Okay, we'll admit it, we love to list! You will find below a couple lists of fiction that we highly recommend. If it's on a list we personally vouch that it's worth your time to buy or borrow! How it works:
- If it has a ♥ beside it that means its a "fave". Basically, if you don't have time to read everything on the lists you can go straight to our favourites for a surefire winner.
- If we've done a review of the book we will have a hyperlink to the the blog post so you can read our thoughts on the book before (or after!) you read it yourself.
- Have a suggestion? We have a list of recommendations from you - our readers - at the bottom. Want to write a book review? E-mail us (writersthriftersanddrifters[at]gmail.com) and we'll post your book review on the blog!
The To-Read Reading List
Books we haven't read... YET!
- I am Malala- Malala Yousafzai
- Half Broke Horses - Jeanette Walls
- Maddaddam - Margaret Atwood
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window... - Jonas Jonasson
- The Orenda - Joseph Boyden
- The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
- Dear Life - Alice Munro
- Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
- The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
- Vilette - Charlotte Bronte
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguru
- Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Catch 22 -Joseph Heller
- Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris
- Longbourn - Jo Baker
- The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
- Emancipation Day - Wayne Grady
The Contemporary List
Books we've read and loved!
- A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews ♥
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro
- The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ♥
- Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk ♥
- I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
- In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje<3
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonneghut ♥
- Afterimage - Helen Humphries
- Everything was Goodbye - Gurjinder Basran
- Selected Poems - e.e. cummings ♥
- Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood ♥
- Empire of the Sun - J. G. Ballard
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears ♥
- The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
- Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan ♥
- Animal's People - Indra Sinha ♥
- Waiting for the Barbarians - JM Coetzee ♥
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ♥
- Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote ♥
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguru
- The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer ♥
- The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
The Classic List
We absolutely ❤ the classics! If you haven't had a chance to read many check out our list for suggestions!
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë ♥
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ♥
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck ♥
- Macbeth - William Shakespeare ♥
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ♥
- Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell ♥
- The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux ♥
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ♥
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte ♥
- Dracula - Bram Stoker ♥
Memoirs, Auto-Bio & Biographies
These books may not technically be fiction but we never play by the rules!
- Too Close to the Falls - Catherine Gildiner
- Is Everyone hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) - Mindy Kaling
- Escape - Carolyn Jessop ♥
- Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali ♥
New & Hot Fiction
Up-and-coming books we can't wait to check out!
- Havisham: A Novel - Ronald Frame [Out November 5, 2013, Picador]From Book Riot:"a prequel to Great Expectations,
all about how the most interesting character in the classic novel (Miss
Havisham, natch) came to be that way. This is Miss Havisham falling in
love, not Miss Havisham wandering her house in her decades-old wedding
gown surrounded by moldy cake and cobwebs. Shifted-perspective takes on
classics seem to be having a moment, and for this reader, who has always
thought Wide Sargasso Sea was infinitely more compelling than Jane Eyre, there couldn’t be better news."
Okay, so we don't agree that Wide Sargasso Sea is more compelling than Jane Eyre (but we're total suckers for classic lit) we do appreciate Rhys' novel as a text on its own! - S.: A Novel - J.J. Abrams [Out October 29, 2013, Mulholland Books]
Mulholland Books describes S. to be"a literary event, and is truly a love letter to the printed word.” Wow, we're already hooked! They describe the upcoming novel on their website "S., conceived of and developed by Abrams and written by award-winning author Doug Dorst, is Abrams’s first foray into publishing and will be released by Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company on October 29, 2013. At the core of this multilayered literary puzzle of love and adventure is a book of mysterious provenance. In the margins, another tale unfolds—through the hand-scribbled notes, questions, and confrontations of two readers. Between the pages, online, and in the real world, you’ll find evidence of their interaction, ephemera that bring this tale vividly to life." 1/3 of JEM is a total Lost nerd and we can't wait to get our hands on a copy of S.!
A list of books recommended by our faithful blog followers!
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