The Book Log is the list of books I’ve read broken down by year and month linked to the post where I have shared my thoughts, if available. (I stopped reviewing book borrowed from the library in May 2019 in order to reduce the amount of time being dedicated to my blog.) 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)
- An American Sickness (Elisabeth Rosenthal)
- Prime Cut (Alan Carter)
- The Sandcastle Girls (Chris Bohjalian)
August
- Circe (Madeline Miller)
- The Last Summer (Ricarda Hunch)
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
- The Wild Inside (Christine Carbo)
- Devil’s Daughter (Lisa Kleypas)
- The Home-Maker (Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
- Algorithms of Oppression (Safiya Umoja Noble)
- Tipping the Velvet (Sarah Waters)
- Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- They Called Us Enemy (George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker
- Faith (Lori Copeland)
- This Fight Is Our Fight (Elizabeth Warren)
- Sister Saints (Colleen McDannell)
- Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns)
- Shadowlands (Anthony McCann)
- Behold the Dreamers (Imbolo Mbue)
- Revolting Prostitutes (Molly Smith and Juno Mac)
- A Bride for All Seasons (Margaret Brownley, Debra Clopton, Mary Connealy, and Robin Lee Hatcher)
September
- The Water Knife (Paolo Bacigalupi)
- The Grownup (Gillian Flynn)
- The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
- Ask Again, Yes (Mary Beth Keane)
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Madeleine Then)
- Faces on the Tip of My Tongue (Emmanuelle Pagano)
- Strangers on a Train (Patricia Highsmith)
- The Alienist (Caleb Carr)
- Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe)
- The Time in Between (María Dueñas)
- The Fortnight in September (R.C. Sherriff)
- The Land of Flickering Lights (Michael Bennet)
- Black Rock White City (A.S. Patrić)
- A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
October
- Things You Save in a Fire (Katherine Center)
- Dance by the Canal (Kerstin Hensel)
- The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose)
- The Good Girls Revolt (Lynn Povich)
November
December
- The Holy Bible
