Best Book List Ever
Loved by Kids and Adults
The Missing Piece, Shel Silverstein
Owls in the Family, Farley Mowat
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
Danny the Champion of the World, Roald Dahl
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Search for WONDLA, Tony DiTerlizzi
When You Need a Chuckle
Eleanor Oliphant if Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out his Window, Jonas Jonasson
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, Balli Kaur Jaswal
An Overall Great Book
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in a Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Strait is the Gate, Andre Gide
Reader on the 6.27, Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden
My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout
Anything Is Possible, Elizabeth Strout
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
This is How it Always Is, Laurie Frankel
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again, Elizabeth Strout
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
Trickster Trilogy, Eden Robinson
Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michele Richardson
State of Wonder, Ann Pratchett
The Imposter Bride, Nancy Richler
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
White Oleander, Janet Fitch
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, Jan-Philipp Sendker
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Marry Anne Shaffer & Annie Barrows
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise, Julia Stuart
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Get the Kleenex Ready
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
A Man Named Ove, Fredrik Backman
The Heart’s Invisible Furies, John Boyne
The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Lily and the Octopus, Steven Rowley
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
A Widow for One Year, John Irving
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Liesl & Po, Lauren Oliver
Girl in Pieces, Kathleen Glasgow
Hard to Read But Worth it
My Life as a Rat, Joyce Carol Oates
The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton
Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards
God Help the Child, Toni Morrison
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
Based on History
The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel
Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
Letters Across the Sea, Genevieve Graham
The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
When You Can’t Handle Anything Heavy
The Editor, Steven Rowley
The Cracked Spine Series, Paige Shelton
The Bar Harbour Retirement Home for Famous Writers, Terri-Lynn DeFino
The Memoir Club, Laura Kalpakian
Real Life Stories
Untamed, Glennon Doyle
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Care Of, Ivan Coyote
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Going Solo, Roald Dahl
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
First Spring Grass Fire, Rae Spoon
Writing & Creativity
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott
On Writing: A Memoir of Craft, Stephen King
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron
Okay are you ready? Let’s go to the nearest independent bookstore or library!
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Erica Richmond, she/her
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Erica Richmond, the founder of Open Sky Stories believes that words have the power to provide connection & healing. She lives in Peterborough, Canada with her two teens where they find adventures in everyday life. Erica has published two books: Pixie and the Bees and The Mail Art Stories Project: Mail Art in the Time of Covid-19. Follow Erica on Instagram for daily writing inspiration and real-life stories.
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