2025 Festival Recommended Reading List
Guest authors and speakers at our 2025 Writers and Readers Festival share their recommendations for "good reads."
| Author | Title | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Baker | Forgive Me Not | August 9, 2023 |
| Coe Booth | Tyrell | October 1, 2006 |
| Coe Booth | Caprice | May 17, 2022 |
| Vanessa Chan | The Storm We Made | January 2, 2024 |
| Alex DeMille and Nelson DeMille | Blood Lines | October 10, 2023 |
| Alex DeMille and Nelson DeMille | The Deserter | October 22, 2019 |
| Jessica Diaz | Oyeme | February 12, 2024 |
| Lisa Genova | More or Less Maddy: A Novel | January 14, 2025 |
| Robin Gow | Gooseberry | May 14, 2024 |
| Robin Gow | Dear Mothman | March 21, 2023 |
| Jan-Henry Gray | Documents | April 16, 2019 |
| Ellen Hagan | Don’t Call Me a Hurricane | July 19, 2022 |
| Alvin Hall | Driving the Green Book | February 21, 2023 |
| Alice Hoffman | When We Flew Away | September 17, 2024 |
| Alice Hoffman | Practical Magic | June 13, 1995 |
| Zakiya Jamal | Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed | November 2, 2021 |
| Zakiya Jamal | If We Were a Movie | April 22, 2025 |
| Scott James | Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-Year Search for Truth | October 27, 2020 |
| Matthew Klam | Who Is Rich? | July 4, 2017 |
| Jacqueline Jones LaMon | What Water Knows: Poems | June 15, 2021 |
| Jacqueline Jones LaMon | Last Seen (Wisconsin Poetry Series) | March 10, 2011 |
| Ann Leary | I’ve Tried Being Nice | June 4, 2024 |
| Elinor Lipman | Every Tom, Dick & Harry | February 11, 2025 |
| Elinor Lipman | Then She Found Me | January 1, 1990 |
| Ed Mabrey | Hieroglyph | April 24, 2018 |
| Nicole Melleby | Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine | April 2, 2024 |
| Nicole Melleby | The Science of Being Angry | May 10, 2022 |
| Lise Olsen | The Scientist and the Serial Killer | April 1, 2025 |
| Lise Olsen | Code of Silence | October 26, 2021 |
| Helen Phillips | The Need | August 1, 2019 |
| Helen Phillips | Hum | August 6, 2024 |
| Elliot Schrefer | The Brightness Between Us | October 1, 2024 |
| Eliot Schrefer | The Darkness Outside Us | June 1, 2021 |
| Rene Steinke | Friendswood | August 14, 2014 |
| Joseph Earl Thomas | God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer | June 18, 2024 |
| Joseph Earl Thomas | Leviathan Beach | July 21, 2026 |
| Raisa Tolchinsky | Glass Jaw | April 2, 2024 |
| Adriana Trigiani | The View From Lake Como | July 8, 2025 |
| Adriana Trigiani | The Good Left Undone | April 26, 2022 |
| Lee Woodruff | Those We Love Most | September 11, 2012 |
| Laura Zigman | Small World | January 10, 2023 |
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