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My Reading List

What started in 2013 as a way to track what I read for my first reading challenge has become one of the most popular items on this blog — my reading list.

Apparently, you really like to come over here and see what I’m reading. So many people tell me that they use these annual lists to find their next read. It makes me happy to know that you find these lists helpful.

I love giving and receiving book recommendations.

I document all the books I read each year on my annual reading list and give each book I read a grade. Here’s what my grading system means:

  • A. This is a book I consider excellent. It’s a game-changer — something I would recommend to anyone.
  • B. These are really great books, but they just aren’t excellent, life-changing books.
  • C. Average books. I don’t hate them, but I also don’t recommend them. There are a lot of better things to read out there.
  • D. I wouldn’t bother with this book. It has problems.
  • F. This book is an epic waste of time. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

Want to see reviews of my favorite books through the years? Visit my bookstore to view and purchase books I’ve given perfect grades.

I hope you find something on my reading list to read and love.

As always, happy reading!

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2025 Reading List

December (16 books read)

1. The Many Lives of Mama Love – B

2. The Monster We Made – F

3. I Feel Real Guilty – F

4. Her Last Christmas – C

5. What Kind of Mother – B

6. Safe to Assume – B

7. Setting Boundaries Made Simple – B

8. She Didn’t See It Coming – A

9. Everyone Is Lying to You – C

10. The Great Alone – A

11. Haven’t Killed in Years – D

12. Behind a Locked Door – C

13. How My Neighbor Stole Christmas – B

14. In a Holidaze – C

15. 107 Days – B

16. Without Consent – B

November (16 books read)

1. Gentle – C

2. The Book of Alchemy – C

3. The Fix – A

4. If You’re Reading This – A

5. Last Rites – A

6. You’ll Never Know – A

7. The Perfect Nanny – D

8. The Break-In – C

9. The Mad Wife – C

10. Under Your Scars – A

11. One Among Us – C

12. The Chateau – C

13. Forget You Saw Her – A

14. All Her Fault – C

15. The River is Waiting – A

16. Awake – B

October (14 books read)

1. Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice – B

2. Dear Reader – D

3. Last Seen – B

4. This is a Safe Space – C

5. The Correspondent – B

6. The Jailhouse Lawyer – C

7. The Intruder – B

8. The Vacancy in Room 10 – C

9. You Can Trust Me – B

10. You Shouldn’t Have Done That – A

11. The List – B

12. Three Days in June – B

13. Nobody Knows You’re Here – C

14. The Intruder – B

September (17 Books Read)

1. The Tapes – C

2. Atmosphere – A

3. Guess Again – B

4. Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life is Not Okay – C

5. Forget Me Not – A

6. Envy Enlightened: How to Turn a Negative Feeling Into a Positive Practice – B

7. The Girl Who Left – B

8. This Happened to Me – B

9. Caller Unknown – C

10. Choice – A

11. Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom – A

12. The Women – A

13. Gray Area – C

14. If You Knew Me – F

15. The Locked Ward – B

16. The Guilty One – A

17. The Vacation – F

August (17 books read)

1. The Waitress – F

2. Like, Follow, Die – C

3. The Ghostwriter – B

4. Wait for Dark – D

5. You Belong Here – B

6. Julie Chan is Dead – F

7. Somebody’s Daughter – D

8. We Are All Guilty Here – B

9. So Happy Together – C

10. Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches – A

11. Too Old for This – D

12. Women We Buried, Women We Burned – F

13. Tell Me What You Did – A

14. Gaslight – D

15. Out of the Woods – B

16. To All Those I’ve Killed Before – A

17. Man of the Year – C

July (13 books read)

1. Saving Emma – A

2. How to Sleep Like a Caveman – D

3. Wait for Dark – D

4. The Waitress – F

5. The God of the Woods – F

6. Seatmate – C

7. Call Me Maybe – C

8. Bad Blood – D

9. Every Mother’s Nightmare – B

10. Lie Lie Truth – A

11. The Missing Half – B

12. Margo’s Got Money Troubles – C

13. We Are Watching – C

June (14 books read)

1. High Functioning – B

2. The Lucky Ones – C

3. The Backwater – D

4. Broken Country – A

5. Beyond Anxiety – D

6. The Familiar Dark – A

7. The Pastor’s Wife – C

8. Free: My Search for Meaning – C

9. Every Little Breath – C

10. You Don’t Know Me – C

11. Night Watcher – A

12. The Poppy Fields – A

13. The Psychopathy Project – D

14. Jill is Not Happy – D

May (25 books read)

1. Hello, Habits – C

2. The Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America – A

3. The Perfect Marriage – A

4. Secrets of Adulthood – D

5. 7 Hours to Die – C

6. Mad Love – D

7. Great Big Beautiful Life – A

8. Not in My Book – B

9. The Tenant – B

10. Notes on a Silencing – B

11. Say You’ll Remember Me – A

12. I Thought It Would Be Better Than This – C

13. Such Quiet Girls – B

14. How to Work with Complicated People – C

15. The Wedding People – A

16. One in Four – B

17. The Year of Less – D

18. Count My Lies – C

19. Death Row – C

20. The Perfect Divorce – B

21. Rabbit Heart – C

22. This is the Thing – D

23. Self Help – F

24. The Overthinking Cure – D

25. Last One Out – B

April (10 books read)

1. Lock the Door – C

2. First-Time Caller – B

3. Dark Roads – B

4. The Dollhouse – C

5. Lights Out – B

6. The Business Trip – A

7. The Hitchhikers – B

8. Playing Jenna – A

9. Not Our Daughter – B

10. You Killed Me First – A

March (21 books read)

1. Let Them Theory – A

2. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation – C

3. Too Late – A

4. Jane Doe – B

5. We Are the Brennans – B

6. How to Keep House While Drowning – D

7. Famous Last Words – B

8. The Devil at His Elbow – A

9. What Lies Between Us – A

10. The Arrangement – A

11. The Stranger – B

12. Everything is Fine – B

13. Behind You – C

14. A Well-Trained Wife – D

15. Day Nine – C

16. The Good Samaritan – B

17. The Good Neighbors – A

18. The House of My Mother – A

19. The 5 Resets – B

20. The Dream Job – A

21. No Two Persons – A

February (19 books read)

1. Stillness is the Key – B

2. The Connellys of County Down – B

3. The Crash – B

4. Things You Save in a Fire – B

5. After Annie – C

6. The Joy of Connections – B

7. Consent – D

8. In the Back of My Head – D

9. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions – D

10. The Last Trip – B

11. I Let Her In – B

12. Work It Out – A

13. We All Live Here – C

14. The Thin Line – B

15. After You’ve Gone – B

16. All in Her Head – A

17. Someone I Used to Know – C

18. The Good Girl – A

19. Supercommunicators – C

January (20 books read)

1. Atomic Habits – A

2. Tell Me Three Things – A

3. The Husbands – B

4. A Sister’s Promise – C

5. Raised by a Serial Killer – A

6. More or Less Maddy – A

7. Cross My Heart – C

8. He’s Gone – B

9. Some Boys – A

10. Don’t Look for Me – C

11. Hack Your Body, Heal Your Mind – B

12. The Serial Killer’s Apprentice – B

13. Say No More – A

14. You Will Not Recognize Your Life – C

15. The Grandmother – B

16. Love, Mom – A

17. My Mom’s Murder – B

18. The Virgin Suicides – C

19. The Nanny – B

20. After He Killed Me – C


2024 Reading List

December (11 books read)

1. Terrified – C

2. Lie to Me – C

3. The Lake of Lost Girls – B

4. Starkweather – D

5. Here One Moment – B

6. Christmas Presents – B

7. Do Not Open – B

8. Unspeakable – C

9. The Boy in the Woods – C

10. A Novel Love Story – B

11. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books – B

November (13 books read)

1. What Does it Feel Like? – A

2. Live for a Living – D

3. Missing Molly – B

4. We Used to Live Here – B

5. American Mother – D

6. The Dead Romantics – B

7. The Exception to the Rule – B

8. A Hunger to Kill – B

9. Daydream – A

10. Mary Jane – B

11. The Apology – B

12. The Housekeeper – B

13. The Last Love Note – A

October (16 books read)

1. The Last Party – C

2. Midnight on Beacon Street – C

3. Archer’s Voice – A

4. I’ve Tried Being Nice – D

5. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture – A

6. None Left to Tell – C

7. The Boyfriend – B

8. Wildfire – A

9. College Girl, Missing – B

10. Butcher & Blackbird – C

11. Girl, 11 – C

12. Whole Woman Health – B

13. It Didn’t Start with You – D

14. By the Time You Read This – D

15. Five Brothers – B

16. The Genius of Judy – A

September (19 books read)

1. Birthday Girl – D

2. The Devil Behind the Badge – D

3. Icebreaker – A

4. The Night We Lost Him – D

5. Broken Bayou – D

6. Doll House – B

7. Somehow: Thoughts on Love – B

8. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – B

9. Pen Pal – D

10. I Need You to Read This – B

11. Morning in this Broken World – A

12. The Other Mother – D

13. Natural Selection – B

14. When We Were Friends – B

15. The Art of War – D

16. Cook County ICU – C

17. The Final Scene – B

18. What She Left – B

19. The 6 Habits of Growth – B

August (16 books read)

1. The New House – B

2. Annie Bot – B

3. The Godchild – C

4. Prom Mom – C

5. The Last Girl Left – A

6. One Perfect Couple – B

7. Between Two Trailers – D

8. The Return of Ellie Black – B

9. Middle of the Night – B

10. Slow Dance – C

11. Credence – F

12. How to Read a Book – A

13. What Have You Done? – A

14. If Something Happens to Me – A

15. 100 Ways to Change Your Life – A

16. The Housewife’s Secret – D

July (10 books read)

1. If You Tell a Lie – C

2. Home is Where the Bodies Are – B

3. Razorblade Tears – B

4. Everything We Never Said – B

5. The Night I Died – D

6. Before We Were Innocent – D

7. Kill for Me, Kill for You – C

8. The Seven Year Slip – B

9. Remarkably Bright Creatures – C

10. Long Time Gone – C

June (14 books read)

1. It Was Always You – B

2. Those Girls – B

3. The 12 Week Year – B

4. The Reappearance of Rachel Price – C

5. The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions – C

6. The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise – B

7. Twisted Love – C

8. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – B

9. Suicide Med – C

10. The Vanishing Half – B

11. Point of Retreat – B

12. Slammed – A

13. Those Girls – B

14. The 12 Week Year – B

May (15 books read)

1. She’s Not Sorry – D

2. The Girl from Blind River – D

3. Funny Story – A

4. This Summer Will Be Different – A

5. Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love is Key to Unlocking Your Greatness – F

6. Widowish: A Memoir – B

7. Gone – D

8. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men – B

9. Ready or Not – B

10. The Last Thing She Ever Did – B

11. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up – F

12. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out – C

13. Crying in H Mart – C

14. Sociopath – B

15. Darling Girls – B

April (14 books read)

1. Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism – C

2. As Sick as Our Secrets – D

3. The Red House – C

4. The Stranger in Her House – D

5. Troubled – D

6. A Love Letter to Whiskey – B

7. The Thicket – C

8. That Sucked. Now What? – C

9. One of Our Own – A

10. No One Can Know – B

11. The New Couple in 5B – D

12. While Idaho Slept – B

13. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout – A

14. What Happened to Nina? – A

March (15 books read)

1. The Best of Friends – A

2. Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters – B

3. The Heiress – A

4. A Danger to Herself and Others – C

5. If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America – A

6. Gray After Dark – A

7. Her Pretty Face – B

8. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead – D

9. Listen for the Lie – A

10. Nightwatching – C

11. The Girl Who Survived – C

12. Murder Road – C

13. The Last Innocent Year – B

14. Daisy Darker – D

15. Anna O – D

February (15 books read)

1. Pack Up the Moon – B

2. Under Her Care – C

3. The Book Swap – D

4. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself – C

5. The Teacher – A

6. That’s Not My Name – A

7. Everything is Perfect – B

8. #CrimeTime – F

9. Exposed: The Ashley Madison Hack – C

10. Trace of Doubt – B

11. The Narrator – D

12. Shadow Falls – B

13. Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol – B

14. The Measure – A

15. The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life – A

January (14 books read)

1. The Family Guest – C

2. Thriving with Anxiety: 9 Tools to Make Your Anxiety Work for You – B

3. Where the Blame Lies – A

4. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood – C

5. Where Shadows Meet – D

6. Heart Bones – A

7. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things – C

8. Have You Seen Sarah Baker? – C

9. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot – C

10. Hello Beautiful – C

11. Murder in the Family – D

12. So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience – B

13. Dreamland Burning – A

14. Part of Your World – B


2023 Reading List

December (16 books read)

1. After that Night – A

2. Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content – A

3. My Name is Barbra – B

4. Strange Sally Diamond – A

5. The Woman in Me – A

6. The Weight of Blood – A

7. The Boyfriend: Every Parents Worst Nightmare – F

8. All We Could Still Have – C

9. Pivot and Pursue It – C

10. Stolen Things – A

11. You Loved Me Once – A

12. Powered By Me: From Burned Out to Fully Charged at Work and in Life – C

13. Little Ghosts – B

14. The Summer I Turned Pretty – C

15. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included) – D

16. Bone Cold – A

November (24 books read)

1. Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness – D

2. Madness: A Bipolar Life – B

3. Something Ain’t Right – B

4. A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain – F

5. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies that Nearly Killed Me – A

6. The Debutante – C

7. The Things We Leave Unfinished – A

8. Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Took Him Down – A

9. Trapdoor – C

10. Marrow – F

11. Husband and Wife – C

12. Midnight is the Darkest Hour – C

13. Best Friends Forever – C

14. Mother-Daughter Murder Night – C

15. The Beauty in Breaking – C

16. Kill Show – A

17. The Stranger Behind You – A

18. This Isn’t Happening – D

19. When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America – A

20. The Call – C

21. See How They Run – D

22. Influencer – D

23. The People We Keep – A

24. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence – C

October (24 books read)

1. The September House – B

2. The Guncle – B

3. The Girls in the Water – C

4. The World Played Chess – C

5. The Content Fuel Framework: How to Generate Unlimited Story Ideas – A

6. 99 Red Ballons – C

7. The Neighbor Two Doors Down – B

8. The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success – B

9. What Never Happened – D

10. Lucy – B

11. Room for Rent – A

12. Bright Young Women – A

13. Tell Her Story – A

14. The House on the Water – C

15. How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation – D

16. The Deceit – F

17. Delta County – C

18. On a Quiet Street – B

19. Come Closer – D

20. Never Leave Me – C

21. Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls – A

22. The Sister-in-Law – D

23. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence – D

24. Such Good Boys: The True Story of a Mother, Two Sons, and a Horrifying Murder – D

September (14 books read)

1. Keep It in the Family – B

2. Counting the Cost – B

3. Lucky Number 11 – B

4. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell – B

5. The App – C

6. All It Takes is a Goal – B

7. None of This is True – B

8. Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking – A

9. The Coworker – B

10. Hide Away – C

11. The Groomer – F

12. Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer – F

13. I’m Not Done with You Yet – A

14. Gone Tonight – B

August (17 books read)

1. Her Last Breath – D

2. Those Empty Eyes – B

3. Everyone Here is Lying – D

4. The Marriage – B

5. The Missing Sister – D

6. The Couple in the Cabin – C

7. The Surgeon – A

8. The Power of Regret – B

9. Hidden Pictures – A

10. No Ego – A

11. The Nineties – C

12. Overkill – B

13. Congratulations, the Best is Over – D

14. Never Saw Me Coming – D

15. The Family Game – B

16. How to Work Without Losing Your Mind – B

17. A Welcome Reunion – B

July (15 books read)

1. The Only One Left – C

2. You Deserve This Sh!t: Get Unstuck, Find Your Path, and Become the Best Version of Yourself – D

3. The Soulmate – C

4. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work – B

5. Love It or Leave It: How to Be Happy at Work – D

6. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me – B

7. Gone Again – B

8. The Quiet Tenant – D

9. Daisy Jones & The Six – A

10. One Step Behind – D

11. One of Us is Dead – B

12. Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides – D

13. Into the Darkness – D

14. The Echo Man – B

15. Until I Met Her – B

June (14 books read)

1. The Personal Assistant – B

2. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic – D

3. Brother – D

4. The Housemaid’s Secret – B

5. When a Killer Calls – C

6. Out of the Ashes – C

7. Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others – A

8. The Senator’s Wife – B

9. Uncultured: A Memoir – A

10. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives – C

11. The First Death – B

12. I Will Find You – A

13. Yellowface – A

14. Every Last Secret – C

May (16 books read)

1. Ward D – C

2. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murder – B

3. The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work – D

4. Happy Place – A

5. All the Dangerous Things – A

6. Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success Starts with Your Thinking – D

7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – A

8. What Lies in the Woods – A

9. Appetite for Innocence – C

10. The Dark Room – D

11. Don’t Let Her Stay – B

12. The Moonlight Child – C

13. The Family Cabin – B

14. Lovely Girls – B

15. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High – A

16. Brain Damage – B

April (15 books read)

1. Blackout – B

2. The Girl Who Was Taken – B

3. Get Different: Marketing that Can’t Be Ignored – C

4. Glow in the F*cking Dark – C

5. Body Aware: Rediscover Your Mind-Body Connection, Stop Feeling Stuck and Improve Your Mental Health Through Simple Movement Practices– D

6. My Husband’s Fiancee – C

7. The Mountain is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery – A

8. I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times – A

9. The Man Burned By Winter – B

10. Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors That Lead to Big Impact – D

11. Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others – C

12. The Girl Before Me – C

13. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better – A

14. Just the Nicest Couple – A

15. STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World – B

March (10 books read)

1. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilence Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness – D

2. Don’t Go Down There – C

3. Lonely Hearts – B

4. I Have Some Questions for You – D

5. Where I Left Her – B

6. Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships – C

7. Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood – D

8. Someone Else’s Shoes – A

9. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America – C

10. Love, Pamela – C

February (17 books read)

1. After I Do – B

2. Lessons in Chemistry – A

3. Imposter – B

4. I Know Where You Live – A

5. Come With Me – D

6. Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day – D

7. How to Sell a Haunted House – F

8. Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward – B

9. The Gift – C

10. Want to Know a Secret? – B

11. A Child Called “It” – B

12. The Girls Who Disappeared – D

13. Stranger in the Woods – F

14. The Wrong One – F

15. The Reunion – C

16. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole – C

17. The Mother-in-Law – C

January (21 books read)

1. The Chalk Man – B

2. Do You Remember – A

3. The Risk – A

4. Sidetracked – A

5. Choose Me – C

6. A Novel Obsession – D

7. Such a Beautiful Family – B

8. All the Lies – A

9. Scarlet Angel – A

10. Paint It All Red – A

11. Five Survive – C

12. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood – D

13. Five Total Strangers – C

14. Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present – B

15. Drinking Games – D

16. The Perfection Detox: Tame Your Inner Critic, Live Bravely, and Unleash Your Joy – D

17. The Last to Let Go – C

18. Off the Deep End – B

19. The New Friends – C

20. Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most – B

21. One in Three – C


2022 Reading List

December (14 books read)

1. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals – C

2. Are You Sara? – A

3. Wrong Place, Wrong Time – D

4. Happy Mind, Happy Life: The New Science of Mental Wellbeing – B

5. The Child Finder – A

6. My Oxford Year – B

7. Doing Life with Your Adult Children – A

8. Nothing More to Tell – B

9. The Book of Boundaries – A

10. She’s Gone – B

11. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing – B

12. The Light We Lost – B

13. It Starts With Us – A

14. Have at It, Sister – D

November (16 books read)

1. Next of Kin – C

2. Beneath Devil’s Bridge – C

3. All That’s Left Unsaid – B

4. Mad Honey – A

5. Thank You For Listening – C

6. The Widow – C

7. Do Not Disturb – C

8. One By One – C

9. Dinners with Ruth – A

10. I’m Glad My Mom Died – D

11. What Happened That Night – C

12. Run on Red – A

13. The Light We Carry – A

14. Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Closed Cases – A

15. No One Can Hear You Scream – A

16. Finding Me – A

October (15 books read)

1. You Did This – C

2. The Last Move – C

3. The Butcher and the Wren – C

4. The Confidence of Wildflowers – B

5. The Wife Upstairs – B

6. The Passenger – D

7. Saving Meghan – C

8. Uncharted Waters – C

9. Slenderman – C

10. No One Crosses the Wolf – D

11. Ask for Andrea – A

12. The Family Outing – A

13. You’d Be Home Now – A

14. The Turn of the Key – B

15. Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature – C

September (13 books read)

1. Love and Other Words – A

2. A Stranger on the Beach – B

3. Cold Truth – B

4. All Good People Here – A

5. Look Closer – C

6. The Housemaid – B

7. It Ends With Us – A

8. We Carry Their Bones – C

9. The Secrets of Us – C

10. The Inmate – A

11. Never Lie – A

12. How Are You, Really? – A

13. Phantom Limb – C

August (10 books read)

1. Beach Read – B

2. Like Wind Against Rock – D

3. One True Loves – C

4. One of the Girls – B

5. Saving Noah – A

6. If He Had Been with Me – B

7. Crazy Love – B

8. Every Summer After – A

9. High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict’s Double Life – B

10. Things We Do in the Dark – A

July (10 books read)

1. The Memory Watcher – B

2. Book Lovers – A

3. The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive – A

4. The Locked Door – B

5. Sisters of Mercy – D

6. The Wife Before – C

7. Still Beating – D

8. Any Man – C

9. Unmissing – A

10. The Girl Upstairs – C

June (9 books read)

1. The Family Across the Street – B

2. Find Me – B

3. Just Between Us – B

4. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance – D

5. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out – C

6. The Cipher – C

7. Things We Never Got Over – A

8. My Perfect Daugther – C

9. Girl Gone Mad – B

11. Girl Gone Mad – B

May (8 books read)

1. Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World – C

2. Reminders of Him – A

3. One Year Gone – C

4. Scorched Ground – B

5. The Rain – C

6. The Vacation – C

7. The Family Plot – C

8. Like a Sister – B

April (9 books read)

1. The Body Keeps the Score – A

2. Survive the Night – D

3. Final Girls – A

4. 1,000+ Little Things Happy Successful People Do Differently – C

5. The Overnight Guest – A

6. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much More – A

7. The Book of Cold Cases – A

8. Notes on an Execution – B

9. Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy – C

March (8 books read)

1. The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again – C

2. The Sleep Fix: Practical, Proven, and Surprising Solutions for Insomnia, Snoring, Shift Work, and More – C

3. Open House – D

4. Sadie – A

5. The Night Shift – A

6. Believe Me – B

7. The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage – B

8. Good Comes First: How Today’s Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn’t Suck – B

February (8 books read)

1. The Perfect Son – C

2. Circling the Drain – C

3. The Watcher Girl – C

4. Slow Motion – D

5. A Flicker in the Dark – C

6. The Maid – A

7. The Collective – A

8. American Daughter – D

January (12 books read)

1. Her Perfect Family – D

2. Going There – B

3. No One Will Miss Her – A

4. Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home – C

5. My Darling Husband – A

6. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music – A

7. We Are Not Like Them – A

8. Home Before Dark – A

9. Detox Your Thoughts: Quit Negative Self Talk for Good and Discover the Life You Always Wanted – C

10. November 9 – A

11. Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back – B

12. The Perfect Roommate – C


2021 Reading List

December (10 books read)

1. Built to Belong: Discovering the Power of Community Over Competition – B

2. Baby Teeth – B

3. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – A

4. The Boyfriend – C

5. Last Girl Ghosted – A

6. Apples Never Fall – B

7. They Never Learn – A

8. What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing – A

9. I Know You – B

10. The Last Thing to Burn – C

November (9 books read)

1. The Content Code: Six Essential Strategies to Ignite Your Content, Your Marketing, and Your Business – C

2. The Missing Hours – A

3. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide – B

4. Her Perfect Life – C

5. Don’t Look Now – C

6. Life Will Be the Death of Me… and You Too! – B

7. No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear – C

8. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable – A

9. Don’t Look Now – C

October (10 books read)

1. The Perfect Son – C

2. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts – D

3. The High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit – A

4. One Little Mistake – B

5. Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It – D

6. Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married – C

7. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife – B

8. Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior – B

9. The Serial Killer’s Wife – C

10. What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – A

September (10 books read)

1. The Therapist – C

2. Our Little Secret – B

3. Stolen – C

4. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America – B

5. Rock Paper Scissors – B

6. To Be Honest – B

7. Identical – B

8. The Ugly Cry – D

9. Chasing the Boogeyman – C

10. My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption – A

August (10 books read)

1. The Mother-in-Law – B

2. Between the World and Me – B

3. Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone – B

4. Lies We Tell Ourselves – C

5. The Good Lie – A

6. For Your Own Good – A

7. False Witness – A

8. Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage – C

9. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead – C

10. Taken at Birth: Stolen Babies, Hidden Lies, and My Journey to Finding Home – C

July (9 books read)

1. The Coroner – B

2. The Butcher – A

3. Did I Say That Out Loud? Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them – A

4. The Damage – B

5. Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life – D

6. Harpin Bridge – D

7. People We Meet on Vacation – B

8. No Hiding in Boise – A

9. What Happened to Paula? On the Death of an American Girl – D

June (11 books read)

1. Big Love – B

2. Every Vow You Break – B

3. The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer – B

4. The Last Thing He Told Me– B

5. Local Woman Missing – A

6. Mine – A

7. The Grownup – B

8. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill – A

9. The Last One Home – A

10. You Love Me – C

11. How It Ends – C

May (11 books read)

1. Remember: the Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting – B

2. Fly Away – A

3. An American Marriage – A

4. Broken – A

5. Alice’s Island – C

6. The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work from Home – A

7. The Good Sister – A

8. Jar of Hearts – A

9. Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance – A

10. Sleeping Dogs Lie – A

11. Still House – D

April (5 books read)

1. Is There No Place on Earth for Me? – C

2. The Downstairs Neighbor – A

3. The Midnight Library – A

4. The Lost Village – C

5. Crimson Lake Road – D

March (14 books read)

1. Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating – C

2. The Push – B

3. Girl A – B

4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent – B

5. Quiet in Her Bones – C

6. Every Last Fear – A

7. If You Find Me – A

8. The Worthy Project – B

9. All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness – B

10. That’s Mental – A

11. Simplexity – D

12. Firefly Lane – A

13. Crank – D

14. You’re Next – C

February (10 books read)

1. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man – A

2. The Wife Upstairs – A

3. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops – D

4. The Kindness Method: Changing Habits for Good – D

5. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery – B

6. Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir – C

7. Never Look Back – C

8. Monogamy – C

9. The Last Anniversary – A

10. A Prayer for Owen Meany – C

January (16 books read)

1. Content Rules – A

2. The Lies You Told – C

3. A Promised Land – B

4. We’ll Never Be Apart – A

5. Pretty Little Wife – B

6. The Wrong Family – C

7. Laziness Does Not Exist – A

8. Dear Child – A

9. Invisible Girl – A

10. When You Find Me – B

11. Unfuck Your Brain – C

12. The Liar’s Girl – C

13. The Craving Mind – C

14. Dead Before Dark – C

15. Bloodline – D

16. Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely – C


2020 Reading List

DECEMBER 2020 (8 books read)

1. The Lazy Genius Way – A

2. Badass Habits – A

3. Bad Memory – A

4. Layla – A

5. Goodnight Beautiful – A

6. The Ruin – D

7. Last Girl Gone – B

8. My Name is Anton – C

NOVEMBER 2020 (15 books read)

1. No-Fail Communication – B

2. Below the Bones – B

3. Anxious People – B

4. The New One Minute Manager – A

5. One by One – A

6. Confessions on the 7:45 – A

7. To Tell You the Truth – A

8. In the Deep – C

9. The Demon Next Door – C

10. Hold Your Breath – B

11. One Little Secret – C

12. Lies She Told – B

13. The Bullet – A

14. The Cases that Haunt Us – C

15. Dark Highway – A

OCTOBER 2020 (13 books read)

1. Rage – A

2. Three Perfect Liars – C

3. Little Disasters – A

4. No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work – B

5. Didn’t See that Coming: Putting Life Back Together When Your World Falls Apart – A

6. After the End – B

7. Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic – A

8. I Miss You When I Blink – B

9. The Path Made Clear – C

10. Don’t Make a Sound – C

11. Deadly Waters – C

12. What Unites Us: Reflections of Patriotism – C

13. In Pieces – B

SEPTEMBER 2020 (8 books read)

1. The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life – B

2. Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation – C

3. The Summer House – B

4. Is Rape a Crime? – A

5. The Cuckoo’s Cry – C

6. 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week – D

7. The Perfect Nanny – D

8. The Golden Cage – C

AUGUST 2020 (16 books read)

1. Untamed – C

2. The Secrets She Keeps – B

3. Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls – C

4. The End of Her – A

5. His & Hers – B

6. Fierce, Free and Full of Fire – B

7. Memorial Drive – B

8. Playing Nice – A

9. Grit – A

10. Too Much and Never Enough – B

11. Fearless: Diary of a Badass Reporter – B

12. The Wife Who Knew Too Much – B

13. A Warning – A

14. Verity – A

15. All Marketers are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World – B

16. Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime – A

JULY 2020 (12 books read)

1. A Cold Trail – A

2. How to Be Fine – A

3. The Last Time I Lied – B

4. Nothing Can Hurt You – D

5. The Half Sister – C

6. The One – A

7. The Guest List – A

8. The Girl from Widow Hills – A

9. No Bad Deed – B

10. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – B

11. Duct Tape Killer – D

12. The Roommate – B

JUNE 2020 (17 books read)

1. That Night – C

2. The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People – B

3. The Nowhere Child – A

4. Take Me Apart – B

5. Little Secrets – B

6. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – A

7. Have You Seen Me? – C

8. Cold Turkey: How to Quit Drinking by Not Drinking – D

9. So You Want to Talk About Race – A

10. How to Be an Antiracist – C

11. White Fragility – B

12. The Getaway – B

13. You’re a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass) – C

14. Safe – C

15. The New Jim Crow – B

16. The Choice – C

17. How We Fight for Our Lives – D

MAY 2020 (12 books read)

1. The Other Mrs. – B

2. The Holdout – A

3. What We Forgot to Bury – D

4. Finding Tess: A Mother’s Search for Answers in a Dopesick America – D

5. You Are Not Alone – A

6. The Lies We Told – A

7. Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life – A

8. In An Instant – A

9. Second Skin – D

10. Shamed – B

11. Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator – C

12. A Good Marriage – A

APRIL 2020 (10 books read)

1. Reputation – B

2. Go Ask Alice – A

3. My Dark Vanessa – A

4. The Return – D

5. In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent’s Relentless Pursuit of the Nation’s Worst Predators – A

6. Darling Rose Gold – C

7. Valentine – A

8. One Million Followers – C

9. Speak – B

10. Chasing Cupcakes: How One Broke, Fat Girl Transformed Her Life – C

MARCH 2020 (15 books read)

1. Finding the News: Adventures of a Young Reporter – A

2. Sometimes I Lie – A

3. The Flight Attendant – D

4. Such a Fun Age – A

5. The Sun Down Motel – A

6. How to Walk Away – A

7. Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together – B

8. Don’t Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing and Bring More Joy to Your Life – A

9. The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences have Extraordinary Impact – B

10. Tell Me Lies – A

11. Blood Territory: The Death of Jimmy O’Connell – D

12. Bad Feminist – C

13. Get Out of Your Own Way: A Skeptic’s Guide to Growth and Fulfillment – C

14. Open Book – C

15. Gone at Midnight. The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam – C

FEBRUARY 2020 (11 books read)

1. F*ck No!: How to Stop Saying Yes When You Can’t, You Shouldn’t or You Just Don’t Want To – C

2. In the Waning Light – B

3. The Man in the Monster – C

4. There’s No Crying in Newsrooms – C

5. The Boy in the Photo – A

6. Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope – D

7. I Really Needed This Today: Word to Live By – C

8. Where the Crawdads Sing – A

9. The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy – A

10. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changed the World – A

11. The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man’s Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World’s Most Terrifying Killers – B

JANUARY 2020 (13 books read)

1. Willpower Doesn’t Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success – A

2. I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope – C

3. The Whisper Man – A

4. The Wives – C

5. Broken – D

6. The Apartment – C

7. Dear Edward – A

8. Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis – A

9. One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and its Aftermath – C

10. When I Was You – A

11. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness – D

12. Next Girl to Die – C

13. Thief River Falls – A


2019 Reading List

DECEMBER 2019 (14 books read)

1. The Culture Code – A

2. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive – A

3. No Fail Meetings – B

4. Pretty Little Things – C

5. If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood – B

6. When She Returned – A

7. The Marsh King’s Daughter – A

8. Buried Deep – A

9. No Fail Meetings – B

10. Lock Every Door – A

11. I Will Make You Pay – C

12. I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life – A

13. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignited a Movement – A

14. Ask Again, Yes – A

NOVEMBER 2019 (13 books read)

1. Permission Marketing – B

2. Tiny Beautiful Things – B

3. The Thinnest Air – B

4. The Family Upstairs – B

5. Consent – A

6. Mindset – C

7. The Perfect Child – D

8. Disturbed – B

9. Rapid Falls – A

10. Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls – B

11. Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and Toxic Gymnastics Culture – A

12. Under Lying – D

13. Once Missed – B

OCTOBER 2019 (15 books read)

1. Know My Name – A

2. Walk Into Silence – C

3. Everything is Figureoutable – A

4. The Lullaby Girl – C

5. Unnecessary Sorrow – A

6. Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl – F

7. The Retreat – A

8. When We Believed in Mermaids – C

9. What Remains True – A

10. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed – B

11. The Murderer Next Door – A

12. Terror by Night – B

13. Who Killed These Girls? – A

14. Tips for Living – A

15. Trespassing – C

SEPTEMBER 2019 (11 books read)

1. Girls Like Us – C

2. The Chain – A

3. Here to Stay – C

4. If She Fled – C

5. Life After Coffee – B

6. Make Time – B

7. Permanent Record – B

8. The Ex-Wife – C

9. The Sound of Rain – C

10. What You Did – A

11. Lying Next to Me – C

AUGUST 2019 (12 books read)

1. Lifescale – A

2. Good Girl, Bad Girl – A

3. Three Days Missing – B

4. Normal People – D

5. Two Can Keep a Secret – A

6. Last Summer – D

7. Devil’s Knot – B

8. The Family Next Door – D

9. The Drowned Girls – B

10. Don’t Event Breathe – B

11. Someone We Know – A

12. The Stressed Years of Their Lives – B

JULY 2019 (9 books read)

1. An Anonymous Girl – A

2. The Hunting Party – B

3. Before She Knew Him – B

4. The Lie – D

5. Thin Air – C

6. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – B

7. Dear Wife – A

8. The Heavens May Fall – A

9. Try Not to Breathe – B

JUNE 2019 (9 books read)

1. Burnout – C

2. The Girlfriend – B

3. Friend Request – C

4. The Loyalist Team – D

5. The Better Sister – B

6. Close to Home – B

7. My Lovely Wife – A

8. I Invited Her In – B

9. The Hate U Give – B

MAY 2019 (8 books read)

1. The Night Olivia Fell – A

2. The Girls at 17 Swann Street – A

3. The Last Stone – D

4. The Valedictorian of Being Dead – B

5. Things My Son Needs to Know about the World – C

6. Someone Knows – A

7. That’s Not What Happened – C

8. Before We Met – B

APRIL 2019 (10 books read)

1.Radical Candor – A

2. No Exit – A

3. Known– A

4. For Better and Worse – B

5. Faithful Place – B

6. Brave, Not Perfect – C

7. The Miracle Equation – D

8. Chase Darkness with Me – C

9. Free to Focus – B

10. All That You Leave Behind – D

MARCH 2019 (11 books read)

1. Likeable Social Media– C

2. An Unwanted Guest – C

3. Rage Becomes Her – C

4. Her One Mistake – B

5. American Prison – A

6. Don’t Wake Up – B

7. American Overdose – B

8. Three Secrets – B

9. Outer Order, Inner Calm – B

10. Girl, Stop Apologizing – A

11. Never Tell – A

FEBRUARY 2019 (10 books read)

1. Devil in the Grove – B

2. Girls of Glass – C

3. Becoming – A

4. The Mind Connection – B

5. Fraternity – B

6. Parkland – B

7. His Kidnapper’s Shoes – B

8. A Serial Killer’s Daughter – D

9. Say You’re Sorry – B

10. The Suspect – A

JANUARY 2019 (11 books read)

1. True Places – C

2. The Real Lolita – D

3. Before He Kills – C

4. After She’s Gone – C

5. The Girl Next Door – C

6. Calm the F*ck Down – B

7. The One That Got Away – C

8. Burned – D

9. 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do – D

10. Wrecking Crew: Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery – C

11. Adele – D


2018 Reading List

December 2018 (7 books read)

1. Somebody’s Daughter – D

2. Between You and Me – D

3. The Good Sister – C

4. Rising Out of Hatred – B

5. Under My Skin – B

6. If She Knew – C

7. The Last Day of Emily Lindsey – C

November 2018 (6 books read)

1. Leaders Eat Last – A

2. The Guise of Another – B

3. A Spark of Light – A

4. Stretched Too Thin – A

5. Hope in the Dark – A

6. To the Bridge – D

October 2018 (9 books read)

1. Insight – D

2. Something in the Water – B

3. Dare to Lead – B

4. Whisper Me This – C

5. Tell Me More – A

6. Insane – B

7. Insight – D

8. Tear Me Apart – A

9. In Her Bones – A

September 2018 (9 books read)

1. The Death of Mrs. Westaway – A

2. Pieces of Her – A

3. The Power of Your Potential – C

4. No Limits – C

5. Educated – B

6. Fear: Trump in the White House – A

7. Ghosted – B

8. What the Eyes Don’t See – A

9. Soulful Simplicity – B

August 2018 (8 books read)

1. The Story of Arthur Truluv – B

2. #NeverAgain – B

3. The Missing – C

4. Dear Amy  – B

5. The Man with the Candy – D

6. Sick – B

7. Dead and Buried – B

8. Hyperfocus – B

July 2018 (13 books read)

1. The Last Mrs. Parrish – A

2. Little Deaths – D

3. Bring Me Back  – A

4. Still Me – A

5. The Free-Time Formula – D

6. Lying in Wait – C

7. The Poisoned City – A

8. I See Life Through Rose-Colored Glasses – B

9. The Other Side of the Wall – B

10. Far from the Tree – A

11. This Is How It Always Is – B

12. Off the Clock – B

13. Beauty in Broken Places – A

June 2018 (12 books read)

1. Her Last Word – A

2. One Click – A

3. The Lying Game – C

4. The Girl Without a Name – A

5. When Never Comes – A

6. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing – C

7. Pretty Girls Dancing – A

8. The Art of People – A

9. How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t – D

10. Roses of May – D

11. The Broken Girls – A

12. I’m Just Happy to Be Here – D

May 2018 (8 books read)

1. Every Note Played – A

2. Say You’re Sorry – B

3. The Neighbor – A

4. Kick Ass with Mel Robbins – B

5. Girl, Wash Your Face – A

6. The Lucky Ones – D

7. The Perfect Mother – B

8. Then She was Gone – A

April 2018 (6 books read)

1. The Good Daughter – A

2. How We Work – F

3. That’s What She Said – B

4. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark – C

5. Killman Creek – B

6. The Sun Does Shine – A

March 2018 (10 books read)

1.  The Only Girl in World – B

2. The Vanishing Season – B

3. The Trophy Child – C

4. The Woman in the Window – A

5. Unraveling Oliver – A

6. Enough As She Is – D

7. A False Report – B

8. The 5 a.m. Miracle – A

9. Look for Me – B

10. 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do – B

February 2018 (9 books read)

1. Good Me, Bad Me – B

2. My Sister Milly – A

3. The Party – C

4. Girl Last Seen – B

5. Permission to Screw Up – A

6. Getting Off – F

7. The Breakdown – A

8. Killers of the Flower Moon – D

9. The Motivation Myth – A

January 2018 (15 books read)

1. The Wife Between Us – B

2. Serial Killers – A

3. Here and Gone – B

4. The Girl in the Leaves – C

5. If I Am Missing or Dead – B

6. The Man from the Train – D

7. On Pills and Needles – B

8. I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool – B

9. Overload: Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge of News – C

10. Last Breath – B

11. Hillbilly Elegy – C

12. Almost Gone – B

13. The Best Year Ever – B

14. 30 Lessons for Living – B

15. Amy: My Search for Her Killer – B


2017 Reading List

December (10 books read)

1. Odd Child Out – A

2. The Names of Dead Girls – C

3. Beware that Girl – B

4. Finish – B

5. American Fire – B

6. And Never Let Her Go – B

7. Dark Water – A

8. True Crime Addict – A

9. Last Breath – B

10. The Only Girl in World – B

November (10 books read)

1. Every Last Lie – C

2. Grace, Not Perfection – C

3. The Art of Social Media – A

4. The Nowhere Girls – A

5. I Am Watching You – A

6. The Life We Bury – A

7. The Coaching Habit – D

8. You Do You – C

9. See What I Have Done – D

10. The Secret Mother – B

October (7 books read)

1. Are You Sleeping – A

2. Braving the Wilderness – B

3. The Apartment – D

4. Little Fires Everywhere – A

5. Life After – B

6. The Last Place You Look – B

7. Pure Murder – A

September (7 books read)

1. Don’t Close Your Eyes – C

2. I Found You – A

3. Murder House – A

4. Two By Two – A

5. A Mother’s Confession – A

6. Make Your Bed – C

7. The Girls – C

August (1o books read)

1. The Child – A

2. It’s Always the Husband – A

3. Disclaimer – B

4. The Keeper of Lost Things – A

5. The Road Out of Hell – B

6. Small Sacrifices – B

7. The Perfect Day Formula – D

8. So Much I Want to Tell You – F

9. The Road Out of Hell – B

10. Small Sacrifices – B

July (12 books read)

1. One of Us is Lying – B

2. Never Let You Go – A

3. Stillhouse Lake – A

4. The Foundling – C

5. The Pain Eater – A

6. The Perfect Husband – A

7. The Never List – B

8. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing – B

9. Stolen in the Night – C

10. The Wonder – D

11. It Happens All the Time – A

12. The I-5 Killer – A

June (11 books read)

1. Edgar and Lucy – A

2. Catch Me – A

3. Lost Girls – C

4. A Simple Favor – B

5. One Perfect Lie – B

6. I See You – A

7. Notorious RBG – B

8. My Third Husband Will Be a Dog – B

9. I Regret Nothing – A

10. You’re the Only One I Can Tell – C

11. The Tao of Martha – B

May (9 books read)

1. Small Great Things – A

2. Stop Saying You’re Fine – B

3. To Catch a Killer – A

4. I’ve Got Sand in All the Wrong Places – B

5. The Trapped Girl – A

6. He Will be My Ruin – A

7. Option B – B

8. Priestdaddy – D

9. It’s Okay to Laugh – F

April (6 books read)

1. The Marriage Lie – A

2. There Was an Old Woman – C

3. Scared Selfless – C

4. Buried Memories – B

5. The 5 Second Rule – A

6. Right Behind You – B

March (8 books read)

1. Her Every Fear – A

2. Burying Water – A

3. How Will I Know You? – B

4. Get Your Sh*t Together – A

5. The Girl Before – A

6. Play Dead – B

7. The Spider and the Fly – B

8. The Flip Flop CEO – C

February (5 books read)

1. Asking for It – A

2. Fatal – A

3. My Husband’s Wife – C

4. The One Thing – A

5. The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck – B

January (10 books read)

1. Redemption Road – A

2. All the Good Parts – B

3. If I Was Your Girl – C

4. Between Breaths – A

5. The Good Girls Revolt – B

6. That Night – A

7. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things – A

8. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – A

9. All Things Cease to Appear – A

10. When Breath Becomes Air – B


2016 Reading List

DECEMBER ( 12 books read)

1. All the Missing Girls – B

2. The Misbegotten Son – C

3. Everybody Writes (rereading with a class) – A

4. Secret Lessons – B

5. Sisters One, Two, Three – D

6. Through the Window – B

7. I Feel Bad About My Neck – D

8. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo – D

9. Wrecked – B

10. The Girl in the Red Coat – B

11. Faultlines – B

12. Last Seen Leaving – A

13. The Night Stalker – B

NOVEMBER (13 books read)

1.  Columbine (rereading with a class) – A

2. Evelyn, After – A

3. Repressed – C

4. The Silent Girls – B

5. Leave Me – A

6. Remembering Satan – C

7. Hold Still – B

8. Love Your Life, Not Theirs – A

9. The Hunting Ground – B

10. We Believe You – B

11. Smart Money, Smart Kids – A

12. Missoula (rereading with a class) – A

13. Only Daughter – C

OCTOBER (6 books read)

1. The Corpse Had a Familiar Face – A

2. Girl in Pieces – A

3. Forgotten Secrets – B

4. Present Over Perfect – A

5. Unstuffed – B

6. Never Eat Alone – B

SEPTEMBER (10 books read)

1. Hour of Need – A

2. Freedom: My Book of Firsts – F

3. Behind Closed Doors – A

4. How to Win Friends and Influence People (rereading with a class)

5. On Writing Well (rereading with a class)

6. Falling – A

7. Seconds to Live – A

8. The Couple Next Door – A

9. Deep Work – B

10. The Four Agreements – B

AUGUST (9 books read)

1. A Man Called Ove – A

2. Where We Fall – D

3. When I’m Gone  – B

4. Kill Me Again – B

5. An Absent Mind  – B

6. Minutes to Kill – B

7. Good as Gone – B

8. Cause to Kill – B

9. Saving Abby – C

JULY (16 books read)

1. I Let You Go – A

2. Missing Pieces – A

3. Don’t You Cry – A

4. Intrusion – B

5. Mother, Mother – C

6. In the Clearing – A

7. Don’t Say a Word – A

8. The Butterfly Garden – A

9. All is Not Forgotten – A

10. Her Final Breath – A

11. Failure of Justice – D

12. The Woman in Cabin 10 – A

13. The Sister – C

14. The Quiet Ones – B

15. Gitchie Girl – A

16. The Broken Ones – B

JUNE (6 books read)

1. All the Light We Cannot See – C

2. Accused – C

3. The Ex  – A

4. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?  – C

5. Why Not Me? – B

6. Every Fifteen Minutes – C

MAY (7 books read)

1. What She Knew – B

2. Nowhere Girl – A

3. You Are a Badass – C

4. The Barefoot Executive – A

5. The First Time She Drowned – A

6. What Was Mine – A

7. The Spiral Notebook– A

APRIL (10 books read)

1. Hidden Bodies – C

2. Bitter Remains – C

3. Stumbling on Happiness – F

4. Gone Again – A

5. It’s. Nice. Outside. – A

6. Broken Grace  – C

7. The Good Neighbor  – B

8. She’s Not There – B

9. The Way I Used to Be – A

10. The Productivity Project  – A

MARCH (8 books read)

1. In a Dark, Dark Wood- C

2. Find Her – A

3. Breaking Busy – B

4. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – B

5. The Happiness Equation – C

6. The Killing Lessons – B

7. Predator – B

8. 3 Truths and a Lie – B

FEBRUARY (4 books read)

1. Fates and Furies– C

2. Leave Your Mark – B

3. A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy – A

4. The Widow – A

JANUARY (6 books read)

1. Before I Go to Sleep – A

2. Trust No One – A

3. The End of Alice – D

4. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget – A

5. How to Grow an Addict – B

6. #GIRLBOSS – B


2015 Reading List

January (9 books read)

1. Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️

2. In the Woods (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️

3. Have a Nice Guilt Trip (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Have You Found Her: A Memoir (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. It Was Me All Along: A Memoir (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Sea Change (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️

7. You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Life-Changing Lessons from Heaven ⭐️

8. The Girl on the Train (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

9. Bogeyman ⭐️⭐️

February (7 books read)

1. 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. The Collector (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. The Forgotten Girls ⭐️⭐️

4. The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months ⭐️⭐️

5. My Sunshine Away (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. The Last Time We Say Goodbye ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

March (9 books read)

1. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (rereading with a class) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Saving Grace (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Yes Please ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Shatter (Joseph O’Loughlin) ⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Lacy Eye (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. See How Small ⭐️

8. Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

9. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less ⭐️⭐️⭐️

April (9 books read)

1. Event Planning: The Ultimate Guide To Successful Meetings, Corporate Events, Fundraising Galas, Conferences, Conventions, Incentives and Other Special Events (rereading with a class) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. On Deadline: Managing Media Relations (rereading with a class) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Finding Jake ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. The Kind Worth Killing ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives ⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. And Give You Peace ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Son: a Psychopath and His Victims ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

9. Inside the O’Briens ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

May (9 books read)

1. The Stranger ⭐️⭐️

2. Where They Found Her (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. The Pocket Wife ⭐️⭐️

5. The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case ⭐️⭐️

6. Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. Normal ⭐️⭐️

8. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? ⭐️⭐️⭐️

9. All the Rage ⭐️⭐️⭐️

June (11 books read)

1. Don’t Try To Find Me ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Never Never ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Never Never: Part Two ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Shave 10 Hours Off Your Workweek (Michael Hyatt’s eBook) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. 52 Headline Hacks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. The Daylight Marriage ⭐️⭐️

7. I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time ⭐️⭐️

8. The In-Between: Embracing the Tension Between Now and the Next Big Thing ⭐️

9. The Night Stalker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

10. Every Last Word ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

11. Get the Attention Your Message Deserves ⭐️⭐️⭐️

July (8 books read)

1. Before He Finds Her ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story  ⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. What the Most Successful People Do at Work: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Career ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Dark Rooms ⭐️

5. The Boy ⭐️⭐️

6. As Night Falls: A Novel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. Easy (Contours of the Heart Book 1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?: True Stories and Confessions ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

August (7 books read)

1. Remember Me This Way ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin…Every Inch of It ⭐️⭐️

3. Tell No One ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Remember Mia (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

6. Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life ⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

September (6 books read)

1. Playing Dead ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Rising Strong ⭐️⭐️

3. Hands Free Life: Nine Habits for Overcoming Distraction, Living Better, and Loving More ⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Paper Towns ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

5. And Then She Was Gone ⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. Who Killed My Daughter? ⭐️⭐️

7. My Sister’s Grave (Read my full review.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

October (9 books read)

1. How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

2. Did You Ever Have a Family ⭐️⭐️

3. Vanished ⭐️⭐️

4. Quitter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

5. What We Saw ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

6. The Fix ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. I Was Here ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters ⭐️⭐️⭐️

9. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

November (8 books read)

1. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. Pretty Girls ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

3. Friction ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened ⭐️⭐️

5. Julia’s Daughters ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

6. The Witches: Salem, 1692 ⭐️

7. The Daily Edge: Simple Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Make an Impact Every Day ⭐️⭐️⭐️

8. Precious Victims ⭐️⭐️⭐️

December (5 books read)

1. Night Film ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. After You ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

3. A Checklist for Murder: The True Story of Robert John Peernock ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. A Dark Lure ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life’s Darkest Hours ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 


2014 Reading List

January (14 books read)

1. The Lies We Told (Read my full review.)

2. Burnout: The Cost of Caring

3. Help for the Haunted: A Novel (Read my full review.)

4. The Wicked Girls: A Novel (Read my full review.)

5. Unstuff Your Life!: Kick the Clutter Habit and Completely Organize Your Life for Good

6. Practice to Deceive

7. Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin (Read my full review.)

8. The Girl in the Park

9. The Wrong Mother

10. Bitch on Wheels: The Sharon Nelson Double Murder Case (Read my full review.)

11. May We Be Forgiven

12. ATTITUDE 101

13. Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System

14. No One You Know

There were three books I started this month that I didn’t finish because I thought they were boring. They were:

  • Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping,
  • The Diary and
  • How To Be a Good Wife.

February (10 books read)

1. Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership

2. Do the Work

3. Reconstructing Amelia (Read my full review.)

4. Human Remains

5. How to Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World’s Most Inspiring Presentations

6. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

7. My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

8. An Abundance of Katherines (Read my full review.)

9. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

10. When I Found You

March (12 books read)

1. Another Life Altogether

2. Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer–America’s Deadliest Serial Murderer (Read my full review.)

3. Shattered

4. Eye Contact

5. The Comfort of Lies

6. Newtown: An American Tragedy

7. My Abandonment (Read my full review.)

8. Strange Fits of Passion

9. Daddy’s Girl

10. Bird in Hand

11. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Doto Get More of It

12. The Caller

April (9 books read)

1. Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach

2. Dead by Sunset 

3. Where or When

4. The Next Time You See Me

5. SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life: A Four-Step Guide to Getting Unstuck

6. Keep Quiet

7. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

8. Safe with Me: A Novel

9. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

May (11 books read)

1. Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

2. Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story

3. Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

4. Women Who Think Too Much: How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life

5. Amy and Isabelle

6. One Day

7. Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

8. Heart Like Mine

9. If I Can’t Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children

10. The Girl Factory: A Memoir

11. Still Life with Bread Crumbs

June (10 books read)

1.  The Wife

2. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

3. A Rose For Her Grave

4. In Cold Blood

5. Against Her Will: The Senseless Murder of Kelly Ann Tinyes

6. Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

7. One True Thing

8. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

9. Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

10. Relationships 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

July (13 books read)

1. Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love

2. If I Stay

3. Why Can’t I Be You

4. All Fall Down

5. Silence

6. Broken Silence

7. Everything I Never Told You

8. The Girls from Corona del Mar

9. Unholy Messenger: The Life and Crimes of the BTK Serial Killer

10. One Plus One

11. Imperfect Justice Updated Ed: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

12. Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

13. Where We Belong

August (10 books read)

1. Landline

2. For Women Only, Revised and Updated Edition: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men

3. For Men Only, Revised and Updated Edition: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women

4. The Girl in 6E

5. Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult’s Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It’s Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner

6. What She Left Behind

7. Fear of Our Father: The True Story of Abuse, Murder, and Family Ties

8. People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo–and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

9. I’ll Be Right There

10. My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict’s Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is the New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto

September (10 books read)

1.  Positive: A Memoir

2. Mean Streak

3. How to Win Friends & Influence People (rereading for class)

4. Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less

5. If You Really Loved Me

6. The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Women

7. The Cellar

8. Big Little Lies

9. Lethal Intent

10. What I Know For Sure

October (13 books read)

1. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (A post I wrote about this book.)

2. On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft (rereading for class)

3. Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know (rereading for class)

4. To-Do List Makeover: A Simple Guide to Getting the Important Things Done

5. Fatal Jealousy: The True Story of a Doomed Romance, a Singular Obsession, and a Quadruple Murder

6. How Reading Changed My Life

7. Adultery

8. The Want-Ad Killer

9. The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer

1o. Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace

11. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

12. Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim

13. The Drowning House

November (13 books read)

1. Lust Killer

2. Growing Up Amish

3. The Witness

4. Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder

5. The Silent Wife (Read full review)

6. The Silent Sister

7. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

8. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”

9. Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese

1o. Under the Light of the Moon: Wisconsin, Notorious USA

11. Sharp Objects

12. Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

13. Fatal Vision

December

1. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

2. Journalism of Ideas: Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age

3. Spin Sucks: Communication and Reputation Management in the Digital Age (Que Biz-Tech) (reading with a class)

4. On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (reading with a class)

5. Looking for Alaska (Read my full review.)

6. Defending Jacob

7. Self-Improvement 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

8. Sh*t My Dad Says

9. I Suck at Girls

10. Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler’s Hunt for Society’s Most Violent Predators

11. Under Your Skin

12. And When She Was Good

13. The Woman Code: 20 Powerful Keys to Unlock Your Life

14. Ugly Girls

15. How Successful People Think

16. Under Cover of the Night: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder

17. The Good Girl

18. Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

19. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

20. You

21. Happily Ever After

22. Have a New Teenager by Friday: From Mouthy and Moody to Respectful and Responsible in 5 Days

23. Dangerous Girls

24. Mentoring 101

25. Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined by Your Daily Agenda


2013 Reading List

January (10 books read)

1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (I already was reading this one in December, but I won’t complete it until after the new year. I’m giving myself a bit of a head start.) Read my review.

2. Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall (I also already was listening to this audiobook before the new year, but I knew I wouldn’t finish it until 2013.)

3. Life of Pi (This is my book club’s monthly pick.) I hated it. I quit. I won’t be finishing this one.

4. What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast (Read my review here.)

5. Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World (Read my review.)

6. Blacklisted from the PTA

7. Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life (Read by review here.)

8.  1-on-1 Management

9. Finish Your Dissertation Once and For All

10. The Fault In Our Stars (added mid-month) You can read my review here.

11. Truth, Lies and Advertising (added mid-month)

February (6 books read)

1. The New Elevator Pitch (Read my review.)

2. Daddy Love (Read my review.)

3. Cover of Snow (Read my review.)

4. All She Ever Wanted (Read my review here.)

5. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Read my review.)

6. Biography of Steve Jobs (Read my review here.)

March (8 books read)

1. I Thought It was Just Me, But It Isn’t (Read my review here.)

2. Never Knowing (Read my review)

3. Advertising Account Planning: A Practical Guide

4. Unleash the Power of the Female Brain: Supercharging Yours for Better Health, Energy, Mood, Focus, and Sex (Read my review.)

5. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence

6. Here I Go Again (Read my review.)

7. What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekends (Read my review)

8. 25 Tips for Productivity (Read my review.)

April (7 books read)

1. Whatever You Love (Read my review.)

2. Say When

3. Lean In

4. Getting Things Done

5. Making Marriage Simple (Read my review here.)

6. The How of Happiness (Read my review here.)

7. Living Dead Girl (Read my review)

May (4 books read)

1.  Think Like a Rockstar (Read my review)

2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Read my review.)

3. Save Me

4. The Joy of Teaching

5. Inside Rehab. I am not enjoying this audiobook, so I’m not going to finish it. It probably would be interesting for someone in psych, but I’m bored of listening to it. Moving on!

June (9 books read)

1. Primal Leadership

2. The Power of Unpopular

3. The Last Lecture (rereading)

4. The Affair

5. No Easy Day

6. You Don’t Want to Know

7. Simpleology

8. Stolen Innocence

9. Thirteen Reasons Why (Read my review)

July (12 books read)

1. Always Watching

2. Until I Say Good-bye

3. The Sociopath Next Door

4. Daring Greatly

5. Spark

6. Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery

7. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

8. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked

9. Denial: A Memoir of Terror (Read my review)

10. The Last Hour

11. A Thousand Tomorrows

12. Coming Clean: A Memoir

August (6 books read)

1. It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

2. The Crooked Branch 

3. Still Alice

4. Me Before You

5. When Cancer Strikes a Friend

6. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

September (12 books read)

1. The Time Between (Read my review)

2. Decisive

3. The Last Goodbye

4. The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting

5. The Missing Girl

6. The Gifts of Imperfection

7. Monster

8. Amazing Things Will Happen

9. The Husband’s Secret

10. The Secret Lives of Women

11. The Good Nurse

12. My Life Among the Serial Killers

October (14 books read)

1. Bossypants

2. Necessary Lies

3. Release Me

4. Claim Me

5. Bringing Adam Home

6. Complete Me

7. The Stranger Beside Me

8. My Story: Elizabeth Smart

9. Two Kisses for Maddy

10. Traumatic Neuroses of War

11. There’s More to Life Than This

12. The Rosie Project (Read my review)

13. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

14. Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

November (8 books read)

1. The Midwife’s Confession

2. In the Still of the Night

3. Weird: Because Normal Isn’t Working Anymore

4. Mistress (I hated this book and decided not to finish it.)

5. How to Talk so Teens will Listen and Listen so Teens will Talk

6. Attachments  (Read my review)

7. Start with why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

8. Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

9. Close Your Eyes

December (12 books read)

1. Blog, Inc.

2. Secondary Traumatic Stress: Self-Care Issues for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators

3. The Book of Matt (Read my review)

4. Big Brother

5. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

6. My Horizontal Life

7. Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting through to Absolutely Anyone

8. The Scent of Rain and Lightning

9. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)

10.Creep

11. The Dinner

12. The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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