Books to read

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. - supposed to be a lot like History of Love - which I loved!

Book by Tamora Pierce

1. These is my words
2. Eat, love, pray

A Mercy by Toni Morrison a young wife, who, after learning the "intricacy of loneliness" associated with marriage, comes down with smallpox and apologizes to her face in the mirror over and over again.

funny, lighthearted - Me Talk Pretty One Day, Garlic and Sapphires, Julie and Julia, A Walk in the Woods

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabet Strouts

Nightas at the Circus by Angela Carter

Chasing Vermeer

These books came recommended by my bishop's wife

• Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips by J. Hilton (if you haven't read this, it's a must read for a teacher)
• A Town Called Alice
• Angle of Repose by Stegner
• Persian Pickle Club
• These Is My Words and Sara's Quilt
• Ladies of Missalonghi by C. McCullough
• All Gods Critters Got a Place in the Choir by Ulrich and Thayne (possibly out of print)
  
• Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
• West with the Night by Markham
• Gift From the Sea by Ann Morrow Lindburg
• Sting of the Scorpion or any of Robert Marcum's books (LDS adventure/romance)

I take my students the library once a semester to pick out books to read for fun and the librarian always has some great suggestions. The following are some she suggested for the kids but I think I will jump on them as well

• Watermelon
• I Am the Messenger
• Looking for Alaska
• The Glass Castle
  

These books are all from different magazine reviews.

• The Waves by Virginia Woolf (about how we endeavor to inscribe moments in our consciousness) "How I distrust neat designs of lift that are drawn upon half-sheets of notepaper. I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement."
• The Independence Club by Rachel Ann Nunes (5 single women meet together for a weekly brunch group)
• The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers ("It takes faith to love. But perhaps it takes greater faith to be loved.")
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (a metaphor for how little we know about the people we care about most, how much we may have to pay for the sins of impatience and incomprehension, and how much depends on what we do - or fail to do - in a single moment that may determine the course of an entire life)
• Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
• Haroun and Sea of Fish
• The Reef by Amy Gross (1912 sexy)
• The Years by Virginia Woolf ("Take notes and the pain goes away")
• World According to Garp by John Irving
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Gina Hamadey
• Like Life by Lorrie Moore (start with 'The Jewish Hunter' which chronicles the sweetest affair between two people who are both too smart for their own good, inept at love, and perfect for each other."
• Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (start with "A Perfect Day for Bananafish")
• Believers by Charles Baxter
• The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe)
• Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (Grace Paley)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• Soul Kiss by Shay Youngblood (she begins by saying the first night Mama doesn't come home, she tears up the letter her mama left for her and eats it. She makes a sandwich out of the words.)
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

From Oprah's "5 books everyone should read at least once"

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
• The Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton

"Five short, though, brilliant modern books:

• To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• A Good Man is Hard to Find and other short stories by Flannery O'Connor
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

"Five Memoirs that you won't forget"

• Them by Fancine Du Plessix Gray (a brisk, bittersweet look at two larger-than-life figures and the shadows they cast.
• Early Bird by Rodney Rothman
• On the Glory of it all by Sean Wilsey
• Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
• I'm not the New me by Wendy McClure

"Five Fantastic First Novel"

• In the Shadow of the Law by kermit Roosevelt (legal thriller)
• Fashion Victim by Sam Baker
• The Twins of Tribeca by Rachel Pine
• The Traveler by Jown Tweleve Hawks
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Anne Tyler

Where does the god of love hang out by Amy Bloom