58 Best Books for Modern Women: Your 2016 TBR List

Author, English Teacher, and Bookworm Lindsay Detwiler recommends her top picks. A book with a * is one of Lindsay's top ten favorite reads!
 
Funny Reads:
1. The Rocky Road to Romance by Janet Evanovich
2. Nosy Neighbors by Janet Evanovich
3. Wife for Hire by Janet Evanovich
* 4. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
5. One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
6. The Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris
 
Historical Fiction:
*7. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
8. At the Water’s Edge by Sarah Gruen
9. Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen
10. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
*11. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
12. The Book Thief by Marcuz Zusak
 
Teen Reads Still Relevant:
13. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
14. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
15. Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Page
16. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
17. What She Left Behind by Tracy Bilen
18. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
19. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
20. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
 
Love stories
21. Reckless Abandon by Jeanine Colette
22. Pure Abandon by Jeanine Colette
23. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
24. Where the River Ends by Charles Martin
25. The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
26. Lady Sun by Marni MacRae
27. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
28. Larkin’s Letters by Jax Jillian
*29. Inconceivable! By Tegan Wren
30. First Sight by Danielle Steel
31. The Beach House by Jane Green
 
Dealing with Women’s Issues:
32. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty
33. The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty
34. The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson
*35. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
36. A Good Yarn by Debbie Maccomber
36. Tempting Fate by Jane Green
 
To Make You Think:
*37. Room by Emma Donoghue
38. 1984 by George Orwell
39. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
40. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
*41. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
42. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
43. The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
44. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
45. Life of Pi Yann Martel
46. Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
47. Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson
48. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
 
Memoirs:
*49. Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerrman
*50. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
51. Randy Pausch The Last Lecture
52. Dream New Dreams by Jai Pausch
*53. Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius
54. The Bite of the Mango by Mariatsu Kamara
55. I am Malala 

Tragic But Beautiful
*56. The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley
57. The Good Wife Stewart O’Nan
58. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes