Here are the lists of titles that I read each year (or at least the ones I remembered to add to the list -- I kept track of very few from 2020 through 2023) since I began my blog and the rating I gave each book. Those titles from 2012 onward for which I wrote a review are linked to my comments-just click on the title.
2020's Stats:
1. Hour Game by David Baldacci (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
2. Golden Sun by Pierce Brown (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
3. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
5. The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
6. Transcription by Kate Atkinson (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
7. Morning Star by Pierce Brown (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
8. The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
9. American Jezzebel by Eve LaPlante (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
10. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
11. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
12. Simple Genius by David Baldacci (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
13. Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
14. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
15. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
16. First Family by David Baldacci (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Total number of books: 69
Total fiction: 36
Total nonfiction: 33
Number of print books: 24
Number of pages read: 7,065
Number of audio books: 45
Number of hours listened to: 495.75
1. The Thousand-Mile War by Brian Garfield (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
2. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
3. Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
4. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
5. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
6. Elevation by Stephen King (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
7. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
8. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
9. The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
10. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
11. Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
12. When You Read This by Mary Adkins (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
13. The Vikings: A New History by Neil Oliver (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
14. Daughter of the King by Sandra Lansky (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
15. The Lost Queen by Signe Pike (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
16. The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
17. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
18. Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
19. Brilliance and Fire by Rachelle Bergstein (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
20. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever by Molly Caldwell Crosby (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
21. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
22. Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
23. A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
24. The Deeds of My Fathers by Paul David Pope (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
25. Ourika by Claire de Duras (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
26. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
27. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
28. Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
29. American Predator by Maureen Callahan (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
30. Alone by Lisa Gardner (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
31. Split Second by David Baldacci (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
32. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
33. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
34. Ruthless by Ron Miscavige (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
35. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
36. Double Cross by Ben MacIntyre (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
37. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
38. The Institute by Stephen King (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
39. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
40. Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
41. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
42. Becoming Madeleine by Charlotte Jones Voiklis (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
43. Roses by Leila Meacham (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
44. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
45. Run the World by Becky Wade (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
46. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
47. Circe by Madeline Miller (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
48. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
49. Hunger by Roxane Gay (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
50. I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
39. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
40. Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
41. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
42. Becoming Madeleine by Charlotte Jones Voiklis (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
43. Roses by Leila Meacham (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
44. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
45. Run the World by Becky Wade (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
46. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
47. Circe by Madeline Miller (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
48. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
49. Hunger by Roxane Gay (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
50. I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
51. Spineless by Juli Berwald (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
52. Red Rising by Pierce Brown (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
53. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
54. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
55. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
56. Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
57. Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
58. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
59. Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
60. The Planets by Dava Sobel (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
61. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
62. No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
63. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
64. The Farm by Joanne Ramos (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
65. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
62. No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
63. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
64. The Farm by Joanne Ramos (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
65. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
66. Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
67. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
68. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
69. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
2018's Stats:
Total number of books: 77
Total fiction: 34
Total nonfiction: 43
Number of print books: 35
Number of pages read: 11,688
Number of audio books: 42
Number of hours listened to: 523
1. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
2. Under Water by Casey Barrett (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
3. 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History by Andrew Morton (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
The Atlas of Beauty: Women of the World in 500 Portraits by Mihaela Noroc (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
4. Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II by Susan Williams (⭐️⭐️)
5. Radium Girls by Kate Moore (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
6. Nine Continents by Xiaolu Guo (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
7. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
8. Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild by James Campbell (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
9. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
10. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
11. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
12. Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
13. Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
14. If the Creek Don't Rise by Leah Weiss (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
15. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukhergee (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
16. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
17. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
18. Catch Me if You Can by Frank W. Abagnale (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
19. Prophet's Prey by Sam Brower (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
20. Beartown by Fredrik Backman (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
21. The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
22. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
23. Countdown by Iris Johansen (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
24. The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
25. Varina by Charles Frazier (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
26. The English Wife by Lauren Willig (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
27. As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
28. The Castle by Jason Pinter (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
29. The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clementine Wamariya (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
30. The Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
31. The State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
32. Originals by Adam Grant (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
33. The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
34. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
35. Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
36. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
37. The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War by Doug Stanton (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
38. The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
39. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
40. Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
41. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
42. Divine Evil by Nora Roberts (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
43. Did You Miss Me by Karen Rose (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
44. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
45. The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Henry Fountain (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
46. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
47. The Outsider by Stephen King (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
48. The Map of Salt and Tears by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
49. Saving Cinnamon by Christine Sullivan (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
50. Only Child by Rhiannon Navin (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
51. From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible by Eric H. Cline (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
52. Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
53. Seward's Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase by Lee A. Farrow (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
54. The Native People of Alaska by Steve J. Langdon (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
55. John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America by Kim Heacox (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
56. Ticker: The Quest to Create An Artificial Heart by Mimi Swartz (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
57. Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
58. In Every Moment We Are Still Alive by Tom Malmquist (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
59. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hรฉctor Garcรญa (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
60. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
61. The Innocent Man by John Grisham (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
62. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
63. Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
74. The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
75. First Man by James R. Hansen (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
76. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
77. Atlas of a Lost World by Craig Childs (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Read in 2017:6. Nine Continents by Xiaolu Guo (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
7. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
8. Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild by James Campbell (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
9. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
10. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
11. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
12. Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
13. Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
14. If the Creek Don't Rise by Leah Weiss (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
15. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukhergee (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
16. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
17. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
18. Catch Me if You Can by Frank W. Abagnale (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
19. Prophet's Prey by Sam Brower (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
20. Beartown by Fredrik Backman (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
21. The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
22. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
23. Countdown by Iris Johansen (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
24. The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
25. Varina by Charles Frazier (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
26. The English Wife by Lauren Willig (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
27. As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
28. The Castle by Jason Pinter (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
29. The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clementine Wamariya (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
30. The Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
31. The State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
32. Originals by Adam Grant (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
33. The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
34. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
36. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
37. The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War by Doug Stanton (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
38. The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
39. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
40. Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
41. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
42. Divine Evil by Nora Roberts (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
43. Did You Miss Me by Karen Rose (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
44. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
45. The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Henry Fountain (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
46. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
47. The Outsider by Stephen King (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
48. The Map of Salt and Tears by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
49. Saving Cinnamon by Christine Sullivan (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
50. Only Child by Rhiannon Navin (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
51. From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible by Eric H. Cline (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
52. Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
53. Seward's Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase by Lee A. Farrow (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
54. The Native People of Alaska by Steve J. Langdon (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
55. John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America by Kim Heacox (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
56. Ticker: The Quest to Create An Artificial Heart by Mimi Swartz (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
57. Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
58. In Every Moment We Are Still Alive by Tom Malmquist (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
59. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hรฉctor Garcรญa (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
60. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
61. The Innocent Man by John Grisham (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
62. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
63. Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
64. Dear America, Notes of and Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
65. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
66. The White Darkness by David Grann (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
67. The Inextinguishable Symphony by Martin Goldsmith (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
65. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
66. The White Darkness by David Grann (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
67. The Inextinguishable Symphony by Martin Goldsmith (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
68. The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
69. I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
70. Spymaster by Brad Thor (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
69. I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
70. Spymaster by Brad Thor (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
71. Sting by Sandra Brown (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
72. In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
73. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
72. In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
73. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
74. The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
75. First Man by James R. Hansen (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
76. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
77. Atlas of a Lost World by Craig Childs (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Stats:
Total number of books: 81
Total fiction: 43
Total nonfiction: 38
Number of print books: 40
Number of pages read: 14,185
Number of audio books: 41
Number of hours listened to: 532.5
1. The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan (✮✮✮)
2. The Girls by Emma Cline (✮✮✮)
3. The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood (✮✮✮✮)
4. Books for Living by Will Schwalbe (✮✮✮✮)
5. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (✮✮✮✮)
6. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (✮✮✮✮✮)
7. In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick (✮✮✮✮✮)
8. The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi (✮✮✮✮)
9. Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzman (✮✮✮✮)
10. Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson (✮✮✮)
11. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (✮✮✮✮)
12. The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman (✮✮✮✮)
13. All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke (✮✮✮✮)
14. If Our Bodies Could Talk by James Hamblin (✮✮✮✮)
15. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (✮✮✮✮✮)
16. The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel (✮✮✮✮)
17. The North Water by Ian McGuire (✮✮✮)
18. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (✮✮✮✮)
19. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (✮✮✮)
20. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (✮✮✮✮)
21. The Cinderella Deal by Jennifer Crusie (✮✮✮)
22. The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin (✮✮✮✮)
23. Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers (✮✮)
24. The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, The Horse That Inspired a Nation by Elizabeth Letts (✮✮✮✮)
25. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (✮✮✮✮)
26. The 500 by Matthew Quirk (✮✮✮✮)
27. The Angel's Share by J. R. Ward (✮✮✮)
28. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink (✮✮✮✮✮)
29. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt (✮✮✮✮)
30. Winter of the World by Ken Follett (✮✮✮✮)
31. Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett (✮✮✮)
32. Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch by Kate Williams (✮✮✮)
33. Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard (✮✮✮✮)
34. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (✮✮✮✮✮)
35. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy: The Untold Story by Barbara Leaming (✮✮✮✮)
36. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (✮✮✮)
37. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Life of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel (✮✮✮✮)
38. This Life I Live by Rory Feek (✮✮✮✮)
39. The Movement of Stars: A Novel by Amy Brill (✮✮✮✮)
40. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood (✮✮✮✮)
41. Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright (✮✮✮✮)
42. The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell (✮✮✮✮)
43. News of the World by Paulette Jiles (✮✮✮✮✮)
44. Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family by Kathy McKeon (✮✮✮✮)
45. A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor (✮✮✮✮✮)
46. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (✮✮✮✮✮)
47. Come Sundown by Nora Roberts (✮✮✮✮)
48. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (✮✮✮)
49. The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House by Daniel Mark Epstein (✮✮✮✮✮)
50. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (✮✮✮✮)
51. Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive one of Histories Most Iconic Extinct Creatures by Ben Mezrich (✮✮✮✮)
52. Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival by Jeffrey Gettleman (✮✮✮✮✮)
53. The Smear: How Shady Polital Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote by Sharyl Attkisson (✮✮)
54. The Killing School: Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program by Brandon Webb (✮✮✮✮)
55. Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat by Anastacia Marx de Salcedo (✮✮✮)
56. Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill (✮✮✮✮)
57. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne (✮✮✮✮✮)
58. Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King (✮✮✮✮✮)
59. Rosewater by Maziar Bahari (✮✮✮✮)
60. Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet (✮✮✮✮)
61. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (✮✮✮✮)
62. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (✮✮✮)
63. Origin by Dan Brown (✮✮✮✮)
64. Camino Island by john Grisham (✮✮✮)
65. American Kingpin by Nick Bilton (✮✮✮✮)
66. History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (✮✮✮)
67. The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak (✮✮✮✮)
68. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (✮✮✮✮)
69. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (✮✮✮✮✮)
70. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee (✮✮✮✮)
71. American Assassin by Vince Flynn (✮✮✮✮)
72. The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner (✮✮✮✮)
73. A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas (✮✮✮✮)
74. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes, and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin (✮✮✮✮✮)
75. Murder Games by James Patterson (✮✮✮✮)
76. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (✮✮✮)
77. On Call in Hell by Richard Jadick (✮✮✮✮)
78. Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (✮✮✮✮✮)
79. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (✮✮✮✮✮)
80. Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden (✮✮✮✮)
81. The Science of Yoga by William J. Broad (✮✮✮✮)
Read in 2016:
Stats:
Total number of books: 70
Total fiction: 41
Total nonfiction: 29
Number of print books: 26
Number of pages read: 7,126
Number of audio books: 44
Number of hours listened to: 563.5
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2. The Twelve by Justin Cronin (✮✮✮✮✮)
3. Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella (✮✮✮)
4. The Son by Philipp Meyer (✮✮✮✮✮)
5. The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans (✮✮✮✮)
6. The Bourbon Kings by J. R. Ward (✮✮✮✮)
7. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran (✮✮✮✮)
8. The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan (✮✮✮✮)
9. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (✮✮✮✮✮)
10. The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (✮✮✮✮)
11. The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal (✮✮✮)
12. Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre (✮✮✮✮)
13. The Trident by Jason Redman (✮✮✮✮)
14. After You by Jojo Moyes (✮✮✮✮)
15. Act of Terror by Marc Cameron (✮✮✮✮)
16. Brute Force by Marc Cameron (✮✮✮✮)
17. Day Zero by Marc Cameron (✮✮✮✮))
18. National Security by Marc Cameron (✮✮✮✮)
19. State of Emergency by Marc Cameron (✮✮✮✮)
20. Time of Attack by Marc Cameron (✮✮✮✮)
21. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (✮✮✮✮)
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling (✮✮✮✮)
23. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer Steil (✮✮✮)
24. Apology by Plato (✮✮✮✮)
25. The Iliad by Homer; trans. Lattimore (✮✮✮✮✮)
26. A Voyage to Virginia in 1609 by William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain (✮✮✮)
27. Antigone by Sophocles (✮✮✮✮)
28. Agamemnon by Aeschylus (✮✮✮✮)
29. Medea by Euripides (✮✮✮✮✮)
30. Insurgent by Veronica Roth (✮✮✮✮)
31. Allegiant by Veronica Roth (✮✮✮✮)
32. Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth (✮✮✮✮)
33. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (✮✮✮✮✮)
34. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli (✮✮✮)
35. The Way to the Spring by Ben Ehrenreich (✮✮✮✮✮)
36. If You Can Keep It by Eric Metaxas (✮✮)
37. Half the Way Home by Adam Hochschild (✮✮✮✮)
38. Priceless by Robert K. Wittman (✮✮✮✮)
39. Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (✮✮)
40. Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen (✮✮✮✮)
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42. The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba by Julia Cooke (✮✮✮)
43. Prophet of Bones by Ted Kosmatka (✮✮✮✮)
44. The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez (✮✮✮✮✮)
45. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (✮✮✮)
46. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (✮✮✮✮✮)
47. To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey (✮✮✮✮✮)
48. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer (✮✮✮✮✮)
49. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (✮✮✮✮)
50. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (✮✮✮✮)
51. Girl at War by Sara Noviฤ (✮✮✮✮✮)
52. The River of Doubt by Candice Millard (✮✮✮✮✮)
53. Great Thinkers of the Kazakh Steppe by Yerkebulan Dzhelbuldin (trans. Dana Jeteyeva) (✮ ✮ ✮)
54. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy (✮✮✮)
55. The Sellout by Paul Beatty (✮✮✮✮)
56. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (✮✮✮)
57. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (✮✮✮✮✮)
58. The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder (✮✮✮)
59. But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman (✮✮✮)
60. On Writing by Stephen King (✮✮✮✮)
61. The Stand by Stephen King (✮✮✮✮✮)
62. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (✮✮✮)
63. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (✮✮)
64. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (✮✮✮)
65. The Geography of Genius by Eric Weiner (✮✮✮✮)
66. A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage (✮✮✮)
67. This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin (✮✮✮✮)
68. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (✮✮✮✮)
69. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (✮✮✮✮✮)
70. Swing Time by Zadie Smith (✮✮✮✮)
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1. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (✮✮✮✮⭐︎)
2. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore (✮✮✮✮✮)
3. Doc: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell (✮✮✮✮✮)
4. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin (✮✮✮)
5. In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides (✮✮✮✮✮ ❤︎)
6. A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (✮✮✮✮)
7. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (✮✮✮✮)
8. Vision in White by Nora Roberts (✮✮✮⭐︎)
9. The Doctors' Plague by Sherwin B. Nuland (✮✮✮⭐︎)
10. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (✮✮✮✮⭐︎)
11. Forgotten Heroes edited by Susan Ware (✮✮✮)
12. Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell (✮✮✮✮)
13. The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (✮✮✮⭐︎)
14. Double Cross by Ben Macintyre (✮✮✮✮)
15. Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen by Lisa Shannon (✮✮✮✮)
16. A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel (✮✮✮✮)
17. The Accident Man by Tom Cain (✮✮✮⭐︎)
18. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (✮✮✮⭐︎)
19. The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager (✮✮✮✮)
20. Wide-Open World by John Marshall (✮✮✮✮⭐︎)
21. Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran (✮✮✮✮)
22. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen (✮✮✮⭐︎)
23. A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker (✮✮✮✮)
24. How We Learn by Benedict Carey (✮✮✮✮)
25. The Attack by Yasmina Khadra (✮✮✮✮)
26. Blindness by Jose Saramago (✮✮✮✮)
27. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (✮✮✮✮✮)
28. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (✮✮✮)
29. I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella (✮✮✮⭐︎)
30. Time and Again by Jack Finney (✮✮✮✮)
31. Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts (✮✮✮⭐︎)
32. Falling for Rachel by Nora Roberts (✮✮✮⭐︎)
33. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (✮✮✮)
34. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (✮✮✮)
35. The Devil Wears Prada by Laura Weisberger (✮✮✮)
36. Match Me if You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (✮✮✮)
37. Convincing Alex by Nora Roberts (✮✮✮⭐︎)
38. The Element by Sir Ken Robinson (✮✮✮✮)
39. No Easy Day by Mark Owen (✮✮✮✮)
40. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (✮✮✮✮⭐︎)
41. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (✮✮✮)
42. Love in a Torn Land by Jean Sasson (✮✮✮✮)
43. Waiting for Nick by Nora Roberts (✮✮✮✮)
44. Still Alice by Lisa Genova (✮✮✮✮)
45. The Quants by Scott Patterson (✮✮✮✮)
46. Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts (✮✮✮⭐︎)
47. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (✮✮✮✮⭐︎)
48. The Tourist by Oleg Steinhauer (✮✮✮⭐︎)
49. Josephine by Carolly Erickson (✮✮✮⭐︎)
50. Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell (✮✮✮✮)
51. Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts (✮✮✮⭐︎)
52. Considering Kate by Nora Roberts (✮✮✮)
53. Defiance by Alex Konanykhin (✮✮✮⭐︎)
54. Divergent by Veronica Roth (✮✮✮⭐︎)
55. Americans in Paris by Charles Glass (✮✮✮⭐︎)
56. Mockingly by Suzanne Collins (✮✮✮✮)
57. Killing Rain by Barry Eisler (✮✮✮)
58. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (✮✮✮)
59. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (✮✮✮⭐︎)
60. Sarah's Garden by Kelly Long (✮✮✮⭐︎)
61. The Cinderella Deal by Jennifer Crusie (✮✮✮)
62. The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin (✮✮✮)
63. Lilly's Wedding Quilt by Kelly Long (✮✮✮⭐︎)
64. Threads of Grace by Kelly Long (✮✮✮⭐︎)
65. Lydia's Charm by Wanda E. Brunstetter (✮✮✮)
66. The Journey by Wanda E. Brunstetter (✮✮✮⭐︎)
67. The Choice by Suzanne Woods Fisher (✮✮✮✮⭐︎)
68. The Shunning by Beverly Lewis (✮✮✮⭐︎)
69. The Waiting Suzanne Woods Fisher (✮✮✮✮⭐︎)
70. When the Heart Cries by Cindy Woodsmall (✮✮✮✮)
71. The Confession by Beverly Lewis (✮✮✮⭐︎)
72. Rabid by Bill Wasik (✮✮✮✮)
73. The Healing by Wanda E. Brunstetter (✮✮✮⭐︎)
74. The Struggle by Wanda E. Brunstetter (✮✮✮⭐︎)
75. The Reckoning by Beverly Lewis (✮✮✮⭐︎)
76. The Search Suzanne Woods Fisher (✮✮✮✮⭐︎)
77. When Morning Comes by Cindy Woodsmall (✮✮✮✮)
78. When the Soul Mends by Cindy Woodsmall (✮✮✮✮)
79. A Matter of Grave Concern by Brenda Novak (✮✮✮✮)
80. The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden (✮✮✮✮)
81. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell (✮✮✮⭐︎)
82. Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King (✮✮✮✮)
83. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (✮✮✮✮)
84. The Summer of Fire by Kitty Pilgrim (✮✮✮)
85. The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (✮✮✮)
86. And the Mountains Echoed by Khalid Hosseini (✮✮✮✮)
87. Gilgamesh by David Ferry (✮✮✮⭐︎)
88. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (✮✮✮✮)
89. Bohemian Gospel by Dana Chamblee Carpenter (✮✮✮✮✮)
90. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (✮✮✮✮)
91. The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich (✮✮✮✮)
92. A German Requiem by Philip Kerr (✮✮✮✮)
93. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (✮✮✮✮)
94. Poisons by Peter MacInnis (✮✮✮✮)
Read in 2014:
1. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (✰✰✰✰)
2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (✰✰✰✰)
3. Great Tales from English History Book 1 by Robert Lacey (✰✰✰✰)
4. Argo by Antonio Mendez (✰✰✰✰)
5. Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell (✰✰✰✰)
6. Crossing the Heart of Africa by Julian Smith (✰✰✰)
7. Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller (✰✰✰1/2)
8. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (✰✰✰✰)
9. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker (✰✰✰✰1/2)
10. Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone (✰✰✰✰✰)
11. The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry (✰✰✰)
12. Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef (✰✰✰✰)
13. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba (✰✰✰✰)
14. The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan (✰✰✰)
15. A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon by Anthony Marra (✰✰✰✰)
16. Above the Din of War by Peter Eichstaedt (✰✰✰)
17. Challenger: An American Tragedy by Hugh Harris (✰✰✰✰)
18. Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
by Susan Nagel (✰✰✰✰)
19. Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution by Joel Richard Paul (✰✰✰✰)
20. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (✰✰✰)
21. Unveiled: How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love, and Obedience in the Middle East by Deborah Kanafani (✰✰✰✰)
22. Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson (✰✰✰)
23. The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir (✰✰✰✰)
24. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (✰✰✰)
25. Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James (✰✰✰)
26. Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty (✰✰✰✰)
27. Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks edited by Clint Willis (✰✰✰)
28. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (✰✰✰✰)
29. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (✰✰✰✰)
30. Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene (✰✰)
31. Hot Blooded by Lisa Jackson (✰✰✰✰)
32. 1356 by Bernard Cornwell (✰✰✰✰)
33. Cold Blooded by Lisa Jackson (✰✰✰✰)
34. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (✰✰✰)
35. Inferno by Dan Brown (✰✰✰✰)
36. The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston (❄︎❄︎❄︎❄︎)
37. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (❄︎❄︎❄︎❄︎❄︎❤︎)
38. Longbourn by Jo Baker (❄︎❄︎❄︎)
39. The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz (❄︎❄︎❄︎❄︎)
40. You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon (❄︎❄︎❄︎)
41. The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry (❄︎❄︎❄︎❄︎)
42. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer (❄︎❄︎❄︎❄︎1/2)
43. The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry (❄︎❄︎❄︎)
44. Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey (❄︎❄︎❄︎❄︎)
45. Desert Queen by Janet Wallach (❄︎❄︎❄︎)
46. American Sniper by Chris Kyle (❄︎❄︎❄︎1/2)
47. Savage Harvest by Carl Hoffman (❄︎❄︎❄︎❄︎1/2)
48. Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani (❄︎❄︎❄︎1/2)
49. Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani (❄︎❄︎❄︎1/2)
50. Matterhorn by Karl Marinates (❄︎❄︎❄︎❄︎)
Read in 2013:
1. LES MISERABLES by Victor Hugo ✰✰✰✰✰ and a ♥
2. NORTH AND SOUTH by Elizabeth Gaskell ✰✰✰✰
3. WILL I LIVE TOMORROW by Sonia Nassery Cole (✰✰✰)
4. I CAPTURE THE CASTLE by Dodie Smith (✰✰✰✰)
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (✰✰✰✰✰)
6. CORONATION OF GLORY by Deborah Meroff (✰✰✰✰)
7. HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson (✰✰✰✰)
8. PERSUASION by Jane Austen (✰✰✰✰)
9. ROOFTOPS OF TEHRAN by Mahbod Seraji (✰✰✰✰)
10. MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING by Viktor Frankl (✰✰✰✰1/2)
11. THE END OF THE AFFAIR by Grahame Greene (✰✰✰✰)
12. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forester (✰✰✰)
13. THE TENENT OF WILDFELL HALL by Anne Bronte (✰✰✰✰)
14. WIVES AND DAUGHTERS by Elizabeth Gaskell (✰✰✰✰)
15. PAINTED VEIL by W. Somerset Maugham (✰✰✰✰✰ and a ♥)
16. THE UNLIKELY DISCIPLE: A SINNER'S SEMESTER AT AMERICA'S HOLIEST UNIVERSITY by Kevin Roose (✰✰✰✰ 1/2)
17. THE KITCHEN BOY by Robert Alexander (✰✰✰✰)
18. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by Julian Barnes (✰✰✰✰✰)
19. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT by Daniel James Brown (✰✰✰✰✰)
20. 21: BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE by Ben Mezrich (✰✰✰✰)
21. SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey (✰✰✰✰✰)
22. THE DRESSMAKER by Kate Alcott (✰✰✰✰)
23. DAUGHTER OF SILK by Linda Lee Chaikin (✰✰✰✰)
Read in 2012:
1. THE FALL OF LIGHT by Niall Williams (✰✰✰✰1/2)
4. IMPERIAL WOMAN by Pearl S. Buck (✰✰✰✰)
5. THE LAST CAVALIER by Alexandre Dumas (✰✰✰✰)
6. FORDLANDIA by Greg Grandin (✰✰✰)
7. WE TWO by Gillian Gill (✰✰✰✰)
8. NIGHT by Elie Wiesel (✰✰✰✰✰)
9. THE TENTH CIRCLE by Jodi Picoult (✰✰✰✰)
10. THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER by Amy Tan (✰✰✰✰)
11. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen (✰✰✰✰✰)
12. THE GREATER JOURNEY: AMERICANS IN PARIS by David McCullough (✰✰✰✰✰)
13. KHAN: EMPIRE OF SILVER by Conn Iggulden (✰✰✰✰)
14. THE WINTER PALACE: A NOVEL OF CATHERINE THE GREAT by Eva Stachniak (✰✰✰)
15. WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte (✰✰✰✰)
16. THE MOVES MAKE THE MAN by Bruce Brooks (✰✰✰✰)
17. TALES OF A FEMALE NOMAD by Rita Golden Gelman (✰✰✰✰)
18. GHOST SOLDIERS by Hampton Sides (✰✰✰✰✰ and a ♥)
19. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand (✰✰✰ and 1/2)
20. RANSOM by David Malouf (✰✰✰✰)
21. ANCIENT by K.T. Kimbrough (✰✰✰ and 1/2)
22. THE SEWING CIRCLES OF HERAT by Christina Lamb (✰✰✰✰)
23. OTHELLO by William Shakespeare (Yale Univ. Press Annotated Ed. by Burton Raffel with an essay by Harold Bloom) (✰✰✰✰)
24. CONQUEROR by Conn Iggulden (✰✰✰✰)
25. NOTES ON A CENTURY by Bernard Lewis (✰✰✰✰)
26. PRIVATE LIFE by Jane Smiley (✰✰✰✰✰)
27. NANJING REQUIEM by Ha Jin (✰✰✰)
28. THE PALE KING by David Foster Wallace (✰✰✰✰)
29. ABDICATION by Juliet Nicholson (✰✰✰ and 1/2)
30. TRAIN DREAMS by Denis Johnson (✰✰✰)
31. BEL CANTO by Ann Patchett (✰✰✰✰✰)
32. LAMB by Christopher Moore (✰✰✰)
33. THE PERFECT STORM by Sebastian Junger (✰✰✰✰)
34. I AM THE CHOSEN KING by Helen Hollick (✰✰✰✰)
42. THIRTEEN MOONS by Charles Frazier (✰✰✰✰✰)
45. WONDERLAND CREEK by Lynn Austin (✰✰✰✰)
46. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (✰✰✰✰✰)
49. LADY MACBETH by Susan Fraser King (✰✰✰✰)
50. CITY OF THIEVES by David Benioff (✰✰✰✰)
52. BRUNELLESCHI'S DOME by Ross King (✰✰✰ 1/2)
54. JANE BOLEYN by Julia Fox (✰✰✰)
55. WHAT IS LEFT THE DAUGHTER by Howard Norman (✰✰✰✰)
58. LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel (✰✰✰✰)
60. THE WHITE QUEEN by Philippa Gregory (✰✰✰✰)
61. FORBIDDEN by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee (✰✰✰)
62. THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS by Anita Amirrezvani (✰✰✰✰)
64. THE THREE MUSKETEERS by Alexandre Dumas (✰✰✰✰)
65. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WALWORTH by Geoffrey O'Brien (✰✰✰✰)
66. GAMES WITHOUT RULES by Tamim Ansary (✰✰✰✰✰ and a ♥)
67. MYSTERIOUS ISLAND by Jules Verne (✰✰✰✰)
68. FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley (✰✰✰✰)
69. HARD TIMES by Charles Dickens (✰✰✰✰)
70. SUITE FRANรAISE by Irene Nemirovsky (✰✰✰)
71. THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien (✰✰✰✰✰)
72. UPPITY WOMEN OF THE NEW WORLD by Vicki Leon (✰✰)
73. OUR TOWN by Thornton Wilder (✰✰✰✰)
74. WHEN SHE WOKE by Hillary Jordan (✰✰✰)
75. THE SHADOW OF THE WIND by Carlos Ruiz Zafรณn (✰✰✰✰✰)
76. EXIT THE COLONEL: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE LIBYAN REVOLUTION by Ethan Chorin (✰✰✰✰)
77. ALL SOUL'S RISING by Madison Smartt Bell (✰✰✰✰)
Read in 2011:
1. ANNE MARROW LINDBERGH: A LIFE by Susan Hertog ✰✰✰✰✰
2. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves ✰✰✰✰✰
3. A MOUNTAIN OF CRUMBS by Elena Gorokhova ✰✰✰✰
4. THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood ✰✰✰
5. FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley ✰✰✰✰
6. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson ✰✰✰✰✰
7. THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy ✰✰✰✰
8. SCHINDLER'S LIST by Thomas Keneally ✰✰✰✰✰
9. I IS FOR INFIDEL by Kathy Gannon ✰✰✰
10. PERSUASION by Jane Austen ✰✰✰✰
11. THE MAN WHO LOVED BOOKS TOO MUCH by Allison Hoover Bartlett ✰✰✰✰
12. THE WOLVES OF ANDOVER by Kathleen Kent ✰✰✰
13. THE FOREVER QUEEN by Helen Hollick ✰✰✰✰✰ ♥
14. JULIET by Anne Fortier ✰✰✰✰✰
15. THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER by Kathleen Kent ✰✰✰✰
16. ROOM by Emma Donoghue ✰✰✰✰✰
17. THE LACUNA by Barbara Kingsolver ✰✰✰✰
18. SCHUYLER'S MONSTER by Robert Rummel-Hudson ✰✰✰✰✰
19. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT by Mark Twain ✰✰✰✰
20. THE MARK by Jason Pinter ✰✰✰
21. GRENDEL by John Gardner ✰✰✰
22. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES by Thomas Hardy ✰✰✰✰✰
23. THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED by Wally Lamb ✰✰✰✰
24. THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman ✰✰✰
25. WORDS, NOT SWORDS by Farzaneh Milani ✰✰✰✰
26. WORLDS APART by Swanee Hunt ✰✰✰✰
27. QUEEN EMMA AND THE VIKINGS by Harriet O'Brien ✰✰✰✰
28. SPIRAL by Paul McEuen ✰✰✰✰✰
29. THE HAPPINESS OF PURSUIT by Davis Phinney with Austin Murphy ✰✰✰✰✰
30. THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET by David Mitchell ✰✰✰✰
31. E=mc² by David Bodanis ✰✰✰✰
32. THE FEAR by Peter Godwin ✰✰✰✰✰
33. CORRAG by Susan Fletcher ✰✰✰✰
34. INVISIBLE CITIES by Italo Calvino ✰✰✰
35. THE SANDALWOOD TREE by Elle Newmark ✰✰✰1/2
36. THE ENVOY by Alex Kershaw ✰✰✰
37. THE WITCH OF PORTOBELLO by Paulo Coelho ✰✰✰✰
38. THE TIGER'S WIFE by Tรฉa Obreht ✰✰✰✰✰
39. BIOPUNK by Marcus Wohlsen ✰✰✰1/2
40. THE PLAGUE OF DOVES by Louise Erdrich ✰✰✰✰1/2
41. LIFE STUDIES by Susan Vreeland ✰✰✰✰
42. THE SEA by John Banville ✰✰✰
43. THE MARCH by E. L. Doctorow ✰✰✰✰✰
44. THE LAST STAND by Nathaniel Philbrick ✰✰✰
45. INTO THIN AIR by Jon Krakauer ✰✰✰✰
46. METAMORPHOSES by Ovid (David Raeburn translation) ✰✰✰✰
47. PLASTIC: A toxic love story by Susan Freinkel ✰✰✰✰✰
48. REMARKABLE CREATURES by Tracy Chevalier ✰✰✰✰✰
49. PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA by Peter Carey ✰✰✰✰✰
50. MOTHER TERESA, CEO by Ruma Bose ✰✰✰
51. DRACULA by Bram Stoker ✰✰✰✰
52. TURN RIGHT AT MACHU PICCHU by Mark Adams ✰✰✰✰
53. THEODORA: ACTRESS, EMPRESS, WHORE by Stella Duffy ✰✰✰
54. EVER AFTER by Karen Kingsbury ✰✰✰✰
55. EAGLE'S CRY by David Nevin ✰✰✰✰
56. PIRATE LATITUDES by Michael Crichton ✰✰✰✰
57. THE COLLECTORS by David Baldacci ✰✰✰
58. ROMOLA by George Eliot ✰✰✰
59. THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA by Umberto Eco ✰✰✰✰
60. THE SWAN THIEVES by Elizabeth Kostova ✰✰✰✰
61. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES by Cormac McCarthy ✰✰✰✰
62. MAIN STREET PUBLIC LIBRARY by Wayne A. Wiegand ✰✰✰
63. MOLOKA'I by Alan Brennert ✰✰✰✰✰
64. LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann ✰✰✰✰
65. INNOCENT TRAITOR by Alison Weir ✰✰✰✰
66. THE TIGRESS OF FORLI by Elizabeth Lev ✰✰✰✰
67. JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORREL by Susanna Clarke ✰✰✰✰
68. NOTHING TO ENVY: ORDINARY LIVES IN NORTH KOREA by Barbara Demick ✰✰✰✰✰
69. NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern ✰✰✰✰
70. NEVER LET ME GO by Kauzo Ishiguro ✰✰✰
71. THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls ✰✰✰✰
72. MOON SHOT by Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, and Jay Barbree ✰✰✰
73. THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak ✰✰✰✰✰ and a ♥
74. ARTHUR AND GEORGE by Julian Barnes ✰✰✰✰
75. THE CANDY BOMBERS by Andrei Cherny ✰✰✰✰
76. THE ROSE OF SEBASTOPOL by Katharine McMahon ✰✰✰
77. THE SILMARILLION by J.R.R. Tolkien ✰✰✰✰
78. CHE GUEVARA: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE by Jon Lee Anderson ✰✰✰
79. UNBROKEN by Laura Hillenbrand ✰✰✰✰✰
80. HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS by Julian Barnes ✰✰✰
81. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL by Todd Burpo ✰✰✰✰
82. THE GREATEST KNIGHT by Elizabeth Chadwick ✰✰✰✰
83. THE LOST CITY OF Z by David Grann ✰✰✰✰
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