“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” -Stephen King

SINCE the day I learned to read, I’ve had a slight addiction to books. When I was younger, I’d spend my allowance at bookstores, ready to fill my mind with new experiences, adventures, and learn something new about other cultures & people.

WHILE this is by no means a comprehensive list of all the books I’ve read in my 30+ years, it’s a good start. As I remember them, I’ll continue to add to this list - and of course will continue adding in real-time as I read them.

**Banned books highlighted in green.

Stories I Connected with on Some Level

  1. The Great Alone

  2. Ask Again, Yes

  3. Eat, Pray, Love

  4. Firefly Lane

  5. The Days I Loved You Most

  6. To Kill a Mockingbird

  7. The Women

  8. How Lucky

  9. The Most Fun We Ever Had

  10. Severance

  11. The Great Alone

  12. A Little Hope

Stories From Other Cultures, Communities, or Backgrounds I Learned Something From

  1. Black Cake

  2. The Helsinki Affair

  3. Drawing Blood

  4. The River We Remember

  5. Four Winds

  6. 1984

  7. All the Colors of the Dark

  8. The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard

  9. The Frozen River

  10. Betty

  11. The Prophets

  12. The Nightingale

  13. The Holdout

  14. Long, Bright River

  15. The Help

  16. A Woman is No Man

  17. Where the Crawdads Sing

  18. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

  19. Such A Fun Age

  20. This Tender Land

  21. The Vanishing Half

  22. Winter Garden

  23. The Riviera House

  24. Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby

  25. King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby

  26. The Summer We Ran, Audrey Ingram

  27. Home of the American Circus

  28. The Bombshell, Darrow Farr

  29. Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConaghy

  30. River Sing Me Home, Eleanor Shearer

  31. The Stolen Queen, Fiona Davis

  32. The Favorites, Layne Fargo

  33. Homeseeking, Karissa Chen

Highest on the List of my All-Time Favorites

  1. The Silent Patient

  2. Lord of the Flies

  3. The Great Gatsby

  4. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

  5. Dear Edward

  6. The Bright Years, Sarah Damoff

  7. The Lion Women of Tehran, Marjan Kamali

  8. Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall

  9. Pictures of You, Emma Grey

Stories That Were For Pure Entertainment

  1. Prep

  2. The Five Star Weekend

  3. The Girl on the Train

  4. Dark Places

  5. Sharp Objects

  6. The Chicken Sisters

  7. The Lost Apothecary

  8. The Push

  9. The God of the Woods

  10. Swan Song

  11. Shark Heart

  12. Ward D

  13. Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

  14. Beach Read

  15. Save Me the Plums

  16. The Last Flight

  17. What Comes After

  18. In a Book Club Far Away

  19. The Last Thing He Told Me

  20. Malibu Rising

  21. People We Meet on Vacation

  22. Rock Paper Scissors

  23. 56 Days

  24. The Chestnut Man

  25. The Collective

  26. Golden Girl

  27. A History of Wild Places

  28. A Flicker in the Dark

  29. The House in the Cerulean Sea

Stories That Weren’t for Me

  1. Leave the World Behind

  2. The Hunting Wives

  3. Ongoingness

  4. Stolen

  5. The Illusion of Annabella

  6. Looking for Alaska

  7. Big Magic

  8. Northwoods

  9. The Other Mothers

  10. Don’t Let Her Stay

  11. Thirt3en

  12. Unspeakable Things

  13. All the Little Raindrops

  14. Adelaide

  15. Happiness Falls

  16. Yours Truly

  17. Little Monsters

  18. The Shards

  19. She Started It

  20. The Last Word

  21. When We Were Bright and Beautiful

  22. The Hotel Nantucket

  23. When the Stars Go Dark

  24. Everything We Didn’t Say

  25. Valentine

  26. 28 Summers

  27. The Dating Plan

  28. Girl A

  29. The Sun Down Motel

  30. Red at the Bone

  31. The Turn of the Key

  32. My Husband’s Wife

  33. An American Marriage

  34. Nine Perfect Strangers

  35. Luckiest Girl Alive

  36. Every Sweet Thing is Bitter, Samantha Crewson

  37. Penitence, Kristin Koval

MY Favorite Genres...Coming Soon!