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5 Star Reads: Books that are Worth your Time
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items I love to read, but not all books live up to the hype. This list is a compilation I've rated a solid 5 stars. These memorable stories have left a mark on my soul. Hope you enjoy them as well.
Sections
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Historical Fiction
Fiction
YA Fiction
Memoir
Historical Fiction
Set in the 1960's, Elizabeth Zott is a quirky, Californian chemist whose becomes famous for being hired to host a TV cooking show.
Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel by Garmus, Bonnie
My favorite book of all time. Set in 1939 France. Vianne Mauriac's home is taken over by a German captain during wartime. She makes unthinkable decisions to save her family.
The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
A beautiful and haunting coming of age story of Kya Clark, who abandoned by her parents and left to fend for herself at a young age. She is a wild child, but did she commit murder?
Where the Crawdads Sing: Delia Owens
“You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.” The story of identical twin sisters, who as adults chose to live in very different worlds.
The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett
Follow the life of Frankie and she chooses to serve as a nurse in the Vietnam War and navigates her life after serving. This book was at times hard to read due to its graphic content, but was one I didn't want to end. Frankie stayed with me long af...
Kristin Hannah
Fiction
A.J. Fikry, the owner of Island Books, is slowly starting to isolate himself from the people around him until he receives a package that changes his life.
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel - Books
If a person cannot leave a mark, do they exist?
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: Schwab, V. E.
A story about life, love, and memories that are bound within the objects we keep.
The Keeper of Lost Things: A Novel by Hogan, Ruth
The beautiful story of Lenni aged 17, and Margot aged 83, both terminal patients whose life experiences & stories combined allow them to “live” to the age of 100.
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot: Novel
Ruth Jefferson, a L&D nurse at a CT hospital gets reassigned to another patient after the first was born to white supremacist parents. When the baby starts to code and she is the only one around, she steps in, but then is charged with a serious crime.
Small Great Things: A Novel by Picoult, Jodi
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YA Fiction
16 year old Starr Carter witnesses the fatal shooting of her best friend. Caught between the world in which she grew up, and the fancy boarding school she attends, she is the only person who knows what really happened that night.
The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner
“This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently.”
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle
Memoir
Tara Westover was born in the mountains of Idaho, born to survivalists. There was no one making sure the children of her family went to school, so she became to educate herself.
Educated: A Memoir by Westover, Tara
“What makes a life worth living?” This is a beautiful, heart wrenching, and at times hard to read memoir about a young neurosurgeon with terminal cancer.
When Breath Becomes Air by Kalanithi, Paul