A list of all the books I've read by year, in mostly chronological order.
​*Denotes audio books
The red ones are my favorites

“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

2024 (92)
The Heiress Rachel Hawkins
That Lies in the Woods Kate Alice Marshall
I Will Find You Harlan Coben
The Fiance Rona Halsell
Good Girl, Bad Girl Michael Robotham*
The Wishing Game Meg Shaffer
The Murder at Sissingham Hall Clara Benson
The Fury Alex Michaelides
Margo's Got Money Troubles Rufi Thorpe
The Midnight Feast Lucy Foley
Love you Gone Rona Halsall*
The Nature of Disappearing Kimi Cunningham Grant*
My Sweet Girl Amanda Jayatissa*
Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
The Split Kit Frick*
I Let You Go Clare Mackintosh
The Rich People Have Gone Away Regina Porter*
Long Island Colm Toibin
The Measure Nikki Erlick*
Plays Well With Others Sophie Brickman
The Five Year Lie Sarina Bowen*
Lying Beside You Michael Robotham*
The Invitation Lucy Foley
Bright and Tender Dark Joanna Pearson
Daisy Jones and the Six Taylor Jenkins Read*
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store James McBride
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Scwhab*
The Astrology House Carinn Jade*
Trust Hernan Diaz
Northern Spy Flynn Berry
Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine Thao Votang*
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling*
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling*
The Mystery Guest Nita Prose
The House in the Pines Ana Reyes*
The Breakaway Jennifer Weiner
Good Bad Girl Alice Feeney*
One Wrong Word Hank Phillippi Ryan*
My First Book Honor Levy
Brooklyn Colm Toibin
The Women Kristin Hannah*
Foster Claire Keegan
Anna O Matthew Blake*
Yellowface R.F. Kuang*
The Berry Pickers Amanda Peters
Don't Let Her Stay Nicola Sanders*
The Book of Love Kelly Link
Our Missing Hearts Celeste Ng
What Happened to Nina? Dervla McTiernan*
The Future Naomi Alderman
Hooked Emily McIntire*
Good Material Dolly Alderton
The Other Mrs. Mary Kubika
Puzzle Heart Jenn Reese
Everyone Here is Lying Shari Lapena*
Hide Kiersten White
Home is Where the Bodies Are Jeneva Rose
White Cat,Black Dog Kelly Link*
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Balli Kaur Jaswal*
Mouth to Mouth Antoine Wilson*
Mister Magic Kiersten White*
Poor Things Alasdair Gray*
Homecoming Kate Morton
The Arrangement Kiersten Modglin*
Little Sister Gytha Lodge*
Dirty Laundry Disha Bose
I Know Who You Are Alice Feeney
The Silver Star Jeanette Walls
Bad Summer People Emma Rosenblum*
Zero Days Ruth Ware
The Professor Lauren Nossett*
Out of Body Nia Davenport*
The House Guest Hank Phillippi Ryan
Wrong Place Wrong Time Gillian McAllister*
The Teacher Freida McFadden*
O Beautiful Jung Yun
Book of Night Holly Black
The Vaster Wilds Lauren Groff*
The Hotel Nantucket Elin Hildenbrand
The Bee Sting Paul Murray
Lie Beside Me Gytha Lodge
Demon Copperfield Barbara Kingsolver
Wellness Nathan Hill
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

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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