It’s been a good year for reading. I read more than I thought I would, but more importantly, I relished slightly longer books than I have in past years. I can never rank my books – mostly because that takes more time than I am willing to devote and because it honestly changes from minute to minute some days. However, here is a list of the books I read this year, where I marked the ones that really stand out to me as I reflect on the year.
- The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins FAVORITE
- City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
- City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Arcadia by Iain Pears
- Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon
- Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh
- The Widow by Fiona Barton
- The Blue Hour by Douglas Kennedy
- The Taker by Alma Katsu
- All the Winters After by Sere Prince Halverson FAVORITE
- Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes
- The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
- A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams
- The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins
- The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell
- Flawed by Cecelia Ahern
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
- Washington, A Life by Ron Chernow
- 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor FAVORITE
- Maestra by L. S. Hilton
- The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
- Absolutely, Positively by Heather Webber
- The First Rule of Swimming by Courtney Angela Brkic
- Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom
- The Epidemic by Suzanne Young
- Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel FAVORITE
- The Obsession by Nora Roberts
- The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey FAVORITE
- Finders Keepers by Stephen King
- The Twelve by Justin Cronin
- I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh FAVORITE
- The Fireman by Joe Hill FAVORITE
- The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
- Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman FAVORITE
- If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo FAVORITE
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie FAVORITE
- Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica
- Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix FAVORITE
- Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
- The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
- Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger
- The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
- The Girls by Emma Cline FAVORITE
- The Trees by Ali Shaw
- The Loose Ends List by Carrie Firestone
- And I Darken by Kiersten White FAVORITE
- The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
- The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz
- The Perfect Neighbors by Sarah Pekkanen
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid FAVORITE
- The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
- The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
- Driving Mr. Dead by Molly Harper
- The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund
- Listen to Me by Hannah Pittard FAVORITE
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
- Mata Hari’s Last Dance by Michelle Moran
- Under the Dome by Stephen King
- The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
- In Twenty Years by Allison Winn Scotch
- Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
- Big Vamp on Campus by Molly Harper
- The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
- The Trap by Melanie Raabe
- The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
- The Invoice by Jonas Karlsson
- Baby Doll by Hollie Overton
- All is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch FAVORITE
- Killfile by Christopher Farnsworth FAVORITE
- How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather FAVORITE
- Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty
- The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin by Stephanie Knipper
- War Porn by Roy Scranton
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead FAVORITE
- Nevernight by Jay Kristoff FAVORITE
- Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris FAVORITE
- The Rest I Will Kill by Brian McGinty
- We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly
- As I Descended by Robin Talley
- The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman
- And The Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich
- I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
- The Cabin by Natasha Preston
- Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott
- Dear Mr. M by Herman Koch
- Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake FAVORITE
- Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra
- The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics
- The Immortal Throne by Bree Despain
- Slade House by David Mitchell
- Replica by Lauren Oliver
- In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
- Wonder Women by Sam Maggs
- The Terranauts by T. C. Boyle
- Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
- Mischling by Affinity Konar FAVORITE
- Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
- The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
- Yesternight by Cat Winters FAVORITE
- Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts
- Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman FAVORITE
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas FAVORITE
- The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue
- Ghostland by Colin Dickey
- The Diabolic by S. J. Kincaid FAVORITE
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- Faithful by Alice Hoffman FAVORITE
- The Charm Bracelet by Viola Shipman
- The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
- The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
- Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
- The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
- The Uninvited by Cat Winters
- The Selection by Kiera Cass
- The Elite by Kiera Cass
- The One by Kiera Cass
- Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
- Everything Love Is by Claire King
- How Will I Know You? by Jessica Treadway
- Island of Glass by Nora Roberts
- Difficult Women by Roxane Gay FAVORITE
- All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
- You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
- History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
- Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia
- The Single Undead Moms Club by Molly Harper
- Little Heaven by Nick Cutter FAVORITE
- The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian
Comments
- I understand completely. I have decided that unless I finish a ... by Michelle
- No TV. That's my number one go-to advice. Plus, I didn't ... by Michelle
- I really wish I had waited to read the first Laini Taylor until ... by rhapsodyinbooks
- Whenever in the world do you find enough time to read so many ... by Lisa
- Great list! Dark Matter was also one of my favorite reads this ... by Carrie K.
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