Books Completed & Reviewed in 2016
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet (audio)
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (audio)
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes (audio)
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Wonderland by Stacey D’Erasmo (audio)
The Perfect Girl by Gilly MacMillan
Siracusa by Delia Ephron (audio)
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell (audio)
The Longest Night by Andria Williams
Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West (audio)
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh (audio)
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (audio)
The BFG by Road Dahl (audio)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (audio)
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Us by David Nicholls (audio)
Shelter by Jung Yun
Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta (audio)
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld (audio)
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
The Girls by Emma Cline
Boys in the Trees by Carly Simon
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (audio)
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai (audio)
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art (audio)
The Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton
The Girls From Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe (audio)
High Dive by Jonathan Lee
Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead (audio)
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood (audio)
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (audio)
Dumped: Mockery, Blame, Revenge & Other Coping Strategies for Women by Jade Edgal
The North Water by Ian McGuire
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (audio)
The Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala (audio)
Americanah by by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pioneer Girl by by Bich Minh Nguyen (audio)
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (audio)
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (audio)
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
North of Boston by by Elisabeth Elo (audio)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Books Completed & Reviewed in 2017
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin (audio)
The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close
The Unseen World by Liz Moore (audio)
The Dry by Jane Harper
Benediction by Kent Haruf (audio)
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
Last Days of Night by Graham Moore (audio)
It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario (audio)
The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman (audio)
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (audio)
Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler (audio)
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
10:04 by Ben Lerner (audio)
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (audio)
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (audio)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (audio)
American War by Omar El Akkad
Purity by Jonathan Franzen (audio)
Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel (audio)
White Fur by Jardine Libaire
The Circle by Dave Eggers (audio)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
A Separation by Katie Kitamura (audio)
Before the Wind by Jim Lynch
Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane (audio)
Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie (audio)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif (audio)
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (audio)
The Locals by Jonathan Dee
The Lightkeeper’s Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol (audio)
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde
Holding by Graham Norton (audio)
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (audio)
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld (audio)
I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives by Roberto Canessa (audio)
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel (audio)
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Sourdough by Robin Sloan (audio)
The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron
Brother by David Chariandy
Unstoppable: My Life So Far by Maria Sharapova (audio)
Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (audio)
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
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