community recommended books

This is a list of books that have been recommended by the community. This is meant to be a resource for us all to have access to amazing books read by thoughtful humans.

Fiction

Kintu by Jennifer Makumbi

Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk

The Antidote by Karen Russell

The Shoemakers Wife by Adriana Trigiani

Less by Andrew GreerAmerican

Dirt by Jeanine cumminsHalf

Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls

Could Atlas by David Mitchell

2666 by Roberto Bolano

Dig by A.S. King

Theo the Golden by Allen Levi

Night Bitch by Rachel YoderGo

as a River by Shelley Read

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Nothing to See here by Kevin Wilson

Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell

Woman of Circumstance by Ron Lemco

My Absolute Darling by Sam Tallent

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

The Dead Romantics by ashely poston

The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje

Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

Real Americans by Rachel Kohng

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Shmutz by Felicia Berliner

Moby Dick by by Herman Melville

Stoner by John Williams

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Sin Eater by Megan Campisi

These is My Words by Nancy Turner

non-fiction

The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin

How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe

RSD and ADHD by Ammanueal Santa Anna

Fight Right by Drs. John and Julie Gottman

Breath by James Nestor

The Power Broker by Robert Caro

Flower Color Guide by Darroch and Michael Putnam

Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch

Eve by Cat Bohannon

Dirty Laundry by Richard Pintz and Roxanne Emery

Africa is not a Country by Dipo Faloyin

Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn

Like Streams to the Oceans by Jedidiah Jenkins

Dream Work by Mary Oliver

Stoicism and the Art of Happiness by Donald J. Robertson

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

The Argonuats by Maggie Nelson

Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller

Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert

Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab

POETRY

The Collected Works of Walt Whitman

New Dark Ages by Donald RevellA

Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Thriller/Horror

Heartwood by Amity Gage

Gone before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Sci-Fi

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

Childern of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Lgbtqi+

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

Mobsters in Love by Chiyoko Origami

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Transmogrify! by G. Haron Davis

fantasy

Puzzle Ring by Kate Forsyth

The Familiar by Leah Bardugo

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Mama Day by Glora Naylor

Kate Daniels Magic Series by Ilona Andrews

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Of Blood and Fire by Ryan Cahil

Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb