Diane Rehm Book Recommendations

Klara and the Sun

A Novel

by Kazuo Ishiguro

"Set in a not-too-distant future where a young child must be schooled at home without classmates because of fragile health." - Diane Rehm (Source)

Finding the Mother Tree

Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

by Suzanne Simard

"Has revealed that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks." - Diane Rehm (Source)

The Dutch House

A Novel

by Ann Patchett

"The story of two siblings whose mother abandons them as young children." - Diane Rehm (Source)

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

"Was a national best seller and was seen as a voice for the emerging Civil Rights movement." - Diane Rehm (Source)

The Prophets

by Robert Jones, Jr.

"Tells the story of two enslaved boys, Isaiah and Samuel, who fall in love on a Mississippi plantation in antebellum America." - Diane Rehm (Source)

The Lying Life of Adults

A Novel

by Elena Ferrante

"It’s the 1990s and we meet a teenager from a middle-class family, who learns the adults in her world are not to be trusted." - Diane Rehm (Source)

1984

by George Orwell

"Examines the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and government repression." - Diane Rehm (Source)

Lucky Boy

by Shanthi Sekaran

"Tells the story of two women and a baby boy caught between them." - Diane Rehm (Source)

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"About the romantic devotion one man has for a woman from his youth." - Diane Rehm (Source)

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

"The story of a young girl growing up in the years following the Great Depression and who is convinced that her blackness makes her ugly and worthless." - Diane Rehm (Source)