Here are 2 books that Life Span fans have personally recommended if you like Life Span. Book DNA is a community of 12,000+ authors and super readers sharing their favorite books with the world.

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Book cover of The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

Marion Roach Smith Author Of The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

From Marion's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Marion's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Marion Roach Smith Why Marion loves this book

Kevin Baker is one of America's premier historians as well as one of our finest writers. He delights in language, and it shows in every sentence. Here, he combines the history of the greatest city in the world with the history of baseball. This is a perfectly researched, wonderfully written, thoroughly entertaining book that should be read by all.

By Kevin Baker ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The New York Game as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.


If you love Life Span...

Book cover of December on 5C4

December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

Book cover of The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time; A Memoir

Mark Greenside Author Of I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do)

From Mark's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Mark's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Mark Greenside Why Mark loves this book

Fascinating story about an American woman starting, maintaining, and succeeding with a French cooking school in Paris. Good descriptions of work/working in France and rules and regulations and difficulties of accomplishing anything

Book cover of The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
Book cover of The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time; A Memoir

Share your top 3 reads of 2025!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,299

readers submitted
so far, will you?