Mainstream: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Last read: Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bounds on Prayer, The Help (because I just can’t choose only 3)ĭidn’t like, but wanted to: Blue Like Jazz Love: Fresh Wind Fresh Fire (Jim Cymbala), Redeeming Love (Francine Rivers), The Complete Works of E.M. I’d never even heard of Amazing Adventures of a Nobody (it’s on my list now!), but the summary made me think immediately of Amanda Palmer’s TED talk, The Art of Asking. Life After Life (by Atkinson, not McCorkle) has an interesting structure, as do several of Holland’s picks. Holland didn’t say this, but I know she likes Rainbow Rowell (cheating!) and Code Name Verity feels like a good YA bet.

(Serious language and racy content warning for Strayed.) I chose I Wear the Black Hat and Tiny Beautiful Things because Holland loved the Sheffield book plus she named Taylor’s nonfiction book as a fave, and Nick Hornby seemed a bit too obvious. I’ll be honest, picking books for Holland totally intimidates me, because she has great taste and we’ve actually shared coffee in real life, AND I haven’t read any of her three loves! I chose Bel Canto because of what it shares with The Sparrow : music plays a key role in an unexpected but successful plot. Last read: Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3 by Marissa Meyer)Įccentric: I Wear the Black Hat, Tiny Beautiful Things Love: The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell), Love is a Mix Tape (Rob Sheffield), Amazing Adventures of a Nobody (Leon Logothetis), My Stroke of Insight (Jill Boyle Taylor). This week we’re choosing books for Holland, Kim, and Ginger. In turn, I’m choosing 1 mainstream pick, 1 eccentric pick, and 1 YA pick for each reader. (Or more, if I can’t help myself.) Readers told me 3 books they loved, 1 book they hated, and what they’re reading right now. The details on this ongoing project, and the factors I’m taking to heart.

Ted talk the art of choosing