Personal Reading Log

When I'm not knitting, I'm likely reading. And being the list maker/box checker I am, I figured I'd start a list of books I've read as I complete them so I'll never again have to ask myself, "Have I already read this?"

2024

• Voices of the Knox Mine Disaster: Stories, Remembrances, and Reflections on the Anthracite Coal Industry’s Last Major Catastrophe, January 22, 1959; Robert P Wolensky et al
• The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon (audiobook)
• Camino Ghosts, John Grisham
• Bad Monkey, Carl Hiaasen (audiobook)
• The Husbands, Holly Gramazio (audiobook)
• No Road Home, John Fram
• The Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty (audiobook)
• What Have You Done?, Shari Lapena (audiobook)
• Dead Wake, Erik Larson (audiobook)
• I’ve Tried Being Nice, Ann Leary (audiobook)
• A Daughter of Fair Verona, Christina Dodd
• The Last Time She Saw Him, Kate White (audiobook )
• The Museum of Lost Quilts, Jennifer Chiaverini (audiobook)
• The Berry Pickers, Amanda Peters (audiobook)
• Montauk, Nicola Harrison
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride (audiobook)
• The Last House on the Street, Diane Chamberlain
• I Owe You One, Sophie Kinsella
• The Perfect Son, Freida McFadden (audiobook)
• Nature Girl, Carl Hiaasen
• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai
• Ambition Monster, Jennifer Romolini (audiobook)
• Live Wire, Harlan Coben
• Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin (audiobook)
• After We Were Stolen, Brooke Beyfuss (audiobook)
• The Hunter, Tana French (audiobook)
• Enough, Cassidy Hutchinson (audiobook)
• The Women, Kristin Hannah (audiobook)
• The Exchange, John Grisham (audiobook)
• None of This is True, Lisa Jewell (audiobook)
• Winter in Paradise, Elin Hilderbrand (audiobook)
• The Sixth Wedding, Elin Hilderbrand (audiobook)
• Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville (audiobook)
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver (audiobook)
• Tom Lake, Ann Patchett (audiobook)
• Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace, Anne Lamott (Audiobook)
• The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson (audiobook)
• Commonwealth, Ann Patchett (audiobook)
• The Coworker, Frieda McFadden (audiobook)
• Death Comes to Pemberley, PD James (audiobook)
• Stealing Wyeth, Bruce E. Mowday
• A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham (audiobook)
• Sea Wife, Amity Gaige
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear
• The Mystery Guest, Nita Prose (audiobook)
• A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler (audiobook)
• Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better, Brant Hansen
• The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell (audiobook)
• The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
• The Five-Star Weekend, Elin Hilderbrand (audiobook)
• Everything She Forgot, Lisa Ballantyne (audiobook)
• The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, Sarah Ogilvie (audiobook)

2023

• Gone for Good, Harlan Coben (audiobook)
• While I Was Gone, Sue Miller
• The Rooster Bar, John Grisham
• Oh My Stars, Lorna Landvik
• The Trespasser, Tana French
• The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (audiobook)
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
• The Last Anniversary, Liane Moriarty (audiobook)
• Tailspin, Sandra Brown
• True Crime Story, Joseph Knox (audiobook)
• The Last Original Wife, Dorothea Benton Frank
• The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka (audiobook)
• Third Girl from the Left, Christine Barker
• The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (audiobook)
• The King of Torts, John Grisham
• The Summer of Lost and Found, Mary Alice Monroe
• The God of Good Looks, Breanne McIvor - makes up for previous book
• Night Shift, Robin Cook - worst book I ever read
• Better Dead, Max Allan Collins
• 28 Summers, Elin Hilderbrand
• Desert Star, Michael Connelly
• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss (audiobook)
• The Immortal Irishman, Timothy Egan
• The Key to Rebecca, Ken Follett
• Her Dark Lies, J. T. Ellison
• The Secret Place, Tana French
• The Betrayal of Anne Frank, Rosemary Sullivan (audiobook)
• The Likeness, Tana French (audiobook)
• Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite, John Glatt
• Shadow of the Lighthouse, Marden Dahlstedt
• The It Girl, Ruth Ware (audiobook)
• The Boys from Biloxi, John Grisham
• All My Knotted-Up Life, Beth Moore (audiobook)
• Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes (audiobook)
• Illegally Yours: A Memoir, Rafael Agustin
• The Best is Yet to Come, Debbie Macomber
• It’s One of Us, J.T. Ellison (audio/print)
• The Wind at My Back, Misty Copeland (with Susan Fales-Hill)
• Going Rogue, Janet Evanovich
• Bloomsbury Girls, Natalie Jenner (audiobook)
• Switchboard Soldiers, Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Night She Disappeared, Lisa Jewell (audiobook)
• The Guest List, Lucy Foley (audiobook)
• Pull Focus, Helen Walsh (audiobook)
• The Hotel Nantucket, Elin Hilderbrand
• Any Dream Will Do, Debbie Macomber
• Lessons, Ian McEwan (audio/print)
• The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
• Mean Baby, Selma Blair (audiobook)
• Girl Forgotten, Karin Slaughter (audiobook)

2022

• The Third Twin, Ken Follett
• Finding Me: A Memoir, Viola Davis (audiobook)
• The Silent Patient, Alex Michaeludes (audiobook)
• Sparring Partners, John Grisham
• Golden Girl, Elin Hilderbrand (audiobook)
• The Gatekeeper, Kathryn Smith
• The Woman in the Library, Sulari Gentill (audiobook)
• Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid (audiobook)
• No One Goes Alone, Erik Larson (audiobook)
• Snowblind, Ragnar Jónasson
• Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste No (audiobook)
• The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave (audiobook)
• Silverview, John Le Carre
• The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Mitch Albom
• The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah (audiobook)
• The Final Detail, Harlan Coben (audiobook)
• Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
• In the Woods, Tana French (audiobook)
• Wish You Were Here, Jodi Picoult (audiobook)
• The Identicals, Elin Hilderbrand (audiobook)
• Fade Away, Harlan Coben (audiobook)
• Apples Never Fall, Liane Moriarty (audiobook)
• Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Searcher, Tana French
• The Maid, Nita Prose
• Answers in the Form of Questions, Claire McNear
• Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate (audiobook)
• The Dark Hours, Michael Connelly
• The Gilded Edge, Catherine Prendergast
• The Joy and Light Bus Company, Alexander McCall Smith
• Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty (audiobook)
• Brainiac, Ken Jennings
• The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson (audiobook)
• Red Notice, Bill Browder
• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• The Whistler, John Grisham (audiobook)
• The Woman They Could Not Silence, Kate Moore
• Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham
• Fair Warning, Michael Connelly
• The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis (audio podcast)
• The Circadian Code, Satchin Panda
• The Last Trial, Scott Turow

2021

• Dracula, Bram Stoker (Craftlit audio podcast)
• Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
• The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen
• The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life, Doug Bock Clark
• In the Unlikely Event, Judy Blume
• The Weight of a Piano, Chris Cander
• Purls and Poison, Anne Canadeo
• A Spark of Light, Jodi Picoult
• Camino Winds, John Grisham
• Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
• The Associate, John Grisham
• We Were the Lucky Ones, Georgia Hunter
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (Craftlit audio podcast)
• The Book of Lost Friends, Lisa Wingate
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Craftlit audio podcast)
• The Law of Innocence, Michael Connelly
• Richard II, William Shakespeare (Chop Bard audio podcast)
• No Judgments, Meg Cabot
• Death with a Double Edge, Anne Perry
• Knit to Kill, Anne Canadeo
• The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
• Charleston, Margaret Bradham Thornton
• A Time for Mercy, John Grisham
• The Step, Martha LeMasters
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
• Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough
• What Rose Forgot, Nevada Barr
• The Secret Apartment, Tom Garvey
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Red-Headed League, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
• The Stars are Fire, Anita Shreve
• The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
• Calendar Girls, Tim Firth (stage play)
• Turn of the Screw, Henry James (Craftlit audio podcast)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dale Wasserman (stage play)
• Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung
• The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, Margareta Magnusson
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving (Craftlit audio podcast)
• Squeeze Me, Carl Hiaasen
• Beauty and the Beast, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (Craftlit audio podcast)
• The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, David A, Kessler, MD
• Usher II, Ray Bradbury
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor
• The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe (Craftlit audio podcast)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce (Craftlit audio podcast)
• The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats (Craftlit audio podcast)
• The War Prayer, Mark Twain (Craftlit audio podcast)
• The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin (Craftlit audio podcast)
• The Lady or the Tiger, Frank R. Stockton (Craftlit audio podcast)
• The XX Brain, Lisa Mosconi
• Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery (Craftlit audio podcast)
• Educated, Tara Westover
• How to Eat, David L Katz and Mark Bittman

2020 (as far as I can remember)

• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
• Welcome to the Great Mysterious, Lorna Landvik
• What Happens in Paradise, Elin Hildebrand
• Leaving Time, Jodi Picoult
• The Guardians, John Grisham
• The Night Fire, Michael Connelly
• Ever Ancient Ever New, Winfield Bevins
• Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership, Ruth Haley Barton
• Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, Brant Pitre
• On the Incarnation, Saint Athanasius
• The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult
• Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
• The Perfect Stranger, Megan Miranda
• Cured, Jeffrey Rediger MD
• Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• Stalling for Time, Gary Noesner
• Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman
• Corridors of the Night, Anne Perry
• Three Wishes, Liane Moriarty
• Here's To Us, Elin Hildebrand

I know I read them but don't know when

• Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago, Tim Moore
• Camino Island, John Grisham
• Four Friends, William D. Cohan
• How Now Shall We Live? Charles Colson
• Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
• Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand
• Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift (Craftlit audio podcast)
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (Craftlit audio podcast)
• Summer of '69, Elin Hildebrand
• Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty
• What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Craftlit audio podcast)
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (Craftlit audio podcast)
• North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (Craftlit audio podcast)
• Emma, Jane Austen
• Persuasion, Jane Austen
• Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
• Hamlet, William Shakespeare (Chop Bard audio podcast)
• Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare (Chop Bard audio podcast)
• Macbeth, William Shakespeare (Chop Bard audio podcast)
• The Tempest, William Shakespeare (Chop Bard audio podcast)