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Books I've read and would recommend so far this year!

Books!

I like to read books, I like to listen to books, I love books!

My number one standout book from this year so far is Disoriental by Négar Djavadi.

Here’s some recents that I enjoyed and the children’s books that we read over and over and over again.

Audiobooks

• The entire Shetland series audiobooks by Ann Cleaves

• The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death and A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz

• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

• Anything by David Baldacci, I have nearly completed his entire catalog of audiobooks available at my library. It truly blows my mind that a human could write this many novels in a lifetime.

Books

• Idlewild: a novel by James Frankie Thomas

• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

• Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

• Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

• Long Bright River by Liz Moore

• Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

• Liars by Sarah Manguso

• The Wilderness by Aysegül Savas

• The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen

• The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen

• Disoriental by Négar Djavadi

• Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

• Time, Myth and Matter by LD Deutsch

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• How Much of these Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

Art Books

• Making Things by Erin Boyle and Rose Pearlman

• Material Obsession by Kathy Doughty

• Curved Two Patch System: A Quilt Designer's Exciting Discovery for Creating Pieced Flowers, Foliage and Other Patterns by Joyce M. Schlotzhauer

• Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey

• The Great Noank Quilt Factory;: How to Make Quilts & Quilted Things by Sharon McKain

• Encyclopedia of Classic Quilt Patterns edited by Patricia Wilens

• 838 Ways to Amuse a Child: Crafts, Hobbies and Creative Ideas for the Child from Six to Twelve by June Johnson

• Quilts of America by Erica Wilson

Children’s Books on repeat at our house

• The Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen

• If I Had an Octopus by Gabby Dawnay

• Every Night is Pizza Night by J Kenji Lopez-Alt

• Go, Dog. Go by P.D. Eastman

• Du Iz Tak by Carson Ellis

• Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go

• Richard Scarry’s Day at the Airport

• Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever

• Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown

Places I get book recommendations

• Books on GIF - a weekly email with a wide range book reviews mostly novels!

• Making it Work with Youngna Park - a newsletter about parenting but it also contains tons of book recommendations for adults and children!

• My Candle Burns by Amy Bornman - another newsletter with essays about motherhood and also many many books!

• The Center for Fiction email newsletter - if you love fiction and want to read recently released novels, this is the place to get them!

I didn’t add links to all the books because no one seems to click the links and it takes me a long time to add them all :) My best places to get books are the public library and thriftbooks.com. I would not be able to afford to read this much without them.

See you next time

Bekka