The Book Log is the list of books I’ve read broken down by year and month with links to where I have shared my thoughts, either here on the blog or on GoodReads. The current year is available here while past years are compiled into their own pages.
(2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018)
Current Year (2019)
Key
* denotes reread
` denotes abandoned
January
- Back of Beyond (C.J. Box)
- The Millionaire Next Door (Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko)
- Part Time Cowboy (Missy Yates)
- Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari)
- Off the Grid (C.J. Box)
- Putin’s Kleptocracy (Karen Dawisha)
- The Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
- The Highway (C.J. Box)
- Cheap (Ellen Ruppel Shell)
- Educated (Tara Westover)
- The Warden (Anthony Trollope)
- Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty)
- Beloved Heart (Mallory Burgess)
February
- Badlands (C.J. Box)
- Hitler’s American Model (James Q. Whitman)
- The Longest Ride (Nicholas Sparks)
- Tell the Machine Goodnight (Katie Williams)
- Squeezed (Alissa Quart)
- Paradise Valley (C.J. Box)
- The Far Field (Madhuri Vijay)
- Little Fires Everywhere (Celeste Ng)
- Pound Foolish (Helaine Olen)
- See Me (Nicholas Sparks)
- Little House on Rocky Ridge (Roger Lea MacBride)*
- Little Farm in the Ozarks (Roger Lea MacBride)*
- In the Land of the Big Red Apple (Roger Lea MacBride)*
- On the Other Side of the Hill (Roger Lea MacBride)*
- Little Town in the Ozarks (Roger Lea MacBride)*
- Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)
- New Dawn on Rocky Ridge (Roger Lea MacBride)*
- On the Banks of the Bayou (Roger Lea MacBride)
- Bachelor Girl (Roger Lea MacBride)*
- The Kurdish Bike (Alesa Lightbourne)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) [Part One | Part Two]
- The Shadow Killer (Arnaldur Indriðason)
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (Michelle McNamara)
March
- Lord John and the Hand of Devils (Diana Gabaldon)
- Deep Work (Cal Newport)
- The Handmaiden’s Necklace (Kat Martin)
- Last Train to Istanbul (Ayşe Kulin)
- Fascism (Madeleine K. Albright)
- The Warmth of Other Suns (Isabel Wilkerson)
- First They Killed My Father (Loung Ung)
- Children of the Cave (Virve Sammalkorpi)
- Minnie’s Room (Mollie Panter-Downes)
- The Wall (John Lanchester)
- The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann David Wyss)
- Lethal White (Robert Galbraith)
- A Woman Is No Man (Etaf Rum)
- Queenie (Candice Carty-Williams)
- The Night Tiger (Yangsze Choo)
April
- Unsheltered (Barbara Kingsolver)
- Kid Gloves (Lucy Knisley)
- Mischling (Affinity Konar)
- A Home for Hannah (Amy Lillard)
- A Bride’s Story, Vol. 10 (Kaoru Mori)
- Factfulness (Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund)
- Faithful Place (Tana French)
- Shadows on the Tundra (Dalia Grinkevičiūtė)
- Becoming (Michelle Obama)
- Normal People (Sally Rooney)
- They Were Sisters (Dorothy Whipple)
- White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)
- The Power (Naomi Alderman)
- The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis)
- The Lost Man (Jane Harper)
May
- Drums of Autumn (Diana Gabaldon)
- We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- The Mussel Feast (Birgit Vanderbeke)
- The Chaperone (Laura Moriarty)
- Kings of the Yukon (Adam Weymouth)
- Overdressed (Elizabeth L. Cline)
- The Space Barons (Christian Davenport)
- A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
- The Quilting Circle (Amy Lillard)
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My Ex-Life (Stephen McCauley)
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Little Boy Lost (Marghanita Laski)
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Beside the Sea (Véronique Olmi)
- Machines Like Me (Ian McEwan)
- Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)
- The Buried (Peter Hessler)
- Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
- The Gift (Wanda E. Brunstetter)
- Heavy (Kiese Laymon)
June
- Broken Harbor (Tana French)
- The Orange Grove (Larry Tremblay)
- The Two-Income Trap (Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi)
- The Fiery Cross (Diana Gabaldon)
- The Coddling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt)
- Faceless Killers (Henning Mankell)
- The Lower River (Paul Theroux)
- Shortest Way Home (Pete Buttigieg)
- Niccolò Rising (Dorothy Dunnett)
- Into the Whirlwind (Eugenia Ginzburg)
- The Soul of America (Jon Meacham)
July
- This Place Holds No Fear (Monika Held)
- Bad Blood (John Carreyrou)
- Ain’t I a Woman (bell hooks)
- Don’t Look Back (Karin Fossum)
- Assumed Obligation (Kara Louise)
- You Would Have Missed Me (Birgit Vanderbeke)
- Saplings (Noel Streatfeild)
- Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport)
- Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- The Moor’s Account (Laila Lalami)
August
September
October
November
December
- The Holy Bible
