- My favorite read of the year was: Wellness by Nathan Hill (My runners up are Family Family by Frankel and The Wedding People by Alison Espach)
- My favorite sci-fi (sortof) read of the year was: Fourth Wing
- My favorite Fantasy read of the year was: The Book of Doors
- My favorite uplit read of the year was: Cassandra in Reverse
- My favorite nonfiction read of the year was: Radiant Rebellion
- My favorite Historical Fiction read of the year was: The Women
- My favorite Mystery read of the year was: Small Mercies
- My favorite graphic novel read of the year was: When Stars are Scattered
Here are a few other books I loved
- The River We Remember
- Go As a River
- Queen of Dirt Island
- Shark Heart
- The Second Ending
- After Annie
- The Last Murder at the End of the World
- The Heart of it All
- Thornhedge
- The Other Mother
- Adeleide
- Tom Lake
- The Bird Hotel
- The Vulnerables
- Tell Me How to Be
- Foster
- Happiness Falls
Here are all 202 books I’ve read this year. You can see my goodreads reviews here.
- A Chance for Us (Willow Creek Valley, #4)
- A Love Letter to Whiskey
- A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
- A Short Walk Through a Wide World
- A Woman’s Guide to Inner Child Healing: Overcome Trauma, Recognize Your Feelings, Learn to Let the Past Go, and Become the Best Version of Yourself
- Absolution
- Adelaide
- After Annie
- All the Dangerous Things
- Always Human
- Amazing Grace Adams
- Antarctica
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
- Art for Self-Care: Create Powerful, Healing Art by Listening to Your Inner Voice
- August Blue
- Babel
- Baby X
- Beautiful Shining People: The extraordinary, EPIC speculative masterpiece…
- Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
- Before She Finds Me
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
- Beginner’s Guide to Sketching Buildings & Landscapes: Perspective and Proportions for Drawing Architecture, Gardens and More! (With over 500 illustrations)
- Beverly Bonnefinche Is Dead
- Big Swiss
- Birnam Wood
- But You Have Friends
- Bye, Baby
- Cassandra in Reverse
- Check & Mate
- City People
- Come and Get It
- Creative Wanderlust: Unlock Your Artistic Potential Through Mixed-Media Art Journaling Techniques – With 8 sheets of printed papers for journaling and collage
- Damsel
- Day
- Demon Copperhead
- Drowning
- Every Summer After
- Everyone Here Is Lying
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
- Everything’s Fine
- Excavations
- Expiration Dates
- Family Family
- Family Lore
- Fellowship Point
- Foster
- Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
- French Holiday
- Gender Is Really Strange
- Gender Queer
- Go as a River
- Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
- Gone Tonight
- Happiness Falls
- Hello Stranger
- Homebodies
- How To Be Remembered
- I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
- I Feel Awful, Thanks
- I Have Some Questions for You
- I’m Glad My Mom Died
- If Something Happens to Me
- If We’re Being Honest
- In the Dream House
- In the Lives of Puppets
- Ink Blood Sister Scribe
- Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
- Just Another Missing Person
- Korean Grammar for Beginners Textbook + Workbook Included: Supercharge Your Korean With Essential Lessons and Exercises
- Kritzelpixel
- Learn to Draw in 5 Weeks: A Beginner’s Workbook for All Ages
- Little Monsters
- Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
- Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
- Lost in Time
- Lost to Dune Road
- Love, Theoretically
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- Meet Me at the Lake
- My Murder
- Never Lie
- Nightcrawling
- None of This Is True
- One Moment
- One of the Girls
- One Puzzling Afternoon
- Only If You’re Lucky
- Only Love Can Hurt Like This
- Pageboy
- Pineapple Street
- Promise Boys
- Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
- Remember Love
- Ripe
- Romantic Comedy
- Rules for Second Chances
- Savor It
- Sea Change
- Shark Heart
- She Gets the Girl
- Silicon Hearts
- Small Mercies
- Someday, Maybe
- Speech Team
- Starling House
- Symphony of Secrets
- Tangled Up in You (Meant to Be, #4)
- Tell Me How to Be
- The Art of the Line in Drawing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Simple, Expressive Drawings
- The Bandit Queens
- The Beauty of Rain
- The Bird Hotel
- The Block Party
- The Book of Doors
- The Celebrants
- The Connellys of County Down
- The Coworker
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being
- The Eden Test
- The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
- The Endless Vessel
- The Family Game
- The Five-Star Weekend
- The Good Part
- The Guilty Husband
- The Heart of It All
- The Heiress
- The Hike
- The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5)
- The Intern
- The Invisible Hour
- The Last Love Note
- The Last Murder at the End of the World
- The Last Ranger
- The Lightkeeper’s Daughters
- The Lost Bookshop
- The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
- The Marriage Act
- The Memo
- The Minimum Method
- The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
- The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
- The Other Mother
- The Other Valley
- The Passengers
- The Plus One (A Brush with Love, #3)
- The Possibilities
- The Queen of Dirt Island
- The Quiet Tenant
- The Rachel Incident
- The River We Remember
- The Second Chance Year
- The Second Ending
- The Senator’s Wife
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- The Seven Sisters (The Seven Sisters, #1)
- The Seven Year Slip
- The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds #1)
- The Sweet Spot
- The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
- The Takedown
- The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)
- The Third Person
- The Throwback Special
- The Trail of Lost Hearts
- The True Love Experiment
- The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
- The Unmaking of June Farrow
- The Vaster Wilds
- The Villa
- The Vulnerables
- The Way Forward
- The Wedding People
- The Whispers
- The Wishing Game
- The Women
- These Impossible Things
- Thistlefoot
- Thornhedge
- Through the Snow Globe
- Throwback
- Till There Was You
- Tom Lake
- Translation State
- True Believer (Terminal List, #2)
- Watch Us Shine
- Watercolor Your Way: Techniques, Palettes, and Projects To Fit Your Skill Level and Creative Goals
- We Are All So Good at Smiling
- Wellness
- What Alice Forgot
- What Lies in the Woods
- What We Could Have Been
- When Stars Are Scattered
- Wolf Hollow (Lew Ferris, #1)
- Women of Good Fortune
- Yellowface
- You Always Feel Better When…: Five-Minute Reset Exercises to Change the Day
- You Are Here
- You, with a View
- Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
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