Books Completed & Reviewed in 2020
Embrace That Girl by Cris Ramos Greene
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
A Mother’s Promise by Boy Maywal
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
Autobioscenes & Necrographies by Norman Weeks
Surrender by Marylee MacDonald
Migrations by Charlotte McConaughy
Unreal: Adventures of a Family by Phil McDonald
These Women by Ivy Pochoda
Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington
Assume Nothing: A Memoir of Intimate Violence by Tanya Selvaratnam
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Help! I Married an Alien by Carolyn V. Hamilton
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Monogamy by Sue Miller
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
I Give It to You by Valerie Martin
What’s Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature’s Most Elusive Birds
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
A Bookshop in Berlin by Francoise Frenkel
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Prairie Fever by Michael Parker
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
The Falling Woman by Richard Farrell
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
The End of October by Lawrence Wright
Heft by Liz Moore
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh
You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman
The German House by Annette Hess
The Cactus League by Emily Nemens
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage & Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
The Holdout by Graham Moore
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
A Keeper by Graham Norton
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
The Innocents by Michael Crummey
The Yellow House by Sarah H. Broom
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Books Completed & Reviewed in 2021
1) Griffin’s Heart: Mourning Your Pet With No Apologies by Reagin J. Pasternak
2) The Puma Years: A Memoir by Laura Coleman
3) Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
4) Get Money Do Good by J.D. Vermaas
5) The Moth and the Moutain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest by Ed Caesar
6) At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman
7) Dr. Insomniac by Samantha Polisetti
8) Higher Faster Longer: My Life in Aviation and My Quest for Spaceflight by Wally Funk
9) Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II by Bruce McCandless III
10) Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to Her Son by Homeira Qaderi
11) Single, Again, and Again, and Again … by Louisa Pateman
12) The Betty Body by Stephanie Estima
13) The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
14) To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
15) A Burning by Megha Majumdar
16)) How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
17) The Push by Ashley Audrain
18) Summer-Water by Sarah Moss
19) All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
20) We Germans by Alexander Starritt
21) We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
22) Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
23) Dear Ann by Bobbie Ann Mason
24) In Royal Service to the Queen by Tessa Arlen
25) Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
26) The Truants by Kate Weinberg
27) The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
28) The Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh
29) Petra by Shaena Lambert
30) God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney
31) Northern Spy by Flynn Berry
32) Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
33) The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson
34) The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
35) The Ballad of Laurel Springs by Janet Beard
36) The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood
37) Who Is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews
38) A Little Hope by Ethan Joella
39) The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
40) Suiza by Benedicte Belpois
41) Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
42) Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
43) Eternal Night at the Nature Museum by Tyler Barton
44) When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
45) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
46) Orphans of the Storm by Celia Imrie
47) The Plot of Jean Hanff Korelitz
48) Indians on Vacation by Thomas King
49) We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
50) The End of Getting Lost by Robin Kirman
51) Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
52) Passing by Nella Larsen
53) When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East by Quan Barry
54) Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
55) A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris
56) Nightshift by Kiare Ladner
57) Astra by Cedar Bowers
58) The Great Mrs. Elias by Barbara Chase-Riboud
59) Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
60) The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
61) When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
62) Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
63) The Wise Women by Gina Sorell
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