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All of these books get 5 stars from me!

Historical Fiction:

The Nightengale By Kristin Hannah

Only the Beautiful By Susan Meissner

The Women By Kristin Hannah

The Diamond Eye By Kate Quinn

The Book of Lost Names By Kristin Harmel

Refugee By Alan Gratz

The Great Alone By Kristin Hannah

The Things We Cannot Say By Kelly Rimmer

American Dirt By Jeanine Cummins

The German Wife By Kelly Rimmer

The Secret Life of Violet Grant By Beatriz Williams

Becoming Mrs. Lewis By Patti Callahan Henry

Romance:

Is She Really Going Out With Him? By Sophie Cousens

The Bodyguard By Katherine Center

Thank You for Listening By Julia Whelan

Every Summer After By Carley Fortune

The Royal We By Heather Cocks

Fiction:

I Hope this Finds You Well By Natalie Sue

Good Dirt By Charmaine Wilkerson

Tom Lake By Ann Patchett

Hello Beautiful By Ann Napolitano

Lessons in Chemistry By Bonnie Garmus

Black Cake By Charmaine Wilkerson

Remarkably Bright Creatures By Shelby Van Pelt

Firefly Lane By Kristin Hannah

Night Road By Kristin Hannah

Castle of Water By Dane Huckelbridge

In Five Years By Rebecca Serle

Under the Southern Sky By Kristy Woodson Harvey

Carrie Soto Is Back By Taylor Jenkins Reid

Memoirs:

The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels By Ree Drummond

Greenlights By Matthew McConaughey

Counting the Cost By Jill Duggar

Educated: A Memoir By Tara Westover

All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir By Beth Moore

Becoming By Michelle Obama

Everything Sad is Untrue By Daniel Nayeri

Thrillers:

56 Days By Catherine Ryan Howard

The God of the Woods By Liz Moore

First Lie Wins By Ashley Elston

The Younger Wife By Sally Hepworth

The Family Next Door By Sally Hepworth

The Mother-In-Law By Sally Hepworth

The Good Sister By Sally Hepworth

The Last Thing He Told Me By Laura Dave

Nonfiction/Health/Self Improvement

Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again By Jancee Dunn

Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging By Cynthia Thurlow

Stand All the Way Up: Stories of Staying In It When You Want to Burn it All Down By Sophie Hudson

Nonfiction/Racism/Civil Rights:

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness By Austin Channing Brown

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Robin Diangelo

Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism By Drew G.I. Hart

The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism By Jemar Tisby

Nonfiction/Parenting:

Raising Worry-Free Girls: Helping Your Daughter Feel Braver, Stronger, and Smarter In an Anxious World By Sissy Goff

Raising Grateful Kinds in an Entitled World: How One Family Learned That Saying No Can Lead to Life's Biggest Yes By Kristen Welch

Nonfiction/Religion:

Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church By Rachel Held Evans

Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry By Beth Allison Barr

I've Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having it Out with God By Erin Hicks Moon

Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor By Caleb E Campbell

Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America By Russell D Moore

The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church By Gregory A Boyd

The Strength You Need: The Twelve Great Strength Passages of the Bible By Robert J Morgan

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered By Lysa TerKeurst

Nonfiction/Other:

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement By Sharon McMahon

When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough: A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence By Taylor S Schumann

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg By Irin Carmon

Books in a Series:

The Nantucket Series By Elin Hilderbrand (Fiction)

The Winter Street Series By Elin Hilderbrand (Fiction)

The Fourth Wing Series By Rebecca Yarros (Fantasy)

The Peachtree Bluff Series By Kristy Woodson Harvey (Fiction)

Holiday Books:

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year By Ally Carter

Seven Days of Us By Francesca Hornak

Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe By Melissa De La Cruz

The Twelve Dates of Christmas By Jenny Bayliss

This Time Next Year By Sophie Cousens

In a Holidaze By Christina Lauren

The Matzah Ball By Jean Meltzer

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe By Jenny Bayliss

Five Must-Reads offers insightful book recommendations that have transformed my reading experience. Highly recommended!

Emily R.

★★★★★