I'm not calling this my 'reading' list, since all but one of the following are audiobooks I listened to on the Libby app on my iPhone. I'm listing them with no reviews or ratings, but if you see multiple books by the same author, you can bet I find that writer intriguing or engaging. For instance, this year I discovered Louise Penny's marvelous mystery series, thanks to a mention in Hillary Rodham Clinton's autobiography Something Lost, Something Gained (see June). I love well-done histories, historical novels, and works by and about other cultures (BIPOC, if you will), as these genres have done the most to expand my world view. This year that meant spending considerable time 'in' Vietnam and 'in' inner cities.
January
Runaway, by Alice Munro
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Friends and Strangers, by J. Courtney Sullivan
Song Yet Sung, by James McBride
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Saints for All Occasions, by J. Courtney Sullivan
A Mystery of Mysteries, by Mark Dawidziak
The Sherlockian, by Graham Moore
The Cliffs, by J. Courtney Sullivan
Fools and Mortals, by Bernard Cornwell
February
The Holdout, by Graham Moore
Secrets from the Past, by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Everything She Touched, by Marilyn Chase
Silverview, by John le Carré
The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore
Away, by Amy Bloom
Home Front, by Kristin Hannah
Missoula, by Jon Krakauer
When All Is Said, by Anne Griffin
March
Three Cups of Deceit, by Jon Krakauer
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
When Prophecy Fails, by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter
The Day That Went Missing, by Richard Beard
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson
In Love, by Amy Bloom
The More the Terrier, by David Rosenfelt
White Houses, by Amy Bloom
The Book Woman's Daughter, by Kim Michele Richardson
The Dollmaker, by Nina Allan
Master of His Fate, by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Wandering Stars, by Tommy Orange
There There, by Tommy Orange
In the Lion's Den, by Barbara Taylor Bradford
April
The Beet Queen, by Louise Erdrich
The Mighty Red, by Louise Erdrich
The Birchbark House, by Louise Erdrich
Maybe Not, by Colleen Hoover
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Misfit, by Gary Gulman
Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name, by Elena Ferrante
Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
May
Truth & Beauty, by Ann Patchett
The Summer Before the War, by Helen Simonson
The Story of the Lost Child, by Elena Ferrante
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club, by Helen Simonson
The Wondeer of It All, by Barbara Taylor Bradford
It Didn't Start with You, by Mark Wolynn
Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
Homegoing, by Yada Gyasi
Sag Harbor, by Colson Whitehead
To the Bright Edge of the World, by Eowyn Ivey
The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
The Financial Lives of the Poets, by Jess Walter
I Only Read Murder, by Will Ferguson, Ian Ferguson
Slammed, by Colleen Hoover
Love in Tandem, by Becca Kinzer
June
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, by Elena Ferrante
Ever Constant, by M.L. Stedman
Meet Me at the Starlight, by Rachel Hauck
The Last Exchange, by Charles Martin
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, by Fredrik Backman
Dog Gone, by Pauls Toutonghi
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer, by Fredrik Backman
Something Lost, Something Gained, by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Calling for a Blanket Dance, by Oscar Hokeah
Britt-Marie Was Here, by Fredrik Backman
Facing the Mountain, by Daniel James Brown
The Deal of a Lifetime, by Fredrik Backman
July
Maybe Next Time, by Cesca Major
Agent Running in the Field, by John le Carré
American Lightning, by Howard Blum
The Gold in These Hills, by Joanne Bischoff
Deacon King Kong, by James McBride
Still Life, by Louise Penny
Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
A Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Wives, by Tarryn Fisher
The Bomber Mafia, by Malcolm Gladwell
Come Fly the World, by Julia Cooke
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, by Hisashi Kashiwai
Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
Teddy, by Emily Dunlay
Tamarack County, by William Kent Krueger
August
American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins
The Lost and Found Bookshop, by Susan Wiggs
The Cruelest Month, by Louise Penny
The Oysterville Sewing Circle, by Susan Wiggs
A Week in Winter, by Maeve Binchy
Whitethorn Woods, by Maeve Binchy
Beartown, by Fredrik Backman
A Rule Against Murder, by Louise Penny
Heart and Soul, by Maeve Binchy
Minding Frankie, by Maeve Binchy
Chestnut Street, by Maeve Binchy
In the Unlikely Event, by Judy Blume
A Few of the Girls, by Maeve Binchy
My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout
Map of the Heart, by Susan Wiggs
Anything is Possible, by Elizabeth Strout
Sugar and Salt, by Susan Wiggs
Eligible, by Curtis Sittenfeld
Us Against You, by Fredrik Backman
September
Don't Skip Out on Me, by Willy Vlautin
The Last House on the Street, by Dianne Chamberlain
The Midwife's Confession, by Diane Chamberlain
You Think It, I'll Say It, by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Stolen Marriage, by Diane Chamberlain
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World, by Fredrik Backman
Amazing Grace Adams, by Fran Littlewood
Tolkein's Ordinary Virtues, by Mark Eddy Smith
The Virgin Blue, by Tracy Chevalier
The Last Runaway, by Tracy Chevalier
Windigo Island, by William Kent Krueger
The Lies We Told, by Diane Chamberlain
Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler
The Bay at Midnight, by Diane Chamberlain
October
Rescue Road, by Peter Zheutlin
Big Lies in a Small Town, by Diane Chamberlain
The Brutal Telling, by Louise Penny
The Dream Daughter, by Diane Chamberlain
Pretending to Dance, by Diane Chamberlain
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, by Hisashi Kashiwai
Cakewalk, by Rita Name Brown
The Silent Sister, by Diane Chamberlain
Healing Wounds, by Diane Carlson Evans, Bob Welch
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies, by Catherine Mack
Family Tree, by Susan Wiggs
Wifey, by Judy Blume
We Begin at the End, by Chris Whitaker
Home Before Morning, by Lynda Van Devanter
Necessary Lies, by Diane Chamberlain
Manitou Canyon, by William Kent Krueger
Sulfur Springs, by William Kent Krueger
November
Bury Your Dead, by Louise Penny
A Trick of the Light, by Louise Penny
The Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny
The Hangman, by Louise Penny
The Hemingses of Monticello, by Annette Gordon-Reed
Between You and Me, by Susan Wiggs
Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
Five Days, by Wes Moore, Erica L. Green
Gallows Thief, by Bernard Cornwell
The Master Plan, by Chris Wilson, Bret Witter
December
The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner
Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny
The Long Way Home, by Louise Penny
The Nature of the Beast, by Louise Penny
A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny
Glass Houses, by Louise Penny
The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans
Desolation Mountain, by William Kent Krueger
Lightning Strike, by William Kent Krueger
Kingdom of the Blind, by Louise Penny
A Better Man, by Louise Penny
That's it for 2025 from . . .
I'll never catch up to you - mainly because listening to books puts me immediately to sleep :-D But I'm plugging along with my to-read shelves and books I still have on my Kindle App on my phone from when I still had Kindle Unlimited. I did just figure out that I can still get one free "First Reads" book a month with my prime membership - and they gave two in January, so I grabbed those and added them to the pile :-D
ReplyDeleteCan you listen to books while you walk, A? Or does that diminish your enjoyment of both? I LOVE listening while I spin or knit, or while I'm driving or walking.
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