Loud Laughing Ladies Book List
Books Read by Loud Laughing Ladies
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
The All-girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Best to Laugh by Lorna Lanvik
Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Cape Horn: One Man’s Dream: One Woman’s Nightmare by Reanne Hemingway-Douglass
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Transforming the Faith by Diana Butler Bass
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Clara and Mr.Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Come on Shore and We Will Kill You and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story by Christina Thompson
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Dance Boots by Linda LeGarde Grover
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
East of Mecca by Sheila Flaherty
Educated by Tara Westover
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
The Faith Club: A Muslim, Christian, Jew – Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Forever Girl by David Pagel
The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri Tepper
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee
The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris
Grey Gardens (documentary)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
In God’s Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Last Voyageurs: Retracing LaSalle’s Journey Across America: Sixteen Teenagers on the Adventure of a Lifetime by Lorraine Boissoneault
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt KId: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm—From Scratch by Lucie Amundsen
The Long-shining Waters by Danielle Sosin
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love by Brian Weiss
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Peony in Love by Lisa See
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
The Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away by June Cross
The Shack by William P. Young
Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life by Kent Nerburn
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
State of Wonder by Anne Patchett
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Still Life by Louise Penny
Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America by Mel White
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Greg Boyle
They Took My Father: A Story of Idealism and Betrayal by Mayme Sevander
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
A Thousand Spendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations—One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
The Wind and the Drum by Katharine Johnson
A Woman of God by James Patterson
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs