Books Read 2008 - Present

In 2008, I read 50 books, and decided to make it an ongoing goal.  Some years, I'm closer than others. I adjusted my goal down, but in 2023 I finally beat my goal, and decided to make it a little higher again. I hope that someday I'll be back to a 50 book year!  You can click on the book covers to go to Goodreads, where I post ratings and sometimes reviews.

2024 - 20 Book Goal

Read in 2024

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
Then She Was Gone
We Used To Live Here
She Started It
Watch Me Disappear
The Family Upstairs
Black Sheep
Nightbitch
The Last Housewife
The Midnight Library
I Have Some Questions for You
The Invocations
Paris: The Memoir
Eruption
The Adventures of John the Pig 1


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2023 - 18 Books

Read in 2023

Spare
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
The Passing Playbook
This Thing Between Us
The Cage
Verity
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Slammed
They Both Die at the End
The Island
The Personal Assistant
The Club
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
The Silent Woman
What Lies in the Woods
I Did It for You
Gone Too Long
Live Your Best Lie
The Writing Retreat


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2022 - 7 Books

Read in 2022

Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis


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2021 - 7 Books

Read in 2021

The Lost World
Micro


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2020 - 7 Books

Read in 2020

Meaty
The Testaments
The Flight Attendant
Give Me Your Hand
Unwelcome Guests
Big Little Lies
Truly Madly Guilty


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2019 - 9 Books


Read in 2019

Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass
The Outsider
aPHR Exam Preparation 2018 Edition
Serpentine
Ask Again, Yes
Behind Closed Doors
Mistress of Justice
Fates and Furies
XO
The Unit


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2018 - 24 Books

Read in 2018

The Lost World
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Solitude Creek
The Only Girl in the World
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Artemis
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
The Rules Do Not Apply
Click'd
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
The Argonauts
The Ex
The Hate U Give
Jurassic Park
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner


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2017 - 31 Books


Read in 2017

Orange Is the New Black
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter


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2016 - 27 Books

Read in 2016

Yes Please
A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and girls
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
What Was Mine
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Yes, Chef


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2015 - 18 Books

2015

The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex, and the Science of Attraction


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2014 - 15 Books

2014 - 15 Books

The Andromeda Strain
Mockingjay
What Alice Forgot
Inferno
The Circle
Someday, Someday, Maybe
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
A Game of Thrones
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The Rosie Project
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
Please, Sir: Erotic Stories of Female Submission
Bird Box
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
A Case of Need


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2013 - 44 Books

2013 - 44 Books

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Secrets of Eden
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic
Before I Fall
Roadside Crosses
The Dead-Tossed Waves
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Starters
The Selection
The Fault in Our Stars
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
Reached
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Monument 14
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
The Magicians
The Knife of Never Letting Go


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2012 - 58 Books
2011 - 50 Books


2011 - 50 Books

The Red Pyramid
Baby Er: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tinies Miracles
Room
The Egypt Game
Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs
Pirate Latitudes
Sarah's Key
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Matched
I Am Number Four
Dead Reckoning
The Son of Neptune
Me Times Three
Dead in the Family
Dark Life
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Hit List
The Anubis Gates
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
House Rules


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2010 - 36 Books

2010 - 36 Books

The Lightning Thief
The Last Olympian
Flirt
Bullet
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Catching Fire
The Help
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Hunger Games
Mockingjay
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Lost Symbol
People of the Book
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Lost Hero
Shanghai Girls
Wicked Lovely
Tempted
The Sea of Monsters


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2009 - 37 Books

2009 - 37 Books

Magic Street
The Cobra Event
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
Skin Trade
Divine Misdemeanors
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Lovely Bones
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
City of Bones
Escape
Hunted
Definitely Dead
Blue Bloods
The Van Alen Legacy
Masquerade
Revelations
Gentlemen and Players
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism


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2008 - 50 Books

2008 - 50 Books

Jurassic Park
The Lost World
The Harlequin
Blood Noir
A Lick of Frost
Swallowing Darkness
The Time Traveler's Wife
Breaking Dawn
Eclipse
The Host
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The City of Ember
Marked
The Bell Jar
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Clueless
Betrayed
Dead as a Doornail
Chosen
Untamed


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