My life is moving by at the speed of page-turns …
Kate Atkinson / A God in Ruins / LF
Rhys Bowen / Her Royal Spyness / GF
James Lee Burke / The Glass Rainbow / GF
Thomas Cahill / Heretics and Heroes / NF
Beverly Cleary / Ramona Quimby, Age 8 / YF
Ta-Nehisi Coates / We Were Eight Years in Power / ESS
Jenny Colgan / The Bookshop on the Corner / RO
Pia de Jong / Saving Charlotte / MEM
Tracee de Hahn / Swiss Vendetta / GF
Frank Delaney / The Last Storyteller / LF
Patrick DeWitt / The Sisters Brothers / LF
Patricia M. Gaitely / Robicheaux’s Roots / NF
Amy Gentry / Good As Gone / GF
Adam Gopnik / Angels and Ages: … Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life / ESS
John Green / Turtles All the Way Down / YA
Vicky Halls / How to Be a Cat Detective / NF
Kent Haruf / Plainsong / LF
Kent Haruf / Eventide / LF
Felicity Hayes-McCoy / The Library at the Edge of the World / LF
Amy Herrick / The Time Fetch / MG
Georgette Heyer / These Old Shades / RO
Georgette Heyer / Devil’s Cub / RO
Georgette Heyer / The Corinthian / RO
Georgette Heyer / The Talisman Ring / RO
Georgette Heyer / The Grand Sophy / RO
Georgette Heyer / The Foundling / RO
Gail Honeyman / Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine / LF
Kara Isaac / Then There Was You / RO (don’t bother, it was crap)
Margo Jefferson / Negroland / MEM
Jenny B. Jones / A Sugar Creek Christmas / RO
Bernard MacLaverty / Midwinter Break / LF
Hilary Mantel / How Shall I Know You? / SS (1)
Peter Mayle / The Vintage Caper / GF
Alice McDermott / The Ninth Hour / LF
Celeste Fletcher McHale / The Secret to Hummingbird Cake / WF
David McRaney / You Are Now Less Dumb / NF
Denise Mina / Field of Blood / GF
Liane Moriarty / Three Wishes / WF
Sheila Nevins / You Don’t Look Your Age & Other Fairy Tales / ESS
Trevor Noah / Born a Crime / MEM
Edna O’Brien / The Country Girls / LF
George Packer / The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America / NF
Nancy Peacock / The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson / LF
Stacia Pelletier / The Half Wives / LF
Louise Penny / Glass Houses / GF
Sara Pennypacker / Pax / MG
Rainbow Rowell / Attachments / WF
Emily Ruskovich / Idaho / LF
Karen Russell / Vampires in the Lemon Grove / SS
Maria Semple / Today Will Be Different / LF
Graeme Simsion / The Rose Project / LF
Curtis Sittenfeld / Eligible / LF
Curtis Sittenfeld / Sisterland / LF
Kimberly Stuart / Sugar / LF
J. Courtney Sullivan / Saints for All Occasions / LF
Sarah Loudin Thomas / Miracle in a Dry Season / LF
Ted Thompson / The Land of Steady Habits / LF
Sallie Tisdale / The Best Thing I Ever Tasted / NF
Armor Towles / A Gentleman in Moscow / LF
Armor Towles / Rules of Civility / LF
Abigail Tucker / The Lion in the Living Room / NF
Kali VanBaale / The Good Divide / LF
J. D. Vance / Hillbilly Elegy / NF
Aaron van Voorhis / A Survival Guide for Heretics / NF
John Williams / Stoner / LF
#MyReadingYear
Total = 65
NF = 13
F = 52
Pace = 5.61
Did Not Finish, No
Sally Bradley / Kept / WF
Paula McClain / The Paris Wife / LF
Category Key
ESS = essays
FA = fantasy
GF = genre fiction
GN = graphic novel (or graphic nonfiction GNF)
HUM = humor
LF = literary fiction [very loosely defined]
MEM = memoir
MG = middle grade
NF = nonfiction
RO = romance
SS = short stories
WF = women’s fiction
YA = young adult fiction
YF = youth fiction
Just keeping my pledge to #ShowYourWork by showing #MyReadingYear !
Great to have you back!!
Thank you. 🙂