Hello, friends!!
When I set my Goodreads goal to read 80 books this year, I had no idea that I would surpass that goal and finish the year out with reading 101 books!! It has been an amazing year for reading, with most of my books being 4-5 star reads.
I genuinely focus more on the quality of my reading over the quantity. I would be perfectly happy reading less than my goal of 80 books if the books that I read filled me with happiness and joy and met the reasons that I read. We all read for different reasons. I read for comfort, to learn, to expand my worldview and to escape.
Today I’m going to share with you the 101 books that I read this year sorted by the star ratings that I gave them. In the coming days I’ll be sharing my top ten books of the year and my reading goals for next year.
Now, let’s get to that list of books!
5 Star Reads
1. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
2. A Little Hope by Ethan Joella
3. How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
4. The Late Bloomers’ Club by Louise Miller
5. Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
6. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
8. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
9. Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
10. The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
11. The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas
12. The Bird Cage by Eve Chase
13. I, Mona Lisa by Natasha Solomons
14. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
15. Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
16. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
17. Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott
18. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
19. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
20. Any Other Family by Eleanor Brown
21. A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
22. In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
23. Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
24. Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
25. The Measure by Nikki Erlick
26. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
27. A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
28. The Winners by Fredrik Backman
29. Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
30. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
31. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
32. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
33. We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
34. Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
35. Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
4 Star Reads
36. Still Life by Sarah Winman
37. Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly
38. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
39. The Family by Naomi Krupitsky
40. The Postmistress of Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
41. The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
42. The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
43. Cultish by Amanda Montell
44. The Unseen World by Liz Moore
45. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
46. The Maid by Nina Prose
47. The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
48. The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
49. French Braid by Anne Tyler
50. Haven by Emma Donoghue
51. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
52. The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
53. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
54. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
55. The Golden Couple by Greek Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
56. The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
57. Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
58. The Change by Kristen Miller
59. This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
60. My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
61. The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
62. The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake
63. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
64. Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
65. Meant to Be by Emily Giffin
66. Mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
67. The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
68. Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close
69. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan
70. A Good Neighborhood by Therese J. Fowler
71. Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
72. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
73. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
74. Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
75. Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
76. The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
77. The Cloisters by Katy Hays
78. Darling Girl by Liz Michalski
79. The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
80. The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
81. Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan
82. From Scratch by Tembi Locke
83. Doctors and Friends by Kimberly Martin
3 Star Reads
84. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
85. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
86. The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
87. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
88. The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones
89. The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani
90. The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
91. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
92. The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
93. The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
94. Matrix by Lauren Groff
95. Our Last Days in Barcelona by Chanel Cleeton
96. Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
97. Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
98. At Sea by Emma Fedor
99. Upgrade by Blake Crouch
100. Jacqueline in Paris by Ann Mah
2 Star Reads
101. Mission to Paris by Alan Furst