Let’s look at a few of the best Dana Perino book recommendations.
Dana Perino is an author, political commentator, and is best known for her time as the White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush. She is also the cohost of a talk show called The Five. She has also appeared in a few series on Fox News.
Dana Perino seems to love to read. She is constantly recommending books on her social media accounts, especially Twitter. She has also recommended books many times on her show. Many people take Dana Perino’s book recommendations seriously.
It is very clear that Dana Perino’s favorites are historical fiction books. Almost all of the books she recommends have some sort of historical event happening in the background that influences the themes of the books.
Dana Perino Book Recommendations List
She is an inspiration to women all around the world, so here is a full list of Dana Perino book recommendations:
- Sophomores by Sean Desmond
- Haven Point by Virginia Hume
- Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchet
- Everything Will Be Okay by Dana Perino
Sophomores by Sean Desmond
Sophomores was written by Sean Desmond. This book was published in 2021, and is 384 pages long.
Dana Perino first recommended the book Sophomores when she got an early copy, and tweeted, “This novel comes out on Tuesday, Jan 28th. Sophomores by Sean Desmond, and it is SO good. I highly recommend it. Beautifully written, a coming of age story, Dallas in the 1980s. Laugh, cry, think, be moved. 📚”
Sophomores follows the Malone family of Pat and Anne, and their son, Daniel, who grew up in an Irish-American section of the Bronx and are now living in a suburb of Dallas, Texas.
Life for the family isn’t really going well.
Pat has been diagnosed with MS and continually drinks to drown his sorrows. Anne has been chosen as a juror for a high profile trial of attempted murder that makes her question all the important parts of her life. Daniel, someone who normally flies under the radar as an unmotivated student, is jump started into learning by an English teacher he respects.
Sophomores is a funny book and a look into the life of a seemingly normal suburban family as they battle heartbreak, teenage attitude, and redemption.
Haven Point by Virginia Hume
Haven Point was written by Virginia Hume. She published the book in June of 2021. It has about 400 pages. The book became an instant bestseller when it was released.
Dana Perino recommended the book, sharing,“Haven Point is an excellent book. What a read. And a debut novel for Virginia Hume ! Amazing. Highly recommend it. I still think about those characters.”
Haven Point follows three generations of a family that spans three different time periods over the course of 70 years of the changing American landscape. The book takes place in three distinct years.
In 1944, during World War II, Maren Lawsen plans to leave her small Minnesota farming town and to help out with the war effort. She becomes a nurse and begins to treat injured veterans at Walter Reed Medical Center. During her time at the hospital, she falls head over heels for Dr. Oliver Demarest and starts to spend summers with him in a seaside enclave somewhere on Maine’s coastline.
In 1970, Oliver and Maren deal with their 17 year old rebellious daughter, Annie, during the ongoing Vietnam War that has a nation questioning their own government’s ideals. Annie starts to date a young man that neither of her parents are very happy with. When an incident happens on their yearly trip to Haven Point, Annie decides that she will never go back.
In 2008, even though she claims she will never return to Haven Point, she does when her daughter, Skye, returns to scatter Annie’s ashes after her passing. Skye has grown up her whole life believing that Haven Point is a bad place because of the stories that Annie has told her. But Maren knows that Annie has kept important details of the event that made Annie vow to never return.
Haven Point is a great read because you get to see how the events happening in America affect each generation. The events that touch the first generation find their roots and subsequently have an effect on the generations that come after.
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
Bridge of Clay was written by Australian author Markus Zusak. The book was published in 2018, and is about 560 pages long.
When Dana Perino recommended the book on Twitter, she tweeted, “Finished this book today. My goodness. I loved it.”
Bridge of Clay takes place in Sydney and follows five young boys who all live in the same house and are doing their best to get through life. It’s been mayhem for them since their mother died and their father left them.
One day, almost randomly, their father comes back into their lives and asks them all for help to build a bridge. All of the siblings refuse to help the father except one – Clay. In an effort to help his father build the bridge, he betrays the rest of his siblings.
Clay has to leave Sydney in order to help build the bridge, but the work is slow and grueling. Over the course of time he revisits Sydney to check in on his brothers.
We also get a glimpse into the pasts of their mother and father, and the events that helped shape Clay and his brother’s current lives.
Bridge of Clay is a touching, yet powerful novel of how far one boy is willing to go and what he is able to overcome for his family and for love.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale was written by Kristin Hannah, published in 2015, and is a little longer at 564 pages.
Dana Perino said, “Recommended book, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. The story swept me up into the fight of the free French in WWII. Poignant. Relevant today.”
The Nightingale is a story told by an elderly woman in 1995. She looks back into the past where the bulk of the story is made. It is set in France in 1939, on the brink of World War II.
Many Parisians believe that there is no way that Nazi Germany will invade France. However, much to France’s dismay, they do invade. They drop bomb after bomb on innocent civilians, roll through the city with tanks, and the soldiers march and bark orders at everyone.
Vianne Mauriac’s husband is sent off to fight in the war against Germany, leaving just her and her daughter in France during the German occupation.
Quickly after France is overrun, a German officer seeks quarter in Vianne’s home. She has no choice but to live with the enemy. She has to make tough decisions in order to keep her family alive.
Isabelle is Vianne’s rebellious younger sister. She is 18 and meets a man named Gäetan, who believes that the French citizens can fight back and reclaim their country from the inside.
Isabelle falls madly in love with Gäetan, but he ends up betraying her, which makes her angry enough to risk her life by joining the Resistance to protect her country.
The Nightingale tells the story of how women helped fight back in their own way in war-torn France. These women, separated by many years, were courageous, brave, and powerful in their endeavors against the Germans.
Fun fact: The Nightingale was inspired by true events. A Belgian woman named Andrée de Jongh helped pilots who had been shot down by the Nazis escape enemy territory.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchet
The Dutch House was written by Ann Patchet. This novel was published in 2019. It is 352 pages long, and it was a finalist to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2020.
When Dana Perino recommended the book on her show, she said, “I loved this book. A great read for the fall, too.”
The Dutch House starts off by following Cyril Conroy. After World War II, he built a real estate empire by making one lucky investment, and using it to lift his family out of poverty.
With his enormous wealth, the prized target he wants to buy is the Dutch House on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Originally, this was going to be a gift for his wife, but it ends up causing a chain reaction into the undoing of his entire life.
His children, Danny and Maeve, are kicked out of the house, forcing them back into poverty. Not having anyone else to count on, they must trust and rely on each other in order to make it through life.
The story takes place over the course of 50 years, following two siblings’ unbreakable bond of a battle tested relationship that saves their lives and controls their future.
Fun fact: The audiobook of The Dutch House was read by Tom Hanks.
Fun fact number two: The cover of The Dutch House is the portrait of Maeve that is referenced many times during the book.
Everything Will Be Okay by Dana Perino
Everything Will Be Okay: Life Lessons for Young Women (from a Former Young Woman) is the most recent book written by Dana Perino, and published in 2021. It has 240 pages, and became a national bestseller.
Dana Perino wrote this book as a guide for a young woman who is looking to change their life for the better.
With Everything Will Be Okay, she wants to teach women how to reframe their mind, take calculated risks, believe in themselves, and help them understand the power that they have to make their lives feel better overall.
Over the course of Dana Perino’s career she has been asked and given tons of advice to women from all around the world.
Dana Perino believes that the most important things to learn from the book are how to manage relationships, how to be your best self, how to move up in your career (don’t be a janitor forever), how to solve your big problems, and more!
Everything Will Be Okay is the perfect book for those women who are freshly graduated from college, looking to get further in their career, or just looking to shine a positive light into their life and improve it.