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Books and More Books

Eliza always loved reading. When she was a baby she would sit in her crib paging through board books. Later she memorized Twas the Night Before Christmas and recited it to her infant sisters, demanding their undivided attention. Over the years she read both fiction and nonfiction broadly. Goodreads was her favorite form of social media and she encouraged everyone she knew to join, so that she could learn what moved and mattered to her friends and family. She kept a small book of quotes that she copied from some of her favorite books. Check out her Goodreads favorites below.

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Poetry

Eliza’s grandmother Lynore Banchoff wrote Eliza on the Phone soon after her granddaughter was born. It is featured in her new collection, More Than a Backward Glance. The new book also includes Invitation, which was shared as the final reading at the October 30th Memorial Service. If you are interested in learning about book orders, click here.

You can also order Lynore’s first book of poetry, Past Tense and Parts of Speech on Beech Street, on Amazon via this link.

  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

  • Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

  • Educated by Tara Westover

  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

  • Stronghold by Tucker Malarkey

  • Bewilderment by Richard Powers

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  • Becoming by Michelle Obama

  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

  • Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

  • How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones

Eliza’s five-star favorites from Goodreads

  • Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

  • Beartown by Fredrik Backman

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier

  • Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

  • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

  • The Longest Race by Kara Goucher

  • The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

  • Know My Name by Chanel Miller

  • Bravey by Alexi Pappas

  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

  • Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

  • Untamed by Glennon Doyle

  • North by Scott Jurek

  • The Overstory by Richard Powers

  • The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

  • The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

  • I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes