What I've been reading this week - Jan 31

Over the past 12 years, I’ve taken to publishing (for friends and family) the books I read that year. Here’s this years list - I hope you find something that interests you!

My favorites

Mission Hill (Abby Endicott Novels #1) by Pamela Wechsler

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1) by Jonas Jonasson

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Very good books

The Institute by Stephen King

The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut, #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Last Widow (Will Trent, #9) by Karin Slaughter

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson

Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

City of Flickering Light by Juliette Fay

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

Good books

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Price of Time by Tim Tigner

Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict

The Cactus by Sarah Haywood

The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen

Only Child by Rhiannon Navin

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman

The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro

I wouldn’t recommend these - not because they’re necessarily ‘bad’ but just not to my taste

There There by Tommy Orange

Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs