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