Janna Reads -- and reads and reads and reads! However, not every book makes it to the Lecture List. And, so, here's a curated list of books recommended by Janna in addition to the ones she reviews -- check out Janna's list of some of her favourites here.
These are a few of my favourites in no particular order...
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Drop me a line to let me know what you thought; I'd love to hear from you! Janna
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Daisy Jones & the Six by Teylor Jenkins Reid
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Gown by Jennifer Robson
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
The Bridal Chair by Gloria Goldreich
The Bricks that Build the Houses by Kate Tempest
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar
Circling the Sun & The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Euphoria by Lily King
The Mountain Story & Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens
One More Thing: Stories and other Stories by B.J. Novak
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
By Blood by Ellen Ullman
Three Day Road & Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Inside by Alix Ohlin
11-22-63 by Stephen King
Rules of Civility & A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
I Am Radar by Reif Larsen
Longbourn by Jo Baker
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B. Nahai
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
The Human Stain & The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Casual Vacancy by J.K.Rowling
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Devotion of Suspect X by Alexander O. Smith
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis