Book Bites: Main Course

These are books that take longer to read due to language, content, or theme. These are the kind of books that stick to your bones and help shape who you are. They’re the ‘Classics’ or are categorized as ‘Literary/Contemporary Fiction’ online, but they can be Nonfiction or Memoirs as well. 

Book	Author	My Star Ratings
Room	Emma Donoghue	5
The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion	5
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	Mark Haddon	4
When She Was Gone	S.A. Dunphy	4
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter	Kate Clifford Larson	3
The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood	5
The Glass Castle (a Memoir)	Jeannette Walls	5
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	3
The Road to San Giovanni	Italo Calnino	5
Inheritance: A Memoir…	Dani Shapiro	4
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen	Mark Shaw	4
The Only Story	Julian Barnes	4
Us Against You	Fredrik Backman	4
Beartown	Fredrik Backman	4
The Outsider	Stephen King	3
Dreams of Joy	Lisa See	2
Lock In	John Scalzi	2
A Man Called Ove	Fredrik Backman	5
Touch	Claire North	3
The Garden of Burning Sand	Corban Addison	4
The Nest	Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney	2
Station Eleven	Emily St. John Mandel	5
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House	Michael Wolff	3
The Salt Line	Holly Goddard Jones	2
Little Fires Everywhere	Celeste Ng	4