Welcome to The Library of the Fellowship of the Farmy.
This is where we come to share good books to read. If you have read a book and love it – leave a message for the Fellowship here in the comments. Just a SHORT message. Not lists of your all time favourites, we have those already, this is just a place to quickly jot down the title and author and genre of a book you really want to share.( I don’t have space for critiques though, just the Title, Author and Genre. A couple of sentences should do it. )
Then when we are in need of a recommendation or inspiration we can all pop in and see what The Fellowship is reading. If your latest favourite book is already here – just second it in a reply. Then we will know it is really good!
You can come back in and add the very best books you have read anytime. One at a time.
ALSO and most importantly If you have written a book and want to tell us about it leave a message here too. We would love to know what the writers in The Fellowship have published, and where we can buy the book.
I will come in as I get the time and attach the links to Amazon.
Let’s support each other.
Love c
The Kitchen's Garden 
84 responses to “The Library”
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline is as good as her earlier book – Orpan Train
I would like to recommend The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck.
Here’s one reviewers take on it and both my husband and I agree ….a fascinating, educational and fun read!
A quintessential American story…. The Oregon Trail attains its considerable narrative power by interweaving pioneer history with Rinker-and-Nick-and-mules interpersonal strife with poignant memories of the author’s father, who took his own family on a covered wagon journey through New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1958…. This makes The Oregon Trail a rare and effective work of history—the trail stories of the Buck brothers bring humor and drama, and the pioneer biographies supply a context that makes every other aspect of the book snap into sharp relief…. The experience of The Oregon Trail stands squarely opposite much of what is modern—it’s slow travel with poor communication, it places struggle before comfort, and it represents a connection with history rather than a search for the newest of the new. In that sense, you’d think the book would be slow-paced and fusty, but it’s really something else: raw, visceral, and often laugh-out-loud funny. For anyone who has ever dreamed
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes. An incredible piece of work. A thriller.
Exit West by Mohsun Hamid. Haunting.
The Wold Border by Sarah Hall……….fiction…..reintroducing wolves to England, politics, ethics, family……a good read,real characters.
the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold fry by Rachel Joyce. funny, poignant, inspiring, wise….i loved this book.
Me too.
AND Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch. HIstorical. Irish/American. Shocking, and as to style and use of language probably the best book I have read in a long long time. c
Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach. Pulitzer Prize winning author takes a year off to travel through Europe as an “independent woman.” I wish that I could be Alice…
44 Scotland Street, by Alexander McCall Smith. I just love all the characters.
Before we were Yours. Lisa Wingate. Good read.
I recommend Nadia Hashimi’s books. The House without windows, the Pearl ta=hat broke it;s shell and /when the moon is low. All set around Afghani women and difficult to put down.
The Pearl that broke its shell.
Oh! The Shepherd’s Life, by James Rebanks. Fabulous and important book about farming and human relationship to the land. A MUST.
Thanks for the rec., it was a good one!
Oh, I just listed that, too! Yes, I learned a lot from his book. I follow him on twitter, too, @herdyshepherd1, a great education for this urban lass!
Just finished reading The Seagulls by Ann Cleeves. A very good read. All her Vera books are good, her Shetland books are good too.
Just finished ‘Sold on a Monday’ by Kristina McMorris, I enjoyed it a lot.
Before We Were Yours, Kate Wingate
oops, Lisa, not Kate, it was good
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson is a good read.
A great book that I read about the same time as you, 2019!