The first Book Lover Social Hour was held on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. Below are the recommendations from the 40 participants:

The first Book Lover Social Hour was held on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. Below are the recommendations from the 40 participants: My #1 Recommendation: Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jefferson's Daughters by Catherine Kerrison, When women were dragons, Flowers for Algernon, Man of La Mancha, The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Ordinary grace, Hannah Swensen mysteries by Joanne Fluke, My sister's keeper, American dirt, West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge, Stones from the river by Ursula Hegi, Kite runner by K. Hosseini, The women, Pillars of the earth I read it and would recommend it: If you tell by Gregg Olsen, Night swim by Megan Goldin, Mind of a murderer, The book of lost names by Kristin Harmal I read it and would never recommend it: The Wild, Before the coffee gets cold, Gone with the wind, The memory of animals, The 7 ½ deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Lessons in chemistry, Les Miserables, The Goldfinch, One hundred years of solitude Out of my comfort zone and I loved it: The forbidden notebook, Radium girls, GED - Goedel, Escher, Bach, Equal Rights, What about Otto, Dark matter by Blake Crouch, Cherow Books (biographies), Heaven and earth grocery store, An immense world, The Kite runner, My sister's keeper, Dear Edward by A. Napolitano, In god we trust by Jean Shephard, Library of Legends by Janie Chang, A constellation of vital phenomena This book really surprised me: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Camino by Shirley MacLaine, An Inconvenient truth by Al Gore, The seven husbands of Evelyn by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Warren Buffet (biography), Leading with my nose by Jay Leno, The Reading list, James by Percival Everett, Memoirs of a Geisha, Andy Warhol was a hoarder by Claudia Kalb, Mad honey, Diamond eye, The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry by R. Joyce, The silent patient by Alex Michaelidies, Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by G. Zevin, The fellowship of puzzlemakers by Samuel Barr, Iona Iverson's rules of commuting, Atonement, Count of Monte Cristo, The red tent I have read this book many times: Hawaii, To kill a mockingbird, The Chosen one, Gone with the wind, Jane Eyre, The Giver, The Hatchet, Pride and Prejudice, Where the red fern grows, Robinson Crusoe, Count of Monte Cristo