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A Few of my Favorites (A-Z) 2011-2023:
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hossein
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
All The Broken Places by John Boyne
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Christadora by Tim Murphy
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dinners With Ruth by Nina Totenberg
Drowning by T.J. Newman
Educated by Tara Westover
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
Go As A River by Shelley Read
Good For a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleishman
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
In Love by Amy Bloom
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Love and Ruin by Paula McLain
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
State of Wonder by Anne Patchett
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
The Paris Wife - Paula McClain
The Perks of Being a Wallflower -- Stephen Chomsky
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The River by Peter Heller
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Tisha - Robert Specht
To the Bright Edge of The World by Eowyn Ivey
Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
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2023 Reading Goals: 100 books
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Book Reviews (in order of date read): You can find me on Goodreads, but more often than not these days I am mostly just rating books rather than reviewing them. However, here are a few reviews that I have done in the past.
Gumbo Tales: Finding my Place at the New Orleans Table - Sara Roahen
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
Julie and Julia - Julie Powell
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Around Africa on My Bicycle - Riaan Manser
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (review here)
Tarantula Woman - Donald O'Donovan (review here)
My Korean Deli - Ben Ryder Howe (review here)
Beyond All Measures - Dorothy Love (review here)
Thalo Blue - Jason McEntyre (review here)
Olga, A Daughter's Tale - Marie Campbell (review here)
A Touch of America: Memories of an Austrian Fulbright Scholar - Wilma Shine (review here)
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay - Christopher Benfey (review here)
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay - Christopher Benfey (review here)
Train Like a Mother - Dimity McDowell & Sarah Bowen Shea (review here)
Saving Ruth - Zoe Fishman (review here)
The Voluntourist - Ken Budd (review here)
With My Body - Nikki Gemmel (review here)
An Unmarked Grave - Charles Todd (review here)
Ec-o-nom-ics: A Simple Twist on Normalcy - Kersten L. Kelly (review here)***
So L.A. -- Bridget Hoida (review here)
Glass Boys -- Nicole Lundrigan (review here)
Saving Ruth - Zoe Fishman (review here)
The Voluntourist - Ken Budd (review here)
With My Body - Nikki Gemmel (review here)
An Unmarked Grave - Charles Todd (review here)
Ec-o-nom-ics: A Simple Twist on Normalcy - Kersten L. Kelly (review here)***
So L.A. -- Bridget Hoida (review here)
Glass Boys -- Nicole Lundrigan (review here)
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