Reading For Sanity's Newest Book Club Recommendations (or Summer Reads)

It's summertime folks, and you know what that means.  It's time for the ladies at RFS to hang a proverbial sign on the door and soak up the sun with their families.  Now, don't cry.  We'll miss you too.  Besides, you didn't think we'd leave for the summer without giving you a little something to remember us by, did you?

Here's our newest list of 
Book Club recommendations, 
in no particular order!  
Click the title (not the cover) to read our review! 

(You can also see an older version of Mindy's book club suggestions here
or an older version of Emily's book club suggestions here).

The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Caraval - Stephanie Garber

The Passion of Dolssa - Julie Berry

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman

Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover

Leadership & Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box - The Arbinger Institute

The Martian - Andy Weir

(Read and recommended in the classroom edition, but not reviewed by RFS)

Wonder - R.J. Palacio

Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

The Hundred-Foot Journey - Richard C. Morais

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

The Two-Family House - Lynda Cohen Loigman

The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

Rose Under Fire - Elizabeth Wein

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
(Yes.  All of it.  Here are our reviews of #1 #2 and #3)

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine,
and the Murder of a President - Candice Millard

The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain

The War that Saved my Life - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

The Orphan Keeper - Camron Wright

The Rent Collector - Camron Wright

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

 Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

 Me Before You - Jojo Moyes

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

Dracula - Bram Stoker

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley

The Inquisitor's Tale - Adam Gidwitz

(Read and recommended, but not reviewed by RFS)

Boxers & Saints - Gene Luen Yang

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian -Sherman Alexie

Now...take this list and run with it.  

Have a great summer and HAPPY READING!  

We'll see you back here on September 1st!