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amother

Sun, Jun 13 2021, 8:02 pm

I love historical fiction but not too sad or scary.
I also like compelling biographies, or self help style books but light and not preaching. Thanks!

No sci fi or mysteries.

Crookshanks

Sun, Jun 13 2021, 8:20 pm

It sounds like you want secular books, but for historical fiction I like Etka Gitel Schwartz.

amother

Sun, Jun 13 2021, 8:22 pm

I read all her books already Smile

They are excellent.
I am looking for secular books

Crookshanks

Sun, Jun 13 2021, 8:25 pm

I can recommend my favorite funny YA books, but I don't read adult books 🙃

amother

Marigold

Sun, Jun 13 2021, 8:27 pm

Lisa Sees books are really fascinating and well done

amother

Watermelon

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 3:59 pm

Bump.

The Night Is Not Dark
Phenomenal good read about pre-war Europe.

amother

Smokey

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 4:03 pm

Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig
Various historical novels by Rhys Bowen. She writes cozy type mysteries also, some are historical.

Cookin4days

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 4:09 pm

Crookshanks wrote:

I can recommend my favorite funny YA books, but I don't read adult books 🙃

Not to take over Op’s post but can you list some of your favorites ! Thank you

scruffy

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 4:10 pm

I'm a nonfiction reader most of the time.

The Boys in the Boat

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Unbroken (might be too sad/scary)

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

PinkFridge

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 4:14 pm

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Peel Society.
Alexander McCall Smith though his hashkafos drive me crazy. (Especially the Isabel Dalhousie serial.) His stand alones are meh, though his newest short story collection (with comics) has fun moments.

Random nonfiction I've read over the years:
The Power of Half
Fannie's Last Supper
A. J. Jacobs books
I've read so much more...don't know why my mind's blank.

Crookshanks

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 5:13 pm

Cookin4days wrote:

Not to take over Op’s post but can you list some of your favorites ! Thank you

Here's a short list of some of the books I've read recently. The starred ones are my favorites. Numbers 1,2 signify which order to read them in.

*Heaven Looks a lot like the Mall
Leap day
*How to pack for the end of the world
*Heretics anonymous
Anything by Jordan Sonnenblick
The Half Orphan's Handbook
Lycanthropy and other Chronic illnesses
Hidden talents
*Sleeping freshman never lie (1)
Sophomores and other oxymorons (2)
The strange fascinations of Noah Hypnotik
Mosquitoland
Kids of appetite
*The pros of cons
The upside of unrequited
*Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda (1)
*Leah on the off beat (2)
Dairy queen trilogy
*Forgive me Leonard Peacock (incredibly sad. Only read if you're prepared for the pain that pours off the pages. It's about abuse and suicide)
*The Outsiders
Boy 21
*6 impossible things (1)
*Wildlife (2)
What if it's us
They both die in the end
History is all you left me
Let me know if you read any of them and what your favorites are ☺️

Java

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 5:21 pm

Crookshanks wrote:

I can recommend my favorite funny YA books, but I don't read adult books 🙃

Sameeeee
Whenever I go to the library I go straight to the YA section

Java

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 5:21 pm

K so awkward story I once went to the YA section in the local library and I asked the librarian if they had any of a specific genre I was looking for and they said "sure let me check... how old is the child?"

amother

Oatmeal

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 5:24 pm

Milkweed

Short book and easy read. Fascinating perspective of a child during WW2

iyar

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 5:32 pm

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, by Mark Haddon

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

(The Boys in the Boat was a great read Scruffy!)

#BestBubby

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 5:32 pm

This is an old author

Victoria Holt (mostly victorian mysteries)

Jean Plaidy (different penn name. Historical fiction British Royalty)

Philippa Carr (historical fiction - British)

PinkFridge

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 5:35 pm

Normal by Magda Newman

I'm trying to think of secular historical fiction. It'll come to me. Meanwhile, some authors who are contemporary:
Allegra Goodman
Ruth Reichl, memoirs and novel

It's coming in drips and drabs...

scruffy

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 7:15 pm

Crookshanks wrote:

The upside of unrequited
*Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda (1)
*Leah on the off beat (2)

These I read and enjoyed but just noting that they center around LGBT relationships for the OP looking for relatively clean

amother

Babypink

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 7:16 pm

The nightingale
Beneath the scarlet sky
The winemakers wife

amother

Iris

Tue, Jun 22 2021, 7:20 pm

amother [ Marigold ] wrote:

Lisa Sees books are really fascinating and well done

Actually, I thought the Shanghai Girls and Dreaming of Joy might be a little heavy for OP. The Island of Sea Women might be a good fit. I loved them all.

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