Books read in 2025:

Books read in August:

• Parade by Rachel Cusk, finished on the 28th

• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer, finished on the 20th

• Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, finished on the 14th

Books read in July:

• The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer, finished on the 23rd

Books read in June:

• The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, finished on the 24th

• Holes by Louis Sachar, finished on the 2nd

Books read in May:

• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, finished on the 19th

Books read in April:

• Tales from a Traveling Couch: A Psychotherapist Revisits His Most Memorable Patients by Robert U. Akeret, finished on the 27th

Books read in March:

• Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, finished on the 28th

Books read in February:

• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, finished on the 20th

Books read in January:

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, finished on the 16th

• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, finished on the 4th

Favorite reads over the past few years…

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