An Exhaustive List of Books to Read When You Can’t Sleep

Since I was a child, reading has been my therapy. Over the years I’ve come across books that have touched my heart and made me think - and I’ve compiled them into a giant list for y’all! Sometimes we all just need to escape into a good novel or memoir - so check out some of my faves below. Don’t have time to read? Listen. tothem on Audible! Click here to try Audible for a free month - and listen wherever and whenever. More into the Kindle? Don’t worry, you can try a free month of Kindle Unlimited, too! Have you read any of these books?

An Exhaustive List of Novels and Memoirs

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An Exhaustive List of Novels and Memoirs 〰️

Novels to Sink Your Teeth Into:

• The Obituary Writer, Anne Hood

• A Hundred Summers, Beatriz Williams

• Summer of ‘69, Elin Hilderbrand

• 28 Summers, Elin Hilderbrand

• Vaclav & Lena: A Novel, Haley Tanner

• Attachments, Rainbow Rowell

• Seating Arrangements, Maggie Shipstead

• The Arrivals, Meg Mitchell Moore

• Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple

• The Circus in Winter, Cathy Day

• Tell the Wolves I’m Home, Carol Rifka Brunt

• The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson

• Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haight

• The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker

• The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta

• Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout

• Little Earthquakes, Jennifer Weiner

• The Arrivals, Meg Mitchell Moore

• The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards

• The Condition, Jennifer Haigh

• Maine, J. Courtney Sullivan

• The Peach Keeper, Sarah Addison Allen

• Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, Susan Gregg Gilmore

• Saints for All Occasions, J. Courtney Sullivan

• Good Company, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

• The Admissions, Meg Mitchell Moore

• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett

• We Are Not Like Them, Christine Pride + Jo Piazza

Interesting and Fun Memoirs:

• Composed: A Memoir, Rosanne Cash

• Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe

• 700 Sundays, Billy Crystal

• My Korean Deli, Ben Ryder Howe

• My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business, Dick Van Dyke

• Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl

• A Lotus Grows in the Mud by Goldie Hawn

• Talking with My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater by Gail Simmons

• Prairie Tale: A Memoir by Melissa Gilbert

• Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia

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