These are the books that were discussed today at our Book Lovers Swap at the Brook Hollow Library:
Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) – 26th Eve Dallas mystery
Blind Man’s Bluff by Faye Kellerman – 18th Decker/Lazarus mystery
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Hormone Factory: A Novel by Saskia Goldschmidt
The Harvest Man (Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad) by Alex Grecian – 4th in the series
I Still Dream About You by Fanny Flagg
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny – 6th Chief Insp. Armand Gamache mystery
For the King by Catherine Delors
The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko
Midnight’s Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
The Microbiome Diet: The Scientifically Proven Way to Restore Your Gut Health and Achieve Permanent Weight Loss by Raphael Kellman, MD
The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Rev
eals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer by Gretchen Reynolds
What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul by Deepak Chopra
A Murder is Announced: A Miss Marble Mystery by Agatha Christie
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock by Lucy Worsley
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Nemesis: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel by Lindsey Davis – 20th in the series
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie
Divergent by Veronica Roth – first in the series
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power by Bill Schley
Success at Life: How to Catch and Live Your Dream: A Zentrepreneur’s Guide by Stuart Avery Gold and Ron Rubin
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (3rd in the Millennium Trilogy) by Stieg Larsson
Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
The Hope We Seek: A Novel by Rick Shapiro
Barefoot: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Help for the Haunted: A Novel (P.S.) by John Searles
Flight Behavior: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Book 1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Lucia Graves
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Practice to Deceive by Ann Rule
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
(Bite me)
I May Not Be Totally Perfect, but Parts of Me Are Excellent by Ashleigh Brilliant
Clouds of Witness (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Yellow Birds: A Novel by Kevin Powers
The Invention of Wings: A Novel by Sue Monk Kidd
Remarkable Creatures: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier
Rachel’s Folly by Monica Bruno
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General by Bill O’Reilly
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges (The book that inspired the film “The Imitation Game”)
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
The Black Cat: A Richard Jury Mystery (#22) by Martha Grimes
Mental Floss presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History’s Naughtiest Bits
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt
The Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt
St. Burl’s Obituary by Daniel Akst
The Mystery of the Hidden Room by Marion Harvey
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Navigating the Tides of Change: Stories from Science, the Sacred, and a Wise Planet by David La Chapelle
The Sun magazine
I’ll Never Bother You Again, a short story by Heather Sellers
Apartment 5, a short story by Kelly Grey Carlisle
Have you found any from this list that you especially liked? What is on your to-be-read list?