Good Books Survey Summer 2014 Question: What good book(s) have you read lately? Audra's Rating 1-5 Title Author Recommendations Blank if not read Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand 14 5 The Fault in our Stars John Green 10 5 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 10 3 Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell 8 4 Me Before You Jojo Moyes 8 5 Gone Girl GIllian Flynn 7 4 Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline 7 The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd 7 The Husband's Secrect Liane Moriarty 6 4 Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple 5 4 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford 4 5 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 4 4 The Light Between Oceans M. L. Stedman 4 The Shoemaker's Wife Adriana Trigiani 4 Wonder R. J Palacio 4 4 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 3 2 Natchez Burning (part of Penn Call series) Greg Iles 3 Outlander (series) Diana Gabaldon 3 The Book Thief Markus Zusak 3 5 The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh 3 The Matchmaker Elin Hilderbrand 3 The One and Only Emily Giffin 3 A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin 2 3 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 2 All Fall Down Jennifer Weiner 2 All The Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 2 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2 Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein 2 5 Backseat Saints Joshlyn Jackson 2 BossyPants Tina Fey 2 2 Chestnut Street Maeve Binchy 2 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2 5 Defending Jacob William Landay 2 5 Delicious Ruth Reichel 2 Divergent Veronica Roth 2 5 Half Broke Horses Jeanette Walls 2 4 Heaven is for Real Todd Burpo 2 3 Inferno Dan Brown 2 Lean In Sheryl Sandberg 2 Little Bee Chris Cleave 2 4 Once We Were Brothers Ronald H. Balson 2 One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd Jim Fergus 2 Paper Towns John Greene 2 Redeeming Love Francine Rivers 2 5 Room Emma Donoghue 2 2 Save the Date Mary Kay Andrews 2 Something Borrowed Emily Giffin 2 4 Still Alice Lisa Genova 2 4 Sycamore Row John Grisham 2 The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach 2 The Aviator's Wife Melanie Benjamin 2 The Circle Dave Eggars 2 The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2 5 The Girl You Left Behind Jojo Moyes 2 The Giver Lois Lowry 2 3 The Help Kathryn Stockett 2 5 The Hurricane Sisters Dorothea Benton Frank 2 The Island Elin Hilderbrand 2 The Kitchen House Kathleen Grisson 2 5 The Last Letter from Your Lover Jojo Moyes 2 5 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2 5 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 2 5 The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion 2 The Secret Keeper Kate Morton 2 5 The Silent Wife A. S. A. Harrison 2 The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin 2 The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield 2 What Alice Forgot Liane Moriarty 2 Written in My Own Heart's Blood Diana Gabaldon 2 11/22/63: A Novel Stephen King 1 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra 1 A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness 1 A Killing in the Hills Julia Keller 1 Good Books Survey Summer 2014 Question: What good book(s) have you read lately? Audra's Rating 1-5 Title Author Recommendations Blank if not read All I Know and Love Judith Frank 1 An Officer and a Spy Robert Harris 1 And The Dark Sacred Night Julia Glass 1 Bad Move Linwood Barclay 1 Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver 1 Black Diamond John F. Dobbyn 1 Boy's Life Robert McCammon 1 Carry On Warrior Glennon Melton 1 Child of My Heart Alice McDermott 1 City of Women David Gillham 1 Daemons are Forever Simon Green 1 Dr. Sleep Stephen King 1 Dream When You're Feeling Blue Elizabeth Berg 1 Empire of the Summer Moon S.C. Gwynne 1 Every Last One Anna Quindlen 1 Everybody's Got Something Robin Roberts 1 Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng 1 Frame Up John F. Dobbyn 1 Franny and Zooey JD Salinger 1 Full of Grace Dorothea Benton Frank 1 Gifts of the Peramangk Dean Mayes 1 Grain Brain Permutter 1 Heart of the Matter Emily Giffin 1 Help for the Haunted John Searles 1 Into Temptation (Lytton Trilogy) Penny Vincenzi 1 Ireland Frank Delaney 1 Jephtes Daughter Naomi Ragen 1 Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Simone Ahuja and Kevin Generate Breakthrough Growth Roberts 1 Keep Quiet Lisa Scottoline 1 Keeping Faith Jodi Picoult 1 Killing Jesus Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard 1 Lady of the River Philips Gregory 1 Lamb in His Bosom Caroline Miller 1 Left Neglected Lisa Genova 1 Let's Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson 1 Little Failure Gary Shteyngart 1 Lone Wolf Jody Picolt 1 Looking for Alaska John Greene 1 Marcelo in the Real World Francisco Stork 1 Mark of the Lion Francine Rivers 1 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 1 Moloka'i Alan Brennert 1 My Beloved World Sonia Sotomayor 1 No Angel (Lytton Trilogy) Penny Vincenzi 1 October Sky Homer Hickam 1 One Plus One Jojo Moyes 1 Orange is the New Black Piper Kerman 1 Paris: The Novel Edward Rutherfurd 1 People of the Book Geraldine Brooks 1 Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett 1 Popular: Boys, Booze, and Jesus Tindell Baldwin 1 Prayers for Sale Sandra Dallas 1 Praying for Strangers River Jordan 1 Quiet, The Power of Introverts Susan Cain 1 Rachel's Holiday Marian Keyes 1 Remember When T. Torrest 1 Rent Collector Camron Wright 1 Ripper Isabel Allende 1 Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda 1 Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 1 She's Come Undone Wally Lamb 1 Silver Girl Elin Hildebrand 1 Sing You Home Jodi Picoult 1 Skeletons at the Feast Chris Bohjalian 1 Smash Cut Sandra Brown 1 Something Dangerous (Lytton Trilogy) Penny Vincenzi 1 Songs Without Words Ann Packer 1 Sotah Naomi Ragen 1 Soy Sauce for Beginners Kirstin Chen 1 Spring Fever Mary Kay Andrews 1 Still Missing Chevy Stevens 1 Good Books Survey Summer 2014 Question: What good book(s) have you read lately? Audra's Rating 1-5 Title Author Recommendations Blank if not read Story Teller Jodi Picoult 1 Styxx Sherrilyn Kenyon 1 Summer Rental Mary Kay Andrews 1 Tell the Wolves I'm Home Carol Rifka Brunt 1 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson 1 The Archangel Response: A Thriller Kevin Harmon 1 The Art Forger B. A. Shapiro 1 The Aviators Wife Melanie Benjamin 1 The Bat Jo Nesbo 1 The Beach Club Elin Hildebrand 1 The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown 1 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz 1 The Bright Side Of Disaster Katherine Center 1 The Bronze Horseman Paulina Simons 1 The Burgess Boys Elizabeth Strout 1 The Castaways Elin Hildenbrand 1 The Commons: Book 1: The Journeyman Michael Alan Peck 1 Robert Galbraith and J. K. The Cuckoo's Calling Rowling 1 The Devil in the White City Erik Larson 1 The Dog Stars Peter Heller 1 The Dressmaker Kate Alcott 1 The Electric Michaelangelo Sarah Hall 1 The Farmers Daughter Jim Harrison 1 The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wicker 1 The Grant County (series, 6 books) Karin Slaughter 1 The Gravedigger's Daughter Joyce Carol Oats 1 The Great Bridge David McCullough 1 The Homing Instinct Bernd Heinrich 1 The Housemaid's Daughter Barbara Mutch 1 The Hurricane Sisters Dorothea Benton Frank 1 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 1 The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer 1 The Island Elin Hildebrand 1 The King J. R. Ward 1 The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri 1 The Martian Andy Weir 1 The Monuments Men Robert Edsel & Bret Witter 1 The Museum of Extraordinary Things Alice Hoffman 1 The Other Wes Moore Wes Moore 1 The Painted Girls Cathy Marie Buchanan 1 The Round House Louise Erdrich 1 The Sacrifice of Tamar Naomi Ragen 1 The Secret History Donna Tartt 1 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 1 The Shadow Man Mark Murphy 1 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1 The Silver Star Jeannette Walls 1 The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey 1 The Storyteller Jody Picolt 1 The Street Sweeper Elliot Pearlman 1 The Target David Baldacci 1 The Testament John Grisham 1 The Untethered Soul Michael Singer 1 The Vacationers Emma Straub 1 The Will Trent (series, 7 books) Karin Slaughter 1 This is What Happy Looks Like Jennifer E. Smith 1 Under the Dome Steven King 1 Unlucky 13 James Patterson 1 Updike Adam Begley 1 W is for Wasted (Part of a series) Sue Grafton 1 Wayward Pines (series) Blake Crouch 1 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler 1 We Were Liars E. Lockhart 1 Wheat Belly Willaim Davis 1 While My Sister Sleeps Barbara Delinsky 1 Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It (non- fiction) Gary Taubes 1 You Should Have Known Jean Hanff Korelitz 1 Z : A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald Therese Anne Fowler 1.