• "Catalina" by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• "Isola" by Allegra Goodman*
• "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• "The Emperor Of Gladness" by Ocean Vuong
• "Real Americans" by Rachel Khong
• "The Original Daughter" by Jemimah Wei
• "The Book of Doors" by Gareth Brown
• "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams
• "Broken Country" by Clare Leslie Hall
• "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown
• "So Far Gone" by Jess Walter
• "I'll Be Right Here" by Amy Bloom
• "Golden Son" by Pierce Brown
• "Good Dirt" by Charmaine Wilkerson*
• "Mask of the Deer Woman" by Laurie L. Dove
• "All the Other Mothers Hate Me" by Sarah Harman
• "The Reformatory" by Tananarive Due
• "Will There Ever Be Another You" by Patricia Lockwood
• "Problematic Summer Romance" by Ali Hazelwood
• "The Missing Half" by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester
• "Frist-Time Caller" by B.K. Borison
• "Buckeye" by Patrick Ryan**
• "The Life Impossible" by Matt Haig
• "A Marriage at Sea" by Sophie Elmhirst*
• "We Do Not Part" by Han Kang
• "Iron Gold" by Pierce Brown
• "Morning Star" by Pierce Brown

I joined a book club and look forward to what I get to read with them! 63 books read in 2025.

• "The Wedding People" by Alison Espach*
• "Truly Madly Magically" by Hazel Beck
• "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante
• "Mother/Founder" by Amanda Jane Jones and Jennifer Fernandez*
• "The Cliffs" by J. Courtney Sullivan
• "Sandwich" by Catherine Newman*
• "A Lady's Guide to Scandal" by Sophie Irwin
• "The Mighty Red" by Louise Erdrich
• "A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting" by Sophie Irwin
• "The School for Good Mothers" by Jessamine Chan*
• "The Story of a New Name" by Elena Ferrante
• "Radical Acceptance" by Tara Brach
• "Pearl" by Siân Hughes
• "Hood Feminism" by Mike Kendall
• "Homegoing" by Yea Gyasi
• "Hum" by Helen Phillips*
• "You Could Make This Place Beautiful" by Maggie Smith*
• "The Hike" by Lucy Clarke
• "The Dallergut Dream Department Store" by Miye Lee
• "The Last Light over Oslo" by Alex Rockliff
• "The Sirens" by Emilia Hart
• "Good Inside" by Becky Kennedy
• "She Comes First" by Ian Kerner
• "What Happened to the McCrays?" by Tracey Lange
• "Water Moon" by Samantha Sotto Yambao
• "The Lost Stories" by Meg Shaffer
• "The Mercies" by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• "Tell Me Everything" by Elizabeth Strout
• "Say You'll Remember Me" Abby Jimenez
• "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter" by Sue Monk Kidd****
• "We All Want Impossible Things" by Catherine Newman
• "The Husbands" by Holly Gramazio
• "The Bullet Swallower" by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
• "The Storm We Made" by Vanessa Chan
• "Yellowface" by R. F. Kuang*
• "Dream Count" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I read the most transformative of my life - "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter" by Sue Monk Kidd.

• "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarrows
• "Iron Flame" by Rebecca Yarrows
• "On Our Best Behavior" by Elise Loehnen*
• "Meet Me at the Lake" by Carley Fortune*
• "Come and Get It" by Kiley Reid
• "The Library of Borrowed Hearts" by Lucy Gilmore
• "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt
• "The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club" by Helen Simonson
• "Anita de Monte Laughs Last" by Xochitl Gonzalez
• "Long After We Are Gone" by Terah Shelton Harris
• "The Most Fun We Ever Had" by Claire Lombardo**
• "The Paris Novel" by Ruth Reichl
• "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" By Gabrielle Zevin
• "The Lion Women of Tehran" by Marian Kamali*
• "The Paradise Problem" by Christina Lauren
• "Bear" by Julie Phillips*
• "Same As It Ever Was" by Claire Lombardo
• "A Happier Life" by Kristy Woodson Harvey
• "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
• "The Night Ends with Fire" by K. X. Song
• "Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective" by Katie Siegel
• "Small Town, Big Magic" by Hazel Beck
• "The Only Purple House in Town" by Ann Aguirre
• "The God of the Woods" by Liz Moore*
• "The Ex Hex" by Erin Stirling
• "The Unmothers" by Leslie J. Anderson*
• "How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water" by Angie Cruz
• "This Summer Will Be Different" by Carley Fortune
• "Big Little Spells" by Hazel Beck
• "A Sorceress Comes to Call" by T. Kingfisher
• "We Were Never Here" by Andrea Bartz*
• "Fire Exit" by Morgan Talty
• "Lady MacBeth" by Ava Reid
• "Margo's Got Money Troubles" by Rufi Thorpe*
• "Greenwich Park" by Katherine Faulkner
• "All the Colors of the Dark" by Chris Whitaker
• "Evie Drake Starts Over" by Linda Holmes

37 books read in the second half of the year. A total of 77 books read in 2024. What a great year for reading!

• "The Other Mothers" by Katherine Faulkner
• "Woman of Light" by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
• "Welcome Home, Stranger" by Kate Christensen
• "The Fake Mate" by Lana Ferguson
• "This Time Tomorrow" by Emma Straub*
• "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
• "Let Us Descend" by Jesmyn Ward
• "The Berry Pickers" by Amanda Peters*
• "The Last Love Note" by Emma Grey
• "How to Be Perfect" by Michael Schur
• "Part of Your World" by Abby Jimenez
• "A Heart That Works" by Rob Delaney
• "One Summer in Savannah" by Terah Shelton Harris
• "The Switch" by Beth O'Leary*
• "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese*
• "Family Family" by Laurie Frankel*
• "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride*
• "Pineapple Street" by Jenny Jackson*
• "The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese***
• "Becoming" by Michelle Obama*
• "Reign" by Katharine McGee
• "The House of Eve" by Sadeqa Johnson***
• "Beyond the Wand" by Tom Felton
• "In the Dream House" by Carmen Maria Machado
• "Just for Summer" by Abby Jimenez
• "Black Cake" by Charmaine Wilkerson*
• "The Henna Artist" by Alka Joshi
• "The Secret Keeper" by Alka Joshi
• "Funny Story" by Emily Henry
• "The Women" by Kristin Hannah*
• "The Perfumist of Paris" by Alka Joshi
• "Meet the Benedettos" by Katie Cotugno
• "I Have Some Questions for You" by Rebecca Makkai*
• "Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone" by Benjamin Stevenson
• "Within Arm's Reach" by Ann Napolitano*
• "The Invisible Hour" by Alice Hoffman
• "Rift" by Cait West**
• "North Woods" by Daniel Mason
• "Eligible" by Curtis Sittenfeld*
• "You Think It, I'll Say It" by Curtis Sittenfeld

Recording the books I've read every 6 months brings me so much joy! I looove to read! 2024 is off to a great start with 40 books read! And so many amazing books on this list. "The Berry Pickers" was so poignant.

• "Clytemnestra" by Costanza Casati
• "In the Lives of Puppets" by TJ Klune
• "Beach Read" by Emily Henry
• "The Duke and I" by Julia Quinn
• "The Half Moon: A Novel" by Mary Beth Keane
• "Chain Gang All Stars" by Nana Kwame Adje-Brenyah
• "Go as a River" by Shelley Read
• "If We're Being Honest" by Cat Shook*
• "Hello Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano*
• "The Viscount Who Loved Me" by Julia Quinn
• "An Offer from a Gentleman" by Julia Quinn
• "Romantic Comedy" by Curtis Sittenfeld*
• "Dust Child" by Que Mai Phan Nguyen*
• "The Great Reclamation" by Rachel Heng*
• "Mister Magic" by Kiersten White*
• "The Invisible Life of Adde LaRue" by V. E. Schwab
• "Romancing Mister Bridgerton" by Julia Quinn
• "The God of Endings" by Jacqueline Holland*
• "House of Cotton" by Monica Brashears
• "Loot" by Tania James*
• "A Council of Dolls" by Mona Susan Power***
• "People We Meet on Vacation" by Emily Henry
• "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century" by Kim Fu
• "I Never Thought of it That Way" by Mónica Guzmán***
• "The London Séance Society" by Sarah Penner
• "Book Lovers" by Emily Henry
• "Homecoming" by Kate Morton*
• "The Friend Zone" by Abby Jimenez
• "The Nanny" by Lana Ferguson
• "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmun
• "Flight" by Lynn Steger Strong*

f you only read a couple books from this list, let them be "A Council of Dolls" and "I Never Thought of it That Way." My year's total book count is 66, but I read "Lessons in Chemistry" twice so 65. Cheers to another year of great books.