Book Habits: 276 books

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout | Conversation Starters In the fast-paced city of New York, Jim and Bob Burgess have carved a new world for themselves far from the childhood ghosts created among the Maine countryside. Bob works in Legal Aide, while Jim is an up-and-coming successful lawyer...

The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains by Robert H. Lustig | Conversation Starters The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains was published in September 2017. Written by Dr....

A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa | Conversation Starters A River in Darkness is a memoir written by Masaji Ishikawa. Ishikawa grew up in Japan, the son of a Japanese mother and a Korean father. His family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was thirteen years old. The family...

The Wise Man's Fear: by Patrick Rothfuss | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: The second of The Kingkiller Chronicles trilogy, The Wise Man’s Fear, picks up from where The Name of the Wind left off. In this book, Kvothe continues his study at the university for a second year...

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions...

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions...

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is...

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris | Conversation Starters Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book by Dan Harris, New York Times bestselling author and ABC news anchor, along with Jeff Warren and Carlye Adler, is a self-help book about getting started with meditation....

Find Her by Lisa Gardner | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions...

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel by Heather Morris | Conversation Starters Lale Sokolov was 26 when the Nazis came to his hometown in Slovakia to take the men away. When he arrived at Auschwitz, he was given the identity number 32407. A fellow prisoner, a French man named Pepan, took care...

A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul | Conversation Starters First published in 1961, the novel A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul became the first defining work of his career. This story is about a man named Mohun Biswas. He works hard and strives for success but most of the time, he...

I Can't Make This Up by Kevin Hart | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with...

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions...

Look for Me by Lisa Gardner | Conversation Starters Look for Me by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner is the ninth book in the Detective D.D. Warren Series. It tells the story of an investigation into the murder of four members of the same family. The fifth member of the family,...