AAUW Petaluma Book Recommendations by Title
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Add’l Likes |
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A Curious Beginning |
Raybourn, Deanna |
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Book 1 of a fun mystery series |
A Gentleman in Moscow |
Towles, Amor |
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A Woman of No Importance |
Parnell, Sonia |
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Biography of a spy, WWII |
After Annie |
Quindlen, Anna |
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All You Have to Do Is Call |
Maher, Kerri |
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Historical fiction, Jane, abortion services Chicago early 1970’s |
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States |
Dunbar-Ortiz, Exanne |
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Struggle against colonization |
Any and all books |
Archer, Jeff |
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Anything by |
Penny, Louise |
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Anything by |
Winspear, Jacqueline |
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Babel |
Kuang, R. F. |
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Bad Blood |
Carreyrou, John |
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Beartown Trilogy |
Backman, Fredrik |
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Being Mortal |
Gawarde, Atul |
X |
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Bird Baths & Paper Cranes |
Randall, Sharon |
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Blue Shoes and Happiness |
Smith, Alexander McCall |
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Breathing Lessons |
Tyler, Anne |
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Bringing Nature Home |
Tallamy, Douglas |
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Native plants and their importance |
Bruno - Chief of Police |
Walker, Martin |
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1st in a series of 22 |
Chenneville |
Jiles, Paulette |
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Dinners with Ruth |
Totenberg, Nina |
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Memoir, friendship with RGB |
Educated |
Westover, Tara |
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Emily’s House |
Brown, Amy Belding |
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Historical fiction, Emily Dickenson |
Finding Me |
Davis, Viola |
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Memoir, audio book read by author |
Good Night Irene |
Urrea, Luis Alberto |
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Good Night, Irene |
Urrea, Luis Alberto |
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Red Cross volunteers on the front lines in WWII; based on true stories |
Hamnet |
O’Farrell, Maggie |
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Historical fiction, the Plague |
Happy-Go-Lucky |
Sedaris, David |
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Horse |
Brooks, Geraldine |
XX |
Historical fiction, race and horse racing |
How Plants Work |
Chalker-Scott, Linda |
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Inspector Gamache Series |
Penny, Louise |
X |
Mysteries, Quebec-Vermont border |
Invisible Hour |
Hoffman, Alice |
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Kindred |
Butler, Olivia |
X |
Time travel to Ante-bellum south |
Lessons in Chemistry |
Garmus, Bonnie |
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Life of Pi |
Martel, Yann |
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Mad Honey |
Finney Boylan, Jennifer & Picoult, Jody |
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March |
Brooks, Geraldine |
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Mary Jane |
Blau, Jessica Anya |
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Coming of age, 1970’s |
My Brilliant Life |
Kim, Ae-ran |
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Nothing to Envy |
Demick, Barbara |
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North Korea through the eyes of several people, history that reads like a novel |
Only Woman in the Room |
Benedict, Maria |
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Historical fiction about Hedy Lamarr |
Oona Out of Order |
Montimore, Margerita |
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Pastoral Song: a Farmer’s Journey Back to Organics |
Rebanks, James |
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Power of One |
Courtenay, Bryce |
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Recipes for Love and Murder |
Andrew, Sally |
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Light and entertaining |
Red Earth and Pouring Rain |
Chandra, Vikran |
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Mystery, magical realism |
Remarkably Bright Creatures |
VanPelt, Shelby |
XX |
The brilliance of an octopus in an aquarium |
Smarty Marty |
Gutierrez, A |
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Children’s books |
Someone Else’s Shoes |
Moyes, Jojo |
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Tattoos on the Heart |
Boyle, Gregory |
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That Churchill Woman |
Barron, Stephanie |
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek |
Michelle, Kim |
X |
Traveling librarian in mountain communities plus medical mystery |
The Bridges of Madison County |
Waller, James |
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The Covenant of Water |
Verghese, Abraham |
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives |
Nguyen, Viet Thanh |
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The Exiles |
Kline, Christina |
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British women exiled to Australia, 1900’s |
The Four Winds |
Hannah, Kristin |
X |
Dustbowl historical fiction |
The Girl with the Louding Voice |
Daré, Abi |
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The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Friend |
Lamb, Christopher Moore |
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store |
McBride, James |
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store |
McBride, James |
X |
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The Homecoming |
Morton, Kate |
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The House in the Cerulean Sea |
Klune, T J |
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Acceptance of others |
The Hunter |
French, Tanya |
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The Kent Family Chronicles |
Jakes, John |
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Historical fiction, US 1770-1890 (8 books) |
The Memory Board |
Rule, Jane |
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The Nightingale |
Hannah, Kristin |
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The Overstory |
Powers, Richard |
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The Personal Librarian |
Benedict, Maria & Murray, Victoria Christopher |
X |
Historical fiction, Black woman, Belle da Costa Greene, hides her identity working for JP Morgan |
The Reader |
Schlilnk, Bernard |
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The Shack |
Young, William Paul |
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The Sisterhood: the Secret History of Women at the CIA |
Mondy, Liza |
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The Splendid and The Vile |
Larson, Erik |
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Churchill’s first year in office |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
Greenblatt, Stephen |
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A book about books, non-fiction |
The Wager |
Grann, David |
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True tale shipwreck & adventure |
The Wager |
Grann, David |
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Non-fiction, 1740 British warship in Drakes Passage |
The Women |
Hannah, Kristin |
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There There or Wandering Stars |
Orange, Tommy |
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This Is How It Always Is |
Frankel, Laurie |
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Tom Lake |
Patchett, Ann |
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Tom Lake |
Patcett, Ann |
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Tough Love |
Rice, Susan |
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Unraveling |
Orenstein, Peggy |
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West with Giraffes |
Rutledge, Lynda |
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Novel based on actual happenings |
West With Giraffes |
Rutledge, Lynda |
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Where the Crawdads Sing |
Owens, Delia |
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Where the Crawdads Sing |
Owens, Delia |
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White Fragility |
DiAngelo, Robin |
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White Girl |
Birch, Tony |
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White Teeth |
Smith, Zadie |
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Wish You Were Here |
Picoult, Jodi |
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