RRG Recommends: Best Books

March 10, 2022

Our Favorite Books

We asked our agents and staff for some of their favorite books. We have recommendations for classics, self-help, suspense, memoirs, romance, business… enough to keep you busy for a while:


Ivana

  • The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
  • The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
  • Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
  • Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate
    “Basically anything that makes me cry…”


Heather R

  • Slight Edge, Jeff Olson
  • Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale
  • Compound Effective, Darren Hardy
  • The Little Engine That Could, Watty Piper
  • Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
    “…Ok really anything by a Bronte


Shelly

  • The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo, Marianne Cronin
  • Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey ( memoir – a must-listen so you can hear him tell it in his own voice)
  • Where the Lost Wander, Amy Harmon
  • Jubilee Trail, Gwen Bristow
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike



Jenn R

  • Anything written by author Jennifer Weiner
  • Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albion
  • Marley and Me, John Grogan
  • Stories I only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe



Stephanie K

  • I’m a sap for Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
  • The Borrowers, Mary Morton. 



Heather J

  • Mindset, Carol Dweck



Tamie

  • Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
  • Leveling up : How to master the Game of LIfe , Eric Siu
  • Hold me Tight , Dr Sue Johnson



DeAnn

  • Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez (about inequality of women around the world… eye opening)
  • The Eagle Tree, Ned Hayes (local author)
  • Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Longevity Paradox, Steven R. Gundry
  • MDBreath, James Nestor
  • The Art of Impossible, Steven Kotler



Jen N

  • The Terror, Dan Simmons
  • Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
  • The Girl On The Train, Paula Hawkins
  • The Woman in the Window, AJ Finn
    “Can you tell I like suspense/mysteries?”



Nancy

  • Pride and Prejudice (and everything else) by Jane Austen
  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  • All the Light We Cannot See by  Anthony Doerr
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen
  • Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole
  • More Than A Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament by Lexie Kite and Lindsay Kite

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