books

In 2009 I began recording what books I read each year.

2017

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

A bunch of Rosamune Pilcher…(re-reads)

Grace Not Perfection by Emily Ley

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman

The Gifts Of Imperfection by Brené Brown

The End of Your Life Book Club (re-read)

Big Little Lies

Hands-Free Mama

What Alice Forgot

God and Jetfire

The Husband's Secret

Chasing Slow

Truly Madly Deeply

The Bright Hour

The Glass Castle (re-read)

The Unexpected Kind of Hero by Andrea Moore

Today Will Be Different

Landline

Before We Were Yours

Crossing to Safety

Wonder

The New Old Me

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

No Drama Discipline

Little Fires Everywhere

At Home in the World

Good Morning Midnight

The Ninth Hour

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (re-read)

2016

Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl

When Will There Be Good News?

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

The Blue Bedroom by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

Modern Lovers by Emma Straub

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson

Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, and Mark Dagostino

It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong (re-read)

2015

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Still by Lauren Winner

I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron

Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward

Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr

The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr

Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash

Nightwoods by Charles Frazier

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes

The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

The Silver Star by Jeannete Walls

Open House by Elizabeth Berg

The Likeness by Tana French

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Thrive by Arianna Huffington

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

The Martian by Andy Weir

Anything by Jennie Allen

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

All There Is by Dave Isay

Ties that Bind by Dave Isay

Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

The World Made Straight by Ron Rash

About Grace by Anthony Doerr

In the Woods by Tana French

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

Listening Is an Act of Love by Dave Isay

After You by Jojo Moyes

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

2014

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Exodus by Leon Uris

The Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Lowlands by Jhumpa Lahiri

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Restless by Jennie Allen

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (re-read) 

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (re-read)

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (re-read)

War Brides by Helen Bryan

Peony in Love by Lisa See

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (re-read)

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (re-read)

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg

Delancey by Molly Wizenberg

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson 

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Allegiant by Veronica Roth

The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion

Lizze Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

Love Does by Bob Goff

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

The Three Weissmans of Westport by Cathleen Schine

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (re-read)

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

German Boy by Wolfgang Samuel

The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

The Giver by Lois Lowry (re-read)

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

The Messenger by Lois Lowry

Son by Lois Lowry

Blue Nights by Joan Didion 

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B. J. Novak

Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist

One Plus One by Jojo Moyes

How to Love by Katie Cotugno

The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes

Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye by Lois Lowry

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

Yes Please by Amy Poehler 

Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal

The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee

Currently in the middle of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Favorite book of 2014: Tie! Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Kick-off book for 2015: re-reading Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 

2013

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (re-read)

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (re-read)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)

The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

Voices in Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

Another View by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

September by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan

Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Keeping the Feast by Paula Butturini

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Serena by Ron Rash

The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

March by Geraldine Brooks

Currently in the middle of Exodus by Leon Uris

Favorite book of 2013: Tie! Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Kick-off book for 2014: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

2012

Love Walked In by Marisa De los Santos

Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis

Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Expecting Adam by Martha Beck

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Great House by Nicole Krauss

The Nanny Diaries (re-read) by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

The Know It All by AJ Jacobs (re-read)

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dog’s Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (re-read)

Room by Emma Donoghue

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Homecoming by Bernard Schlink

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

I’m A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson

Little Princes by Conor Greenan

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (re-read)

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Currently in the middle of The Devil In The White City by Erick Larson

Favorite book of 2012: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Kick-off book for 2013: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grisson

2011

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Tara Road by Maeve Binchy

The Ha-ha by Dave King

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Bed and Breakfast by Lois Battle

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Currently in the middle of Love Walked In by Marisa De los Santos

Favorite book of 2011: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Kick-off book for 2012: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (eek!) *note: didn't read this!*

2010

The Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ Jacobs

Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

The Empty House by Rosamunde Pilcher (re-read)

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (re-read)
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger

The Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

Blessings by Anna Quindlen

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle by Robyn Scott

Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy

It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller

Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Condition by Jennifer Haigh

The Poet of Baghdad by Jo Tatchell

Belong to Me by Marisa De Los Santos

The Beach House by Jane Green

Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh

If You Lived Here by Dana Sachs

In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent

The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher

Voices in Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher

Gods and Generals by Jeffrey Shaara

Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Currently in the middle of Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Favorite book of 2010: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Kick-off book for 2011: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

2009

The Girls by Lori Lansens
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky by Benson and Alephonsion Deng + Benjamin Ajak

The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

My Antonia by Willa Cather

The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele

The Blue Bedroom by Rosamunde Pilcher

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong

The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe by Betsey Osborne

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

47 Roses by Peter Sheridan

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer + Annie Barrows

The Courtyard by Marcia Willett

An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina

What Remains by Carol Radziwill

Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner

The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein

The Groom to Have Been by Saher Alam

Real Sex by Lauren Winner

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Chol-hwan Kang

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Favorite book of 2009: Tie! The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner

Kick-off book for 2010: The Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ Jacobs