In honor of our 40th birthdays (March 5th for Mia, March 15th for Sarah), we’re sharing with you our top 40 all time favorite books. They’re not in any particular order and they cross all genres and all publishing years, but we love them with our whole hearts. We’d love to know if any of these books are on your favorites list as well. Thanks for celebrating this milestone birthday with us!
Mia’s Top 20:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Stand by Stephen King
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George
Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Fluke by David Elliott and Bart Hopkins
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Adrift by Tami Oldham Ashcraft
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger
In the Land of Dead Horses by Bruce McCandless III
Sarah’s Top 20:
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Little Hope by Ethan Joella
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Already Enough by Lisa Olivera
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
Unprotected by Billy Porter
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