It’s a new year and I thought I’d start it strong by creating a one-stop shop for every book I read this year. The full list is below — plus a brief description with links to buy and, if I’ve written a full review, a link to read it!
Ps. here’s what I read in 2023 and in 2024!
January
- Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glenda Vanderah ⭐️⭐️⭐️ — mysterious story about a woman who finds a little girl claiming to be an alien. Full review.
- The Champagne Letters by Kate MacIntosh ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — historical fiction about Madame Cliquot with a modern timely set in Paris. Full review.
- The Favorites by Layne Fargo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — incredible, dynamic read about a fictional famous ice dancer. Full review.
- I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — office-place romcom/sitcom that hit close to home. Full review.
- The Six by Loren Grush (nonfiction) — incredible reporting on the first six female astronauts in space. Full review.
- This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead (out 3/26) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — heartfelt nod to the true crime community featuring grief and healing. Full review.
- Bluebird Day by Megan Taft ⭐️⭐️⭐️ — easy to read story of two mother-and-daughter athletes reuniting. Full review.
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — timeless story of three kids struggling with their humanity. Full review.
- The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — historical fiction about an Egyptologist at NYC’s Met. Full review.
- Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — propulsive locked-in thriller set in a blizzard. Full review.
- Pictures of You by Emma Grey ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 — dramatic and emotional story with a dash of romance. Full review.
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — third in The Empyrean series that started with Fourth Wing. Full review.
February
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makai ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 — heart-gutting portrait of the AIDS crisis’s effect on a community. Full review.
- It’s Getting Hot in Here by Jane Costello⭐️⭐️⭐️ — easy listen/read about a bit of a mid-life crisis with a bit of steam . Full review.
- Dollhouse Academy by Margarita Montimore ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — eerie story about two aspiring actors going into a prestigious boarding school. Full review.
- Forever Barbie by M.G. Lord [nonfiction] — full profile on Barbie, Matel, and their impacts. Full review to come.
- 2001 Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke ⭐️⭐️⭐️ — the OG sci-fi read that started it all. Full review.
- First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — sweet lil take on Sleepless in Seattle with a lot of steam. Full review to come.
- Cross My Heart by Megan Collins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — a romantic thriller that had my head spinning. Full review to come.
March
- Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Make Believe by Victoria Fuller (nonfiction)
- Eddie Winston Is Looking For Love by Marianne Cronin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
- Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Natural Selection by Elin Hilderbrand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Fall Risk by Abby Jimenez ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
April
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Count My Lies by Sophie Stava ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Beasts Of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Long ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Y2K by Colette Shade [nonfiction]
- Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Sir Lewis by Michael E. Sawyer [nonfiction]
- The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick [review to come]
May
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
How To Giggle by Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo [nonfiction]
Cat’s People by Tanya Guerrero ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Home of the American Circus by Allison Larkin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I Hope You Remember by Josie Balka [nonfiction]
You Don’t Have to Have a Dream by Tim Minchin [nonfiction]
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Saltwater by Katy Hayes ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Bachelorette Party by Camilla Sten ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This Is A Love Story by Jessica Soffer ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
June
The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tweet Cute by Emma Lord ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📱Mansion Beach by Meg Mitchell Moore ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson [nonfiction]
📱 With A Vengeance by Riley Sager ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bury My Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
The Love Haters by Katherine Center ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
🎧Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green [nonfiction]
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
📱 Mayluna by Kelley McNeil ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
The Blue Book by Elin Hilderbrand [nonfiction]
Sort Of Seeing Someone by Emily Bond
July
Run For The Hills by Kevin Wilson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Island by Elin Hilderbrand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
The Martha’s Vineyard Beach Book Club by Martha Hall Kelly ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Here’s To Us by Elin Hilderbrand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies by Catherine Mack ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📱 Dead of Summer by Jessa Maxwell ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
📱 Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
It’s Almost Always Sunny in Philadelphia by Kimberly Potts [nonfiction]
The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
These Summer Storms by Sarah McLean ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sunburned by Katherine Wood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Four Engagements of Sibil Rain by Hannah Brown ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
A Map of Paradise by Susan Meissner ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📱 Our Last Resort by Clémance Michallon ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
August
Far and Away by Amy Poepell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
For The Record by Emma Lord ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware ⭐️⭐️💫
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell [nonfiction]
Everyone Is Lying To You by Jo Piazza ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Where You’re Planted by Melanie Sweeney ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Compound by Aisling Rawle ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sosuke Natsukawa ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
September
The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Last Light Over Galveston by Jennifer L. Wright ⭐️⭐️⭐️
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Our Last Vineyard Summer by Brooke Lea Foster ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
The Love We Found by Jill Santopolo ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
King of Ashes by SA Cosby ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Summer We Ran by Audrey Ingram ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
We Will Prescribe You a Cat by Ishida Syou ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
The Rival by Emma Lord ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Told You So by Mayci Neeley [nonfiction]
Short stories:
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Ex-Wives Club by Sally Hepworth
The First Shot by Liv Constantine
Randomize by Andy Weir
October
The Book of Lost Hours by Haley Gelfuso ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Don’t Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes (review to come)
Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld (short stories)
A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
We’ll Prescribe You Another Cat by Ishida Syou ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Witchcraft for Weyward Girls by Grady Hendrix ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
November
The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mean Moms by Emma Rosenblum ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Friends by Fredrick Backman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Queen’s Match by Katharine McGee ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky by Garrett M. Graff [nonfiction)
That’s A Great Question I Would Love to Tell You by Elyse Meyers [nonfiction]
The Art of Vanishing by Morgan Pager ⭐️⭐️⭐️
How About Now by Kate Baer [nonfiction]
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Future Saints by Ashley Winstead ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
December
The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Good Spirits by B.K. Borison ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Making of Jackson Parrish by Liv Constantine [short story]
Signal Moon by Kate Quinn [short story]
The Kill Clause by Lisa Unger [short story]
Best Wishes From the Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Finding Grace by Loretta Rothchild ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman [short story]
The Bookstore Wedding by Alice Hoffman [short story]
The Bookstore Keepers by Alice Hoffman [short story]
The Bookstore Family by Alice Hoffman [short story]
Yours For the Season by Emily Stone ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Winter Solice by Elin Hilderbrand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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