Early Bird Books Reading Recommendations

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” ―George Orwell, 1984

There's more than James Joyce and Oscar Wilde.

This list has something for every fiction and non-fiction history lover.

If these stories makes you cry, we sympathize. 

Everything comes with a price.

The oft-honored author deserves a place on your shelf.

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.” —Roald Dahl 

These books will bring you right back to the quad.

“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”—Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

From catty, low-class writers to the dirty dogs of the elite, society is a zoo. 

“Maybe we weren't broken after all.”― Calista Lynne, We Awaken

Flip through faith-based reads.

Prolific, acclaimed, and multi-faceted: three commonly-used descriptors of Dan Wakefield that any writer would sell their soul to be described as. 

"I have no intention of being a footnote in someone else’s life.” —Martha Gellhorn, on her relationship with Ernest Hemingway

These directors are excellent storytellers, in any medium.

There’s more to discover outside of your favorite author’s six books.

“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

If you were looking for a list of books that will revolutionize your worldview, you've found it. 

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.” —Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

It’s been said that much of her real life was just as tragic as the lives of the protagonists in her debut novel Flowers in the Attic.