Thanks to the many Facebook friends who provided suggestions for the 2016 crowdsourced Summer Reading List! I asked for recommendations of books you’ve recently loved – and you didn’t disappoint.
Here is the list. I’ve put ** next to those that were recommended by more than one person. When it’s a book I’ve read too, I’ve included a link to my EDIWTB review. Happy reading!
**A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (several votes). This has been on my TBR list for a long time.
**China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
Reliance, Illinois by Mary Volmer
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (reviewed here)
Three Martini Lunch by Suzanne Rindell
**Fates And Furies by Lauren Groff (reviewed here)
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne
The After Party by Anton Disclafani (reviewed here)
The Man I Love by Suanne Laqueur
The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
**The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
**Tuesday Nights In 1980 by Molly Prentiss
The Secrets Of Flight by Maggie Leffler
Undercover by Cat Gardiner
This Is the Story of You by Beth Kephart
**Some Luck, Early Warning and Golden Age by Jane Smiley (reviewed here, here and here)
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen
The Sudden Appearance Of Hope by Claire North
Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick
Heat And Light by Jennifer Haigh
Under The Influence by Joyce Maynard (reviewed here)
**All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (I really can’t believe I haven’t read this yet)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (reviewed here)
**When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Secrets Of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
Thursday 1:17PM by Mike Landweber
**Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld (reviewed here)
City On Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Good Luck Of Right Now by Matthew Quick
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
**Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
**Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
A Doubter’s Almanac by Ethan Canin
American Housewife by Helen Ellis (reviewed here)
Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing The Way America Works by Jay Newton-Small
Dear Mr. You by Mary Louise-Parker
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
First Wives by Kate 
Anderson Brower
The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley
At The Edge Of The Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
Ice Cream Queen Of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
H Is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald
**Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (reviewed here)
The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August
It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life Of Love And War by Lynsey Addario
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
Disrupted: My Misadventure In The Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons
Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Homegoing by Yaa Gaasi (I am reading this now)
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
City of Thieves by David Benioff (reviewed here)
Kingkiller series by Patrick Rothfuss
Out Of Time series by Beth Flynn
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
A Fine Balance by Mistry Rohinton
Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
Dreamland: The True Tale Of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
In The Kingdom Of Ice: The Grand And Terrible Polar Voyage Of The USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, And The Battle For Truth by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru
Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives In North Korea by Barbara Demick
Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox by Joanne Bamberger
S by Doug Dorst
Us by David Nicholls
Finding The Dragon Lady – The Mystery Of Vietnam’s Madame Nhu by Monique Brinson Demery
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Thanks again for all the recommendations!