This year I did two things that were different. I started writing articles based on books I’d read for a website. And I got a job in a public library. I did my first summer reading challenge which had me reading different types of books. I also renewed my interest in thrillers and historical fiction. I went on a Hemingway kick and reread A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea and read A Moveable Feast for the first time. And this was the year I read some great indie and self-published books, including Eating Bull by Carrie and Calmer Girls by Jennifer Kelland Perry. Some nonfiction rounded things out, including The Ghost Map, which one of my kids had to read for his freshman seminar in college.
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas – 3.5 stars
After You by Jojo Moyes – 3 stars
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski – 4 stars
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins – 4 stars
Eating Bull by Carrie Rubin – 4 stars
The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor – 4 stars
“Same Place, Same Things” by Tim Gautreaux – 5 stars
The Liberty Box by C. A. Gray – 3.5 stars
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway – 5 stars
The Munich Girl by Phyllis Edgerly Ring – 4 stars
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume – 3 stars
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – 5 stars
Yes Please by Amy Poehler – 4 stars
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown – 3 stars
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight – 3 stars
The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky – 4 stars
“Wild Horses” by Rick Bass – 5 stars
Colors of Naples and the Amalfi Coast by Margie Miklas
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica – 2 stars
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer – 3 stars
The Good Neighbor by A.J. Banner – 3 stars
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson – 3.5 stars
The Vacationers by Emma Straub – 4 stars
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout – 5 stars
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie – 5 stars
Calmer Girls by Jennifer Kelland Perry – 4 stars
I Refuse by Per Petterson – 3.5 stars
Brooklyn on Fire: A Mary Handley Mystery by Lawrence H. Levy – 4 stars
The Beginner’s Photography Guide by Chris Gatcum – 4 stars
A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates – 4 stars
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman – 5 stars
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua – 2 stars
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín – 4 stars
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness – 5 stars
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan – 3 stars
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson – 4 stars
The Awakening by Kate Chopin – 3 stars
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold – 4 stars
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler – 4 stars
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout – 3.5 stars
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach – 3 stars
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway – 4 stars
“You’re Ugly, Too” by Lorrie Moore – 5 stars
Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig – 3 stars
Helen Keller – The Story of My Life – 4 stars
Things We Set on Fire by Deborah Reed – 4 stars
The Other Wife by Kathleen Irene Paterka – 3 stars
Traveling Mercies – Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott – 4 stars
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