The Book Nerd Checklist...

Is This A Test? Might Be My First 100% In A While!

You've Read The First Chapter Of A Book In A Bookstore…

You've Read The Last Page Of A Book Before Starting It…

You've Fantasized About Being Locked In A Bookstore Or Library Overnight…

You've Told Someone "Sorry, I Already Have Plans" When You Wanted To Get Out Of Something To Go Home And Read Your Book…

You've Launched Into Conversations With Complete Strangers About What They Are Reading…

You've Had Full On Meltdowns At The End Of Certain Books; Sobbing, Screaming, Howling…

You Own Clothing Dedicated To Your Love Of Reading…Maybe More Than One Item…

You Get Twitchy If You Go More Than A Week Without Visiting A Bookstore…

You've Gotten Kinks In Your Neck Trying To See What Strangers Are Reading…

You've Been To A Midnight Release Of A Book…

You Always Have More Than One Book On The Go…

You've Called In Sick To Work Because You Just Wanted To Stay Home And Read…

You're Normally The First Person Someone Goes To For Book Recommendations…

You Read More Than 20 Hours Per Week…

You Cringed At Dog-eared Pages Or Cracked Spines…

You've Stayed Up Past Midnight Reading A Good Book…Or Gotten Up Before Dawn…

You've Read More Than One Book In A Day Before…And Not A Children’s Book…

You Consider Reorganizing Your Extensive Book Collection A Super Fun Time…

You Don't Understand People Who Don’t Read…But Love Them Anyway…

You Have Your Home Library Digitized…

You Are Proud To Be Called A Book Nerd!!

The Hippie Bookshelf...

I Miss The 70’s!

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hippie - Paula Coelho

Drop City - T.C. Boyle

The Ice Storm - Rick Moody

Arcadia - Lauren Groff

Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan

Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon

The Girls - Emma Cline

Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud

Looking For Mr. Goodbar - Judith Rossner

Little Miss Strange - Joanna Rose

The Electric Kool-Aid Kid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

The Drifters - James Michener

Dead Poets Society - N.H. Kleinbaum

I'm With The Band: Confessions Of A Groupie - Pamela Des Barres

Go Ask Alice - Beatice Sparks

The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner

Love Story - Erich Segal

Joyland - Stephen King

In Another's Skin...

A True Story Collection

How We Fight For Our Lives – Saeed Jones

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life – William Finnegan

Girl Decoded – Rana el Kalioulay

Good Morning, Destroyer Of Men’s Souls – Nina Renata Aron

Notes From A Young Black Chef – Kwame Onwuachi

The Yellow House – Sarah M. Brown

In Pursuit Of Disobedient Women – Dianne Searcey

A Good Wife – Samra Zafar

Wild Game – Adrienne Brodeur

Heavy – Kiese Laymon

Empty – Susan Burton

Becoming Dr. Seuss – Brian Jay Jones

The Heart And Other Monsters – Rose Anderson

Once More We Saw Stars – Jayson Greene

Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance

Inheritance – Dani Shapiro

Another Bullshit Night In Suck City – Nick Flynn

Girl Walks Out Of A Bar – Lisa Smith

The Liars Club – Mary Karr

Born A Crime – Trevor Noah

Becoming – Michelle Obama

Wild – Cheryl Strayed

The Professor & The Madman – Simon Winchester

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot

A House In The Sky – Amanda Lindhout

Hunger – Roxanne Gay

Drinking: A Love Story – Caroline Knapp

Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs

Just Kids – Patti Smith

The Year Of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion

The Rules Do Not Apply – Ariel Levy

Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal – Jeanette Winterson

Thick – Tressie McMillian – Essays

The Shapeless Unease – Samantha Harvey – Diary…of sorts

I’m Telling The Truth, But I’m Lying – Bassey Ikpi – Essays

This Is One Way To Dance – Sejal Shah - Essays

Between The World & Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates - Letters

Good Talk – Mira Jacolo – Graphic Art

Hold Still – Sally Mann - Photos

So Sad Today – Melissa Broader – Essays

Buffering – Hannah Hart – Essays & Oddities

Pride...

A Celebration Of Stories!

Girl, Woman, Other - Bernandine Evaristo (Fiction)

If I Was Your Girl - Meredith Russo (Fiction)

On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Voung (Fiction)

Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman (Fiction)

We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib (Memoir)

Prettiest Star - Carson Sickels (Fiction)

High School - Sara Quin & Tegan Quinn (Memoir)

I'm Afraid Of Men - Vivek Shraya (Memoir)

Like A Love Story - Abdi Nazemian (YA Fiction)

Here For It - R. Eric Thomas (Memoir)

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Fiction)

The Fifth Season - N.K Jemisin (Fiction)

Fierce Femmes & Notorious Liars - Kai Cheng Thom (Memoir)

House Of Impossible Beauties - Joesph Cassara (Fiction)

Long Live The Tribe Of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden (Memoir)

Not My Fathers Son - Alan Cumming (Memoir)

Aristotle & Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe - Benjamin Aire Saenz (Fiction)

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson (Fiction)

Tranny - Laura Jane Grace (Memoir)

Pasty - Nicole Dennis-Benn (Fiction)

Real Life - Brandon Taylor (Fiction)

Unicorn - Amrou Al-Kadhi (Memoir)

Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan (Fiction)

FOLD...Asian Voices

Celebrate The Festival Of Literary Diversity…Asian Voices

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa (Fiction)

The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu (Fiction)

A Tale For The Time Being - Ruth Ozeki (Fiction)

How To Pronounce Knife - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Fiction)

The Measure Of My Powers - Jackie Kai Ellis (Memoir)

One Day We'll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter - Scaachi Koul (Memoir)

The Reality Bubble - Ziya Tong (Non-Fiction)

Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related - Jenny Hejiun Willis (Memoir)

Inferno - Catherine Cho (Fiction)

Djiin Patrol On The Purple Line - Deepa Annapara (Fiction)

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee (Fiction)

Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao (Fiction)

Marriage Of A Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu (Fiction)

The Book Of M - Penn Sheperd (Fiction)

Permanent Record - Mary HK Choi (Fiction)

Laughter Is The Best Medicine...

Fun & Funny Reads!

We Are Never Meeting In Real Life – Samantha Irby (Essays)

John Dies At The End – David Wong (Fiction)

Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl – Issa Rae (Memoir)

How To Weep In Public – Jacqueline Novak (Memoir)

My Year Of Rest And Relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh (Fiction)

Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris (Essays)

New Waves – Kevin Nguyen (Fiction)

Bad Monkeys – Matt Ruff (Fiction)

Pretend I’m Dead – Jen Beagin (Fiction)

I Was Told There’d Be Cake – Sloane Crosley (Essays)

You’ll Grow Out Of It – Jessi Klein (Fiction)

Shrill – Lindy West (Memoir)

Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem (Fiction)

Crooked Little Vein – Warren Ellis (Fiction)

Basket Case – Carl Hiaasen (Fiction)

High Fidelity – Nick Hornby (Fiction)

Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Fiction)

How I Became A Famous Novelist – Steve Hely (Fiction)

How Not To Die Alone – Richard Roper (Fiction)

Gil’s All Fright Diner – A. Lee Martinez (Fiction)

Nothing To See Here – Kevin Wilson (Fiction)

The Gunseller – Hugh Laurie (Fiction)

Dear Committee Members – Julie Schumacher (Letters)

The Princess Bride – William Goldman (Fiction)

The Martian – Andy Weir (Fiction)

Mostly Dead Things – Kristin Arnett (Fiction)

Why Mummy Drinks – Gill Sims (Fiction)

Postcards From The Edge – Carrie Fisher (Fiction)

Born A Crime – Trevor Noah (Memoir)

Self-Inflicted Wounds – Aisha Taylor (Memoir)

Bossypants – Tina Fey (Memoir)

Wishful Drinking – Carrie Fisher (Memoir)

Dear Girls – Ali Wong (Memoir)

I Don’t Know What You Know Me From – Judy Greer (Memoir)

Sh*t My Dad Says – Justin Halpern (Memoir)

Gross Anatomy – Mara Altman (Non-Fiction)

Big Activity Book For Anxious People – Jordan Reid (Non-Fiction)

Yes Please – Amy Poehler (Memoir)

I Can’t Make This Up – Kevin Hart (Memoir)

A Polaroid Guy In A Snapchat World – David Spade (Memoir)

Life Will Be The Death Of Me – Chelsea Handler (Memoir)

How To Be A Bawse – Lilly Singh (Memoir)

FOLD...Marginalized Poets

Celebrate The Festival Of Literary Diversity…Marginalized Poets

Milke and Honey - Rupi Kaur (Poetry)

This Wound Is A World - Billy-Ray Belacourt (Poetry)

This Accident Of Being Lost - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Poetry)

A Fortune For Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib (Poetry)

Mind Platter - Najwa Zebian (Reflections)

All Along You Were Blooming - Morgan Harper Nichols (Affirmations)

Shame Is An Ocean I Swim Across - Mary Lambert (Poetry)

Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds (Story)

Voodoo Hypothesis - Canisia Lubrin (Poetry)

FOLD...Voices Of 2020

Celebrate The Festival Of Literary Diversity…Voices Of 2020

Bunny - Mona Awad (Fiction)

My Summer Of Love & Misfortune - Lindsay Wong (Fiction)

It All Falls Down - Sheena Kamal (Fiction)

There's Something About Sweetie - Sandhya Menon (Fiction)

Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related - Jenny Hijun Wills (Memoir)

The Stone Thrower - Jael Ealey Richardson (Memoir)

We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib (Memoir)

An Ocean Of Minutes - Thea Lim (Fiction)

Disfigured: On Fairytales, Disability & Making Space - Amanda Leduc (Memoir)

FOLD...Indigenous Voices

Celebrate The Festival Of Literary Diversity…Indigenous Voices & Stories

From The Ashes - Jessie Thistle (Memoir)

Empire Of The Wild - Cherie Dimaline (Fiction)

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq (Fiction/Memoir)

Moon Of The Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice (Fiction)

Son Of A Trickster - Eden Robinson (Fiction)

Starlight - Richard Wagamese (Fiction)

Trail Of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse (Fiction)

There There - Tommy Orange (Fiction)

The Break - Katherena Vermette (Fiction)

The Round House - Louise Erdrich (Fiction)

Heart Berries -Terese Marie Mailhot (Memoir)

They Called Me Number One - Bev Sellars (Memoir)

Seven Fallen Feathers - Tanya Talaga (Non-Fiction)

Indian Horse - Richard Wagamese (Fiction)

An Inconvenient Indian - Thomas King (Non-Fiction)

Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth (Teen Fiction)

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer (Essays)

This Place: 150 Years Retold - Various (Compilation)

Shadows Cast By Stars - Catherin Knutsson (Fiction)

The Orenda - Joseph Boyden (Fiction)

FOLD...Caribbean Voices

Celebrate The Festival Of Literary Diversity…Caribbean Voices & Stories

I've Been Meaning To Tell You - David Chariandy (Memoir)

Reproduction - Ian Williams (Fiction)

Frying Plantain - Zalika Reid-Benta (Fiction)

The Other Side Of Paradise - Staceyann Chin (Memoir)

A Brief History Of Seven Killings - Marlon James (Fiction)

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (Fiction)

The Measure Of A Man - Sidney Poitier (Memoir)

Land Of Love And Drowning - Tiphanie Yanique (Fiction)

Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid (Fiction)

Almost A Woman - Esmeralda Santiago (Memoir)

Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat (Fiction)

In The Time Of Butterfiles - Julia Alvarez (Fiction)

The Polished Toe - Austin Clarke (Fiction)

Patsy - Nicole Dennis-Benn (Fiction)

Dealing In Dreams - Lilliam Rivera (Fiction)

Unassigned Reading...

Compiled For Tweens & Teens!

The Between – David Hofmeyr – Teen – 14+

Tarnished Are The Stars – Rosiee Thor – Teen – 14+

Who Put This Song On – Morgan Parker – Teen – 16+

The Unwilling – Kelly Braffet – Teen – 16+

City Spies – James Ponti – Tween – 10+

The Bitter Side Of Sweet – Tara Sullivan – Tween – 10+

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie – Jordan Sonnenbick – Tween – 10+

A Song Only I Can Hear – Barry Jonsberg – Tween – 10+

Counting By 7’s – Holly Goldberg Sloan – Tween – 10+

The Unteachables – Gordon Korman – Tween – 8+

The Mighty Odds – Amy Ignatow – Tween – 10+

Miscalculations Of Lightning Girl – Stacy McAnulty – Tween – 8+

Mostly The Honest Truth – Jody Little – Tween – 9+

The Past & Other Things That Should Stay Buried – Shawn David Hutchinson – Teen – 14+

Layoverland – Gabby Noone – Teen – 13+

Say Her Name – Zetta Elliot – Teen – 14+

Feminist Agenda Of Jemima Kincaid – Kate Hattener – Teen – 13+

Monstress – Marjorie M. Liu – Teen – 15+

Eight Will Fall – Sarah Harian – Teen – 14+

Front Desk – Kelly Yang – Tween – 8+

Restart – Gordon Korman – Inbetween – 9+

The Burning – Laura Bates – Teen – 14+

Silence Of Bones – June Hur – Teen – 14+

Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo – Teen – 13+

The Disasters – M.K. England – Teen – 14+

The Secret Runners – Matthew Reilly – Teen – 14+

Amal Unbound – Aisha Saeed – Tween – 10+

Nevermoor: Trails of Morrigan Crow – Jessica Townsend – Tween – 9+

Sweet Pea – Julie Murphy – Tween – 8+

Infinity Son – Adam Silvera – Teen – 14+

Most Likely – Sarah Watson – Teen – 14+

Slay – Brittany Morris – Teen – 14+

Girl Gone Viral – Arvin Ahmadi – Teen – 12+

The Binding – Bridget Collins – Teen – 14+

Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library – Chris Grabenstern – Tween – 8+

Nightbooks – J.A. White – Tween – 9+

Solo – Kwame Alexander – Teen – 12+

Library Of Lost Things – Laura Taylor – Teen – 12+

Quintessence – Jess Redman – Tween – 10+

New Kid – Jerry Craft – Tween – 8+

Speechless – Adam P. Schmitt – Tween – 10+

Roller Girl – Victoria Jameison – Tween – 8+

More Than Maybe – Erin Hahn – Teen – 12+

Good Enough – Paula Yoo – Teen – 12+

We Set The Dark On Fire – Tehor Kay Meiga – Teen – 14+

First Rule Of Punk – Celia C. Perez – Tween – 8+

Nightlights – Lorena Alvarez – Tween – 8+

The Secret Series Complete Collection – Pseudonymous Bosch – Tween – 9+

That Time I Got Kidnapped – Tom Mitchell – Tween – 11+

99 Books To Read Before...You Know...

99 Of Donna’s Fav Books For Your TBR List

*if you don’t know what TBR means you’ve possibly taken a wrong turn…

1. The Stand – Stephen King

2. Harry Potter Series – J. K. Rowling

3. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

4. Dracula – Bram Stoker

5. Lord of The Rings Trilogy – J. R. R. Tolkien

6. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

7. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

8. The Secret History – Donna Tartt

9. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

10. Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

11. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

12. Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem

13. Red Rising Series – Pierce Brown

14. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami

15. The Martian – Andy Weir

16. Bad Monkey/Sick Puppy – Carl Hiaasen

17. Heart Shaped Box – Joe Hill

18. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

19. This Story Is A Lie – Tom Pollock

20. I Am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes

21. The Shining/Doctor Sleep – Stephen King

22. Harriet The Spy – Louise Fitzhugh

23. The Eight – Katherine Neville

24. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

25. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

26. American Gods – Neil Gaiman

27. Silence of The Lambs – Thomas Harris

28. Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein

29. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy) – Stieg Larsson

30. A Simple Plan – Scott Smith

31. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

32. Winter’s Bone – Daniel Woodrell

33. Mystic River – Dennis Lehane

34. Little Brother – Cory Doctorow

35. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

36. The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt

37. The 25thHour – David Benioff

38. Go Ask Alice – Anonymous

39. Bird Box –Josh Malerman

40. The Road –Cormac McCarthy

41. Murder of Roger Ackroyd/Crooked House – Agatha Christie

42. Princess Bride – William Goldman

43. Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Brothers Grimm

44. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer

45. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

46. Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid

47. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

48. A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan

49. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

50. In the Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

51. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

52. High Fidelity – Nick Hornby

53. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen

54. Postcards from the Edge – Carrie Fisher

55. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

56. Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

57. The Borrowers – Mary Norton

58. Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer

59. Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri

60. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt

61. The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next Series) – Jasper Fforde

62. The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah

63. Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman

64. The Stinky Cheese Man – Jon Scieszka

65. The Killing Circle – Andrew Pyper

66. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl – Jesse Andrews

67. White Teeth – Zadie Smith

68. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett

69. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

70. Lamb: Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal – Christopher Moore

71. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

72. English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

73. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

74. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova

75. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – Edward Albee

76. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk

77. Ordinary People – Judith Guest

78. Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin

79. The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton

80. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! – Dr. Seuss

81. Heartburn – Nora Ephron

82. Clockers –Richard Price

83. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke

84. Swamplandia! – Karen Russell

85. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

86. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

87. Larry’s Party – Carol Shields

88. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green

89. Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng

90. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

91. Franny & Zooey – J. D. Salinger

92. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut

93. This Is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper

94. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult

95. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

96. The Giant’s House – Elizabeth McCracken

97. Smila’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg

98. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Leguin

99. Carry On, Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse

 

For A Grade 3(ish) Girl Destined To Be A Rebel

10 Books For Sassy Girls!

1.   Harriet The Spy - Louis Fitzhugh

2.   Serafina & The Black Cloak - Robert Beatty

3.    Secret Sisters Series - Lynne Rae Perkins

4.    The Borrowers - Mary Norton

5.    Holes - Louise Sachar

6.    House With A Clock In It's Walls - John Bellairs

7.    Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine

8.    Flush - Carl Hiaasen

9.    Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart*

10.    Princess Bride - William Goldman*

*parental guidance might be required

 

For A Grade 5(ish) Boy With A Huge & Wonderful Imagination

10 Books For Imaginative Boys!

1.   The Outsiders - S.E Hinton

2.   Evil Genius - Catherine Jinks

3.    Otherworld - Jason Segel*

4.    Endgame - James Frey*

5.    Gunslinger: Dark Tower - Stephen King*

6.    Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime - Mark Haddon*

7.    The Book Thief - Markus Zusak*

8.    For The Win - Cory Doctorow*

9.    Feed - M.T. Titus*

10.    Book Of Lost Things - John Connolly

*parental guidance might be required

 

10 Wickedly Fun Thrillers

10 Wickedly Fun Thrillers

1.   I’ll Find You In The Dark – Nathan Ripley

2.   Women In The Window – AJ Finn

3.    Unravelling Oliver – Liz Nugent

4.    I Let You Go – Claire MacIntosh

5.    Always Watching – Chevy Stevens

6.    Pretty Girls – Karin Slaughter

7.    Lying Game – Ruth Ware

8.    Don’t Let Go – Harlan Coben

9.    Little Deaths – Emma Flint

10.    Behind Closed Doors – B.A. Paris