Plotlines to get lost in:
The Secret History by Donna Tartte
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Summer by Edith Wharton
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Memoirs to help distract from the strange reality of today:
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan Jobs
Born Again by Charles Colson
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
Reading that feels more like watching a movie (or being there, in the flesh!):
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
Alibis: Essays from Elsewhere by Andre Aciman
Classics that are *actually* enjoyable to read:
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Books to groom your understanding of religion and/or faith:
Humble Roots by Hannah Anderson
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren
Found in Him by Elyse Fitzpatrick
Honorable Mentions:
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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