• "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.

• "Fire Season" by Leyna Krow
• "The Fortunes of Jaded Women" by Carolyn Huynh*
• "A Map for the Missing" by Belinda Huijuan Tang*
• "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
• "Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng*
• "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• "The Many Daughters of Afong Moy" by Jamie Ford*
• "The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs" by Camilla Townsend
• "Big Magic" by Elizabeth Gilbert
• "Fiona and Jane" by Jean Chen Ho
• "This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage" by Ann Patchett
• "Malibu Rising" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus**
• "City of Girls" by Elizabeth Gilbert
• "The Light We Lost" by Jill Santopolo
• "Bell Canto" by Ann Patchett
• "Commonwealth" by Ann Patchett
• "Call Us What We Carry" by Amanda Gorman
• "The Other Einstein" by Marie Benedict*
• "Hang the Moon: a Novel" by Jeanette Walls
• "Mika in Real Life" by Emiko Jean*
• "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett
• "Beasts of a Little Land" by Juhea Kim*
• "Tastes like War" by Grace M. Cho
• "The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches" by Sangu Mandanna*
• "Chemistry" by Weike Wang
• "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt*
• "Joan is Okay" by Weike Wang
• "The Last Tale of the Flower Bride" by Roshani Chokshi
• "The Summer Place: A Novel" by Jennifer Weiner
• "The Island of Missing Trees" by Elif Shafak
• "Women Talking" by Mirriam Toews
• "Weyward" by Emilia Hart*
• "Yours Truly" by Abby Jimenez
• "Happy Place" by Emily Henry

The number one book out of the list is "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus. A lot of these books I listened to while I worked. It was a good 6 months of books - 35 total!

• "The Four Winds" by Kristin Hannah
• "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas*
• "A Court of Wings and Ruin" by Sarah J. Maas
• "The Startup Wife" by Tahmina Anam*
• "A Court of Frost and Starlight" by Sarah J. Maas
• "A Court of Silver Flames" by Sarah J. Maas
• "From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way" by Jesse Thistle*
• "My Name Is Lucy Barton" by Elizabeth Strout
• "When Women Were Dragons" by Kelly Barnhill**
• "How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House" by Cherie Jones
• "I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death" by Maggie O'Farrell*
• "The Elephant of Belfast" by S. Kirk Walsh
• "What Happened to You?" by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry*
• "The Island Queen: a Novel" by Vanessa Riley
• "Velvet Was the Night" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• "The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O'Farrell*
• "The Book Women's Daughter" by Kim Michele Richardson
• "Then She was Gone" by Lisa Jewel*
• "Witches: A Novel" by Brenda Lozano**
• "Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen: A Novel" by Sarah Bird*
• "Other Birds" by Sarah Addison Allen*
• "The Family Remains" by Lisa Jewell*
• "The House Across the Lake" by Riley Sager
• "Vanderbilt" by Anderson Cooper*
• "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" by Suzanne Collins

It's so hard to decide which books to mark with an asterisk! 2022 was a great year for reading. My very, very old kindle died and so I bought a new to me one. Some books I listened to while I made pottery, etc. So many great books to read!

• "An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed" by Helene Tursten
• "Searching For Sunday" by Rachel Held Evans
• "Fault Lines" by Emily Itami
• "There's No Such Thing As Bad Weather" by Linda Akeson Mcgurk
• "Beautiful Country" by Qian Julie Wang*
• "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood
• "The Cold Millions" By Jess Walters*
• "Under the Whispering Door" by TJ Klune
• "Intimacies" by Katie Kitamura
• "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys*
• "How Beautiful We Were" by Imbolo Mbue*
• "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie*
• "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas*
• "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong*
• "The Stars Are Fire" by Anita Shreve
• "Spirit Run" by Noe Alvarez
• "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng*
• "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens*
• "The Sentence" by Louise Erdrich

And a few other books I started and just did not want to finish!