Books of 2022

Even fewer books read in 2022... unless you count Little Blue Truck, Tails, Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs, etc. 

Books of 2022

1. Girls Like Us by Christina Alger (288)

2. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (474)

3. Book Lovers by Emily Henry (398)

4. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (320)

5. Dead on Deadline by Lara Bricker (234)

6. Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life by Sarah Edmondson (253)

7. The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang (351)

8. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (319)

9. A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy (338)

10. One by One by Ruth Ware (383)

11. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (272)

Let's see what 2023 brings!

Books of 2021

2021 was not a banner year for reading... but it was a very special year for growing a baby! 

Here's what I managed to read before things got hectic:

1. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer (384)
2. The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine (400)
3. This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell (160)
4. The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (272)

5. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (182)

6. Long Bright River by Liz Moore (480)

7. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (257)

8. The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson (247)

9. The Survivors by Jane Harper (374)

10. The Other Woman by Sandie Jones (294)

11. How to Be a Good Creature by Sy Montgomery (208)

12. Flush by Virginia Woolf (177)

13. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery (339)

14. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (390)

15. Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris (352)

16. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena (320)

17. Peace Pipe Dreams: The Truth About Lies About Indians by Darrell Dennis (224)

18. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose (315)

19. Loathe at First Sight by Suzanne Park (354)

20. The Perfect Escape by Suzanne Park (298)

21. The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale (368)

22. Ghosting: A Love Story by Tash Skilton (338)

23. Made in Korea by Sarah Suk (322)

24. Cribsheet by Emily Oster (291)25. The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse (388)

26. Untamed by Glennon Doyle (328)

27. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (179)

28. The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan (308)

29. Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston(421)

30. Crooked House by Agatha Christie (236)

Books of 2020

I know a lot of people found more time for reading this past year due to lockdowns and cancelled social gatherings. It turned out to just be a typical year for me. I hit my goal of reading more books than the previous year. 

1. Ross Poldark by Winston Graham (455)

2. The Uncollected David Rakoff by David Rakoff (352)

3. Educated by Tara Westover (334)

4. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (223)

5. Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (414)

6. Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy (722)

7. Pantsdrunk: The Finnish Path to Relaxation by Miska Rantanen (175)

8. Looker by Laura Sims (180)

9. What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw (326) by Leah Stewart

10. Demelza by Winston Graham (521)

11. Normal People by Sally Rooney (273)

12. The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West (261)

13. Broken Faith: Inside Word of Faith Fellowship One of America's Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr (382)

14. Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham (344)

15. Warleggan by Winston Graham (471)

16. Girl, 15, Charming but Insane by Sue Limb (310)

17. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (384)

18. 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne (368)

19. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (322)

20. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary (321)

21. Too Late to Say Goodbye by Ann Rule (480)

22. Dead by Sunset by Ann Rule (566)

23. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (320)

24. Big Sky by Kate Atkinson (368)

25. The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (192)

26. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (386)

27. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (335)

28. Dear Girls by Ali Wong (216)

29. Ghost by Jason Reynolds (208)

30. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (240)

31. Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers (273)

32. Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad (256)

33. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino (303)

34. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (368)

35. Little Princes by Conor Grennan (304)

36. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (247)

37. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (286)

38. You're Not Special by Meghan Rienks (278)

39. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (281)

40. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (78)

41. Birdie by Tracey Lindberg (256)

42. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn (62)

43. The White Album by Joan Didion (223)

44. Quakers by Peter Furtado (62)

45. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (162)

46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (159)

47. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie (235)

48. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (328)

Books of 2019

It was another great year for reading. Here are the titles:

1. Becoming by Michelle Obama (421)

2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (304)

3. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (368)

4. P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han (337)

5. Love! by Zoe Foster Blake (387)

6. Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han (337)

7. Playing the Field by Zoe Foster Blake (352)

8. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman (272)

9. Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner (400)

10. We're All in This Together by Amy Jones (418)

11. Women Talking by Miriam Toews

12. Arcadia by Lauren Groff (298)

13. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman (320)

14. A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence (227)

15. Fake Plastic Girl by Zara Lisbon (276)

16. Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, & Stress-free Life by Francine Jay (256)

17. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriaty (458)

18. The Stand-In by Steve Bloom (360)

19. Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography by Andrea Warner (275)

20. Not Without My Sister by Celeste Jones, Kristina Jones, and Juliana Buhring (416)

21. The Lost Man by Jane Harper (337)

22. We Oughta Know: How Four Women Rules the 90s and Changed Canadian Music by Andrea Warner (170)

23. Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (352)

24. Bunny by Mona Awad (320)

25. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (352)

26. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (427)

27. The Private World of Tasha Tudor by Tash Tudor and Richard Brown (134)

28. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (396)

29. Tasha Tudor's Garden by Tovah Martin (160)

30. The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (320)

31. This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps (321)

32. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (241)

33. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christis (224)

34. Peril at End House by Agatha Christie (226)

35. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (103)

36. Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (266)

37. Have a Little Faith in Me by Sonia Hartl (329)

38. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (302)

39. When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson (348)

40. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (304)

41. Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper (386)

42. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (232)

43. The Whisper Man by Alex North (355)

44. Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson (349)

45. Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton (368)

46. How Do You Like Me Now? by Holly Bourne (368)

Books of 2018

Yikes! I was not very diligent about reading this past year. I'm not even sure I kept proper track of the titles I read...I could have sworn that total was little higher!  I also did not focus on reading more Canadian writers like I had planned. In fact, I only read one (Scaachi Koul).

At least it should be easy to read more than 22 books in 2019.

1. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (324)

2. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul (256)

3. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen (288)

4. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantah Irby (272)

5. I'm Judging You: The Do Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi (256)

6. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell (288)

7. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (352)

8. The Hate U Give by April Thomas (447)

9. Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood by Claire Hoffman (293)

10. Tangerine by Christine Mangan (317)

11. Force of Nature by Jane Harper (329)

12. The Power by Naomi Alderman (400)

13. I've Got Your Number by Sophia Kinsella (448)

14. Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis (241)

15. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth (480)

16. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (336)

17. I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (340)

18. How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran (357)

19. How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran (352)

20. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (400)

21. Sisu: The Finnish Art of Courage by Joanna Nylund (156)

22. Calypso by David Sedaris (273)

Books of 2017

It was another successful and enjoyable year for reading. I reached my goal of more books than the previous year, but just barely. I finished my final book on December 31 just a few hours before midnight for a total of 56 books in 2017.

I strayed a bit from my goal of reading more Canadian authors, but there's always 2018!

Here are the books:

1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (224)

2. All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks (239)

3. Spark Joy! by Marie Kondo (304)

4. The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (64)

5. Air Kisses by Zoe Foster (350)

6. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (304)

7. Canada Year by Year by Elizabeth MacLeod (93)

8. Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East by Gita Mehta (208)

9. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (263)

10. Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple (273)

11. The Dry by Jane Harper ( 336)

12. 10% Happier by Dan Harris (256)

13. Joe College by Tom Perrotta (321)

14. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (320)

15. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (588)

16. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (433)

17. Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis (175)

18. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (160)

19. I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections by Nora Ephron (160)

20. Tomatomania! by Scott Daigre and Jenn Garbee (210)

21. Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham (224)

22. I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin (336)

23. Finding Ultra by Rich Roll (290)

24. Eat and Run by Scott Jurek (273)

25. The Bear by Claire Cameron (217)

26. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (658)

27. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (728)

29. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (674)

30. How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell (374)

31. Kay's Lucky Coin Variety by Ann Y.K. Choi (288)

32. When You Find Out the World is Against You by Kelly Oxford (320)

33. It's All in Your Head: Stories From the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan (316)

34. The Cheese Trap by Dr. Neal Barnard (320)

35. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (544)

36. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan (400)

37. Blubber by Judy Blume (193)

38. Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave (257)

39. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking (285)

40. Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan (384)

41. Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein (308)

42. My (Not So) Perfect Life by Sophia Kinsella (449)

43. Ruthless by Ron Miscavige (258)

44. Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (148)

45. You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson (320)

46. My Story by Elizabeth Smart (308)

47. Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill (427)

48. Jubilee by Patricia Reilley Giff (162)

49. Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo (231)

50. Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo (272)

51. The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People by Meik Wiking (285)

52. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (208)

53. Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary (213)

54. Ramona's World by Beverly Cleary (240)

55. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (332)

56. Completely Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (192)

Books of 2016

This past year turned out to be another successful twelve months of reading. The first eight months I was living in a non-English speaking country which made me very dependent on my Kindle. Unfortunately, the secondhand Kindle I was gifted a few years ago finally hit the dust. Fortunately, it broke just a few weeks before a friend came to visit so she was able to bring me a replacement.

I hit my primary goal of reading more books than in 2015. I read 55 books. However, I did not reach my secondary goal of reading all the writers on Powell's 25 Women to Read Before You Die list. I only read works by four of the writers on the list. (However, I've read a total of 11 of the writers in my lifetime.)

Here they are:

1. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (160)

2. Room by Emma Donoghue (417)

3. Dare Me by Megan Abbot (305)

4. Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary (240)

5. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (335)

6. Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois (419)

7. Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary (192)

8. Wildflower by Drew Barrymore (288)

9. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit (171)

10. All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister (605)

11. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume (416)

12. When We Were on Fire by Addie Zierman (402)

13. Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary (208)

14. Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman (327)

15. Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron (187)

16. How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger (576)

17. A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer (366)

18. Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary (224)

19. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (176)

20. Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat is Killing Us by Garth Davis, MD (389)

21. Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein (320)

22. A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight by Maria Toorpakai (337)

23. We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to Cover Girl the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler (304)

24. The Starch Solution by Dr. John A. McDougall (368)

25. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (146)

26. The Clasp by Sloane Crosley (385)

27. The Birth of Korean Cool by Euny Hong (282)

28. The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West by Michelle Goldberg (336)

29. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (160)

30. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (180)

31. The Wrong Girl by Zoe Foster (266)

32. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (256)

33. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism by Melanie Joy, Ph.D. (210)

34. Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti (224)

35. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (581)

36. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer (336)

37. Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty (432)

38. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (336)

39. You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein (304)

40. Weightless by Sarah Bannan (336)

41. Future Perfect by Jen Larsen (320)

42. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (208)

43. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West (272)

44. Modern Lovers by Emma Straub (366)

45. I Know I Am, But What Are You? by Samantha Bee (256)

46. The Girls by Emma Cline (368)

47. My Life On the Road by Gloria Steinem (304)

48. The Healthiest Diet On the Planet by Dr. John McDougall and Mary McDougall (224)

49. Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (384)

50. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini (279)

51. Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (288)

52. The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson (288)

53. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (368)

54. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (208)

55. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (240)

In 2017 the plan is to read at least 56 books, read more writers on Powell's 25 Women to Read Before You Die list, and to focus on reading more Canadian writers.