Books Read

For an alphabetized list of all books reviewed, see the Directory of Reviews.

Read in 2023:

1. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (audio)
2. The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
3. Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane (audio)
4. Pod by Laline Paull
5. South to America by Imani Perry (audio/ebook)
6. Not Your Ex’s Hexes by April Asher (audio)
7. Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer (audio)
8. The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey (audio)
9. Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
10. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez
11. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (audio)
12. Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
13. Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade (audio)
14. Shutter by Ramona Emerson
15. The Last Girl by Nadia Murad (audio)
16. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (audio/ebook)
17. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (audio)
18. Well Played by Jen DeLuca
19. The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
20. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (audio)
21. The Exiles by Jane Harper
22. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
23. This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke (audio)
24. Heartstopper, Volume 2 by Alice Oseman (graphic novel)
25. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
26. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (audio)

Read in 2022:

1. No Quiet Water by Shirley Miller Kamada
2. Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center (audio)
3. Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn
4. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (audio)
5. Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
6. A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong (audio)
7. The River by Peter Heller
8. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
9. People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
10. Mecca by Susan Straight (audio)
11. Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen
12. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center (audio)
13. Lady Justice by Dahlia Lithwick
14. Below Zero by Ali Hazelwood (audio)
15. Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams (audio)
16. Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop
17. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (audio)
18. The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair (audio)
19. Down a Dark River by Karen Odden (audio)
20. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (audio)
21. The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews
22. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin (audio)
23. Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs
24. The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews (audio)
25. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (audio)
26. A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
27. The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
28. Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour (audio)
29. Ever After Always by Chloe Liese (audio)
30. Written in Red by Anne Bishop
31. Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman
32. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
33. How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum (audio)
34. O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King (audio)
35. Haven by Emma Donoghue
36. Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (audio)
37. Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell (ill.)
38. A Lot Like Adios by Alexis Daria
39. Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (audio)
40. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (audio/ebook)
41. Don’t Overthink It by Anne Bogel
42. Book Lovers by Emily Henry (audio)
43. The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
44. The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
45. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
46. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (audio)
47. Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty (audio)
48. Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
49. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (audio)
50. The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule
51. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams (audio)
52. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (audio)
53. Always Only You by Chloe Liese (audio)
54. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
55. Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First by Laura Tremaine
56. The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova (audio)
57. Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro
58. We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union (audio)
59. Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto (audio)
60. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton (audio)
61. Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
62. Wolfpack by Abby Wambach (audio)
63. Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith (audio)
64. Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
65. The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (audio)
66. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
67. Clanlands by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish (audio)
68. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (audio)
69. By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
70. Wayward by Dana Spiotta
71. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (audio)
72. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
73. Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
74. Broken Harbor by Tana French (audio)
75. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
76. Quiet by Susan Cain (audio)
77. The Unquiet Dead by Stacie Murphy
78. The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren (audio)
79. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
80. Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
81. The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert
82. Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (audio)
83. Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
84. Laundry Love by Patric Richardson
85. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers (audio)
86. The Suite Spot by Trish Doller
87. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl (audio)
88. Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
89. Come As You Are by Jennifer Haupt
90. A Deadly Fortune by Stacie Murphy (audio)
91. Mala’s Cat by Mala Kacenberg
92. Gloved Heart by Charlotte Brentwood
93. Life from Scratch by Sasha Martin (audio)
94. Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto (e-book/audio)
95. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (audio)
96. Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher
97. An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten (audio)
98. Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
99. Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson (audio)
100. Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo (audio)
101. Being Heumann by Judy Heumann
102. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
103. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (audio)
104. Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy
105. Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
106. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (audio)
107. The Puma Years by Laura Coleman
108. Well Met by Jen DeLuca (audio)

Read in 2021:

1. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
2. Beach Read by Emily Henry (audio)
3. How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson (audio)
4. Love at First by Kate Clayborn
5. Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia (audio)
6. Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann
7. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides (audio)
8. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo (audio)
9. The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary
10. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
11. The Survivors by Jane Harper (audio)
12. The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu
13. Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer (audio)
14. One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
15. Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
16. Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong (audio)
17. Atomic Habits by James Clear (audio)
18. O Beautiful by Jun Yung
19. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams (audio)
20. Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney (audio)
21. The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
22. Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl (audio)
23. Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
24. Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore (audio)
25. Three Apples Fell From the Sky by Narine Abgaryan
26. The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton (audio)
27. A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
28. Blackout by Connie Willis
29. Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory (audio)
30. Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Corey
31. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
32. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
33. Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune
34. Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come by Jessica Pan
35. Death in Focus by Anne Perry
36. Anchored Hearts by Priscilla Oliveras
37. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
38. Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs
39. Klara and the Sun by Kazio Ishiguro (audio)
40. Rizzio by Denise Mina
41. Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
42. All the Rage by Courtney Summers
43. The Moor by Laurie R. King (audio)
44. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
45. Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga (audio)
46. The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth (audio)
47. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
48. Braving It by James Campbell (audio)
49. The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
50. The Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King (audio)
51. The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John
52. Marlena by Julie Buntin
53. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (audio)
54. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (audio)
55. A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
56. Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner (audio)
57. A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
58. Thin Girls by Diana Clarke (audio)
59. The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
60. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk (audio)
61. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (audio)
62. Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
63. Venetia by Georgette Heyer (audio)
64. Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
65. You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar (audio)
66. The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He
67. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones (audio)
68. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
69. Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
70. Winter’s Orbit by Evarina Maxwell (audio)
71. Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
72. Broken (In the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson (audio)
73. The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel
74. Wolfsong by T. J. Klune
75. The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (audio)
76. Eat a Peach by David Chang (audio)
77. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (audio)
78. The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (audio)
79. The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon
80. The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey (audio)
81. The Mountains Sing by Que Mai Phan Nguyen
82. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
83. Real Life by Brandon Taylor (audio)
84. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
85. Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (audio)
86. The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
87. Luster by Raven Leilani (audio)
88. Comet in Moominland by Tove Janssen
89. The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
90. Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen (audio)
91. Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
92. Summerwater by Sarah Moss (audio)
93. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (audio)
94. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
95. Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
96. Blind Justice by Anne Perry (audio)
97. The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
98. A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
99. Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
100. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart (audio)
101. The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan
102. How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
103. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (audio)
104. The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher
105. The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar (audio)
106. Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright
107. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam (audio)
108. One by One by Ruth Ware (audio)
109. Dear Miss Kopp by Amy Stewart
110. A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore (audio)
111. Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill
112. Wrapped Up in You (novella) by Talia Hibbert
113. Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri (audio)

Read in 2020:

1. The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
2. Here for It; or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays by R. Eric Thomas (audio)
3. Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
4. When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
5. The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
6. Kopp Sisters on the March by Amy Stewart (audio)
7. When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab (audio)
9. The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham
10. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
11. The Witches are Coming by Lindy West (audio)
12. Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
13. A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi (audio)
14. Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope by Megan Phelps-Roper
15. The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
16. The Switch by Beth O’Leary (audio)
17. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
18. The Story of More by Hope Jahren (audio)
19. You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
20. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
21. Long Bright River by Liz Moore (audio)
22. Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
23. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (audio)
24. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
25. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (audio)
26. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (audio)
27. Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian
28. All Adults Here by Emma Straub (audio)
29. Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
30. City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty (audio)
31. The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
32. Sherwood by Meagan Spooner (audio)
33. The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
34. The End of the Day by Bill Clegg
35. Faithful Place by Tana French (audio)
36. If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
37. How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee (audio)
38. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
39. A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King (audio)
40. Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done by Laura Vanderkam
41. My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
42. The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory (audio)
43. Network Effect by Martha Wells
44. A Burning by Megha Majumdar (audio)
45. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (audio)
46. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (audio)
47. Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
48. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (audio)
49. The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
50. The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez (audio)
51. Writers and Lovers by Lily King
52. How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
53. Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman (audio)
54. 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne (audio)
55. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
56. Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon (audio)
57. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
58. The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary (audio)
59. Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
60. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (audio)
61. Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
62. Matilda by Roald Dahl (audio)
63. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory (audio)
64. The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
65. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (audio)
66. Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
67. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (audio)
68. Saint X by Alexis Schaitken (audio)
69. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
70. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
71. White Fragility by Robin Diangelo (audio)
72. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
73. A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King (audio)
74. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
75. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (audio)
76. Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
77. The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett Graff (audio)
78. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Annaparra
79. Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht
80. A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
81. Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (audio)
82. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
83. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (audio)
84. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
85. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
86. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (audio)
87. Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi
88. Sadie by Courtney Summers (audio)
89. Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs
90. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
91. Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore (audio)
92. The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
93. No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
94. The Lost Man by Jane Harper (audio)
95. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
96. A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
97. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (audio)
98. The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (audio)
99. The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
100. The Herd by Andrea Bartz
101. Hunted by Meagan Spooner (audio)
102. Shrill by Lindy West (audio)
103. The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
104. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren (audio)
105. The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang
106. Atlas Alone by Emma Newman (audio)
107. The Governess Game by Tessa Dare
108. Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
109. With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (audio)
110. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
111. Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane
112. How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones (audio)
113. Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
114. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
115. Old Baggage by Lissa Evans (audio)
116. Before Mars by Emma Newman
117. Know My Name by Chanel Miller
118. Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek by Maya van Wagenen (audio)
119. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
120. Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
121. Pride by Ibi Zoboi (audio)
122. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
123. Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey
124. Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (audio)
125. The Churn by James S. A. Corey
126. Scandal Takes the Stage by Eva Leigh
127. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (audio)
128. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo