It's been another busy year at Ignite Research! I'll be trying to update this blog more often. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this list of some of the books I read last year.
My favorites
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
- Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta
- Hunger: A Memoir by Roxane Gay
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Very good books
- What we Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- White Oleander by Janet Fitch
- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
- A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab
- Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
- The Dinner by Herman Koch
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
- Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
- Saints for All Occasions by Courtney Sullivan
Good books
- The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand
- Honolulu by Alan Brennert
- Marlena by Julie Buntin
- The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
- Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet
- The Confidence Code by Katty Kay
- The Child by Fiona Barton
- One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus