Recommended Reads

Welcome to OPL's Recommended Reads page! 

Genres

Fantasy Authors

• Issac Asimov
• Neil Gaiman
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Brandon Sanderson

Fantasy Series

• The Broken Earth - N.K. Jemisin
• The Discworld - Terry Pratchett
• The Magicians - Lev Grossman
• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

Historical Fiction 

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
• My Dear Hamilton by Laura Kaye and Stephanie Dray
• Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis
• Radium Girls by Kate Moore
• The Women of Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
• My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams

Horror Authors

• Darcy Coates
• Brian Keene
• Stephan King
• Sarah Langan
• Deborah LeBlanc
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Riley Sager (Also a thriller author)
• Bram Stoker

Romance Authors

• Danielle Steel
• Julia Quinn
• Nickolas Sparks
• Nora Roberts
• Debbie Macomber
• Sarah MacLean

Science Fiction

• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Murderbot Series by Martha Wells
• The Road by Cormac Mccarthy

Science Fiction Authors

• Becky Chambers
• Martha Wells
• Andy Weir

Subjects

Native American

• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Serial killers

• Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Biography

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

World War II

• Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand