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Books & Things we like in 2022
Anne recommends
Anne’s frequent travel adventures greatly complement her love of historical fiction and historical biographies.
Title Author The Girls in the stilt house Kelly Mustian Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker The Saints of Swallow Hill Donna Everhart The Missing Sister Lucinda Riley The Riviera House Natasha Lester 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
Betty Anne is in to
All things suspense!
Title Author Pretty little wife Darby Kane Sooley John Grisham The Forgotten Daughter Joanna Goodman E. R. Nurses James Patterson The Great Alone Kristin Hannah The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Kim Michele Richardson 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
Title Author The midnight Bargain CL Polk Siege and Storm Leigh Bardugo Shadow and Bone Leigh Bardugo Project Hail Mary Andy Weir The Unknown Heather Graham Wool Hugh Howey 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
Title Author A Prison diary Jeffery Archer The lost and found bookshop Susan Wiggs The Henna Artist Alka Joshi State of Terror Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton Garment of Shadows Laurie R. King Five Little Indians Michelle Good 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
Title Author The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse Charlie Mackesy Doctoring Data Dr. Malcolm Kendrick Mystery Road. Series 1 Snowblind: A Thriller Ragnar Jonasson One Lane Bridge. Season 1 An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed Helene Tursten 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
Title Author Two sisters Josephine Cox Blind Search Paula Munier The Girl They Left Behind Roxanne Veletzos The Moonglow sisters Lori Wilde The Map That Leads To You Joseph Monninger The Golden Hour Beatriz Williams 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
Jamie likes
Young Adult reads, her favourite genre is dystopia.
Title Author LA. Brea. Season 1 Encanto [Movie] Spider-Man: No Way Home [Movie] Edge of Extinction 1 : The Ark Plan Laura Martin Encanto [Soundtrack] Not if I can help it Carolyn Mackler 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
Title Author Vortex Catherine Coulter City of the Dead Jonathan Kellerman Mercy David Baldacci Madness of crowds Louise Penny Downfall Robert Rotenberg Win Harlan Coben 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
Title Author Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch Give me back my dad Robert Munsch Memoirs of The Godmother of Canadian Country Music: “Johnny Reid Changed My Life” Mary Rae Knapp Into the Planet : My Life as A Cave Diver Jill Heinerth The night before St. Patrick’s Day Natasha Wing Snoozapalooza Kimberlee Gard 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 When we lost our heads Heather O’Neill The hunter and the old woman Pamela Korgemagi We Want What We Want Alix Ohlin Second Place Rachel Cusk Growing up on the family farm Ruth Freeman Ring Andre Alexis Fuzz Mary Roach The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead Lookout Trina Moyles After the flood Kassandra Montag Nomadland Jessica Bruder Crow winter Karen McBride
Title Author The last chance Olive Ranch Susan Wittig Albert The stepsisters Susan Mallery The Cookbook Club Beth Harbison A Christmas Resolution Anne Perry Promises of the Heart Nan Rossiter Golden Girl Elin Hilderbrand Wenjack Joseph Boyden Confessions from the quilting circle Maisey Yates The Palace Christopher Reich Finding Ashley Danielle Steel Danger in Numbers Heather Graham Noel Street Richard Paul Evans
Title Author Second first impression Sally Thorne Last night at the telegraph club Malinda Lo Finding the Mother Tree Suzanne Simard Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr Bookish life of Nina Hill Abbi Waxman Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead 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
