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I love reading. It’s like “a movie going off in your head”. I recall in college I would sit on the quad between classes reading whatever novel I was into at the time, then dash to class at the last moment. Today,  I am in 2 book clubs and love it because it forces me to read books outside of my go-to genre (historical fiction or history). Here are some of my favorites…

Non Fiction

Anything by David McCullough, the greatest history writer ever, IMHO. He wrote The Path Between the Seas (definitive story about the building of the Panama Canal), The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn). And John Adams, who has written many more, they are all wonderful, he makes history read like a novel…albeit a long one.

Fiction

A Gentleman in Moscow By Amor Towles (hands down still my #1 the rest in no particular order, I enjoyed them all and all are very different)

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

A Man called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Glory Road by Robert Heinlein

Happy Reading!

Pro Tip:  If you are a kindle reader and don’t know the Libby app, check it out. Load it with your library cards and borrow digital books!