Books read in 2026:

Books read in April:

• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, finished on the 19th

• The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, finished on the 11th

Books read in February:

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, finished on the 22nd

• There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone, finished on the 16th

• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams, finished on the 12th

Books read in January:

• The Overstory by Richard Powers, finished on the 31st

Favorite reads over the past few years…

Finished 23 books in 2025

Favorite reads of 2025:

1. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

2. Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward

3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

4. Coventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk

Finished 24 books in 2024

Favorite reads of 2024:

1. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

3. The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels #2) by Elena Ferrante

4. My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels #1) by Elena Ferrante

5. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

6. Liars by Sarah Manguso

7. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

8. The Idiot by Elif Batuman

9. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Finished 27 books in 2023

Favorite reads of 2023:

1. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

2. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

5. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

6. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

7. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

8. Clean: The New Science of Skin by James Hamblin

9. Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

10. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Finished 32 books in 2022

Favorite reads of 2022:

1. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, finished on February 14th

2. Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller, finished on June 17th

3. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, finished on May 23rd

4. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, finished on November 11th

5. Educated by Tara Westover, finished on September 15th

Finished 43 books in 2021

FAVORITE READS OF 2021:

1. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey

2. What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey

3. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

5. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

6. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottleib

7. The Handmaid's Tale & The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

8. Still Alice by Lisa Genova

9. The Course of Love by Alain de Botton

10. Immortality by Milan Kundera

Finished 33 books in 2020

FAVORITE READS OF 2020:

1. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

2. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

3. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

4. On Fire by Naomi Klein

5. Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

6. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

7. The Big Short by Michael Lewis

8. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

9. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein

10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera