A list of all the books I've read by year, in chronological order.
The red one are my favorites
*Denotes audio books
(for (very) occasional book reviews see my Goodreads page)
The red one are my favorites
*Denotes audio books
(for (very) occasional book reviews see my Goodreads page)
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” – Bill Watterson
A book is a dream you hold in your hands. —Neil Gaiman
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. —Jean Rhys
“Reading . . . a vacation for the mind… ” – Dave Barry
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2024
Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang Biography of X Catherine Lacey Tell Me What Really Happened Chelsea Sedoti* Thus Was Adonis Murdered Sarah Caudwell * Watching From the Dark Gytha Lodge * Daughter Claudia Dey People Collide Isle McElroy* Happy Place Emily Henry 2023 (82) Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson* Birnam Woods, Eleanor Catton The Couple Next Door, Shari Lapena Binti, Nnedi Okorafor Greywaren, Maggie Stiefvater Take What You Need, Idra Novey* None of This is True, Lisa Jewel People Like Her, Ellery Lloyd* The Rabbit Hutch ,Tess Gunty The Club, Ellery Lloyd* All of Us With Wings, Michelle Ruiz Keil The Wren, The Wren, Anne Enright* Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan What Kind of Mother, Clay McLead Chapman* The Senator's Wife, Liv Constantine* Before She Finds Me, Heather Chavez* The First Time She Drowned, Kerry Kletter She Lies in Wait Gytha Lodge Dark Corners Megan Goldin* Confessions on the 7:45 Lisa Unger What the Neighbors Saw Melissa Adelman* Little Monsters Adrienne Brodeaur Normal Rules Don't Apply Kate Atkinson The Villa Rachel Hawkins In a Quiet Town Amber Garza Tom Lake Ann Patchett A Killer in the Family Gytha Lodge* The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie The Lover Rebecca Sacks Pete and Alice in Maine Caitlin Shetterly* The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai* The Lies I Tell Julie Clark Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea Rita Chang-Eppig* A Very Typical Family Sierra Godfrey* The Stolen Heir Holly Black Finding Cinderella Colleen Hoover Pieces of Her Karin Slaughter* Watching You Lisa Jewell* The Black Tower P.D. James* Wrong Alibi Christina Dodd* Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano Please Report Your Bug Here Josh Riedel The Family Remains Lisa Jewell* Such a Good Mother Helen Monks Takhar* The Bandit Queens Parini Shroff The Golden Couple Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen The House Across the Lake Riley Sager Don't Believe It Charlie Donlea The Witch in the Well Camilla Bruce Time Squared Lesley Krueger Counterfeit Kristin Chen Fleishman Is in Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner Every City is Every Other City John McFetridge The Crane Husband Kelly Barnhill Luckiest Girl Alive Jessica Knoll Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus I Have Some Questions for You Rebecca Makkai* Small World Laura Zigman River Woman, River Demon Jennifer Givhan* Old Babes in the Wood Margaret Atwood Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney Dark Places Gillian Flynn The Lake House Kate Morton The Dead Romantics Ashley Poston It's Not Summer Without You Jenny Han* Nothing More to Tell Karen M. McManus Mr. Nobody Catherine Steadman The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Sangu Mandanna* You Made a Fool of Me With Your Beauty Akwaeke Emezi The Making of Us Lisa Jewell Girl, Forgotten Karin Slaughter* The Summer I Turned Pretty Jenny Han Separation Anxiety Laura Zigman The Perfect Marriage Jeneva Rose The Night She Disappeared Lisa Jewell* Dying of Politeness Geena Davis The It Girl Ruth Ware* The Family Fang Kevin Wilson The Two Lives of Sara Catherine Adel West* How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water Angie Cruz 2022 (95) Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson* Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson The Heart Principle Helen Hoang The Book of Lost and Found Lucy Foley Daisy Darker Alice Feeney* The Breakdown B.A. Paris The Silent Wife Karin Slaughter* The Summer Place Jennifer Weiner Oona Out of Order Margarita Montimore Not a Happy Family Shari Lapena* The Third Wife Lisa Jewell His & Hers Alice Feeney* The First Husband Laura Dave The Outsider Stephen King* My Darling Husband Kimberly Belle* Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner The Family Next Door Sally Hepworth* Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson* Writers & Lovers Lily King The Younger Wife Sally Hepworth* Writers and Lovers Lily King China Rich Girlfriend Kevin Kwan* Meet Me in Another Life Catriona Silvey Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan* Get in Trouble Kelly Link Beautiful Day Elin Hilderbrand The Disappearing Act Catherine Steadman* Later Stephen King* The Other Black Girl Zakiya Dalila Harris Something in the Water Catherine Steadman* The Wives Tarryn Fisher* French Braid Anne Tyler Roommates Wanted Lisa Jewell* Silver Sparrow Tayari Jones Reckless Girls Rachel Hawkins* Billy Summers Stephen King* The Scholar Dervla McTiernan The Murder Rules Dervla McTiernan The Woman in the Library Sulari Gnetill Fishnet Kristin Innes* The Girl in His Shadow Audrey Blake* The Perfect Nanny Leila Slimani An American Marriage Tayari Jones Blood Sugar Sasha Rothchild Such a Good Wife Seraphina Nova Glass The Lunar Housewife Caroline Woods* Five Total Strangers Natalie D. Richards On a Quiet Street Seraphina Nova Glass* The Soulmate Equation Christina Lauren The Ruin Dervla McTiernan The Mother-in-Law Sally Hepworth Insomnia Sarah Pinborough* The Plot Jean Hanff Korelitz The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid* Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Lori Gottlieg Invisible Girl Lisa Jewell* The Sanatorium Sarah Pearse* A Slow Fire Burning Paula Hawkins When the Wind Blows James Patterson* The Paris Apartment Lucy Foley* The Divorce Party Laura Dave* The Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix* The Dinner List Rebecca Serle Fates and Furies Lauren Goff The Secrets of Midwives Sally Hepworth* The Good Sister Sally Hepworth* Bring Me Back B.A. Paris* Hello Sunshine Laura Dave* The Dinner List Rebecca Serle Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships Sarah Grunder Ruiz* The Maidens Alex Michaelides* Third Girl Agatha Christie The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern The Maidens Alex Michaelides* The Things we Cannot Say Kelly Rimmer* The Therapist B.A. Paris* Two Can Keep a Secret Karen M. McManus* The Cousins Karen M. McManus* Not the End of the World Kate Atkinson The Humans Matt Haig When you Were Mine Rebecca Serle Six Months Later Natalie D. Richards Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell We All Fall Down Natalie D Richards Today Will Be Different Maria Semple We Begin at the End Chris Whitaker You Are Not Alone Greer Jendrix and SarahPekkanen That Summer Jennifer Wiener The School for Good Mothers Jessamine Chan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan False Witness Karin Slaughter* Gravel Heart Abdulrazak Gurnah Dead to Her Sarah Pinborough Apples Never Fall Liane Moriarity 2021 (91) Big Sky Kate Atkinson Still Life Louise Penny* Eight Hundred Grapes Laura Dave* We Begin at the End Chris Whitaker One Two Three Laurie Frankel Seven Days in June Tia Williams When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole* The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern* The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller We Were Never Here Andrea Bartz* The Angel Experiment James Patterson* My Abandonment Peter Rock* 13 Minutes Sarah Pinborough* A Touch of Jen Beth Morgan* In Five Years Rebecca Serle Firefly Lane Kristin Hannah The Identicals Elin Hilderbrand* People We Meet on Vacation Emily Henry Beauty Sarah Pinborough Cross Her Heart Sarah Pinborough The Light Between Worlds Laura Weymouth* The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave* Blooded Nat Kennedy Behind Her Eyes Sarah Pinborough Circe Madeline Miller* Here's to Us Elin Hildebrand The Midnight Library Matt Haig Behind Closed Doors B.A. Paris* The Dead Harlequin Agatha Christie* The Capture of Cerberus/The Incident of the Dog's Ball Agathe Christie* Gravity is a Thing Jaclyn Moriarty The Case of the Middle Aged Wife Agatha Christie* The Hound of Death Agatha Christie* Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn* An Anonymous Girl Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen* Summer of '69 Elin Hilderbrand The Keeper of Lost Things Ruth Hogan* The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton* Red at the Bone Jacqueline Woodson Murder is Easy Agatha Christie* The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler Remember Me? Sophia Kinsella These Ghosts are Family Maisy Card Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro The Wife Upstairs Rachel Hawkins* You Belong to Me Colin Harrison* 28 Summers Elin Hilderbrand Camino Island John Grisham Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi* The Guest List Lucy Foley The Alice Network Kate Quinn* Leave the World Behind Rumaan Alam The Institute Stephen King Modern Lovers Emma Straub* The Iron Trial Holly Black, Cassandra Clare* All Adults Here Emma Straub* Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel The Murder on the Links Agatha Christie The Lost Apothecary Sarah Penner* The Hunting Party Lucy Foley* Monogamy Sue Miller The Mystery of the Blue Train Agatha Christie Lost Sisters Holly Black* Pretty Girls Karin Slaughter Family Upstairs Lisa Jewell* Call Down the Hawk Maggie Stiefvater* Troubled Blood Robert Galbraith Again Again e. lockhart Dramarama e. lockhart The Queen of Nothing Holly Black* The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens The Wicked King Holly Black* Midwinter Murder Agatha Christie One by One Ruth Ware The Cruel Prince Holly Black* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz Big Summer Jennifer Weiner The Vanishing Half Brit Bennet Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney Find Me in Havana Serena Burdick* Death in the Clouds Agatha Christie How to Stop Time Matt Haig Cat Among Pigeons Agatha Christie Look Both Ways Alison Cherry Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid All the Ugly and Wonderful Things Bryn Greenwood City of Girls Elizabeth Gilbert* Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Agatha Christie The Other Mrs Mary Kubica Where'd You Go Bernadette? Maria Semple 2020 (57) Turn of the Key Ruth Ware The Dutch House Ann Patchett Always and Forever, Lara Jean Jenny Han P.S. I love You Jenny Han To All the Boys I've Ever Loved Jenny Han The Searcher Tana French The Murmur of Bees Sofia Segovia The Woman in the Window A.J. Finn* Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate The Beach Club Elin Hilderbrand* The Rumor Elin Hilderbrand Persuasion Jane Austen Normal People Sally Rooney The Perfect Couple Elin Hilderbrand Once Upon a River Diane Setterfield Find Me Andre Aciman Fifty Words for Rain Asha Lemme Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield Lola and the Boy Next Door Stephanie Perkins Anna and the French Kiss Stephanie Perkins Isla and the Happily Ever After Stephanie Perkins Strange Bodies Marcel Theroux Raven Black Ann Cleeves The Bookseller Cynthia Swanson The Moor's Account Laila Lalami Call Me By Your Name Andre Aciman Flight of the Hawk Carolyn Tesh Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover Do You Think This is Strange? Aaron Cully Drake All Things Cease to Appear Elizabeth Brundage What Alice Forgot Liane Moriarty The Lying Game Ruth Ware This Cruel Design Emily Suveda Wilder Girls Rory Power Akata Witch Nndei Okorafor All is Not Forgotten Wendy Walker A Game of Fox and Hound Jenn Reese Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Kiran Desai Love, Nina Nina Stibbe The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty One of Us is Next Karen M. McManus Less Andrew Sean Greer One of Us is Lying Karen M. McManus Uglies Scott Westerfield The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides One Step Too Far Tina Seskis Lady Susan Jane Austen The Moving Finger Agatha Christie A Certain Justice PD James Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver Exhalation Ted Chiang Eleanor and Park Rainbow Rowell The Last Mrs. Parrish Liv Constantine The Boyfriend List e. lockhart Red Clocks Leni Zumas How to be Bad E. Lockart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle 2019 (45)
The Secret life of Violet Grant Beatriz Williams Call Down the Hawk Maggie Stiefvater Sold on a Monday Kristian McMorris Being Mortal Atul Gawande Northanger Abbey Jane Austen The Turning Emily Whitman Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz Please Ignore Vera Dietz A.S. King Sleeping in My Jeans Connie King Leonard I Found You Lisa Jewell God Help the Child Toni Morrison The Overstory Richard Powers We Could Be Beautiful Swan Huntley Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell The Couple Next Door Shari Lapena Transcription Kate Atkinson Three Wishes Liane Moriarty The Rest of Us Just Live Here Patrick Ness The Promise of Space James Patrick Kelly The Opposite of Me Sarah Pekkanen The Wife Between Us Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud 11/22/63 Stephen King The Coldest Girl in Coldtown Holly Black The Leavers Lisa Ko Siam or The Woman Who Shot a Man Lily Tuck The Spellman Files Lisa Lutz Between Places Nat Kennedy The Passenger Lisa Lutz For Love Sue Miller The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton Human Croquet Kate Atkinson Every Other Weekend Zulema Renee Summerfield Social Creature Tara Isabella Burton The Lonely Dead April Henry The Power Naomi Alderman Lethal White Robert Galbraith Don't You Cry Mary Rubica Third Girl Agatha Christie There There Tommy Orange The Daughter's Secret Eva Holland The Death of Mrs. Westaway Ruth Ware Girl Stolen April Henry |
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” – J.K. Rowling
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. —Joseph Addison
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” – Joyce Carol Oates
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