2018 & 2019

Books Completed & Reviewed in 2018

Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks

The White Darkness by David Grann

The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim

From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein

Vi by Kim Thuy

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce

Tin Man by Sarah Winman

The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 

Varina by Charles Frazier

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Removes by Tatjana Soli

There There by Tommy Orange

The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese

Elmet by Fiona Mozley

Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peele Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

We Begin Our Ascent by Joe Mungo Reed

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Regeneration by Pat Barker

Love and Ruin by Paula McLain 

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

The Outsider: A Memoir by Jimmy Connors

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 

Tangerine by Christine Mangan

Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips

Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventures in the World of Underground Poker by Molly Bloom

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor 

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden

Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont

Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Brass by Xhenet Aliu

The Power by Naomi Alderman 

Need to Know by Karen Cleveland

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

The Party by Robyn Harding 

A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols

The Ex by Alafair Burke

Books Completed & Reviewed in 2019

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Those Who Knew by Idra Novey 

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Descent by Tim Johnston

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday 

Little by Edward Carey

We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction

The Falconer by Dana Czapnik

Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer

Elsey Come Home by Susan Conley

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani 

The Current by Tim Johnston

The River by Peter Heller

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson 

The Red Daughter by John Burnham Schwartz

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction & Purpose by Oprah Winfrey

Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life by Michael Caine

The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves

The Futures by Anna Pitoniak

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups and Winning at All Costs by Tyler Hamilton & Daniel Coyle

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee

Normal People by Sally Rooney

The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth

A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar

Recursion by Blake Crouch

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Need by Helen Phillips

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess

Severance by Ling Ma

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Inland by Tea Obrecht 

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis

The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

The Educations of an Idealist by Samantha Power

My Twenty-Five Years in Provence by Peter Mayle

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens

After the Flood by Kassandra Montag

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