Reading Recommendations Posts

I hope you enjoy this Preview of my 18-page printable 2025 Summer Reading Guide. The full guide contains over 60 reading recommendations including books from spring and summer 2025 as well mystery series recommendations, fiction/nonfiction pairings,…

Creating a Summer Reading Guide is one of my favorite bookish things to do every year, and for 2024 I decided to step it up a bit and create a guide with 45 books that people can print and pore over. This year, I have read over 90 titles and sampled…

Creating my Summer Reading Guide is a highlight for me every year, and 2023 is no exception. I have combed through an untold number of titles to find the ones that I really enjoyed and personally recommend, and as always, I have read every book on t…

So many great historical fiction titles are coming out this summer! To help book lovers know which ones to pick up and when, I sorted through them to compile this list of the best ones. Once I read a book, I will update this post with my comments on…

So many great books published in 2022. In this post, I am highlighting my favorite fiction titles of the year. I have already posted about the best historical fiction of 2022 and will be covering the best books in the mystery/thriller genre soon as …

2022 was a stellar year for historical fiction – so many titles in the genre released, and I worked my way through as many as I could. I love that the historical fiction transports me to another time and place, and I had a blast spending time all ov…

I enjoy looking ahead to the next reading season, and the upcoming fiction releases of 2023 look very promising. To help readers decide which ones to pick up and when, I waded through the plethora of titles to create this list of the ones that are m…

2023 is going to be a fabulous year for new historical fiction - an incredibly large number of books are coming out in the genre about widely varied topics and places. To help readers know which ones to pick up and when, I waded through the many, ma…

The second half of 2022 is chock full of new titles in the historical fiction genre. I created this list of the standouts for this time period to help readers narrow down their choices and to help them find the best books in the genre for this year.…

I look forward to making my summer reading list every year. People frequently have more time to read in the summer months, and I get a lot of requests for recommendations during that time period. I have combed through tons of books to find the ones …

Book guru extraordinaire Elizabeth Barnhill recently joined me on my podcast to talk about the books we feel make great book club selections. In this blog post, I list the books that we recommend with brief publisher summaries for each book. To lear…

Book mavens Pamela Klinger-Horn and Mary Webber O’Malley recently joined me on my podcast to talk about their recommended reads for Summer 2022. They both culled through tons of titles to find those that they believe are the best of the summer 2022 …

The historical fiction genre is booming and provides readers with an escape from today's world and a glimpse into a different time period in history. Novels set during World War II remain particularly popular; there are still so many stories to be t…

There is nothing better than picking up a book and not being able to put it down because it is so engrossing. These ten books all grabbed me from the beginning and had me madly turning the pages until I reached the end of the story. I highly recomme…

There are countless mysteries and thrillers publishing in 2022 so I compiled this list of the must-read ones to help readers wade through all of the choices and to help them find the best books in the genre for this year. I have already read some of…

March is Women's History Month, and as a result, this month I am highlighting books about fabulous women. This week I am focusing on historical fiction stories about strong women, both fictional and real.  I put an asterisk by the authors that I ch…

There are so many fabulous books coming out in Spring 2022, and I had a hard time narrowing down my list of the most anticipated and must-read books of this season. After much deliberation, I chose the 27 books that look the best across a variety of…

January through March of 2022 is chock full of great historical fiction titles. I am highlighting my favorites that published in these three months – the ones that I have read and loved. I have interviewed or will be interviewing a number of the aut…

I love Nonfiction November. Over the past few years, I have started reading more and more nonfiction, and I have really come to enjoy it. For this blog post, I am focusing on memoirs that I have read and loved. And as always, please shop local or u…

So many great books are coming out in August. I am excited to highlight both the titles that I am looking forward to and the ones that I have already read. Several are by authors that I have read previously, and others have plots that sound appealin…

I love summer reading lists and had a blast creating this one.  So many great books have published since last summer. I divide the lists into four genres and include some favorite books for the beach, the mountains, or just enjoying a staycation at …

Summer reading lists and year-end “best of” book lists are my two favorite types of book lists. Summer 2021 is just around the corner, and I will be releasing several lists – this one which is my most anticipated summer reads that I have not read ye…

So many great books are coming out in April. I am excited to highlight some of the titles that I am looking forward to, but that I have not read yet. Several are by authors that I have read and enjoyed their previous books, and others have plots tha…

Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres and is probably the one that I read the most.  I love being transported back in time to another place. Here are ten of my all-time favorite titles in the genre that I frequently recommend to people: …