Recs if you like The Giver of Stars...

Books don't just sit on shelves and these novels show it. Each one is its own love letter to the importance of stories in every corner of human life, built on the belief that the right book, in the right hands, at the right moment, can change the entire shape of a life. (Always taking recommendations!)

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

A list of audiobooks narrated by Julia Whelan who does great work and whose delivery scratches my brain in just the right way. For anyone who enjoys her narration and wants to know if they should go for the audiobook version!

Each month Reese Witherspoon picks books she loves with a woman at the center of the story.

reese's complete picks- trying to read as many of these as i can... but we shall see

Goodreads 80 of the Past Decade’s Very Popular Fiction from 2016 - 2025

2025 Broken Country - Isola 2024 The Women - Real Americans 2023 Tom Lake - Weyward 2022 Demon Copperhead - Diamond Eye 2021 Reading List - Cloud Cuckoo Land 2020 My Dark Vanessa - Vanishing Half 2019 Giver of Stars - Girl, Woman, Other 2018 Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Where the Crawdads Sing 2017 Stay with Me - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2016 Lilac Girls - Behold the Dreamers

Calling all Samantha, Josefina, Addy, Kit, Felicity, and Molly girls! If you loved reading American Girl books when you were younger, these books are for you! Historical Fiction centered on a woman's POV

50 books - ones set in each state of America. I have put them in order alphabetically by state (not sure if it will change once created)

Reread worthy. 5 stars. Unputdownable. A list of my absolute favorite books ever. All for various reasons but the stories at the time resonated with me deeply. Some of the books might be controversial and not for everyone.

A collection of stories where books, manuscripts, texts, diaries, letters, and other written works become central to the story—revealing secrets, deepening mysteries, connecting characters, or changing the course of their lives. For readers who love stories where the written word is more than just words on a page. 📖✨

Here are some books all about books, librarians, and libraries! Some books just happen to take place in a library or have librarian characters involved.

If your childhood bookshelf was stocked with Marguerite Henry, Heartland, and the Saddle Club then these recommendations are for you!

I am not able to forget these books. Read once and they become embroidered memories.

"And all at once, the ink bleeds, a con man sells a fool a get-love-quick scheme. But I felt a hole like this never before, and ever since."

Fiction and nonfiction that explores the complex landscape of the US across history and in the now. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

by reese witherspoon

*not including YA picks

Historical Fiction

Collection of books read with my local book club. Very eclectic variety of books all picked by various people.

Books read in Booksnest (Beth's) Patreon bookclub. She's an incredible booktuber/bookstagrammer who always has good recs!