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WMAR-2 News book list for World Book Day

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Tuesday is World Book Day so we decided to put together a list of the WMAR-2 News staff's favorite books!

Adventure Fiction:

  • "Treasure Island" - Robert Louis Stevenson

Biography:

  • "The Engagement Game: Why I Said "I Don't" to Marriage and "I Do" to Me" - Joi-Marie McKenzie
  • "Trump: The Art of the Deal" - Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz
  • "The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band" - Mick Mars, Neil Strauss, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, and Vince Neil
  • "Assata: An Autobiography" - Assata Shakur
  • "When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore: A Father and a Son, a Team and a Time" - William Gildea

Children's Books:

  • "The Cat in the Hat" - Dr. Seuss

Christian Literature:

  • "All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life" Mark Batterson
  • "The Bible"

Coming of Age Fiction:

  • "The Catcher in the Rye " - J. D. Salinger
  • "Where the Crawdads Sing" - Delia Owens
  • "Where the Red Fern Grows" - Wilson Rawls
  • "Daisy Jones and The Six" - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Domestic Fiction:

  • "An American Marriage" - Tayari Jones
  • "To Kill a Mockingbird" - Harper Lee
  • "My Sister's Keeper" - Jodi Picoult
  • "The Girl Who Wrote in Silk" - Kelli Estes

Fantasy Fiction:

  • "A Song of Ice and Fire" - George R. R. Martin
  • "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" - Judi Barrett
  • "The Kingdom Keepers" - Ridley Pearson
  • "The Wheel of Time" Novel series - Darrel K. Sweet

Historical Fiction:

  • "Gone with the Wind" - Margaret Mitchell
  • "The Alice Network" - Kate Quinn
  • "Catch-22" - Joseph Heller
  • "The Nightingale" - Kristin Hannah
  • "The Book Thief" - Markus Zusak
  • "Chesapeake" - James A. Michener

Horror Fiction:

  • "The Green Mile" - Stephen King
  • "Rust & Stardust" - T. Greenwood
  • "World War Z" - Max Brooks
  • "The Stand" - Stephen King

Humor:

  • "Tales from Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffett

Mystery/Suspense:

  • "The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" - Stuart Turton
  • "The Harbinger" - Jonathan Cahn

Nautical Fiction:

  • "Old man and the Sea" - Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction:

  • "The Soul of America" - Jon Meacham
  • "Who Are the Real Buffalo Soldiers" -Dr. Green

Political Fiction:

  • "Animal Farm" - George Orwell
  • "Pudd’nhead Wilson" - Mark Twain

Psychological Fiction:

  • "Everything changes" - Jonathan Tropper
  • "This is Where I Leave You" - Jonathan Trooper
  • "When All Is Said" - Anne Griffin
  • "The Last Mrs. Parrish" - Liv Constantine and Lynne Constantine
  • "A Simple Favor" - Darcey Bell
  • "The Storyteller" - Jodi Picoult
  • "Room" - Emma Donoghue
  • "The Next Person You Meet in Heaven" - Mitch Albom

Science Fiction:

  • "On the Beach" - Nevil Shute
  • "1984" - George Orwell
  • "The Hunger Games" Novel series - Suzanne Collins

Self-Help:

  • "Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us" - David M. Kelley and Tom Kelley

Speculative Fiction:

  • "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" - Sam Greenlee
  • "The Innocent Mage" - Karen Miller

Romance:

  • "The Time Traveler's Wife" - Audrey Niffenegger
  • "Water for Elephants" - Sara Gruen

Travel:

  • "Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth" - Albert Podell