The number of recommendations here grows as book lovers in our community respond to the Cardie Reading List issues of the Cardie Newsletter published each winter and summer. To suggest a book, email [email protected]. A book’s appearance on this list should not be considered a Cardthartic endorsement as our staff members have not (yet!) read them all; we have no affiliation with the books’ authors or their publishers. To read a book’s synopsis, click on its title and you’ll be directed to Good Reads, which we consider an authoritative source. Happy reading!
A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman
A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself by Katherine Howe
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
An Apothecary of Art to Soothe Your Soul by Ravenous Butterflies
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate Dicamillo
The Beauty of What Remains by Steven Leder
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Can You Hear the Trees Talking by Peter Wohlleben
Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul – 101 Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Women by Jack Canfield
The Clover Girls by Viola Shipman
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
Educated by Tara Westover
Eli’s Promise by Ronald H. Balson
The Exceptions by Kate Zernike
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve
From Anna by Jean Little
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora
Immigrant Transformed by Ammini Moorthy, PHD
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck
Lilac Girls! by Martha Hall Kelly
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
October, October by Katya Balen
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Libbie Hawker
The Operator by Gretchen Berg
Our Italian Summer by Jennifer Probst
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
The Paris Wife by Paula McClain
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Pierced by the Sun by Laura Esquivel
Plantation: A Lowcountry Tale by Dorothea Benton Frank
Pony Express Christmas by Sigmund Brouwer
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Push by Audrey Audrain
The Questions That Matter Most by Jane Smiley
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
Reacher by Lee Child
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
The Royal Governess by Wendy Holden
Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character by Admiral James Stavridis
The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe
The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
Successful Aging by Daniel Levitin
The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
True Biz by Sara Novic
True Colors by Kristen Hannah
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
War in Val d’Orcia by Iris Oriego
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
We Came, We Saw, We Left by Charles Wheelan
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
The number of recommendations here grows as book lovers in our community respond to the Cardie Reading List issues of the Cardie Newsletter published each winter and summer. To suggest a book, email [email protected]. A book’s appearance on this list should not be considered a Cardthartic endorsement as our staff members have not (yet!) read them all; we have no affiliation with the books’ authors or their publishers. To read a book’s synopsis, click on its title and you’ll be directed to Good Reads, which we consider an authoritative source. Happy reading!
A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman
A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself by Katherine Howe
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
An Apothecary of Art to Soothe Your Soul by Ravenous Butterflies
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate Dicamillo
The Beauty of What Remains by Steven Leder
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Can You Hear the Trees Talking by Peter Wohlleben
Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul – 101 Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Women by Jack Canfield
The Clover Girls by Viola Shipman
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
Educated by Tara Westover
Eli’s Promise by Ronald H. Balson
The Exceptions by Kate Zernike
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve
From Anna by Jean Little
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora
Immigrant Transformed by Ammini Moorthy, PHD
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck
Lilac Girls! by Martha Hall Kelly
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
October, October by Katya Balen
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Libbie Hawker
The Operator by Gretchen Berg
Our Italian Summer by Jennifer Probst
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
The Paris Wife by Paula McClain
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Pierced by the Sun by Laura Esquivel
Plantation: A Lowcountry Tale by Dorothea Benton Frank
Pony Express Christmas by Sigmund Brouwer
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Push by Audrey Audrain
The Questions That Matter Most by Jane Smiley
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
Reacher by Lee Child
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
The Royal Governess by Wendy Holden
Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character by Admiral James Stavridis
The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe
The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
Successful Aging by Daniel Levitin
The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
True Biz by Sara Novic
True Colors by Kristen Hannah
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
War in Val d’Orcia by Iris Oriego
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
We Came, We Saw, We Left by Charles Wheelan
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith