Sharing 14 of my favorite reads this year. Here they are in no particular order (except for the first one, which was my absolute favorite):
- The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
From the beginning: Leah Price: “We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. My sisters and I were all counting on having one birthday apiece during our twelve-month mission. “And heaven knows,” our mother predicted, “they won’t have Betty Crocker in the Congo.”
- War Sebastian Junger
- A New Leaf Alyson Martin & Nushin Rashidian
- Orange is the New Black Piper Kerman
- Sex at Dawn Christopher Ryan, PhD & Cacilda Jethá, MD
- Swamplandia! Karen Russell
Chapter One of Swamplandia! and as I said on Twitter, I could go Pentecostal over how much I loved this book.
- More than Conquerors Megan Hustad
- Don’t Cry Mary Gaitskill
- Vanity Fair William Thackeray
- Self-Help Lorrie Moore
- Why We Broke Up Daniel Handler & illustrator Maira Kalman
In Why We Broke Up, an illustration of an unfolded note, confessing: “I can’t stop thinking about you.”
- Cut Me Loose Leah Vincent
- Drift Rachel Maddow
- The New Digital Age Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen
To buy these books, check Indie Bound to see if your local, independent bookstore already has a copy.
Happy reading in 2015! Any recommendations?
