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Books & Things we like in 2021
Anne recommends
Anne’s frequent travel adventures greatly complement her love of historical fiction and historical biographies.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Sister’s Tale | Beth Powning |
| Not a Happy Family | Shari Lapena |
| Letters Across the Sea | Genevieve Graham |
| Three Hours in Paris | Cara Black |
| The Nature of Fragile Things | Susan Meissner |
| The woman with the blue star | Pam Jenoff |
| Those who are saved | Alexis Landau |
| The night portrait | Laura Morelli |
| His & Hers | Alice Feeney |
| Caste: the origin of our discontents | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Miss Benson’s Beetle | Rachel Joyce |
| The Exiles | Christina Baker Kline |
Betty Anne is in to
All things suspense!
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Lady Clementine | Marie Benedict |
| Local Woman Missing | Mary Kubica |
| The Missing Sister | Lucinda Riley |
| Love & Courage | Jagmeet Singh |
| The Silent Wife | Karin Slaughter |
| American Dirt | Jeanine Cummins |
| The Other Mrs. | Mary Kubica |
| Belgravia | Julian Fellowes |
| The Moon Sister | Lucinda Riley |
| The Forgotten Home Child | Genevieve Graham |
| Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey |
| The Sea Before Us | Sarah Sundin |
Diane recommends
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| An elderly lady is up to no good | Helene Tursten |
| Danger in Numbers | Heather Graham |
| The Final Girl Support Group | Grady Hendrix |
| Golden Girl | Elin Hilderbrand |
| The Southern book club’s guide to slaying Vampires | Grady Hendrix |
| The Heiress | Molly Greeley |
| The Final Deception | Heather Graham |
| Squeeze Me | Carl Hiaason |
| He Started It | Samantha Downing |
| The Witch of Willow Hall | Hester Fox |
Donna recommends
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield |
| The Storm Sister | Lucinda Riley |
| Deadly Decisions | Kathy Reichs |
| Death du Jour | Kathy Reichs |
| Deja Dead | Kathy Reichs |
| Past Reason Hated | Peter Robinson |
| Rabbit Foot Bill | Helen Humphreys |
| The Shadow Sister | Lucinda Riley |
| The God of the Hive | Laurie R. King |
| The Cuckoo Calling | Robert Galbraith |
| A Forgotten Murder | Jude Deveraux |
| A Justified Murder | Jude Deveraux |
Edith has been reading
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Soul of a Woman | Isabel Allende |
| An elderly lady is up to no good | Helene Tursten |
| The Courier | Movie |
| Minimal: For Simple & Sustainable Living | Laurie Barrette, Stephanie Mandrea |
| The Heart Remembers | Jan-Philipp Sendker |
| Plague of Corruption | Dr Judy Mikovits & Kent Heckenlively, JD |
| Dusk Night Dawn | Anne Lamott |
| Plague: One Scientist’s Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome… | Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits |
| Saving Justice | James Comey |
| Enemies of the People | Kati Marton |
| The Rock Balancer’s Guide | Travis Ruskus |
| The Choice | Edith Eva Eger |
Elva’s choices
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Rainy day friends | Jill Shalvis |
| No place for a lady | Gill Paul |
| The Honey Bus | Meridith May |
| The flight girls | Noelle Salazar |
| The girl they left behind | Roxanne Veletzos |
| Window on the Bay | Debbie Macomber |
| The year that changed everything | Cathy Kelly |
| Secrets of Nanreath Hall | Alix Rickloff |
| Two by two | Nicholas Sparks |
| The Dutch house | Ann Patchett |
| Driving Miss Norma | Tim Bauerschmidt |
| The Road Home | Richard Paul Evans |
Jamie likes
Young Adult reads, her favourite genre is dystopia.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Movie |
| Luca | Movie |
| Return to Zero | Pittacus Lore |
| Out of the Shadows: The Legacy Chronicles #4-6 | Pittacus Lore |
| The Upside of Falling | Alex Light |
| Raya and the Last Dragon | |
| Thrive (The Overthrow #3) | Kenneth Oppel |
| The Emerald Tablet | Dan Jolley |
| News of the world (Movie) | Starring Tom Hanks |
| Hatch (The Overthrow #2) | Kenneth Oppel |
| Bloom (The Overthrow #1) | Kenneth Oppel |
| School Spirit (Suddenly Supernatural #1) | Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
Joan recommends
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Missing and Endangered | J.A. Jance |
| Serpentine | Jonathan Kellerman |
| The four winds | Kristin Hannah |
| Daylight | David Baldacci |
| Deception Cove | Owen Laukkanen |
| Texas Outlaw | James Patterson |
| The Revelators | Ace Atkins |
| 28 Summers | Elin Hilderbrand |
| The Persuasion | Iris Johansen |
| Outsider | Linda Castillo |
| Promises of the Heart | Nan Rossiter |
| The Boy From The Woods | Harlan Coben |
Laura Lee recommends
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Ten on the sled | Kim Norman |
| Hibernation station | Michelle Meadows |
| Pete the Cat : I love my white shoes | Eric Litwen |
| Atticus Caticus | Sarah Maizes |
| Duck Duck Moose | Mary Sullivan |
| And then it’s Spring | Julie Fogliano |
Liz likes
Liz is a lover of Can-lit, magical and quirky reads.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Fuzz | Mary Roach |
| The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
| Lookout | Trina Moyles |
| After the flood | Kassandra Montag |
| Nomadland | Jessica Bruder |
| Crow winter | Karen McBride |
| A mind spread out on the ground | Alicia Elliott |
| Orange world | Karen Russell |
| Anxious People | Fredrik Backman |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandell |
| The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse | Charlie Mackesy |
| Talking to Strangers | Malcolm Gladwell |
Sharon reads
Vicki recommends
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Fabric of Civilization | Virginia Postrel |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| My year abroad | Chang-rae Lee |
| Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| Great circle | Maggie Shipstead |
| Butter honey pig bread | Francesca Ekwuyasi |
| Firekeeper’s Daughter | Angeline Boulley |
| Flannery | Lisa Moore |
| The Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman |
| Jonny Appleseed | Joshua Whitehead |
| Into the planet : my life as a cave diver | Jill Heinerth |
| Conjure Women | Afia Atakora |