Books Read in 2025

Everything I read in 2025. I only posted monthly reviews in 2025, apart from maybe one separate review (of The Eights by Joanna Miller, posted in April) so while each book has a link, almost every book's link for a particular month leads to the same monthly wrap-up. 

January:

1. Second Best - David Foenkinos

2. Angry Weather - Friederike Otto

3. Peace is Every Breath - Thich Nhat Hanh

4. Twelve Moons - Mary Oliver

5. Cat + Gamer, Volume 5 - Wataru Nadatani (ebook read via Hoopla)

6. Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea - Ashley Herring Blake

7. How the Penguins Saved Veronica - Hazel Prior

8. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (ebook read via Hoopla)

9. Saplings - Noel Streatfeild

10. Charles & Ray: Designers at Play - James Yang

11. McSweeney's #75, Ed. by Eggers, Yeh, and Horowitz

12. The Rainfall Market - You Yeong-Gwang

13. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay 

14. Ties - Domenico Starnone

15. Walter Anderson for Children - the Mississippi State Historical Museum

February:

16. Fobbit - David Abrams 

17. Too Bright to See - Kyle Lukoff

18. Vintage Hughes - Langston Hughes

19. Dataclysm - Christian Rudder

20. Queen of the Falls - Chris Van Allsburg

21. Key Lime Sky - Al Hess (ebook, purchased)

22. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. - Judy Blume

23. Tory Heaven - Marghanita Laski

24. Severance - Ling Ma

25. Cat + Gamer, Volume 6 - Wataru Nadatani (ebook read via Hoopla)

26. Taste - Stanley Tucci

27. The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker

28. A Winter Book - Tove Jansson

March:

29. The Lost Library - Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass

30. Women - Chloé Caldwell (ebook read via Hoopla)

31. The Ghost Cat - Alex Howard

32. Sweet Bean Paste - Durian Sukegawa

33. McSweeney's #70, ed. by Boyle, Eggers, and Yeh

34. A House in the Country - Jocelyn Playfair

35. McSweeney's #77, ed. by Eggers and Yeh 

36. Mare's War - Tanita S. Davis

37. Deenie - Judy Blume

38. My Jasper June - Laurel Snyder 

39. The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 11 - Kousuke Oono

40. Lake Life - David James Poissant

April:

41. Meditations: On the Monk Who Dwells in Daily Life - Thomas Moore

42. Cat + Gamer, Vol. 7 - Wataru Nadatani (ebook read via Hoopla)

43. Whose Boat is This Boat? - The Staff of the Late Show, Stephen Colbert, Andrew Boneta, and John Henry

44. The Eights - Joanna Miller

45. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories - Kate Atkinson

46. Castle of Water - Dane Huckelbridge

47. Becoming Dr. Q - Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa

48. Modern Poetry - Diane Suess

49. The Wartime Book Club - Kate Thompson

50. Wilfred and Eileen - Jonathan Smith

51. This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

May:

52. The Ice Monster - David Walliams

53. Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams 

54. Idle Grounds - Krystelle Bamford

55. The Best of Reader's Digest: Timeless Favorites

56. Dust - Dusti Bowling

57. Hedy's Journey - Michelle Bisson and El Primo Ramón

58. Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico

59. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love - bell hooks

60. Room on the Sea - André Aciman

61. The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

June:

62. A Thousand Mornings - Mary Oliver

63. Blubber - Judy Blume

64. The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy

65. When We Were Birds - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

66. Cats on Catnip - Andrew Marttila (ebook read via Hoopla)

67. Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship - Victor Appleton, II

68. Indian Country - Gwendolen Cates

69. The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Andersen and Blair Lent

70. A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit

71. The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong

72. Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas, adapted by Cerys Matthews, Illus. by Kate Evans

73. Letters from Rapunzel - Sarah Lewis Holmes

74. The Full Moon Coffee Shop - Mai Mochizuki

July: 

75. Wonder - E. J. Palacio

76. Generation X - Douglas Coupland

77. The Great Unexpected - Sharon Creech

78. Bluets - Maggie Nelson

79. Thieves' Dozen - Donald E. Westlake

80. Eight of Swords - David Skibbins

81. Then Again, Maybe I Won't - Judy Blume

82. Count - Melvin Burgess (ebook read via Hoopla)

83. Musical Tables: Poems - Billy Collins

84. High Wages - Dorothy Whipple

85. Walking Words - Eduardo Galeano

86. Take Me With You - Andrea Gibson

87. A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice - Rebecca Connolly

88. Sea of Rust - C. Robert Cargill

August:

89. Perry Mason: The Case of the Rolling Bones - Erle Stanley Gardner

90. Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane

91. Miguel Street - V. S. Naipaul

92. And Then, BOOM! - Lisa Fipps

93. Catwings Return - Ursula K. Le Guin (#2 of the Catwings series)

94. The Answer is No - Fredrik Backman (ebook)

95. William, an Englishman - Cicely Hamilton

96. Well Done - Barbara Morrow

97. Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

98. The Fall of Kelvin Walker - Alasdair Gray

99. Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin (First in the Catwings series)

100. Catwings Return - Ursula Le Guin (reread of #2 in the Catwings series)

101. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin (#3 in the Catwings series)

102. Jane on Her Own - Ursula K. Le Guin (#4 in the Catwings series)

103. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

104. The Faceless Adversary - Frances and Richard Lockridge

September:

105. Postcard Poems - Jeanne Griggs

106. Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger

107. Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child - Thich Nhat Hanh

108. One for Sorrow - Mary Downing Hahn (ebook/Hoopla)

109. The Bletchley Riddle - Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

110. Galápagos - Kurt Vonnegut

111. The Last Dragon on Mars (The Dragonships #1) by Scott Reintgen

112. The Recovery Agent (Gabriela Rose #1) by Janet Evanovich

113. The Day the World Stopped Turning - Michael Morpurgo

October:

114. There Was a Party for Langston - Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey, and Jarratt Pumphrey (audiobook/Hoopla)

115. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe - Steve Sheinkin

116. Alfred Hitchcock's Stories NOT for the Nervous, ed. by Hitchcock

117. Separation of Church and Hate - John Fugelsang

118. The Magic Fish - Trung Le Nguyen

119. Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Cat - Sara Swan Miller and True Kelley

120. The Fox in the Library - Lorenz Pauli and Kathrin Schärer

121. There's a Ghost in this House - Oliver Jeffers

122. Letters from the Lighthouse - Emma Carroll

123. Alone - Megan E. Freeman

124. Mr. Willowby's Head Over Heels Christmas - Robert Barry

125. Rogue Male - Geoffrey Household

126. Away - Megan E. Freeman

127. Jenny and the Cat Club - Esther Averill

128. Lifeboat 12 - Susan Hood

129. The Complete Flying Officer X Stories - H. E. Bates

November:

130. Hurricane Girl - Marcy Dermansky

131. Ghost Town - Richard W. Jennings

132. I Love You, Michael Collins - Lauren Baratz-Logsted

133. Look Both Ways - Jason Reynolds

134. Repairing the Heartbreak of Pet Loss Grief - C. Jeffrey

135. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering - Thich Nhat Hanh

136. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans

137. After Kenyon - Jeanne Griggs

138. On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood - Irmgard A. Hunt

139. The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani

140. Despised and Rejected - Rose Allatini

141. A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers

142. The Copper Treasure - Melvin Burgess

December:

143. Jane Goodall - Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara and Beatrice Cerocchi

144. Don't Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words - Viola Ford Fletcher

145. The School for Cats - Esther Averill

146. Ollie's Ski Trip - Elsa Beskow

147. The Story of the Snow Children - Sibylle von Olfers

148. A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

149. A Pirate's Night Before Christmas - Philip Yates and Sebastià Serra Bonilla

150. The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg

151. The 12 Days of Christmas: A Pop-Up Celebration - Robert Sabuda

152. The Little Reindeer - Nicola Killen

153. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Suess

154. The Christmas Owl - G. Sterer, E. Kalish, and R. Kaulitzki

155. The Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore and A. J. Caparo

156. A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote and Beth Peck

157. Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree - Robert Barry

158. The Truth Pixie - Matt Haig and Chris Mould

159. The Night War - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

160. A Lot Like Christmas - Connie Willis

161. The Snowman - Raymond Briggs

162. Journey into Christmas and Other Stories - Bess Streeter Aldrich 

163. Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman, ed. by Karen Karbiener, illus. by Kate Evans

164. When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funke

165. The Gospel According to James Baldwin: What America's Great Prophet Can Teach Us About Life, Love, and Identity - Greg Garrett

166. The Madness Vase: Poems - Andrea Gibson (ebook/Hoopla)

167. The Wall - Marlen Haushofer

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Books Read in 2024

Everything I read in 2024. I only posted monthly reviews in 2024 so while each book has a link, every book's link for a particular month leads to the same monthly wrap-up. 

January:

1. Owls and Other Fantasies - Mary Oliver

2. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - R. A. Dick

3. The Unteachables - Gordon Korman

4. The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hanh 

5. In a Flash - Donna Jo Napoli

6. Cats in Hats - Jo Clark

7. I Hope This Finds You Well - Kate Baer

8. Before Your Memory Fades (Tales from the Café #3) - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

9. Siam - Lily Tuck 

10. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr. 

11. Once Upon a Tim - Stuart Gibbs

12. Juliàn is a Mermaid - Jessica Love

13. Silence by Thich Nhat Hanh

14. Shubeik Lubiek - Deena Mohamed

15. The Labyrinth of Doom (Once Upon a Tim #2) - Stuart Gibbs

16. Faraway Places - Tom Spanbauer

February:

17. The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 7 - Kousuke Oono

18. How to be Both - Ali Smith

19. The Lilies of the Field - William E. Barrett 

20. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout

21. The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

22. Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto

23. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh

24. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin

25. The Wild Robot - Peter Brown

26. You Are Here - Thich Nhat Hanh (reread)

27. Rabbit-Proof Fence - Doris Pilkington

March:

28. The Actual - Saul Bellow

29. The Bodyguard - Katherine Center

30. The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot #2) - Peter Brown

31. The Valley of Adventure (Adventure series #3) - Enid Blyton

32. Earthlings - Sayaka Murata

33. The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 8 - Kousuke Oono

34. Clara Reads Proust - Stéphane Carlier

35. Fear - Thich Nhat Hanh

36. Spy School: The Graphic Novel - Stuart Gibbs and Anjan Sarkar

37. One-Two - Igor Eliseev

38. Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra (Charlie Thorne #3) - Stuart Gibbs

39. Gaffer Samson's Luck - Jill Paton Walsh

40. The Obesity Code - Jason Fung, MD

41. And Yet - Kate Baer

April:

42. Ruby Parker Hits the Small Time - Rowan Coleman

43. I Will Not Die Alone - Dera White and Joe Bennett

44. Mean Spirit - Linda Hogan

45. The Road to Roswell - Connie Willis

46. Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

47. We Rule the Night - Claire Eliza Bartlett

48. Spy X Family, Vol. 11 - Tatsuya Endo

49. The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson

50. The Bookshop - Penelope Lively

May:

51. Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann

52. The Hopkins Manuscript - R. C. Sherriff

53. Otis and the Kittens - Loren Long

54. Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Little Golden Book - Diane Muldrow

55. Glitch - Laura Martin

56. French Windows - Antoine Laurain

57. Clarice the Brave - Lisa McMann

58. Sipsworth - Simon Van Booy

59. Ordinary People - Judith Guest

60. Arsenic and Old Lace - Joseph Kesselring

61. Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier - Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith

62. Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

63. Vertical Run - Joseph Garber

64. No Better Medicine - Kelly Meister-Yetter

June:

65. 100 Sideways Miles - Andrew Smith

66. Upgrade - Blake Crouch

67. Crazy Brave - Joy Harjo

68. Color of the Sea - John Hamamura

69. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto

70. The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 9 - Kousuke Oono

71. Turtles All the Way Down - John Green

72. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson

73. Apartment 713 - Kevin Sylvester

74. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

75. Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

76. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida

77. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayamm, translated by Edward Fitzgerald

July:

78. Brat: An 80s Story - Andrew McCarthy

79. Where the Sky Lives - Margaret Dilloway

80. The Woman in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe

81. Anxious People - Fredrik Backman

82. McSweeney's Anthology of Contemporary Literature (74th Edition), Ed. by Claire Boyle

83. The Measure - Nikki Erlick

84. The President's Hat - Antoine Laurain

85. The Watch That Ends the Night - Allan Wolf

86. Earthlings - Richard Kalvar

87. Book Uncle and Me - Uma Krishnaswami

August:

88. The Sea of Adventure (Adventure #4) - Enid Blyton

89. A Quantum Love Story - Mike Chen

90. Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles #2) - Joan Aiken

91. Wallace the Brave - Will Henry

92. The Truth According to Ember - Danica Nava

93. Nightbirds on Nantucket (The Wolves Chronicles #3) - Joan Aiken

94. The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 10 - Kousuke Oono

95. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - Chris Van Allsburg

96. Comet in Moominland - Tove Jansson

97. Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet - Thich Nhat Hanh

September:

98. The Love of My Afterlife - Kirsty Greenwood

99. Wool (Silo #1) - Hugh Howey

100. Before We Say Goodbye (Tales from the Cafe #4) - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

101. Three Rivers Rising - Jame Richards

102. Cat + Gamer, Vol. 1 - Wataru Nadatani

103. The Haunting of Maddy Clare - Simone St. James

104. Just a Dream - Chris Van Allsburg

105. Pretty Little London - Sara Santini and Andrea Di Filippo

106. Dark Tales - Shirley Jackson

107. Dial A for Aunties - Jesse Q. Sutanto

October:

108. I'm Glad My Mother Died - Jennette McCurdy

109. Cat + Gamer, Vol. 2 - Wataru Nadatani

110. The Elson Reader, Book Two - William H. Elson and Lura Runkel

111. The Mountain of Adventure (Adventure #5) - Enid Blyton

112. Afterland - Mai Der Vang

113. Antarctica - Claire Keegan

114. Go, Sled! Go! - James Yang

115. Scritch Scratch - Lindsay Currie

116. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham

117. Whale Day - Billy Collins 

118. Cat + Gamer, Vol. 3 - Wataru Nadatani

119. Little Witch - Anna Elizabeth Bennett

November:

120. Assistant to the Villain - Hannah Nicole Maehrer

121. Weyward - Emilia Hart

122. Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson

123. Hanami: You, Me, and 200 Square Feet in Japan - Julia Cejas

124. The Shelterlings - Sarah Beth Durst

125. Termush - Sven Holm

126. Cat + Gamer, Vol. 4 - Wataru Nadatani

127. The Lost Bookshop - Evie Woods

128. Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti

129. Small Bomb at Dimperley - Lissa Evans

130. The Grift of the Magi - Ally Carter 

December:

131. White Cat, Black Dog - Kelly Link

132. The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg

133. The Little Reindeer - Nicola Killen

134. Ollie's Ski Trip - Elsa Beskow

135. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Suess

136. The Story of the Snow Children - Sibylle von Olfers

137. A Pirate's Night Before Christmas - Philip Yates and Sebastian Serra

138. Sipsworth - Simon Van Booy

139. Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree - Robert E. Barry

140. A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote

141. The Snowman - Raymond Briggs 

142. The Christmas Owl - G. Sterer, E. Kalish, R. Kaulitzki

143. A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

144. The Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore

145. Orbital - Samantha Harvey

146. Five on a Treasure Island (The Famous Five, #1) - Enid Blyton

147. Strongmen - Ruth Ben-Ghiat

148. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, ed. by Ada Limon

149. Kids' Short Story Advent Calendar, from Hingston and Olsen

150. The Fabulous Zed Watson - Basil and Kevin Sylvester

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Books Read in 2021

January:

1. Heart Berries - Terese Marie Mailhot
2. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World - Fareed Zakaria
3. Dragon Mountain - Katie and Kevin Tsang
4. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline - George Saunders
5. Georgana's Secret - Arlem Hawks
6. Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3) - Martha Wells
7. Bobcat - Rebecca Wells
8. The Evening Chorus - Helen Humphreys
9. Shock Wave (Pick Your Fate #2) - Jack Heath
10. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
11. The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton

February:

12. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It - Maile Meloy
13. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler
14. In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway 
15. Apex Hides the Hurt - Colson Whitehead
16. The Widow of Pale Harbor - Hester Fox
17. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise - Dan Gemeinhart

March:

18. Vintage 1954 - Antoine Laurain
19. Climate Change and How We'll Fix It - Alice Harman and Andrés Lozano
20. List of Ten - Halli Gomez
21. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
22. Sweet Bean Paste - Durian Sukegawa
23. Bindu's Bindis - Supriya Kelkar and Parvati Pillai
24. Retrograde - Peter Cawdron
25. Band of Sisters - Lauren Willig
26. Mosquitoland - David Arnold
27. Reader's Digest War Stories - Reader's Digest Association

April:

28. Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Yawaguchi
29. Take Three Girls - Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell, and Fiona Wood
30. Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
31. Milkman - Anna Burns
32. Edmund the Elephant Who Forgot - Kate Dalgleish and Isobel Lundie
33. Aven Green Sleuthing Machine - Dusty Bowling and Gina Perry
34. The Last Night in London - Karen White
35. Code Talker - Joseph Bruchac

May:

36. The Little Spacecraft that Could - Joyce Lapin and Simona Ceccarelli
37. The Gap - Benjamin Gilmour
38. The Magician's Elephant - Kate DiCamillo
39. Rose Mellie Rose - Marie Redonnet
40. Night Came with Many Stars - Simon Van Booy
41. The Address - Fiona Davis
42. The Temple House Vanishing - Rachel Donohue
43. Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang

June:

44. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
45. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
46. Remo: The Adventure Begins - Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
47. Summer - Edith Wharton
48. The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
49. To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han
50. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
51. They Came Like Swallows - William Maxwell

July:

52. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
53. Regretting You - Colleen Hoover
54. The Wartime Sisters - Lynda Cohen Loigman
55. Splat the Cat: I Scream for Ice Cream - Laura Driscoll, Robert Eberz, Rick Farley
56. The Girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Daré
57. Aven Green Baking Machine - Dusti Bowling and Gina Perry
58. Fox 8 - George Saunders

August:

59. When We Were Young - Richard Roper
60. Where is Our Library? - Josh Funk and Stevie Lewis
61. Once Upon a Goat - Dan Richards and Eric Barclay
62. Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat (Klawde #1) - Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
63. Klawde: The Spacedog Cometh (Klawde #3) - Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
64. The Invisible Woman - Erika Robuck
65. Klawde: Target: Earth (Klawde #3) - Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
66. The Merchant and the Rogue (The Dread Penny Society #3) by Sarah M. Eden
67. Wish - Barbara O'Connor
68. Pastoralia - George Saunders

September: 

69. The Long and Living Shadow - Daoma Winston
70. Ungifted - Gordon Korman
71. The Matchmaker's Lonely Heart - Nancy Campbell Allen
72. South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
73. So Much Life Left Over - Louis de Bernières
74. Golden State - Ben H. Winters
75. Gobbolino the Witch's Cat - Ursula Moray Williams
76. Spy School (Spy School #1) - Stuart Gibbs
77. The Lighthouse Witches - C. J. Cooke
78. Throwback (Throwback #1) - Peter Lerangis
79. The Boatman - Billy O'Callaghan

October:

80. September Moon - John Moore
81. The Birds and Other Stories - Daphne du Maurier

82. The Apothecary - Maile Meloy

83. Lost Love's Return - Alfred Nicols

84. Evil Spy School (Spy School #3) - Stuart Gibbs

85. The Sundial - Shirley Jackson

86. Walrus Song - Janet Lawler and Timothy Basil Ering

87. Throwback: The Chaos Loop (Throwback #2) - Peter Lerangis

88. Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

89. Throwback: Out of Time (Throwback #3) - Peter Lerangis

90. How to Astronaut - Terry Virts

November:

91. The London House - Katherine Read

92. Every Word Unsaid - Kimberly Duffy

93. Spy Ski School (Spy School #4) - Stuart Gibbs

94. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver

95. Duke, Actually - Jenny Holiday

96. Red is My Heart - Antoine Laurain and Le Sonneur

97. Two Girls, A Clock, and a Crooked House - Michael Poore

98. The Way We Weren't by Phoebe Fox

99. Dragon Mountain - Katie and Kevin Tsang (reread; link leads to first reading)

December: 

100. Dragon Legend - Katie and Kevin Tsang

101. A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

102. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson 

103. The Cat Who Saved Books - Sōsuke Natsukawa

104. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

105. A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote

106. Jane and the Year Without a Summer - Stephanie Barron

107. The Christmas Bookshop - Jenny Colgan

108. In a Holidaze - Christina Lauren

109. The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar, ed. by Alberto Manguel

110. The True Believer - Eric Hoffer

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Books Read in 2020

Links provided to all reviews (size of reviews varies). 

January:

1. Under the Jaguar Sun - Italo Calvino
2. You Were There Too - Colleen Oakley
3. What Red Was - Rosie Price
4. Sanditon - Jane Austen and Kate Riordan
5. Virus on Orbis 1: The Softwire - P. J. Haarsma
6. A Beginning at the End - Mike Chen
7. Almost Just Friends - Jill Shalvis
8. If Cats Disappeared from the World - Genki Kawamura
9. Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby - Matthew Inman
10. Dragonshadow - Elle Katharine White


February:

11. Strange Planet - Nathan W. Pyle
12. American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins
13. The Lion and the Lyceum - Alex Beene and Taylor Weidemann*
14. The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James
15. Crosstalk - Connie Willis
16. The World of Sanditon - Sara Sheridan
17. Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Y. Davis
18. Red, White, and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
19. The Antidote for Everything - Kimmery Martin
20. Nerp! - Sarah Lynne Reul

March:

21. Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid
22. Promised - Leah Garriott
23. A Murderous Relation - Deanna Raybourn
24. And They Called It Camelot - Stephanie Marie Thornton
25. Darling Rose Gold - Stephanie Wrobel
26. The Suicide Run - William Styron
27. The Song of the Tree - Coralie Bickford-Smith

April:

28. Flamebringer - Elle Katharine White
29. The Love Story of Missy Carmichael - Beth Morrey
30. The Secret Lives of People in Love - Simon Van Booy
31. Sailing Alone Around the Room - Billy Collins
32. The Big Finish - Brooke Fossey
33. Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix
34. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
35. Lakeshire Park - Megan Walker
36. Nature's Best Hope - Douglas W. Tallamy
37. The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany - Lori Nelson Spielman

May:

38. The Malady of Death - Marguerite Duras
39. Talkative Man - R. K. Narayan
40. All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) - Martha Wells
41. Orphan Monster Spy - Matt Killeen
42. Premeditated Myrtle - Elizabeth C. Bunce
43. The Paris Hours - Alex George
44. Psi-Man: Mind-Force Warrior (Psi-Man #1) - David Peters, aka Peter David
45. The Prisoner's Wife - Maggie Brookes

June:

46. Unflappable - Suzie Gilbert
47. Jacob the Baker - Noah ben Shea
48. Wow, No Thank You - Samantha Irby
49. The Jane Austen Society - Natalie Jenner
50. What You Wish For - Katherine Center
51. A Song Below Water - Bethany C. Morrow
52. Stranger Planet - Nathan W. Pyle
53. Devil Darling Spy - Matt Killeen
54. Bubble Kisses - Vanessa Williams and Tara Nicole Whitaker

July: 

55. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
56. The End of October - Lawrence Wright
57. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells
58. I Am I Am I Am - Maggie O'Farrell
59. The Good Girl - Mary Kubica
60. Stop! Bot! - James Yang
61. Tales from Outer Suburbia - Shaun Tan
62. The War I Finally Won - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
63. The Plains - Gerald Murnane
64. They Called Us Enemy - George Takei, Elsinger, Scott, and Becker
65. Too Much and Never Enough - Mary L. Trump
66. Dominicana - Angie Cruz
67. On the Island - Tracey Garvis Graves

August:

68. Where Are the Galapagos Islands? - Megan Stine
69. The City We Became - N. K. Jemison
70. Finna - Nino Cipri
71. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
72. Castle in the Clouds - Kerstin Gier
73. The Time of Green Magic - Hilary McKay
74. The Thing About Jellyfish - Ali Benjamin
75. Minnie's Room - Mollie Panter-Downes
76. The Readers' Room - Antoine Laurain
77. Agnes at the End of the World - Kelly McWilliams
78. Skunk and Badger - Amy Timberlake

September:

79. One Fine Day - Mollie Panter-Downes
80. Tokyo Ueno Station - Yū Miri
81. 5-Minute Pete the Cat Stories - James Dean
82. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Robert Dugoni
83. Challenger Deep - Neal Shusterman
84. Finna - Nate Marshall

85. Girl in the Blue Coat - Monica Hesse

86. Fear - Bob Woodward

87. The Magic in Changing Your Stars - Leah Henderson

88. Running Out of Time - Margaret Peterson Haddix

89. Becoming - Michelle Obama

90. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sánchez

October:

91. In Persuasion Nation - George Saunders

92. The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known - Ed. by Howard Zinn

93. Song of the Court - Katy Farina

94. Cat Knit - Jacob Grant

95. Writers and Lovers - Lily King

96. The Witch of Willow Hall - Hester Fox

97. Slade House - David Mitchell

98. The Wreck - Meg Keneally

99. All the Buildings in London: That I've Drawn So Far - James Gulliver Hancock

100. Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon

101. Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

102. Matrimony, Inc. - Francesca Beauman

103. I is for Illuminati - Chris Vola 

November: 

104. The Gentleman and the Thief - Sarah M. Eden

105. The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede

106. Jonesy Flux and the Gray Legion - James Pray

107. The Museum of Forgotten Memories - Anstey Harris

108. Trumpocracy - David Frum 

109. A Castaway in Cornwall - Julie Klassen

December:

110. One Day in December - Josie Silver

111. The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas - Madeleine L'Engle

112. A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote

113. A Little House Christmas - Laura Ingalls Wilder

114. Cold Granite - Stuart MacBride

115. A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

116. How to Walk Away - Katherine Center

117. 400 Minutes to Danger - Jack Heath

118. 2020 Short Story Advent Calendar - Various authors

119. How to Get Away with Myrtle - Elizabeth C. Bunce

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Books Read in 2019

2019 Reads (click on links to read reviews; some may be just a few sentences within a post)

January

1. Ten Kisses to Scandal - Vivienne Lorret
2. Friday Black (short stories) - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
3. Tomorrow is Waiting - Kiley Frank and Aaron Meshon
4. Vivian Maier: The Color Work - Colin Westerbeck, Vivian Maier (contributor)
5. Splinterlands - John Feffer
6. Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin, ed. by M. Taber and J. Riddell
7. Soon: What Science, Philosophy, Religion, and History Teach Us about the Surprising Power of Procrastination - Andrew Santella
8. 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don't Do - Amy Morin
9. The Gown - Jennifer Robson
10. Time is the Longest Distance - Janet Clare
11. Freefall - Jessica Barry
12. Howard's End - E. M. Forster
13. Kivalina: A Climate Change Story - Christine Shearer
14. Thunder Pug - Kim Norman and Keika Yamaguchi
15. A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks - Alice Faye Duncan and Xia Gordon
16. Mirabel's Missing Valentines - Janet Lawler and Olivia Chin Mueller
17. Fire and Forget - Ed. by Roy Scranton and Matt Gallagher
18. Old Baggage - Lissa Evans
19. Alpine Ballad - Vasil Bykau, translated by Mikalai Khilo

February

20. Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
21. The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber
22. Hedy Lamarr's Double Life - Laurie Wallmark and Katy Wu
23. Late in the Day - Tessa Hadley
24. The Girls at 17 Swann Street - Yara Zgheib
25. The Feed - Nick Clark Windo
26. As Summers Die - Winston Groom
27. Devil's Daughter - Lisa Kleypas
28. The Threat - Andrew McCabe
29. Learning to See - Elise Hooper

March

30. Lady Derring Takes a Lover - Julie Anne Long
31. Beast Rider - Tony Johnston and Maria Elena Fontenot de Rhoads
32. Operation Frog Effect by Sarah Scheerger and Gina Perry
33. A Dangerous Collaboration - Deanna Raybourn
34. The Last Year of the War - Susan Meissner
35. The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project - Lenore Applehans
36. When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree - Jamie L. B. Deenihan
37. A Little Chicken - Tammi Sauer
38. Just Read - Lori Degman and Victoria Tentler-Krylov
39. Some Days - Karen Kaufman-Orloff and Ziyue Chen
40. Holy Squawkamole! - Susan Wood and Laura Gonzalez
41. The Binding - Bridget Collins
42. Growing Season - Maryann Cocca-Leffler
43. What Happened - Hillary Rodham Clinton
44. The Awakening - Kate Chopin

April

45. My Coney Island Baby - Billy O'Callaghan
46. The Girl He Used to Know - Tracey Garvis Graves
47. Flubby is Not a Good Pet - J. E. Morris
48. Flubby Will Not Play with That - J. E. Morris
49. Anything But a Duke - Christy Carlyle
50. Molly Mischief: My Perfect Pet - Adam Hargreaves
51. Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat #1 - J. Marciano, E. Chenoweth, and R. Mommaerts
52. Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat #2: Enemies - J. Marciano, E. Chenoweth, and R. Mommaerts
53. Forbidden Area - Pat Frank
54. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters - Balli Kaur Jaswal
55. No Flying in the House - Betty Brock
56. Far Flung - Cassandra Kircher
57. On Democracy - E. B. White

May

58. Summer of a Thousand Pies - Margaret Dilloway
59. The Free Speech Century - Bollinger and Stone
60. There's Only One You - Kathryn Heling, Deborah Hembrook, and Rosie Butcher
61. Koala is Not a Bear - Kristin L. Gray and Rachel McAlister
62. Slinky Malinki's Cat Tales - Lynley Dodd
63. Pinky Got Out! - Michael Portis and Lori Richmond
64. The Size of the Truth - Andrew Smith
65. Butterflies on the First Day of School - Annie Silvestro and Dream Chen
66. If You Had Your Birthday Party on the Moon - Joyce Lapin and Simona Ceccarelli
67. Wunderland - Jennifer Cody Epstein
68. Shred Girls #1: Lindsay's Joyride - Molly Hurford
69. Rules for Visiting - Jessica Francis Kane
70. Oi Frog! - Kes Gray and Jim Field
71. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home - Tim O'Brien

June

72. Finding Orion - John David Anderson
73. Cat Poems - various authors
74. Things You Save in a Fire - Katherine Center
75. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
76. Map of the Heart - Susan Wiggs
77. Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim
78. Say No to the Duke - Eloisa James
79. Bad Order - B. B. Ullman
80. How Not to Die Alone - Richard Roper
81. Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

July

82. The Unspeakable Mind - Shaili Jain, M.D.
83. The Haunting of Henry Davis - Kathryn Siebel
84. Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami
85. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill - Abbi Waxman
86. The Confusion of Languages - Siobhan Fallon
87. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
88. Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok
89. Never Have I Ever - Joshilyn Jackson
90. Layover - David Bell
91. Meet Me in Monaco - Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

August

92. Storm Blown - Nick Courage
93. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction - J. D. Salinger
94. Rosie Colored Glasses - Brianna Wolfson
95. The Mueller Report: The Washington Post edition
      Quotes: Part 1
      Part 2: Quotes and Commentary 
      Part 3: Mostly Quotes
      Part 4: Final Quotes, Commentary, and Wrap-Up 
96. Normal People - Sally Rooney
97. Harry's Trees - Jon Cohen
98. The Passengers - John Marrs
99. The Rogue to Ruin - Vivienne Lorret
100. In Pain - Travis Rieder
101. The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri

September

102. Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus - Dusti Bowling
103. Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
104. Invisible as Air - Zoe Fishman
105. The Rent Collector - Camron Wright
106. Collage and Construction - Harvey Weiss
107. After the Flood - Kassandra Montag
108. No Judgments - Meg Cabot
109. The Nanny - Gilly Macmillan
110. When the Marquess Was Mine - Caroline Linden
111. The House on Tradd Street - Karen White

October

112. Cilka's Journey - Heather Morris
113. The End of Something Wonderful - Stephanie Lucianovic and George Ermos
114. Moldilocks and the Three Scares - Lynne Marie and David Rodriguez Lorenzo
115. The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh - Supriya Kelkar and Alea Marley with Simran Jeet Singh
116. Summary of the Mueller Report - Thomas E. Patterson
****I Guess I'll Write It Down (journal) by Beth Evans
117. The Cats of Tanglewood Forest - Charles de Lint and Charles Vess
118. Earth to Charlie - Justin Olson
119. Where the Angels Lived - Margaret McMullan
120. 25 Days 'Til Christmas - Poppy Alexander
121. The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street - Karen White

November

122. Dead Voices - Katherine Arden
123. Vox - Christina Dalcher
124. Small Spaces - Katherine Arden
125. Creatures - Crissy Van Meter
126. The Lost Man - Jane Harper
127. The Same Sky - Amanda Eyre Ward
128. The Last Light Breaking - Nick Jans
129. Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers - Sara Ackerman
130. Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen
131. Angel in a Devil's Arms - Julie Anne Long
132. In Another Time - Jillian Cantor

December

133. Listen to the Wind - Susanne Dunlap
134. The Round House - Louise Erdrich
135. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
136. Her Other Secret - Helenkay Dimon
137. Christmas Camp - Karen Schaler
138. The Spirit of Fire - Susanne Dunlap
139. They Were Sisters - Dorothy Whipple
140. Heartstone - Elle Katharine White

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