The Emerald staff was recently polled for great book recommendations and the responses were abundant and diverse. We wish to share this compilation of top picks with our patients and friends, who may be looking for a good read!
| Title | Author |
| 1000 Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| 11/22/1963: A Novel | Stephen King |
| A Game of Thrones series | George RR Martin |
| A Memoir: God Grew Tired of Us | John Bul Dau and Michael S. Sweeney |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson |
| Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons | Lorna Landvik |
| Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions | Daniel Wallace |
| Brooklyn: A Novel | Colm Toibin |
| Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, a Revolution | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger |
| Command Control | Eric Schlosser |
| Creativity | Ed Catmull |
| Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese |
| Dragon Rider | Cornelia Funke |
| Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline | Becky Bailey |
| Empire of the Summer Moon | SC Gwynne |
| Endurance | Alfred Lansing |
| Five Star Billionaire | Tash Aw |
| Forgive Me | Amanda Eyre |
| Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success | Adam Grant, PhD |
| Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America | Loretta Schwartz-Nobel |
| Heap House | Edward Carey |
| Heart and Soul | Maeve Binchy |
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford |
| I Am America | Stephen Colbert |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Live by Night | Dennis Lahane |
| Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | Chip Heath |
| Mayflower | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| McCarthy’s Bar | Pete McCarthy |
| Memoir | John McGahern |
| Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife | Eben Alexander, MD |
| Shedding Light on Murder | Patricia Driscoll |
| Someone Knows My Name | Lawrence Hill |
| Star of the Sea | Joseph O’Connor |
| Stephanie Plum series | Janet Evanovich |
| Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson |
| Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard | Chip Heath |
| Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears | Pema Chodron |
| Tenderwire | Claire Kilroy |
| The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
| The China Study | T. Colin Campbell |
| The Circle | Dave Eggers |
| The Compatibility Gene | Bill Bryson |
| The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
| The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom |
| The Gathering | Anne Enright |
| The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein |
| The Hunger Games series | Suzanne Collins |
| The Passage | Justin Cronin |
| The Red Tent | Anita Diamant |
| The Story of Lucy Gault | William Trevor |
| The Summer Guest | Justin Cronin |
| The Twelve | Justin Cronin |
| The Twelve Tribes of Hattie | Ayana Mathis |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand |
| Water for Elephants | Sarah Gruen |
| Wildwood | Colin Meloy |
| Winterwood | Patrick McCabe |
