Book Lists!

I'm an avid reader and decided to start keeping track of those books I've read in case anyone is curious.  I have lot of favorites, so if you are ever looking for a recommendation, let me know and I'll try to steer you in the right direction!

You can find my 2021 book list on the main page, right hand sidebar.

2020 Book List (24 - Year of the Pandemic)

• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
• Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz
• Sisters by Daisy Johnson
• Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
• Most Likely by Sarah Watson
• The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda
• The Dilemma by B.A. Paris
• Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino
• The End of Her by Shari Lapena
• The Guardians by John Grisham
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West
• The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
• The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
• The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
• Nobody's Cuter than You by Melanie Shankle
• The Secret Diary of Hendrick Groen by Derek Jacobi
• No Judgments by Meg Cabot
• Bloody Genius by John Sandford
• Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich

2019 Book List (50)

• Christmas Shopoholic by Sophie Kinsella
• Sold on a Monday by Kristina McNorris
• Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
• The Great Unexpected by Dan Mooney
• The Banker's Wife by Cristina Alger
• The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
• A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
• Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
• Sunset Beach by Mary Kay Andrews
• You've Been Volunteered by Laurie Gelman
• The Widow by Fiona Barton
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
• The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Neon Prey by John Sandford
• The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
• Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline
• The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
• The Secret to Southern Charm by Kristy Woodson Harvey
• The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
• The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester
• Slightly South of Simple by Kristy Woodson Harvey
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• It's Always the Husband by Michele Campbell
• Someone Like Me by M.R. Carey
• Testing Kate by Whitney Gaskell
• The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• The Dead Ex by Jane Corry
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• The Rain Watcher by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Heart of Henry Quantum by Pepper Harding
• The Good Widow by Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke
• An Anonymous Girl by Greer Henricks, Sarah Pekkanen
• I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella
• The Girl in the Glass Box by James Grippando
• Fish In a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
• The Old You by Louise Voss
• Girls' Night Out by Liz Fenton
• The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
• The Accidental Beauty Queen by Teri Wilson
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Desolation Mountain by William Kent Krueger
• Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
• The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams
• Between Sisters by Kristin Hannah
• Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich
• Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
• The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

2018 Book List (50)

• Holy Ghost by John Sandford
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica
• Wish by Barbara O'Connor
• When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger
• The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
• The Home for Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman
• Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
• Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
• Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
• A Spark of Light by Jodi Piccoult
• The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
• The Forgotten Road by Richard Paul Evans
• The Broken Road by Richard Paul Evans
• Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories by R.J. Palacio
• Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
• Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris
• Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
• Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella
• Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
• The Good Son by You-jeong Jeong
• After Anna by Lisa Scottoline
• Look For Me by Lisa Gardner
• Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
• The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
• A Death in Live Oak by James Grippando
• Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
• The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
• The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
• Summer Island by Kristin Hannah
• Sunburn by Laura Lippman
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
• Home Front by Kristin Hannah
• The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
• Lie to Me by J.T. Ellison
• The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan
• The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
• The Scattering by Kimberly McCreight
• The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight
• Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich
• Deep Freeze by John Sandford
• Say Nothing by Brad Parks
• Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand

2017 Book List (46)

The Rooster Bar by John Grisham

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich

Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand

Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand

Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz

One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

Save Me A Seat by Sarah Weeks

Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

While You Were Sleeping by Kathryn Croft

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

The Girl from the Train by Irma Joubert

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

Nobody's Cuter Than You by Melanie Shankle

Camino Island by John Grisham

Golden Prey by John Sandford

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry

I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh

The Perfect Girl by Gilly MacMillan

Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Good as Gone by Amy Gentry

Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens

I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh

All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia

The Dry by Jane Harper

Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

Still Missing by Chevy Stevens

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica

Those Girls by Chevy Stevens

On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah

Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Escape Clause by John Sandford

The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter

A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams

2016 Book List (38)

• We Are All Made of Stars by Rowan Coleman
• Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• The Forgotten Room by Karen White, et al
• All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
• The Dinner by Herman Koch
• Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
• Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
• The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
• Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica
• The Widow by Fiona Barton
• Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry
• Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
• Gathering Prey by John Sandford
• Extreme Prey by John Sandford
• Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
• The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt
• Most Wanted by Lisa Scottoline
• My Grandmother Asked me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrick Backman
• American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
• The Edge of Lost by Kristin McMorris
• Two If By Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• Angel Face: True Story Amanda Knox by Barbie Nadeau
• Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman
• The Last Midwife by Sandra Dallas
• Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich
• Walking On Water by Richard Paul Evans
• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• A Step of Faith by Richard Paul Evans
• The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Tougias
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• Miles to Go by Richard Paul Evans
• The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
• The Walk by Richard Paul Evans

2015 Book List (45)

• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
• Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
• Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
• The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
• The Shore by Sara Taylor
• in a dark, dark wood by Ruth Ware
• The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
• The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
• The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
• 13 Hours in Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff
• We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Cash Landing by James Grippando
• Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
• In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• The Glass Kitchen by Linda Francis Lee
• Her by Harriet Lane
• If You Were Here by Jen Lancaster
• The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Living Well Spending Less by Ruth Soukup
• Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline
• Stella Bain by Anita Shreve
• The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins
• What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey
• The Storyteller by Jodi Piccoult
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
• All We Had by Annie Weatherwax
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• Deadline by John Sandford
• The Star Garden by Sarah Agnes Prine
• The Nightingale by Krisin Hannah
• Sara's Quilt by Sarah Agnes Prine
• The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
• Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
• Gray Mountain by John Grisham
• This Is My Words by Sarah Agnes Prine
• The Wonder of All Things by Jason Mott
• Where She Went by Gayle Forman
• One Plus One by Jojo Moyes

2014 Book List (44)

• Shopoholic to the Stars by Sophie Kinsella
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
• Yes Please! by Amy Poehler
• if I stay by Gayle Forman
• You Before Me by JoJo Moyes
• You Can, You Will! by Joel Osteen
• The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
• The Antelope in the Living Room by Melanie Shankle
• The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
• We Were Liars by e. lockhart
• Beautiful Day by Elin Hilderbrand
• Friendswood by Rene Steinke
• This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
• All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
• Million Dollar Arm by J.B. Bernstein
• Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
• The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
• Barely Breathing by Rebecca Donovan
• Fields of Prey by John Stanford
• Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline
• The Death Cure by James Dashner
• The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
• Glitter and Glue: A Memoir by Kelly Corrigan
• The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
• Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich
• Reason to Breathe by Rebecca Donovan
• A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet by Sophie Hudson
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner
• The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
• Sparkly Green Earrings by Melanie Shankle
• Homeland: Carrie's Run by Andrew Kaplan
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• World War Z by Max Brooks
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Identical by Scott Turow

 2013 Book List (41)

• Sycamore Row by John Grisham
• Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
• Allegiant by Veronica Roth
• Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
• Safe House by Chris Ewan
• The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
• Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
• The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
• Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella
• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
• Silken Prey by John Sandford
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
• Fire Witness by Lars Kepler
• Don't Go by Lisa Scottoline
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
• Gold by Chris Cleave
• Reached by Ally Condie
• The Racketeer by John Grisham
• The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
• The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
• Crossed by Ally Condie
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
• The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
• The Twelve by Justin Cronin
• What We Saw At Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
• Mad River by John Sandford
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
• Unglued by Lysa Terkeurs

2012 Book List (from March to December)

• Every Day by David Levithan
• Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
• The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
• Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly
• Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
• 15 Seconds by Andrew Gross
• Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos
• Black List by Brad Thor
• Matched by Ally Condie
• The Nightmare by Lars Kepler
• Defending Jacob by William Landay
• Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Spilled Blood by Brian Freeman
• 12.21 by Dustin Thomason
• The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
• Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
• Come Home by Lisa Scottoline
• Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
• Stolen Prey by John Sandford
• Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
• Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
• The World of Downton Abbey by Jullien Fellows
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth
• The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
• The Litagators by John Grisham
• Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
• Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
• Shock Wave by John Sandford
• Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
• Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• The Descendents by Kaui Hart
• Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Maggie by Charles Martin
• The Dead Don't Dance by Charles Martin
• 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson