I love to read.  If I have downtime at home, that's what you can find me doing.  (My other hobby is tennis)  My favorite list is constantly changing, so check back occasionally to see if I've added anything you might like.      

I would love to hear any book recommendations from you!  As you can see below, I love historical fiction, but I like most other genres also. 

1. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
2. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
3. Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
4. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
5. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
6. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
7. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
8. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
9. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
10. The Morgan Dane Series by Melinda Leigh
11. The Tracy Crosswhite Series by Robert Dugoni
12. The Professor Series by Robert Bailey
13. A Fire Sparkling by Julianne Maclean
14. What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
15. The Road to Ruin by Gemma Liviero
16. The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani
17. Anything written by Greg Iles, particularly the Penn Cage series
18. The 1st-20th series by James Patterson
19. The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
20. The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo series by Stieg Larsson 

Updated January 2026 to add some new favorites!

1. The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer

2. Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon

3. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

5. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

6. All The Glimmering Start by Mark T. Sullivan

7. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

8. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

9. Night Road by Kristin Hannah