My Very Faves
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Audio Hits
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James, Percival Everett
Lucy by the Sea, Elizabeth Strout
The Thursday Murder Club Series, Richard Osman
A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson
These Precious Days, Ann Patchett
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Where I Come From: Stories from the American South, Rick Bragg
Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed
Call Your Daughter Home, Deb Spera
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Jeffery McGuire
Varina, Charles Frazier
The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
The Starless Sea, Erin Morganstern
This is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
On Agate Hill, Lee Smith
Becoming, Michelle Obama
Educated, Tara Westover
City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her therapist, and our Lives Revealed*, Lori Gottlieb
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You, Jen Hatmaker
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin
Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life, Jen Hatmaker
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
2025 Reads
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FICTION
* denotes I read it on audio
Just for the Summer*, Abby Jimenez
Whale Fall, Elizabeth O’Conner
How to Read a Book*, Monica Wood
The Heart of Winter,* Jonathan Evison
The Wedding People*, Alison Espach
The Colors of the Dark, Chris Whitaker
NONFICTION & MEMOIR
The Third Gilmore Girl*, Kelly Bishop
I Could Name God in Twelve Ways, Karen Salyer McElmurray
POETRY
A Place So Deep Inside America it Can’t Be Seen, Kari Gunter-Seymour
2024 Reads
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FICTION
* denotes I read it on audio
The God of the Woods, Liz Moore
The Last Devil to Die*, Richard Osman
Enlightenment, Sarah Perry
The Cliffs*, J. Courtney Sullivan
To The Bright Edge of the World, Eowyn Ivey
The Husbands, Holly Gramazio
Bear, Julia Phillips
Funny Story*, Emily Henry
Bel Canto*, Ann Patchett (reread)
Sandwich, Catherine Newman
North Woods, Daniel Mason
Good Material*, Dolly Alderton
Night Watch, Jayne Anne Phillips
Mercury*, Amy Jo Burns
James*, Percival Everett
I Cheerfully Refuse, Leif Enger
Two Women Walk into a Bar, Cheryl Strayed
The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
The Thursday Murder Club* (reread), Richard Osman
One Good Mama Bone* (actually read both audio and hardback), Bren McClain
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon
One Woman Show, Christine Coulson
POETRY
Poems: New and Selected, Ron Rash
Gay Poems for Red States, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
The Safety of Small Things, Jane Hicks
NONFICTION & MEMOIR
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)*, Stanley Tucci
Be Ready When the Luck Happens: a Memoir*, Ina Garten
The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius*, Kendra Adachi
Nanaville, Anna Quindlen
The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl
Life Worth Living: A Guide for What Matters Most*, Miroslav Volf
Always A Guest*; Barbara Brown Taylor
2023 Reads
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FICTION
* denotes I read it on audio
Foster, Claire Keagan
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Nora Goes Off Script*, Annabel Monaghan
Sea of Tranquility*, Emily St. John Mandel
The Caretaker, Ron Rash
Bloodroot, Amy Greene
The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff
Miracle Creek*, Angie Kim
Shark Heart: A Love Story, Emily Habeck
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey
Those We Thought We Knew, David Joy
The Bear*, Andrew Krivak
I Have Some Questions For You*, Rebecca Makkai
The Guest*, Emma Cline
We are the Brennans*, Tracey Lange
The Trackers, Charles Frazier
Maureen, Rachel Joyce
Silver Alert, Lee Smith
Signal Fires*, Dani Shapiro
Killers of a Certain Age*, Deanna Raybourn
The Man in the Window, Jon Cohen
The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies*, Deesha Philyaw
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
Ms. Demeanor, Eleanor Lipman
I am the Light of this World, Michael Parker
The Bullet That Missed*, Richard Osman
I Capture the Castle*, Dodie Smith
POETRY
Hewn, Melissa Helton
Dark Energy, Robert Morgan
NONFICTION & MEMOIR
The Creative Act: A Way of Being*, Rick Rubin
Hallelujah Anyway*, Anne Lamott (reread)
The Hero of this Book, Elizabeth McCracken
The Speckled Beauty*, Rick Bragg
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power*, Katherine Morgan Schafler
Share Your Stuff; I’ll Go First*, Laura Tremaine
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Uncertain Age*, Katherine May
The Anthropocene Reviewed*, John Green
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing*, Matthew Perry