About My Recommendations
There are many sources for book reviews, and I will share some of my favorites elsewhere on this site. The recommendations that follow are my own and are mostly taken from my reviews on Goodreads and/or Amazon. These books were chosen according to my own reading preferences.
I do not wish to read for any other purpose, including providing reviews. I recommend them because I enjoyed them and found them worthy of four or five stars on Goodreads. My “to read” list is too long and there are too many wonderful books yet to be written and discovered for me to finish a book I wouldn’t recommend.
I understand that there are those who will disagree with my opinions and am happy with that. There are enough books out there to please every reader!
Fiction
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
The Game Master by William Bernhardt (Oklahoma author)
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds
The Wind Comes Sweeping by Marcia Preston (Oklahoma author)
Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
The Sky Took Him by Donis Casey (Oklahoma author)
The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee by Talya Tate Boerner (NEARK author)
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (Oklahoma author)
Nonfiction
The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
Murder on the Floodways by Harold G. Walker (SEMO author)
Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Swartz
Sharing the Journey: Women Reflecting on Life’s Passages edited by Katherine Ball Ross
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop edited by Ronald Rice
By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review edited by Pamela Paul
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
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