Here is a list of the books I’ve read since 2011 (books for coursework are excluded). I’m always looking for recommendations!
2022 the year I finished a dissertation (aka reading didn’t happen until August)
*Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Daniel Silva)
*~In a New York Minute (Kate Spencer)
2021
Not a great year for reading. Was writing a dissertation.
*~Here all along (Doree Shafrir)
*~The Dead Mom’s Club (Kate Spencer)
*The Cellist (Daniel Silva)
2020
*~The Pull of the Stars (Emma Donohue)
*~The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd)
*~Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
~*March (Geraldine Brooks)
~*American Dirt (Jeanine Cummins)
~*The Art of Rivalry (Sebastian Smee)
~The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
~The Mothers (Brit Bennett)
~Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston)
~Untamed (Glennon Doyle)
~The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Christy Lefteri)
~There, there (Tommy Orange)
~The Heir Affair (Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan)
~The Order (Daniel Silva)
~The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See)
~Big Summer (Jennifer Weiner)
~The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Suzanne Collins)
~The End of October (Lawrence Wright)
~An American Marriage: A Novel (Tayari Jones)
~A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
~*The Testaments (Margaret Atwood)
~The Great Believers
~*Talking to Strangers (Malcolm Gladwell)
~*Honolulu (Alan Brennert)
2019
~*Daughter of Moloka’i (Alan Brennert)
~*Moloka’i (Alan Brennert)
~*The Dutch House (Ann Patchett)
~*The Great Believers (Rebecca Makkai)
~*Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Baloo Kaur Jaswal)
~*Circe (Madeline Miller)
~*Inheritance (Dani Shapiro)
~*Mrs. Everything: A Novel (Jennifer Weiner)
~*Next Year in Havana (Chanel Cleeton)
~*The Weight of Ink (Rachel Kadish)
~*Who Do You Love (Jennifer Weiner)
*The New Girl (Daniel Silva)
~*Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)
~*The Wife: A Novel (Meg Wolitzer)
~*Educated (Tara Westover)
~*The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris)
~*Warlight (Michael Ondaatje)
*Unsheltered (Barbara Kingsolver)
*Becoming (Michelle Obama)
~*Little Fires Everywhere (Celeste Ng)
~*Belzhar (Meg Wolitzer)
2018
I did read books in 2018, however, I took a break from keeping track.
2017
*Origin (Dan Brown)
*Here I Am (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Becoming A Soulful Educator (Aryeh Ben David)
*Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy (Sheryl Sandberg)
*House of Spies (Silva)
*13 Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
*Lilac Girls (Martha Hall Kelly)
2016
*Commonwealth (Ann Patchett)
*The Secret Chord (Geraldine Brooks)
City of Secrets (Stewart O’Nan)
*Gold Fame Citrus (Claire Vaye Watkins)
*The Black Widow (Daniel Silva)
*Lily and the Octopus (Steven Rowley)
*Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
*Fool me Once (Harlan Coben)
*The Martian (Andy Weir)
*The Royal We (Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan)
*Stir (Jessica Fechtor)
*Why Not Me? (Mindy Kaling)
*Purity (Jonathan Franzen)
2015
*The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Gabrielle Zevin)
*The Nigtingale (Kristin Hannah)
The Girl in the Spider’s Web (David Lagercrantz)
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)
*All Who Go Do Not Retun (Shulem Deen)
Ally (Michael Oren)
*Code Name Verity (Elizabeth Wein)
*The Vacationers (Emma Straub)
*Henna House (Nomi Eve)
2014
*All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
*A Guide for the Perplexed (Dara Horn)
*The Tiger’s Wife (Tea Obreht)
*The Betrayers (David Bezmozgis)
*Enchantress (Maggie Anton)
*The a Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden (Jonas Jonass)
*The Headmaster’s Wager (Vincent Lam)
*The Last Secret of the Temple (Paul Sussman)
*All Fall Down (Jennifer Weiner)
*The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
*My Promised Land (Ari Shavit)
*Allegiant (Veronica Roth)
*Insurgent (Veronica Roth)
*Divergent (Veronica Roth)
*The Storyteller (Jodi Picoult)
*Once We Were a Brothers (Ronald H. Balson)
*Three Day Road (Joseph Boyden)
2013
*Like Dreamers: The story of Israeli paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem and divided a nation (Yossi Klein HaLevi)
*The Interestings: A Novel (Meg Wolitzer)
*Beautiful Ruins: A novel (Jess Walter)
Memories After My Death: The story of Joseph “Tommy” Lapid (Yair Lapid)
*Orange is the New Black (Piper Kerman)
The English Girl (Daniel Silva)
*Where’d You Go, Bernadette, A Novel (Maria Semple)
*And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini)
*Inferno (Dan Brown)
*Defending Jacob (William Landay)
*Flight Behavior (Barbara Kingsolver)
*The Invisible Bridge (Julie Orringer)
*Help Thanks Wow: Three Essential Prayers (Anne Lamott)
*The Art of Fielding: A Novel (Chad Harbach)
*Gone Girl: A Novel (Gillian Flynn)
*The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker)
2012
*A Natural Woman (Carole King)
*The Newleyweds (Nell Freudenberger)
*Fifty Shades Freed (E L James)
*Fifty Shades Darker (E L James)
*Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James)
*The Fallen Angel (Daniel Silva)
*The Next Best Thing (Jennifer Weiner)
*Home in the Morning (Mary Glickman)
*Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague (Geraldine Brooks)
*Three Nights in August (Buzz Bissinger)
*Freedom (Jonathan Franzen)
Septembers of Shiraz (Dalia Sofer)
*Portrait of a Spy (Daniel Silva)
*State of Wonder (Ann Patchett)
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
*Bossypants (Tina Fey)
*Room (Emma Donoghue)
*The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
*Between the Assassinations (Aravind Adiga)
*Sing You Home (Jodi Picoult)
*One Day (David Nicholls)
*The Space Between Us (Thrity Umrigar)
The Mistress of Nothing (Kate Pullinger)
*Full Steam Ahead! Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life (Kenneth H. Blanchard)
Let The Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
*Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
*Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
*Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
* = Kindle
~ = Borrowed from the public library
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