Good Books

Poetry

  • Ballistics by Billy Collins
  • Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
  • Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well by Maya Angelou
  • On Speaking Terms by Connie Wanek
  • Night Swim by Joan Kwon Glass
  • The Low Passions and Disease of Kings by Anders Carlson-Wee
  • The Tradition by Jericho Brown
  • Oblivescence by Kelly R. Samuels

Adult/other

  • My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  • Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr.
  • Room by Emma Donoghue
  • The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

  • Dune (series) by Frank Herbert
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (series) by Ransom Riggs
  • Artemis Fowl (series) by Eoin Colfer
  • Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

War-related fiction

Classics

  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nonfiction

  • Tweak by Nic Sheff
  • Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham
  • Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession and My Wild Youth by David Gessner
  • Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
  • Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
  • Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
  • Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire

Young Adult/New Adult