In honor of our 40th birthdays (March 5th for Mia, March 15th for Sarah), we’re sharing with you our top 40 all time favorite books. They’re not in any particular order and they cross all genres and all publishing years, but we love them with our whole hearts. We’d love to know if any of these books are on your favorites list as well. Thanks for celebrating this milestone birthday with us!

 

Mia’s Top 20:

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

The Stand by Stephen King

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George

Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Fluke by David Elliott and Bart Hopkins

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Adrift by Tami Oldham Ashcraft

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger

In the Land of Dead Horses by Bruce McCandless III

 

Sarah’s Top 20:

The Idea of You by Robinne Lee

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A Little Hope by Ethan Joella

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Already Enough by Lisa Olivera

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

Unprotected by Billy Porter

 

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