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Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers Booklist
So these are the books that were recommended by John Green (compiled for my own benefit and others) [Prices according to Amazon Prime in USD]:
For fans of the Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers:
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo ($15.63)
- Sula by Toni Morrison ($10.99)
- The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel by Peter De Vries ($11.20)
- Uglies by Scott Westerfield ($9.99)
Pretties ($9.99)
Specials ($9.99)- Matched Trilogy (Box Set including signed copy of the third book, Reached) by Ally Condie ($31.24)
- Divergent by Veronica Roth ($9.99)
Insurgent (Collector’s Edition) ($13.59)To read with a romantic partner:
- Telegraph Avenue: A Novel by Michael Chabon ($17.41)
- Bossypants by Tina Fey ($15.87)
Harry Potter Fans:
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman ($10.88)
- Harry, A History by Melissa Anelli ($10.88)
For people who care so much about characters and don’t even know why:
- The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach ($10.19)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak ($7.78) [This is literally so cheap it should be criminal because of just how amazing this book is.]
- Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel ($8.91)
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation (Volumes I
- & II) by M.T. Anderson ($8.79 and $9.20)
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee ($12.24)
- The Disreptuablle History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart ($9.99)
- Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King ($9.99)
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman ($8.99)
- To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis ($13.80)
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ($10.00)
- Books by P.D. James
Also:
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls ($11.19)
Happy readings!
(Source: leavetheonalone)
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