Sometimes the hardest part about reading, is deciding what to read next. But don’t worry, we have books for that too.
Thomas Foster’s Twenty-Five Books that Shaped America is a great starting place if you are trying to reread (or read for the first time) the American Classics your high school English teacher raved about. Each of the twenty-five books has its own chapter, arranged in chronological order, beginning with The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and continuing through My Antonia and To Kill a Mockingbird. Each chapter gives a summary of the book, as well as insight into the author. If you want to read yourself through American history, this book is a great guidebook.
Book Lust To Go is a great way to find books for any and all traveling you may do. Compiled alphabetically
by place name, as well as the type of trip, Nancy Pearl makes suggestions on what to read where. So if you don’t know what to read on that Caribbean cruise your mother-in-law booked for the whole family, there’s a chapter for that (See: Cavorting through the Caribbean). My favorite part? The suggestions are both fiction and nonfiction.
If you want a long list of good books that you probably haven’t heard of, but wish you had, Read this Next is perfect. Read this Next is intended as a go-to guide for book clubs–included under each book suggestion is a question guide. The books are arranged by subject, so it is easy to browse. Sandra Newman and Hoard Mittlemark are not book snobs; their suggestions span all genres, from science-fiction to mystery to biography.
Happy Reading!
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