red At the Bone – Jacqueline Woodson

Saints for All Occasions – J. Courtney Sullivan

Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver

Weather – Jenny Offill

Binge Read a Series!

The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith

Year One – Nora Roberts

The Bat – Jo Nesbo

Fall of Giants – Ken Follett

Outlander – Diana Gabaldon

The Fifth Season – NK Jemisin

Winter in Paradise – Elin Hilderbrand

Mr. Mercedes – Stephen King - audiobook

Girl Waits with Gun – Amy Stewart

The Silent Corner – Dean Koontz

Memory Man – David Baldacci

The Heist – Janet Evanovich

Book Lovers Annotations April 2020

Dear Edward – Ann Napolitano

Talking to Strangers - What We Should Talk About the People We Don’t Know – Malcolm Gladwell

Girl- Edna O’Brien

Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur

Mirror and the Light – Hilary Mantel

My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell

Red Lotus – Chris Bohjalian

These Ghosts are Family- Maisy Card

You Are Not Alone – Greer Hendricks

Reading About Food: With Recipes Included

“32 Yolks-from my Mother’s Table to Walking the Line”-Eric Ripert

“Beekeeper of Aleppo”- Christy Lefteri

“Best Cook in the World-tales from My Momma’s Kitchen”-Rick Bragg

“Blood, Bones and Butter”-Gabrielle Hamilton

“Eat Cake”-Jeanne Ray

“Kitchens of the Great Midwest”-J. Ryan Stradel

“Lager Queen of Minnesota” -J. Ryan Stradel

“My Mother’s Kitchen-Breakfast, Dinner and the Meaning of Life”-Peter Gethers

“Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune”-Roselle Lim

“Save Me The Plums”-Ruth Reichl

They Survived, and So Will We!

“After the flood”-Kassandra Montage

“The Dog Stars”-Peter Heller

“End of the World Running Club”-Adrian J. Waller

“Girl”-Edna O’Brien

“In the Kingdom of Ice”-Hampton Sides

“Last Ones Left Alive”-Sarah Goff Davis

“The Martian”-Andy Weir

“One More River To Cross”-Jane Kirkpatrick

“The Road”-Cormac McCarthy

“Stranger in the Woods”-Michael Finkel

Romance From Six Feet Away

The Honey-don’t list – Christina Lauren

If I Never Met You – Mhairi McFarlane

Still Me – Jojo Moyes

The Wallflower Wager – Tessa Dare

The Bride Test – Helen Hoang

No Judgements – Meg Cabot

One Day in December – Josie Silver

This Heart of Mine – Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Devil’s Daughter – Lisa Kleypas

Any Day Now – Robyn Carr

The Cinderella Deal – Jennifer Crusie

I Owe You One – Sophie Kinsella

Historical Fiction

“America’s First Daughter”-Stephanie Dray

“Before We Were Yours”-Lisa Wingate

“Carnegie’s Maid”-Marie Benedict

“Giver of Stars”-Jojo Moyes

“Lilac Girls”-Martha Hall Kelly

“Long Petal of the Sea”-Isabel Allende

“Lost Girls of Paris”- Pam Jenoff

“My Dear Hamilton-a novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton”-Stephanie Dray

“Nickel Boys”-Colson Whitehead

“Nightingale”-Kristin Hannah

Historical Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction

“First Conspiracy:the secret plot to kill George Washington” -Brad Meltzer

“In the Heart of the Sea-the tragedy of the Whaleship Essex”-Nathaniel Philbrick

“Killers of the Flower Moon- the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI”- David Grann

“Lost City of the Monkey God-a true story”- Douglas J.Preston

“Only Plane in the Sky-an oral History of 9/11”- Garrett M. Graff

“Pioneers-heroic story of the settlers who brought the American Ideal West”-David G. McCullough

“Sapiens-a brief history of humankind”-Yuval N.Harari

“Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers-the Texas victory that changed America”-Brian Kilmeade

“Splendid and the Vile-A saga of Churchill, family and defiance during the Blitz”-Erik Larson

“Unbroken-an Olympian’s journey from airman to castaway to captive”-Laura Hillenbrand

Strong Women Survivors

Funny Reads: Fiction

Where

The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman

The Martian - Andy Weir

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Curious Minds - Janet Evanovich

Smokin

The Hitchhiker

The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek – Rhett McLaughlin

The Sellout – Paul Beatty

Redshirts – John Scalzi

Funny Reads: Non-Fiction

Food - Jim Gaffigan

Dad is Fat – Jim Gaffigan

Bossypants - Tina Fey

Let

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

Let

Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris

The Last Black Unicorn – Tiffany Haddish

Lessons from Lucy – Dave Barry

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - Caitlin Doughty

#IMOMSOHARD – Kristin Hensley

Lake of the Ozarks – Bill Geist

Dear Girls – Ali Wong

Yes please – Amy Poehler

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - Nick Offerman & Megan Mullaly

Books to Make Your Heart Swell