My annual list and ratings of the books I read – 42 (plus a re-read) for this year. Ratings of 4 and 5 stars are highly recommended.
January
5 stars The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
5 stars How to Teach Business English by Evan Frendo
3 stars The Dead Wander in the Desert by Rollan Seisenbayev
4 stars Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It by Gabriel Wyner
5 stars Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
February
5 stars London by Edward Rutherfurd
5 stars A Conspiracy of Mothers: A Novel by Colleen van Niekerk
4 stars Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
March
4 stars The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis
3 stars Dear Ann by Bobbie Ann Mason
1 star A Fist or A Heart by Kristín Eiriksdotter
1 star Less by Andrew Sean Greer
3 stars Asylum by Sherry Logsdon
April – read but didn’t finish any
May
5 stars The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
5 stars Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For by Susan Rice
2 stars Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
5 stars The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0) by Suzanne Collins
June
4 stars The Spellbreaker (Book #1) by Charlie N. Holmberg
5 stars The Family Upstairs (Book #1) by Lisa Jewell
5 stars A Catalogue of Catastrophe by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s #13)
5 stars The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey by Josiah Hartley and Amanda Prowse
July
5 stars Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond
August
5 stars The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
5 stars A Daughter’s Kaddish: My Year of Grief, Devotion, and Healing by Sarah Birnbach
4 stars The Puma Years by Laura Coleman
5 stars The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Francis Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey
September
3 stars The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World by Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, Amanda Pressner
5 stars The It Girl by Ruth Ware
5 stars People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
October
4 stars The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns
5 stars The Empress: A Novel by Laura Martinez-Belli
3 stars Essentialism by Greg McKeown
4 stars World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever and Wesley Allsbrook
5 stars Leadership Presence: How to Show Up, Stand Out, and Shake Up the World by Justin Patton
5 stars What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather
5 stars Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike #5) by Robert Galbraith
November
4 stars A Splendid Ruin by Megan Chance
5 stars Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Guasi
5 stars About Time (The Time Police #4) by Jodi Taylor
4 stars Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
5 stars Violeta by Isabel Allende
December
5 stars Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander #9) by Diana Galbaldon
Also re-read Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson with a student and started at least 2 books that I chose not to finish
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