# Need a Good Read?

- URL: https://meemish.com/need-a-good-read/
- Published: May 2, 2019 (2019-05-02)
- Author: meemish
- Categories: List
- Tags: Audiobooks, Book Club, Books, Literature, novels, Reading, Reading List

> Is anyone else as ready for summer as I am? Aprils sporadic weather had me feeling, well...blah. At least I had some good books to get me through.

Is anyone else as ready for summer as I am? Aprils sporadic weather had me feeling, well...blah. At least I had some good books to get me through.

## Read All Day: April

### 1. [Watching You](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38355282-watching-you) by Lisa Jewel

![Cover of Watching You by Lisa Jewel](https://meemish.com/_astro/watching_you.DJ9CF8b1_2mgILM.webp)

**Genre:** Fiction, Thriller

> Because that’s the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

### 2. [The Magician](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2402971.The_Magician) by Michael Scott

Read with kids

![Cover of The Magician by Michael Scott](https://meemish.com/_astro/the_magician.CaVa5Lup_ZDGhTY.webp)

**Genre:** Fantasy, Young Adult

> If you tell people everything you take away their opportunity to learn.

### 3. [I Capture the Castle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31122.I_Capture_the_Castle) by Dodie Smith

![Cover of I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith](https://meemish.com/_astro/i_capture_the_castle-1.qeoqTGNr_1gx2SB.webp)

**Genre:** Fiction, Classics

> Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

### 4. [Winter Garden](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6668467-winter-garden) by Kristin Hannah

![Cover of Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah](https://meemish.com/_astro/winter_garden.8ab8g-JB_2b5IsX.webp)

**Genre:** Historical Fiction

> We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we . . . bear what we must for our children.

### 5. [When Breath Becomes Air](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-becomes-air) by Paul Kalanithi

![Cover of When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi](https://meemish.com/_astro/when_breath_becomes_air.F_ETpJ1N_ZPiyGI.webp)

**Genre:** Nonfiction, Memoir

> Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.

### 6. [Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35882844-hey-ladies) by Michelle Markowitz, Caroline Moss and Illustrated by Carolyn Bahar

![Cover of Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz, Caroline Moss and Illustrated by Carolyn Bahar](https://meemish.com/_astro/hey_ladies.Bif6USKC_BWkmC.webp)

**Genre:** Fiction, Humor

> Mason jars. Chalk menus. Social media tie-ins. I’m probably speaking another language to you, right!?

### 7. [The Rosie Effect](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492671-the-rosie-effect) by Graeme Simsion

![Cover of The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion](https://meemish.com/_astro/the_rosie_effect.DV4wy_MK_Z1hXuYD.webp)

**Genre:** Fiction

> Dishonesty was part of the price of being a social animal, and of marriage in particular.

### 8. [Cinder](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36381037-cinder) by Marissa Meyer

![Cover of Cinder by Marissa Meyer](https://meemish.com/_astro/cinder.zzQeN7NA_Z1MsupG.webp)

**Genre:** Young Adult, Fantasy

> Mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.

### 9. [The Indigo Girl](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34412073-the-indigo-girl) by Natasha Boyd

★ Favorite read

![Cover of The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd](https://meemish.com/_astro/the_indigo_girls.CdXALhzH_2gIkLg.webp)

**Genre:** Historical Fiction

> It seemed a ridiculously careless accident that made me a female rather than a male. The rest of the time I wondered why it should make a difference at all. But it did.

### 10. [Highly Illogical Behavior](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26109391-highly-illogical-behavior) by John Corey Whaley

![Cover of Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley](https://meemish.com/_astro/highly_illogical_behavior.BZ9K1XxR_15mMRy.webp)

**Genre:** Young Adult

> What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

Now, Go. See. Do.

~meemish

★ Favorite Read

Read with Kids