Early Bird Books Reading Recommendations

Why not choose from the best?

“Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.” ―Mark Helprin

The powerful retelling of Huckleberry Finn was an instant New York Times best-seller.

Who says summer reading has to be light?

There’s no arguing with the NYT list. 

“This life is slow suicide, unless you read.” ―Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny

Incredible literary works, written in the most earnest (and Ernest) way.

“The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.” ―Flannery O'Connor

The legend who would wake up and write until the cows came home. 

The Pulitzer Prize winner captured the American South in her own way.

How many of these have you read? 

Books oft overlooked on bookshelves.

The must-read novel is a meditation on storytelling and queer history.

Read the Booker Prize-winning author's entire backlist.

Eight decades of phenomenal fiction.

Find your next great read among these celebrated titles.

Which ones are truly worth your time?

Discover the best of the best.

Inspiring stories of changed hearts and opened minds.

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