Every year my local library puts on a “Best Books of…” event and I love it! A lot of the books I’ve already heard of, but I always come away with new books on my TBR! Even though I do work here, I wasn’t part of putting on the event or choosing the books–I was able to just attend as a patron, so that was super fun as well. I made my book club come with me too, so hopefully some of these books will make it into our discussions! Keep an eye out for the Young Adult list–I’ll be posting that in a few days as well.
Bolded books are ones that are on my TBR. Italics are ones I’ve read.
- My Girls by Todd Fisher
- The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King
- When Women Ruled the World by Kara Cooney
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jane Sherron De Hart
- Founding Martyr by Christian Di Spigna
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow
- Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery
- Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K White
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
- Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf
- Year of Less by Cait Flanders
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
- Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
- The Gown by Jennifer Robson
- Next Year in Havana by Chenel Cleeton
- Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
- All the Ever Afters by Danielle Teller
- Bearskin by James A McLaughlin
- The Enchanted Hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon
- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
- The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke
- Past Tense by Lee Child
- The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
- The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
- Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
- Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
- The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
- The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner
- French Exit by Patrick deWitt
- The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
- All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
- I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
- Women of the Blue and Gray by Marianne Monson
- Them by Ben Sasse
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- Make Something Good Today by Ben & Erin Napier
Have you read any of these? What adult books would you add to the list?
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