So many of my faves have been mentioned!
Bel canto
The things they carried
Olive kitteridge
I know this much is true
A thousand splendid suns
The blue sword
Animal dreams
Harry Potter

Also love love love
The Three Junes by Julia Glass
The Life of Pi
Angela’s Ashes
Divine secrets of the Yaya sisterhood
Bridget Jones’ Diary
Circe by Madeline Miller
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Book Thief

Volo's Guide to Waterdeep

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate the non-classics on this list. I know many of the classics are excellent, however we know of them already.

Agree, I’m over classics being listed, but at least no one responded with “the Bible”.

I am much more interested in hearing about modern favorites that may have flown under my radar in the past two decades of mothering.

I also enjoyed the few childhood favorites thrown in.

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Cutting for Stone

I read both while in the Peace Corps....when it rained, the whole community shut down. I stayed in my house and ready for days and days. It was glorious!

Anonymous wrote:The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
The Brothers K - David James Duncan
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner

Stegner’s All the Little Live Things is my favorite book of all time.

I appreciate the non-classics on this list. I know many of the classics are excellent, however we know of them already.

Anonymous wrote:I love any books by Ron Chernow: Hamilton, Washington and Grant. Eric Larson In the Garden of Beasts, The splendid and the vile, Truman David McCullough. Walter Isaacson Benjamin Franklin

For fiction Lois Lowry the Giver and Son the sequel. Also love Pillars of the Earth and other books writen by him..cant remember his name right now!

Ken Follett. His books are terrific.

So many great books on this list........a few I love that are not on here:

The Moonstone & The Woman in White- Wilkie Collins
East of Eden- Love Steinbeck. This is my favorite
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
We Were the Mulvaneys- Joyce Carol Oates
Anything by John Fowles
Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
American Pastoral - Phillip Roth
All the Rabbit books - John Updike

The Barsetshire novels by Anthony Trollope.

I love any books by Ron Chernow: Hamilton, Washington and Grant. Eric Larson In the Garden of Beasts, The splendid and the vile, Truman David McCullough. Walter Isaacson Benjamin Franklin

For fiction Lois Lowry the Giver and Son the sequel. Also love Pillars of the Earth and other books writen by him..cant remember his name right now!

Anonymous wrote:Anything by Steinbeck, especially "The Grapes of Wrath".

+1 unsurpassed genius was Steinbeck

Homegoing by Yaa Gyaasi
What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang

Anonymous wrote:Anna Karenina by Tolstoy.

+1 yes!

Loved the Time Travelers Wife and was soo disappointed when my mom didn't like it after I made her read it.

Man's Search For Meaning changed my life.

Outlander was the first series where I really, truly cared about the characters.

OP: thanks for the thread. So nice to see all the books mentioned here. So many great goods. Here are some I can remember right now:

The moon and sixpence
The age of innocence
Tender is the night
A room of one's own (such great prose)
The English patient
The sheltering sky
Beloved


Also Loved The House of the spirits, Like water for Chocolate, Love in the time of Cholera.