I read 123 books last year and the three pictured here were my favorites. Here’s a list of ALL the books I read sorted by best overall, best for discussion, worst overall, and what was just average. They’re not in any particular order within their categories.
Best 1. Bad Blood 2. I'll Be Gone in the Dark 3. There There 4. Daughters of the Winter Queen 5. Educated 6. Dead Wake 7. Shrill 8. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine 9. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 10. The Hate U Give 11. The Great Alone 12. Becoming 13. In a Day's Work 14. Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit 15. Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions 16. Britt-Marie Was Here 17. Quiet Girl in a Noisy World 18. The Woman Who Smashed Codes 19.Then She Was Gone 20 Jane Seymour the Haunted Queen 21. No Stone Unturned 22. We Have Always Lived in the Castle 23. Forty Autumns 24. The Power of Meaning 25. Herding Cats 26. The Romanov Empress 27. The Storyteller 28. The Alice Network 29. The Bully Pulpit 30. Jane Austen at Home 31. Big Mushy Happy Lump 32. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Conversation Starters 33. Lady Killers 34. Man's Search for Meaning 35. Fear 36. Not That Bad 37. When 38. Columbine 39. The Power 40. Sometimes I Lie 41. I Was Anastasia 42. Will I Ever Be Good Enough? 43. Helter Skelter 44. A Higher Loyalty 45. How to Stop Feeling like Shit 46. We Should All be Feminists 47. Dear Ijeawele 48. Selfish Shallow and Self-Absorbed 49. All the Single Ladies 50. What Unites Us 51. Are We Smart Enough to Understand How Smart Animals Are? Worst 52. How to Be a Good Creature 53. Settle for More 54. Two Dark Reigns 55. My Lady Jane 56. Bring Me Back 57. The Princess Saves Herself in This One 58. Something in the Water 59. The Oracle Queen 60. Summer Wives 61. Manhattan Beach 62. Lagom 63. The Prisoner in the Castle (Maggie Hope) 64. Convenience Store Woman 65. The Essex Serpent 66. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck 67. Sadie 68. Ikigai 69. Lady Kopp Makes Trouble 70. Girl in Snow 71. Pardonable Lies 72. The Story of the Lost Child 73. Victoria (Daisy Goodwin) 74. The Goldfinch 75. The Strange Library 76. Lone Survivor
Average 77. In Pieces 78. Women and Power 79. These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie 80. The Woman Who Would be King 81. Crazy Rich Asians 82. I Feel Bad About My Neck 83. Whose Boat is this Boat 84. I Was Told There'd Be Cake 85. Wallis in Love 86. Happiness is a Choice You Make 87. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes 88. Sourdough 89. We Two 90. Magna Carta 91. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows 92. The Art of the English Murder 93. Rust & Stardust 94. The Princess Knight 95. Hamilton
96. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
97. Pax 98. Rainbirds 99. The Devil in the White City 100. Killers of the Flower Moon 101. Big Little Lies 102. Inferior 103. Circe 104. In Cold Blood 105. Tower 106. The Manson Women and Me 107. Still Life 108. How to be a Bawse 109. The Female Persuasion 110. Thanks Obama My Hopey Changey White House Years 111. Dead Presidents 112. 1Men Explain Things to Me 113. The Winter King 114. The Bear and the Nightingale 115. West Cork 116. How to Fight Presidents 117. I am the Messenger 118. Birds of a Feather 119. The Little Book of Feminist Saints 120. Yes Please 121. Kick Kennedy 122. Hidden Figures 123. The Young Queens















