Category: books

(I’m going to add Amazon affiliate links to my list slowly over time.)

(Bold means finished) (*denotes a book on my “Recommended by Friends 2024” list)

1. The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams
2. Easter Basket Murder by Leslie Meier, Barbara Ross & Lee Hollis
3. The Little Lost Library by Ellery Adams
4. Murder on Cape Cod by Maddie Day
5. We came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado
6. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
7. The Whispered Word by Ellery Adams
8. Ink & Shadows by Ellery Adams
9. The Vanishing Type by Ellery Adams
10. The Book of Candlelight by Ellery Adams
11. The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
12. A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
13. Songs of No Providence by Lydi Conklin
14. Turning to Birds by Lili Taylor
15. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
16. How to lose your mother by Molly Jong-Fast
17. We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne marie brown
18. Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
19. The Women by Kristin Hannah
20. House of Earth & Blood, Part 1 by Sarah J. Maas
21. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
22. Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
23. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
24. I Won’t Shut Up by Ally Henny
25. Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspe
26. *Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
27. *The Giver by Lois Lowry
28. *Insomnia by Stephen King (in process)
29. *Classic Collection of Short Stories by John Steinbeck
30. *Summerland by Michael Chabon
31. *Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
32. *Believe Me by Eddie Izzard (in process)
33. *Star of Life by Rick Ellyn
34. *The Language of Bodies by Suzanne Dewitt Hall
35. *The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
36. *Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
37. *Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
38. *The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
39. *The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
40. *The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi
41. *The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood
42. *Transformations by Anne Sexton
43. *Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
44. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
45. Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn (in process)
46. Come as you are by Emily Nagoski
47. Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler
48. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
49. The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
50. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
51. I will always write back by Caitlin Alifrenka
52. In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forche
53. Conflict is not abuse by Sarah Schulman
54. Let’s talk about hard things by Anna Sale
55. The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher L. Heuertz
56. The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna
57. Making a Living without a job by Barbara J. Winter
58. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
59. Divine Rebels by Caroline Myss and Andrew Harvey
60. All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge by Nathan Monk
61. Russian Sleeper Cell by Nathan Monk
62. Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger by Justin Murphy
63. Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
64. The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
65. Hope by Marc Levy
66. The Code Breaker by Isaac Isaacson
67. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
68. Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn
69. No Walls and the Recurring Dream by Ani DiFranco
70. Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller
71. Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine
72. Bone Music by Christopher Rice
73. The Flux by Ferrett Steinmetz
74. Rain Girl by Gabi Kreslehner
75. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
76. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
77. The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
78. How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge by Clay Scroggins
79. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
80. Becoming by Michelle Obama
81. Nonbinary. Memoirs of Gender and Identity
82. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
83. A Demon in my view by Ruth Rendell
84. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
85. 1776 by David McCullough
86. The Virgin of Prince Street by Sonja Livingston
87. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
88. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
89. A Season in Hell by Rimbaud
90. The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
91. Killer Reunion by G.A. McKevett
92. The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
93. Sami Blood
94. The Heart Keeper by Alex Dahl
95. Alfons Mucha 1860-1939 : master of art nouveau by Renate Ulmer
96. The little old lady who broke all the rules by Catherina Ingelman-Sundberg
97. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
98. More Myself by Alicia Keys
99. Beloved by Toni Morrison
100. American Dirt
101. The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
102. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
103. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
104. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
105. A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
106. How to argue with a racist by Adam Rutherford