Summer Reading List for Moms
By Rachel Hoeing with Triad Moms on Main
Who’s ready to dive into a great book this summer? We’ve asked local moms for their top picks for summer reads and have come up with a terrific list for 2014. Feel free to share this list and also add some of your own recommendations in the comment section.
For each book that was suggested, I asked the mom if she would classify it as a deep read (think intellectual, emotional, or difficult to digest), a light read (think lighter subject matter, quick reading etc.) or somewhere in the middle. Classifying these books can be very subjective, and I even had one book that was recommended for three different categories by three different people! Therefore, don’t take it too “literally,” just think of it as somewhat of a guideline, depending on what type of book you might be in the mood to read.
Dive right in …
Deep Reads
~ What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
~ The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
~ Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
~ The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
~ Still Alice by Lisa Genova
~ Sugar by Bernice McFadden
~ Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
~ The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
~ The Lost Husband by Katherine Center
~ A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
~ The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance by Catherine Ryan Hyde
~ The Dry Grass Of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
~ 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
~ Lookaway, Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt
~ Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
~ The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
~ The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
~ House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
~ The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
~ The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Light Reads
~ Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
~ The House on Tradd Street, The Girl on Legare Street, The Strangers on Montagu Street, and Return to Tradd Street – all by Karen White
~ The House at Riverton, The Shifting Fog, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours andThe Secret Keeper – all by Kate Morton
~ Ladies Night by Mary Kay Andrews
~ Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews
~ Bossypants by Tina Fey
~ The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
~ Any of the books by Janet Evanovich
~ Any of the books by Harlan Coben
Reads That Are Somewhere In The Middle
~ Carry On Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed by Glennon Doyle Melton
~ Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts On Faith by Anne Lamott
~ Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
~ A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Journey by W. Bruce Cameron (for dog lovers!)
~ I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections By Nora Ephron
~ The Passage by Justin Cronin
~ Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
~ The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
~ The Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth
~ Serena by Ron Rash
~ Defending Jacob by William Landay
~ Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
~ Wild by Cheryl Strayed
~ The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Rachel Hoeing is the Co-Founder of Triad Moms on Main, an online magazine, serving Winston, High Point & Greensboro, NC. It’s filled with daily articles that range from “fun and free” to informational. This post was originally published on TriadMomsonMain.com. Reprinted with permission.
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