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-The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
-The Signature of all Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

I second Fern's suggestions above. Also try ...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Feel free to browse my shelves ...

Above All Men by Eric Shonkwiler
A Shelter of Others by Charles Dodd White
Threats by Amelia Gray
My Only Wife by Jac Jemc
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Philips

You have fantastic recommendations already, but I'll recommend a few more.

What We Saw
In the Woods
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Helen of Sparta
Amazing Grace
North and South
Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
Mark of the Lion Trilogy

The Book Thief

I always have to recommend my favorite book, but getting the right translation is essential. This one's a different cover than my copy, but the translator and page count is the same: The Count of Monte Cristo

You might like to try a couple of these...
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Bitter Greens or The Beast's Garden
The Light Between Oceans
The Martian
The Night Circus
A Fine Balance

I have seen excellent recommendations above, I would add those ones I really like (I read optimistic & constructive books):

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Seeker of Well-Being by Indrajit Garai -- I discovered this book this year

I hope that it is helpful

The Kitchen House, The Thirteenth Tale (great book), The Perfect Sin (Alex Kava), Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier) Just a few.

I've got to recommend Wool by Hugh Howey and Salt by Colin F Barnes

I spend plenty of time reading food cans. Does that count too? LOL

Yes Please by Amy Poehler. I just finished it. It was way better than I expected.

Lilly wrote: "I am looking for a nice long list of books to chose from and I love pretty much everything from Rick Riordan to Stephen King to any of the classics. My only big no is probably romance unless it fal..."

Epic love story instead of romance? Do you like Jane Eyre? Do you like the love story that develops between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane in Dorothy L. Sayers' detective stories and culminates in Busman's Honeymoon?

If so, let me know.

Snow Falling on Cedars

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Room

Seveneves

My fave book rn A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES!!! I'll recommended this to anyone one willing to listen

go and read 'my brilliant friend' by elena ferrante if you want something remarkable! also 'the glass castle' by jeannette walls, the poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver, or on the other end of the spectrum, 'slaughterhouse five' by kurt v!

I can't honestly say I will read anything. That said I do enjoy fiction vs. non - fiction. My favorite titles are many and generally reflect that I am a mood reader. I rarely if ever read Science Fiction fantasy. The one book I think everyone should read Is Wonder which is intended for youngr