Favorite Five Friday is back. I hope you’ll join in the fun and share your favorite five.
I know it’s impossible to narrow down your favorite books, but take five minutes or less and jot down what comes to mind first. I’d love to know what stirs your imagination. Together, perhaps we can create a fabulous reading list. Here are a few dozen other books I’ve enjoyed over the years (in particular order).
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Help, Kathryn Sackett
- The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich
- The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
- Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
- The History of Love, Nicole Kraus
- A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
- Native Son, Richard Wright
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
- The Girls, Lori Lasens
- Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortensen
- The Book of Bright Ideas, Sandra Kring
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chavelier
- The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
- The Three Junes, Julia Glass
- The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- What is the What, Dave Eggers
- The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
- Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
- Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
- John Adams, David McCullough
- The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
- The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
- In Exile from the Land of Snows, John Avedon
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa, Mark Mathabane
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
- The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner
- A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind
- Cutting for Stone
- Wild