Saturday, December 31, 2022

Happy New Year!

 

It's my New Years Eve tradition to make a list my favorite books from the year. 
 
Here's 2022:
 
1. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
2. The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
3. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
4. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
5. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
6. The Authentcity Project by Clare Pooley
7. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
9. Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
10. Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
11. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
 
2021:
 
1. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
2. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
3. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
4. The Storytellers Secret by Sejal Badanj
5. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
 
2020:
 
1. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
3. A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
4. Land Girls by Victoria Purman
5. The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
6. Harold & Maude by Colin Higgins
7. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
 
Before I started keeping a yearly list:
The Mists of Avalon 
World According to Garp 
Harry Potter Series 
The Night Circus 
The Nightingale 
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe 
The Book Thief 
Clan of the Cave Bear 
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 
The Help 
The Witching Hour 
The Stand 
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood 
Water for Elephants 
Gone Girl 
Interview with the Vampire 
Pillars of the Earth 
The Shining 
Sookie Stackhouse series 
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
 Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 
The Horse Whisperer 
Outlander 
Cider House Rules 
To Kill a Mockingbird 
The Color Purple 
The Great Alone 
Small Great Things 
What She Left Behind 
A Little Princess 
It 
The Handmaid's Tale 
The Other Boleyn Girl series
Where the Heart Is 
Prince of Tides 
The Red Tent 
Where the Crawdads Sing 
This Tender Land
Hunger Games series 
Life As We Knew It series
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
... to name just a few. 🙂