What's on the bookshelf

Here is what we are reading* in the Plum and June household!  We welcome any recommendations you might have for any of us.  Leave a comment or email me at plumandjune (at) gmail (dot) com

*The rest of my family reads books, I listen to pretty much everything on audio!

Books I've enjoyed (book I'm currently listening to is on top)
The Art Forger
The Weird Sisters
Someone Knows My Name
The Book Thief
The Host
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Beautiful Ruins
The Invisible Bridge
The River of Doubt
Destiny of the Republic
The Flavia deLuce books
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Cutting for Stone
What Alice Forgot
The Thirteenth Tale
The Forgotten Garden
The Shadow of the Wind
Those Who Save Us
Unbroken
Life of Pi
Stones in the River


From my recent YA kick:
Chaos Walking Trilogy
Delirium/Pandemonium
Hunger Games Trilogy
Divergent/Insurgent
Across the Universe
Matched/Crossed

What I plan to read/listen to soon:
The Language of Flowers
Lost in Shangri-La
The Paris Wife
The Outlander Series
The Kitchen House
11/22/63
Beautiful Ruins
Warmth of Other Suns
Gone Girl
The Night Circus
The Orphan Master's Son
I Capture the Castle
Sweet Tooth




What my daughters are reading/read recently (or not so recently) and books they recommend:
Turtle in Paradise
Black Beauty
Wind in the Willows
Wildwood
Inside Out and Back Again
A Tale Dark and Grimm and In a Glass Grimmly
The Hobbit
The Candymakers
all the Rick Riordan books for the 100th time
The Mysterious Benedict Society Books
Harry Potter
The Penderwicks
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Wings of Fire books (2 are out so far)
All the Geronimo Stilton Series (they just read the latest called Cavemice)
39 Clues series
Little House series
All of a Kind Family
Warriors/Seekers/Survivors
Magic Tree House books and research guides
American Girl books - fiction and nonfiction
Books by Eva Ibbotson
Alice in Wonderland
Igraine the Brave
Pippi Longstocking
Sisters Grimm series
Lulu and the Brontosaurus
Books by Edward Eager
Books by Beverly Cleary - especially the Ramona books
Mercy Watson books
Books by Grace Lin
The Search for Wondla and A Hero for Wondla
From the Mixed Up Filed of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Phantom Tollbooth

Craft books I like/want to read:

Cookbooks we like:


1 comment:

  1. I have a cookbook recommendation for you: Americas Test Kitchen Family Cookbook. Every recipe is tested and if you follow the recipe (I'm a improvisor but dont stray from their recipe) you will not be disappointed. The carrot cake melts in your mouth!

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