https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:10:23 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925974 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:17:28 +0000 erinbaderin 2925974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Chuckles: I recently finished it too, and I agree that I wasn’t sure about it and it was slow to get going but I ended up - actually, honestly, I’m not sure I liked it, but it was clearly a good book, I just think I wasn’t in the right mental place for it - Christmas, pandemic bummed, I think I was in a place where I needed something light. It was definitely very interesting. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925972 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:10:13 +0000 bhbee 2925972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Chuckles: definitely give it some time to warm up! I don’t know if it’s as good as the All the Light but definitely worth reading. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925971 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:01:05 +0000 Chuckles 2925971@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: I'm glad you ended up loving Cloud Cuckoo Land. I asked for it for the holidays, without knowing anything about it, just because I loved All the Light We Cannot See so Much. I looked it over the other day and really wasn't sure what to make of the outline of the plot on the book jacket. I'll have to give it a try. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925968 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:41:41 +0000 erinbaderin 2925968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@kayla0416: the Great Alone is my favourite. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925967 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:26:09 +0000 kayla0416 2925967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For those of you who are Kristin Hannah fans - I've read The Nightingale, which was AMAZING, and The Winter Garden, which I thought was pretty good, but very slow in the first half. Which should I read next?? I'm seeing The Four Winds recommended a lot...any others? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925966 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:23:28 +0000 kayla0416 2925966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just finished We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter. It's a book about a Jewish family in Poland during World War 2. Best book I've ever read in my life. It's one of those books that is so captivating that it makes you feel like you ARE the characters, so when you're done you feel like you've just run a marathon or been through something super traumatizing. Highly recommend, for sure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925964 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:11:53 +0000 winter_wonder 2925964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Some favorites: Apples Never Fall, The Love Hypothesis, The Heart Principle, God Spare the Girls. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925961 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 20:49:14 +0000 hitchhiker 2925961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: Ooh, then I will definitely check out the ones I haven’t read from your list! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925960 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:33:07 +0000 erinbaderin 2925960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hitchhiker: Oh I LOVED the Great Alone and the Smallest Lights in the Universe! Great list! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925959 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:57:38 +0000 hitchhiker 2925959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My favorites from 2021 were:<br /> -Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi<br /> -Anxious People by Fredrik Backman<br /> -The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah<br /> -Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid<br /> -The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd<br /> -Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe<br /> -The Smallest Lights in the Universe by Sara Seager </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925958 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 11:26:31 +0000 JennyPenny 2925958@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love these lists! My favorites from last year were:<br /> Mrs Everything, The Most Fun We Ever Had, You Should Talk to Someone, and the Tatooist of Auschwitz. I also read through the Bridgerton series was some good fluffy reading. I’m on Book 3 of the Court of Thorns and Roses series. I didn’t care much for book 1, but book 2 was fantastic! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925957 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 11:06:28 +0000 Mommy Finger 2925957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you for spinning off my post as I'll be keeping a close eye on this one and taking notes!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925956 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:55:34 +0000 autumnleaves 2925956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Most of the books I liked last year are non-fiction or fiction that seemed like it could be true:<br /> The Mothers by Brit Bennett<br /> A good neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler<br /> Hill women by Cassie Chambers<br /> The most fun we ever had by Claire Lombardo<br /> Little and often by Trent Preszler<br /> Free food for millionaires by Min Jin Lee<br /> Crying in H mart by Michelle Zauner<br /> The premonition by Michael Lewis<br /> Inheritance by Dani Shapiro </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925955 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:50:37 +0000 josina 2925955@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Another vote for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue!</p> <p>My other favorites:<br /> Anything by Kristin Hannah (Magic Hour, Night Road, The Four Winds)<br /> Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens<br /> The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff<br /> Emma in the Night &amp; The Night Before by Wendy Walker<br /> Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney<br /> The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black<br /> Six of Crows series by Leigh Bardugo</p> <p>PS. I would be lost without Goodreads because I can barely remember the title of the current book I'm reading! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925953 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:06:53 +0000 bhbee 2925953@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Addie LaRue for sure, if you read other fantasy like that then I also loved Sisters of Sword and Song and the City of Brass series. Those first two authors (VE Schwab and Rebecca Ross) have new books coming out this spring as well. </p> <p>I also just read Cloud Cuckoo Land and wasn’t sure about it at first but ended up loving it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925952 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:25:17 +0000 erinbaderin 2925952@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Aria: I loved all of your other favourites so it looks like I need to add the Invisible Life to my list!</p> <p>My favourite books of last year: Maybe in Another Life, the Rose Code, Bourdain: the Definitive Oral Biography, Lady Sunshine, the Secret Keeper of Jaipur, Yearbook, Between Two Kingdoms, the Four Winds, and Boyfriend Material. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925951 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 08:21:51 +0000 LadyDi 2925951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Aria: We have similar taste, those are all on my "to read" list except for midnight library. I read it last year and enjoyed it a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925950 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 23:20:48 +0000 Aria 2925950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I loved The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue! Definitely my fav book this year. I also liked Oona Out of Order, Project Hail Mary, Midnight Library and Malibu Rising. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/book-recommendations-4#post-2925944 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 14:46:10 +0000 LadyDi 2925944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Spinning this off of the other thread on how to find books, what are your latest and greatest recommendations? I am trying to compile a list for 2022. </p> <p>My three favorites from 2021 were: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, People We Meet On Vacation, and Ready Player One. </p>