Here at Readers Unbound, we’re voracious and enthusiastic readers. Below is a list of the novels we recommend.

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The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (Recommended by Eve Shulmister, 7/10/13)

Adventures of the Karaoke King by Harold Taw (Recommended by Chrinda Jones, 8/14/13)

The Black Cat by Martha Grimes (Recommended by Chrinda Jones 2/25/13)

The Bluebird Effect by Julie Zickefoose (Recommended by Janet Weeks 3/24/13)

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (Recommended by Eve Shulmister, 3/25/15)

A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger (Recommended by Brenda Lloyd, 5/13/15)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (Recommended by Chris Kaylor 5/2/13)

City of Light by Lauren Belfer (Recommended by Janet Weeks  12/9/12)

The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles (Recommended by Chris Kaylor 5/2/13)

Common Birds of Atlanta by Jim Wilson and Anselm Atkins (Recommended by Janet Weeks, 1/8/14)

Dead Wake by Erik Larson (Recommended by JS Epstein 1/28/15)

The Diary of Anais Nin (Recommended by Eve Shulmister 3/18/13)

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Recommended by Eve Shulmister 3/18/13)

The Diary of Virginia Woolf  (Recommended by Eve Shulmister 3/18/13)

Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda (Recommended by Chrinda Jones 11/11/12)

Dog on It by Spencer Quinn (Recommended by Susan Diffenderfer 12/16/12)

Don’t Push the River by Barry Stevens (Recommended by Eve Shulmister 3/18/13)

The Drop by Dennis Lehane (recommended by Janet Weeks, 8/27/14)

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray (Recommended by Claudia Fedarko 11/12/12)

The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld (Recommended by Ann Temkin, 5/6/15)

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe  (Recommended by Susan Diffenderfer 2/3/13)

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (Recommended by Claudia Fedarko 3/12/13)

Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon (Recommended by Claudia Fedarko)

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Recommended by Susan Diffenderfer 3/19/14)

A Field Guide to the Birds East of the Rockies by Roger Tory Peterson (Recommended by Janet Weeks, 1/8/14)

Food and the City  by Ina Yalof (Recommended by Jessica Epstein 3/30/16)

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (Recommended by Claudia Fedarko 3/12/13)

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Recommended by Eve Shulmister 11/25/13)

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (Recommended by Eve Shulmister 6/18/14)

The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Recommended by Brenda Lloyd 2/19/13)

I Am Eco Warrior by Roger Moenks (Recommended by Brenda Lloyd 12/23/12)

The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg (Recommended by Janet Weeks 7/24/13)

I’m Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum (Recommended by Stephanie Stoecker, 4/22/15)

An Irish Country Christmas by Patrick Taylor (recommended by Janet Weeks 3/5/14)

An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor (Recommended by Janet Weeks, 3/5/14)

An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor (Recommended by Janet Weeks 3/5/14)

Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep (Recommended by Chris Kaylor, 8/12/15)

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (Recommended by Susan Diffenderfer 11/19/14)

Letters from Eden by Julie Zickefoose (Recommended by Janet Weeks, 9/11/13)

Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander (Recommended by Susan Diffenderfer, 10/21/15)

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens   (Recommended by Claudia Fedarko 11/12/12)

The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem (Recommended by Brenda Lloyd 2/19/13)

Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese (Recommended by Ann Temkin, 10/28/15)

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones (Recommended by Chris Kaylor, 5/18/16)

News of the World by Paulette Jiles (Recommended by Chris Kaylor, 10/12/16)

Picnic in Provence by Elizabeth Bard (Recommended by Stephanie Stoecker, 4/22/15)

The Poet and the Murderer by Simon Worrall (Recommended by Christina Kaylor 7/3/03)

The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg (Recommended by Janet Weeks 7/24/13)

Quiet by Susan Cain (Recommended by Crystal Klimavicz 12/17/14)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Recommended by Christina Kaylor 10/23/12)

Regeneration by Pat Barker (Recommended by Claudia Fedarko 3/12/13)

Rest in Pieces by Bess Lovejoy (Recommended by J.S. Epstein 11/16/13)

The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Recommended by Christina Kaylor 5/2/13)

The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (Recommended by Jes Epstein, 9/16/15)

The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams (Recommended by Janet Weeks, 8/27/14)

Shelter by Jung Yun (Recommended by Ann Temkin, 5/4/16)

The Sibley Guide to Birds by Charles Sibley (Recommended by Janet Weeks, 1/8/14)

Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison (Recommended by Susan Diffenderfer 12/16/12)

Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook (Recommended by J.S.  Epstein, 11/6/14)

Still Life by Louise Penny (Recommended by Susan Diffenderfer 12/16/12)

The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg (Recommended by Janet Weeks 7/24/13)

The Stranger by Camilla Lackberg (Recommended by Janet Weeks 7/24/13)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Recommended by Susan Diffenderfer 12/16/12)

A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayuri (Recommended by Chrinda Jones, 11/4/13)

Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (Recommrnded by Chris Kaylor 5/2/13)

Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee (Recommended by Claudia Fedarko, 8/28/13)

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson (Recommended by Chris Kaylor, 3/4/15)

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O’Brien (Recommended by Janet Weeks 5/22/13)

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (Recommended by Janet Weeks, 10/30/13)

Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf (Recommended by Janet Weeks 1/28/13)

Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (Recommended by Christina Kaylor 3/4/13)

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Recommended by Claudia Fedarko 11/12/12)

Wonder by R. J. Palacio (Recommended by Susan Diffenderfer, 1/22/14)

Working by Studs Terkel (Recommended by Claudia Fedarko, 8/28/13)

 The World of Pooh by A. A. Milne   (Recommended by Janet Weeks, 6/25/14)