My grandmother loves
Southern tales: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Fried Green Tomatoes at Whistle Stop Cafe, Where the Crawdad Sings, the Garden of Good and Evil, Steel Magnolias
Murder Mysteries: Michael Connelly, Clive Clusser, Agatha Christie
My mother reads occasionally and her taste is much harder to pin down. She loves "trashy daytime television" like reality court shows and murder mystery shows like Snapped. I know she loved the book Marley and Me, and the Fifty Shades of Grey series. She has Lessons in Chemistry, but I don't know how she felt about it.
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