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January 19, 2024January 16, 2024

Final Book List for 2023

My final number for books read in 2023 came in at 58 books. I always set a goal to read 50 books in a year, so accomplishing 58 felt great! Here is my list of books read. Please note that not all of these books will be appropriate for everyone. Please do your research on whether a book is right for you or not. Please also feel free to comment to ask about any particular book, I’d love to chat about it and give insight.

Key:

👂🏼 Audiobook
📕 Physical book
📘 eReader

	Title	Author
1	The Summer I Turned Pretty	Jenny Han	👂🏼
2	Crying in H Mart	Michelle Zauner	👂🏼
3	The Case of the Missing Marquess	Nancy Springer	👂🏼
4	The Hotel Nantucket	Elin Hilderbrand	👂🏼
5	The Last Chance Library	Freya Sampson	👂🏼
6	House of Gold	Natasha Solomons	📕
7	A Court of Thorns and Roses	Sarah J. Maas	📕👂🏼
8	Hiroshima Diary	Michihiko Hachiya	👂🏼
9	It Ends With Us	Colleen Hoover	👂🏼
10	Thank You For Listening	Julia Whelan	👂🏼
11	Mad Honey	Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan	👂🏼
12	Hitchhikers	Bernard Poduska	📕
13	Beach Read	Emily Henry	📕
14	A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem	Manda Collins	👂🏼
15	Edenbrooke	Julianne Donaldson	📕
16	The Beach Club	Elin Hilderbrand	👂🏼
17	Maybe Someday	Colleen Hoover	📕
18	Maybe Not	Colleen Hoover	📕
19	A Corner of the Universe	Ann M. Martin	👂🏼
20	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone	J. K. Rowling	👂🏼
21	The Tattooist of Auschwitz	Heather Morris	👂🏼
22	It Starts With Us	Colleen Hoover	👂🏼
23	Maybe Now	Colleen Hoover	📕
24	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J.K. Rowling	👂🏼
25	We Were Dreamers	Simu Liu	👂🏼
26	Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow	Gabrielle Zevin	📕
27	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	J. K. Rowling	👂🏼
28	Enders Shadow	Orson Scott Card	📕👂🏼
29	We Were Liars	E. Lockhart	📕
30	The Bookish Life of Nina Hill	Abbi Waxman	👂🏼
31	The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving	Johnathan Evison	👂🏼
32	Turtles All The Way Down	John Green	📘
33	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J. K. Rowling	👂🏼
34	The Unhoneymooners	Christina Lauren	📕
35	Britt Marie Was Here	Fredrick Backman	👂🏼
36	Hello Beautiful	Ann Napolitano	📕👂🏼
37	Beneath a Scarlet Sky	Mark Sullivan	📕
38	A Place to Hang the Moon	Kate Albus	👂🏼
39	The Rent Collector	Cameron Wright	👂🏼
40	This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!	Johnathan Evison	📕
41	The Last Thing He Told Me	Laura Dave	📕
42	The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes	Suzanne Collins	👂🏼
43	Good Man, Dalton	Karen McQuestion	📕
44	The Measure	Nikki Erlick	👂🏼
45	The Pumpkin Spice Cafe	Laurie Gilmore	📕
46	Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver	👂🏼
47	One For the Murphy’s	Lynda Mullaly Hunt	👂🏼
48	Tokyo Ever After	Emiko Jean	👂🏼
49	Forever, Interrupted	Taylor Jenkins Reid	👂🏼
50	Tokyo Dreaming	Emiko Jean	👂🏼
51	The Mostly Invisible Boy	A. J. Vanderhorst	📕
52	Counting the Cost	Jill Duggar	👂🏼
53	The Cheat Sheet	Sarah Adams	👂🏼
54	The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight	Jennifer E. Smith	👂🏼
55	Resting Scrooge Face	Meghan Quinn	📘
56	Little Fires Everywhere	Celeste Ng	📘
57	A Return to Christmas	Chris Heimerringer	📘
58	Found in a Bookshop	Stephanie Butland	📘

I cannot wait to see what 2024 has in store for my reading journey! What books would you recommend I add to my reading list for the year?

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023

Chapter Books for Grades 10-12

Chapter books for high school aged! I love this question!

It can be so tricky suggesting chapter books to this age range because it’s an age where reading gets a bad rap and required reading can take up a lot of time, leaving less for “fun reading.” (I put this in quotations because the texts that were required reading when I was in school were some of the best books I’ve ever read! But many dislike these stories simply because it was required.)

Here are a few fun chapter books and series for the teenage reader in your life.

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Also notable, To All The Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han

Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

The cool thing about the Harry Potter series is that the first few books are fantastic for late elementary/ early middle school, and then as the books go on they grow with the reader as the later books in the series are great for a high school reader.

Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card

If you’ve ever found a friend who has also read both books, I’m sure you had a deep discussion on which book was your favorite too! In my opinion, I think Ender’s Shadow was better than Ender’s Game. And if you have a reader that is really into this series, there are plenty of books and side stories that Card has written in this universe!

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

It’ll make you laugh and cry within a matter of minutes.

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

Also notable, The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright

January 7, 2023January 5, 2023

My Complete List of Books I Read in 2022

My complete list of books read in 2022. If you’ve read any, let’s chat about it! I wanted to write up my thoughts about every single book on this list, but then it would get too lengthy and no one would have time to read this post in its entirety. If you want to know more about a certain book, I am always open to talk about it and discuss. Reading books is my favorite hobby! If you want to learn more about how I was able to accomplish reading so many books, check out my last post.

Key:
📘 eReader books
👂🏼 Audiobook
📕 Physical book

1. 📘Curvy Girls Can’t Date Quarterbacks by Kelsie Stelting

2. 📘Luna’s Rescue by Erica Richardson

3. 👂🏼Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover

4. 📘👂🏼Seven Perfect Things by Catherine Ryan Hyde

5. 📘He’s Just a Friend by Karly Stratford

6. 👂🏼The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

7. 👂🏼Night Road by Kristin Hannah

8. 👂🏼That Summer by Sarah Dessen

9.📘The Orphan Keeper by Cameron Wright

10. 👂🏼A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

11. 👂🏼Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

12. 👂🏼 Orphan Train Rider by Andrea Warren

13. 👂🏼 The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff

14. 📘👂🏼 Anxious People Fredrik Backman

16. 👂🏼Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman

16. 👂🏼American Royals book #1 by Katharine McGee

17. 👂🏼My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman

18. 👂🏼Forever Boy by Kate Swenson

19. 👂🏼Majesty: American Royals book #2 by Katharine McGee

20. 👂🏼 Inheritance: American Royals by Katharine McGee

21. 👂🏼 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

22. 📘👂🏼 The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

23. 👂🏼Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

24. 👂🏼 Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman

25. 👂🏼 Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

26. 📕The Stolen Sisters by Louise Jensen

27. 👂🏼The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

28. 👂🏼Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

29. 📕Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

30. 👂🏼Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

31. 👂🏼The One Hundred Years of Leni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

32. 👂🏼Book Lovers by Emily Henry

33. 📘He’s Just My Ex by Karly Stratford

34. 👂🏼The Help by Kathryn Stockett

35. 👂🏼To All the Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han

36. 📕P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

37. 📕Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Jan

38. 👂🏼To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

39. 📕The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

40. 📕 Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover

41. 📕28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand

42. 👂🏼The Book Haters Book Club by Gretchen Anthony

43. 👂🏼I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

44. 👂🏼Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

45. 👂🏼Thirst by Scott Harrison

46. 📕In Conclusion, Don’t Worry About It by Lauren Graham

47. 👂🏼The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand

48. 👂🏼People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

49. 👂🏼Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

50. 👂🏼Have I Told You This Already? By Lauren Graham

51. 👂🏼Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

52. 👂🏼My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

53. 👂🏼 Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

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