I’m a big believer in that many of the books we read say a lot about who we are as individuals. I also know that reading slumps can be difficult to escape. If you’re interested in what your fellow book club members are reading or just need some suggestions as to what your next book should be, you’ve come to the right place!
At the end of each book related meeting, members will have the opportunity to talk about what they are reading outside of the club and throw out recommendations for others. You can also request recommendations if you’re in need of some. If you’re looking for a good historical fiction book, this is your chance to ask a group of people who have come together specifically because they like to read!
I will do my best to keep track of the books that get suggested during this time and post a list to this page for anyone to peruse at their leisure. Each recommendation window will be its own separate list for the sake of easier searching.
All of this is, naturally, a thinly veiled ploy to help me personally keep track of recommendations, but hopefully others will benefit from it, as well. 🙂
March 27, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by |
|---|---|---|
| The Wandering Inn | Pirateaba | Blake |
| Millenneagram | Hannah Paasch | Carlos |
| Warbreaker | Brandon Sanderson | Carlos |
| Talking to Strangers | Malcolm Gladwell | Kaiti |
| The Radium Girls | Kate Moore | Kaiti |
| Patient H.M. | Luke Dittrich | Kaiti |
April 10, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by |
|---|---|---|
| We Are Legion | Dennis E. Taylor | Alex |
| The Kindest Lie | Nancy Johnson | Kaiti |
| Furies of Calderon | Jim Butcher | Mia |
| Broken | Jenny Lawson | Nick |
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Reven |
April 24, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by |
|---|---|---|
| The Fowl Twins | Eoin Colfer | Carlos |
| Red, White & Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston | Kaiti |
| The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) | Robert Galbraith | Simon |
May 8, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by |
|---|---|---|
| Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence | Kate Crawford | Carlos |
| The Story of Stuff | Annie Leonard | Kaiti |
| The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. | David Levithan | Sanhoe |
May 22, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by |
|---|---|---|
| Beware of Chicken | CasualFarmer | Blake & Chris |
| Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | Chris |
| Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo | Kaiti |
| The Anthropocene Reviewed | John Green | Kaiti |
| The Way of Shadows | Brent Weeks | Mia |
| The House in the Cerulean Sea | T.J. Klune | Mia |
| History Is All You Left Me | Adam Silvera | Mia |
| The Silent Ones | K.L. Slater | Patrick |
June 19, 2020
| title | Author | Recommended By |
|---|---|---|
| Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | Blake |
| The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You | Elaine N. Aron | Carlos |
| Daisy Jones and the Six | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Carlos, Mia |
| Dragon Pearl (Thousand Worlds, #1) | Yoon Ha Lee | Carlos |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows | Kaiti |
July 3, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended By |
|---|---|---|
| Blindsight (Firefall, #1) | Peter Watts | Blake |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | Blake |
| Heavy Weather | Bruce Sterling | Chris |
| Unsong | Scott Alexander | Chris |
| Super Powereds | Drew Hayes | Odium |
| The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1) | F.C. Yee | Sanhoe |
July 17, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended By | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Altered Carbon | Richard K. Morgan | Alex | |
| So You Want to Be a Villain? (A Practical Guide to Evil, #1) | ErraticErrata | Alex and Chris | |
| The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) | Brandon Sanderson | Carlos | |
| The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music | Steve López | Kaiti | |
| Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Mia | |
| The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) | Patrick Rothfuss | Mia | Very good in audio |
July 31, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended By | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein | Farah Mendlesohn | Chris | |
| Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness | Peter Godfrey-Smith | Chris | |
| Small Great Things | Jodi Picoult | Kaiti | |
| The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton | Simon |
August 14, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended By | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk | Carlos | |
| Recursion | Blake Crouch | Mia | |
| Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1) | Scott Meyer | Simon |
August 28, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended By | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Way of Kings Prime | Brandon Sanderson | Carlos | Narated by original Stormlight readers |
| Incandescence | Greg Egan | Chris | |
| Double Whammy (Davis Way Crime Caper, #1) | Gretchen Archer | Emma | Audiobook narrated by Amber Benson |
| The Nature of Witches | Rachel Griffin | Jessica | |
| One Last Stop | Casey McQuiston | Mia | |
| One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1) | Karen M. McManus | Patrick |
September 4, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sylver Seeker | KingKennit | Blake | Web serial |
| Ink and Sigil | Kevin Hearne | Blake | Narated by Luke Daniels, who is fantastic |
| The Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson | Kazemi | |
| Homeland (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #1) | R.A. Salvatore | Patrick | |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | Sanhoe | |
| The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | Sanhoe | |
| Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear | Elizabeth Gilbert | Sanhoe | |
| Loose Cannon | manatee-vs-walrus | Simon |
September 18, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton | Blake | |
| The Midnight Library | Matt Haig | Blake | |
| This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar , Max Gladstone | Mia | |
| The Peace War (Across Realtime, #1) | Vernor Vinge | Mia |
October 5, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 | Derek Chollet,James Goldgeier | Chris | |
| The Sandman | Neil Gaiman | Geneviève, Mayank, Tangela | Audio drama |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Kaitlyn | |
| Not a Happy Family | Shari Lapena | Patrick | |
| Mother of Learning | Nobody103, Domagoj Kurmaic | Simon |
October 16, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/22/63 | Stephen King | Blake | |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | Blake | |
| A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) | Naomi Novik | Blake | |
| When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead | Emma | |
| The Institute | Stephen King | Meaghan | |
| Boyhood | Not applicable | Sanhoe | Film |
November 2, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation | Suzanne Stabile | Athlon | |
| The Wandering Inn | Pirateaba | Blake, Simon, Tangela | |
| The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1) | Beverly Cleary | Emma | |
| Broken | Jenny Lawson | Sanhoe | |
| Angels Blood (Guild Hunter, #1) | Nalini Singh | Mia | Book 14 is out |
| Sabriel (Abhorsen/Old Kingdom, #1) | Garth Nix | Mia | book 6 is out |
November 13, 2021
| Title | Author | Recommended by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coyote | Allen M. Steele | Blake | |
| City of Girls | Elizabeth Gilbert | Kyra | |
| Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchet | Mia | |
| The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) | Philip Pullman | Mia | |
| The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) | C.S. Lewis | Mia | I was told to start the series with this one |
| Light from Uncommon Stars | Ryka Aoki | Mia | |
| Two Boys Kissing | David Levithan | Mia | Narated by the author |
February 5, 2022
| Title | Author | Recommended by | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daughter of the Deep | Rick Riordan | Athlon | |||
| Reactive Attachment Disorder | Daniel F. Shreeve | Athlon | |||
| The Art of Learning | Josh Waitzkin | Athlon | |||
| Biohack Your Brain | Kristen Willeumier | Athlon | |||
| Game Design Deep dive: Horror | Joshua Bycer | Athlon | |||
| The Story of You | Ian Morgan Cron | Athlon | |||
| Adulting | Kelly Williams Brown | Blake | |||
| The Promised Land | Barack Obama | Blake | |||
| Maybe You Should Talk to Someone | Lori Gottlieb | Blake Kaiti Sanhoe Tangela | |||
| The Guncle | Steven Rowley | Kaiti | |||
| Girls with Bright Futures | Tracy Dobmeier | Kaiti | |||
| Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Kaiti | |||
| Laziness Does Not Exist | Devon Price | Kaiti | |||
| The Magicians | Lev Grossman | Kaiti Nick | |||
| The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura dave | Kaiti Nick | |||
| Wuality Land | Marc-Uwe Kling | Riane | |||
| Barely Functional Adult | Meichi Ng | Riane | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Sanhoe |
| Anxious People | Fredrik Backman | Simon | |||
| Outland | Dennis E. Taylor | Simon | |||
| Infinite | Jeremy Robinson | Simon | |||
| Leviathan Wakes | James S.A. Corey | Simon | |||
| Sawkill Girls | Claire Legrand | Wren | |||
| The Little Paris Bookshop | Nina George | Wren | |||
| The Black Prism | Brent Weeks | Wren |
February 12, 2022
| Title | Author | Recommended by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Butterfly Garden | Dot Hutchison | Mia | |
| The Storyteller | Jodi Picoult | Mia | |
| People We Meet on Vacation | Emily Henry | Mia | |
| History is All You Left Me | Adam Silvera | Sanhoe | |
| Harry Potter and the Slightly Unfortunate Child | Codee21 | Simon | Fanfiction.net |
| The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | Tangela | |
| The Island of Sea Women | Lisa See | Wren | |
| Tiny Pretty Things | Sona Charaipotra | Wren |
March 12, 2022
| Title | Author | Recommended by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Everything Lateral Thinking Puzzles Book | Nikki Katz | Athlon | |
| House of Earth and Blood | Sarah J. Maas | Mia | |
| The Once and Future Witches | Alix E. Harrow | Mia | |
| Bicentennial Man | N/a | Sanhoe | Movie |
| The House in the Cerulean Sea | T.J. Klune | Sanhoe | |
| Girl Made of Stars | Ashley Herring Blake | Wren | |
| With the Fire on High | Elizabeth Acevedo | Wren |