The Utah Humanities Council’s has put together a suggested reading list with picks from our board members and staff. If you’re looking for a great book to curl up with and don’t know where to start, give one of our recommendations a try.

Reading Recommendations:

  • The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Growing Up, by Russell Baker
  • The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Grendel, by Jon Gardner
  • The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa, by Michael Kimmelman
  • The Hummingbird’s Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • The Farming of Bones, by Edwidge Danticat
  • The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
  • Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, by Agatha Christie
  • The Ethics of Authenticity, by Charles Taylor
  • Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo
  • Haywire: Poems, by George Bilgere
  • Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
  • Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, by Margaret MacMillan
  • Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest, by Alex Shoumatoff
  • Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg
  • Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, by Caroline Elkins
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
        
       

The Shadow of the Wind

 

 

 

  
             
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The Poisonwood Bible