Books Completed & Reviewed in 2022
1) Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
2) The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
3) This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
4) O Beautiful by Jung Yun
5) A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
6) Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
7) Holding Her Breath by Eimear Ryan
8) These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
9) Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng
10) Horse by Geraldine Brooks
11) These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
12) Recitatif by Toni Morrison
13) The Catch by Alison Fairbrother
14) The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon
15) The Midcoast by Adam White
16) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
17) Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
18) Assemby by Natasha Brown
19) Fire Season by Leyna Krow
20) Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry
21) Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
22) Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
23) The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
24) Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry
25) The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz
26) Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
27) Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
28) The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
29) The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
30) Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
31) The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens
32) The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
33) Putting the Rabbit in the Hat by Brian Cox
34) The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
35) Marmee by Sarah Miller
36) Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
37) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
38) Haven by Emma Donoghue
39) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
40) Two Against the Ice: A Classic Survival Story by Ejnar Mikkelsen
41) The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma
42) The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
43) On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
44) The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylvainen
45) On Animals by Susan Orlean
46) The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
47) The Maid by Nita Prose
48) Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas
49) Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
50) Natural History by Andrea Barrett
51) Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
52) The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
53) Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
54) The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
55) The Good House by Ann Leary
56) Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons From a Wise Old Dog by Jenna Blum
57) Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
58) Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
59) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
60) River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
61) The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
62) Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso
63) Foster by Claire Keegan
64) Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
65) A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
Books Completed & Reviewed in 2023
- Women Talking by Miriam Toews
- Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
- Still Life by Sarah Winman
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
- Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore
- Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
- Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
- The Librarianist by Patrick DeWitt
- The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger
- Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron
- A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
- Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
- Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
- The Sleeping Car by Suzette Mayr
- This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs
- Suspect by Scott Turrow
- The English Experience by Julie Schumacher
- Silver Alert by Lee Smith
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
- The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winton and Clementine’s Daughters by Rachel Trethewey
- Road Ends by Mary Lawson
- The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Maame by Jessica George
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- Fire in the Canyon by Daniel Gumbiner
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- On Hitler’s Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood by Irmgard A. Hunt
- The Postcard by Anne Berest
- Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
- Go As a River by Shelley Read
- The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis
- Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
- The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
- The Premonition by Michael Lewis
- The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
- The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- Island Home by Tim Winton
- The Observer by Marina Endicott
- This Other Eden by Paul Harding
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Bennedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
- The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
- Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
- The Last Ranger by Peter Heller
- Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
- Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper
- The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
- So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
- Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
- City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita
- You Could Make This a Beautiful Place by Maggie Smith
