Reading Log 2021

  1. Hamnet  (Penn Girls)
    Maggie O'Farrell
    Published 2020
    Historical fiction
    Started: January 1, 2021
    Finished: January 17, 2021

  2. Human Touch: A Story in Real Time
    Mitch Albom
    Published 2020
    Serial
    Started: January 3, 2021
    Finished: January 4, 2021

  3. Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies (TLC)
    J.B. West
    Published 2013
    Memoir
    Started: January 4, 2021
    Finished: January 11, 2021

  4. Mrs. Everything
    Jennifer Weiner
    Published 2019
    Historical fiction
    Started: January 17, 2021
    Finished: January 21, 2021

  5. The Island of Sea Women (Community Book Club)
    Lisa See
    Published 2019
    Historical fiction
    Started: January 21, 2021
    Finished: January 29, 2021

  6. The Lions of Fifth Avenue
    Fiona Davis
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction/mystery
    Started: January 29, 2021
    Finished: February 2, 2021

  7. West with Giraffes
    Lynda Rutledge
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction
    Started: February 2, 2021
    Finished: February 11, 2021

  8. Next Year in Havana (Community Book Club)
    Chanel Cleeton
    Published 2018
    Historical fiction/romance
    Started: February 11, 2021
    Finished: February 17, 2021

  9. American Dirt
    Jeanine Cummins
    Published 2020
    Political fiction
    Started: February 17, 2021
    Finished: February 24, 2021

  10. Necessary Lies
    Diane Chamberlain
    Published 2013
    Historical fiction
    Started: February 25, 2021
    Finished: March 2, 2021

  11. I'll Be Seeing You: A Memoir
    Elizabeth Berg
    Published 2020
    Memoir
    Started: March 2, 2021
    Finished: March 5, 2021

  12. The Exiles
    Christina Baker Kline
    Published 2020
    Historical fiction
    Started: March 5, 2021
    Finished: March 7, 2021

  13. Send for Me
    Lauren Fox
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction
    Started: March 7, 2021
    Finished: March 8, 2021

  14. The Four Winds
    Kristin Hannah
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction
    Started: March 8, 2021
    Finished: March 13, 2021

  15. Our Italian Summer
    Jennifer Probst
    Published 2021
    Chick lit
    Started: March 13, 2021
    Finished: March 16, 2021

  16. Ordinary Grace
    William Kent Krueger
    Published 2014
    Coming of Age
    Started: March 16, 2021
    Finished: March 22, 2021

  17. The Nickel Boys
    Colson Whitehead
    Published 2019
    Historical fiction
    Started: March 26, 2021
    Finished: March 31, 2021

  18. The City of Girls
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    Published 2019
    Historical fiction
    Started: March 31, 2021
    Finished: April 7, 2021

  19. Beyond Bullets: Creative Journaling Ideas to Customize Your Personal Productivity System
    Megan Rutell
    Published 2017
    How To
    Started: April 4, 2021
    Finished: April 6, 2021

  20. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
    Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda, Liz Welch
    Published 2016
    Memoir
    Started: April 6, 2021
    Finished: April 6, 2021

  21. The Girl They Left Behind (TLC)
    Roxanne Veletzos
    Published 2018
    Historical fiction
    Started: April 7, 2021
    Finished: April 12, 2021

  22. The Star and the Shamrock (re-read)
    Jean Grainger
    Published 2019
    Historical fiction
    Started: April 12, 2021
    Finished: April 16, 2021

  23. The Emerald Horizon
    Jean Grainger
    Published 2020
    Historical fiction
    Started: April 17, 2021
    Finished: April 19, 2021

  24. Take What You Can Carry
    Gian Sardar
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction
    Started: April 20, 2021
    Finished: April 23, 2021

  25. Dear Emmie Blue
    Lia Louis
    Published 2020
    Chick lit
    Started: April 24, 2021
    Finished: April 26, 2021

  26. Orphan Number Eight
    Kim van Alkemade
    Published 2015
    Historical fiction
    Started: April 26, 2021
    Finished: May 3, 2021

  27. The Family Upstairs (TLC)
    Lisa Jewell
    Published 2019
    Thriller
    Started: May 3, 2021
    Finished: May 7, 2021

  28. Kindred
    Octavia E. Butler
    Published 1979
    Historical fiction/Fantasy
    Started: May 7, 2021
    Finished: May 12, 2021

  29. These Tangled Vines
    Julianne Maclean
    Published 2021
    Women's fiction/Romance
    Started: May 12, 2021
    Finished: May 16, 2021

  30. The Address
    Fiona Davis
    Published 2017
    Historical fiction
    Started: May 16, 2021
    Finished: May 20, 2021

  31. Love Lettering
    Kate Clayborn
    Published 2019
    Romance
    Started: May 20, 2021
    Finished: May 21, 2021

  32. Button Man
    Andrew Gross
    Published 2018
    Historical fiction
    Started: May 21, 2021
    Finished: May 29, 2021

  33. If All the Seas Were Ink
    Ilana Kurshan
    Published 2017
    Memoir
    Started: September 19, 2020
    Finished: May 23, 2021

  34. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
    Abbi Waxman
    Published 2019
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: May 29, 2021
    Finished: May 31, 2021

  35. The Lost Manuscript
    Cathy Bonnidan (Emma Ramadan, translator)
    Published 2021 (in English)
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: May 31, 2021
    Finished: June 1, 2021

  36. Know My Name
    Chanel Miller
    Published 2019
    Memoir
    Started: June 1, 2021
    Finished: June 19, 2021

  37. Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
    Elyssa Friedland
    Published 2021
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: June 4, 2021
    Finished: June 11, 2021

  38. George (Community Book Club)
    Alex Gino
    Published 2015
    Middle grade reader
    Started: June 19, 2021
    Finished: June 22, 2021

  39. The Nature of Fragile Things
    Susan Meissner
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction
    Started: June 22, 2021
    Finished: June 25, 2021

  40. That Summer
    Jennifer Weiner
    Published 2021
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: June 25, 2021
    Finished: June 30, 2021

  41. Golden Girl
    Elin Hilderbrand
    Published 2021
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: June 30, 2021
    Finished: July 3, 2021

  42. The Warsaw Orphan
    Kelly Rimmer
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction
    Started: July 3, 2021
    Finished: July 7, 2021

  43. A Good Neighborhood
    Therese Anne Fowler
    Published 2020
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: July 7, 2021
    Finished: July 10, 2021

  44. Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen
    Sarah Kapit
    Published 2020
    Middle grade chapter book
    Started: July 10, 2021
    Finished: July 13, 2021

  45. The Bluest Eye (Community Book Club)
    Toni Morrison
    Published 1970
    Literary fiction
    Started: July 13, 2021
    Finished: July 19, 2021

  46. The Seven Day Switch
    Kelly Harms
    Published 2021
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: July 19, 2021
    Finished: July 21, 2021

  47. A Gentleman from Moscow (Community Book Club)
    Amor Towles
    Published 2016
    Historical fiction
    Started: July 22, 2021
    Finished: August 5, 2021
    (disclaimer: I started this book several years ago but dropped it halfway thru)

  48. The Engineer's Wife (Books & Beer Club)
    Tracey Enerson Wood
    Published 2020
    Historical fiction
    Started: July 23, 2021
    Finished: July 27, 2021

  49. The Plot
    Jean Hanff Korelitz
    Published 2021
    Mystery
    Started: August 5, 2021
    Finished: August 8, 2021

  50. People We Meet on Vacation
    Emily Henry
    Published 2021
    Romance
    Started: August 8, 2021
    Finished: August 13, 2021

  51. The Star -Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
    Lori Nelson Spielman
    Published 2020
    Romance
    Started: August 13, 2021
    Finished: August 14, 2021

  52. The Things We Cannot Say
    Kelly Rimmer
    Published 2019
    Historical fiction
    Started: August 14, 2021
    Finished: August 17, 2021

  53. Milk Fed
    Melissa Broder
    Published 2021
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: August 17, 2021
    Finished: August 21, 2021

  54. Some of My Best Patients Were Animals: Memoirs of a Florida Veterinarian (Books & Beer Club)
    K.C. Nayfield
    Published 2021
    Memoir
    Started: August 21, 2021
    Finished: August 25, 2021

  55. The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
    Mary L. Trump
    Published 2021
    Psychology
    Started: August 25, 2021
    Finished: September 1, 2021

  56. Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
    Sasha Martin
    Published 2015
    Memoir/Recipes
    Started: September 2, 2021
    Finished: September 6, 2021

  57. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Books & Beer Club)
    Sherman Alexie
    Published 2012
    Young adult fiction
    Started: September 7, 2021
    Finished: September 10, 2021

  58. The Weight of Ink (Jewish book club)
    Rachel Kadish
    Published 2017
    Historical fiction
    Started: September 10, 2021
    Finished: September 25, 2021

  59. Better to Trust
    Heather Frimmer
    Published 2021
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: September 13, 2021
    Finished: October 12, 2021

  60. I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
    Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
    Published 2021
    Political
    Started: September 25, 2021
    Finished: November 19, 2021

  61. The Reading List
    Sara Nisha Adams
    Published 2021
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: September 29, 2021
    Finished: October 4, 2021

  62. The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
    Kelli Estes
    Published 2015
    Historical fiction
    Started: October 4, 2021
    Finished: October 6, 2021

  63. The Good Sister (Community Book Club)
    Sally Hepworth
    Published 2020
    Psychological thriller
    Started: October 6, 2021
    Finished: October 12, 2021

  64. It Can't Happen Here
    Sinclair Lewis
    Published 1935
    Dystopian political novel
    Started: October 12, 2021
    Finished: October 20, 2021

  65. Color Me In
    Natasha Diaz
    Published 2019
    Young adult fiction
    Started: October 20, 2021
    Finished: October 29, 2021

  66. Fresh Water for Flowers
    Valerie Perrin
    Published 2018
    Literary fiction
    Started: October 29, 2021
    Finished: November 5, 2021

  67. Three More Months (Amazon Prime First Read)
    Sarah Echavarre
    Published 2021
    Contemporary fiction
    Started: November 7, 2021
    Finished: November 13, 2021

  68. The Count of Monte Crisco (Books & Beer)
    Alexander Dumas
    Published 1845
    Classic
    Started: November 13, 2021
    Finished: 

  69. Hazel's Theory of Evolution
    Lisa Jenn Bigelow
    Published 2019
    Middle grade fiction
    Started: November 20, 2021
    Finished: November 23, 2021

  70. The Personal Librarian
    Marie Benedict
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction
    Started: December 1, 2021
    Finished: December 8, 2021

  71. Taste: My Life Through Food
    Stanley Tucci
    Published 2021
    Memoir (audio book read by the author)
    Started: December 2, 2021
    Finished: December 20, 2021

  72. Faye, Faraway
    Helen Fisher
    Published 2021
    Fantasy/Time Travel
    Started: December 8, 20201
    Finished: December 13, 2021

  73. Migrations
    Charlotte McConaghy
    Published 2020
    Environmental fiction
    Started: December 14, 2021
    Finished: December 19, 2021

  74. Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone (Outlander #9)
    Diana Gabaldon
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction/Time travel
    Started: December 19, 2021
    Finished:

  75. The Shift: 7 Powerful Mindset Changes for Lasting Weight Loss
    Gary Foster
    Published 2021
    Self-improvement
    Started: December 27, 2021
    Finished: January 8, 2021

  76. The Rose Code
    Kate Quinn
    Published 2021
    Historical fiction
    Started: December 30, 2021
    Finished: January 2, 2022





















DROPPED BOOKS
           The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
            John M. Barry
            Published 2005
            History
            Started: January 21, 2021
            Dropped: February 1, 2021

            Leadership: In Turbulent Times
            Doris Kearns Goodwin
            Published 2018
            History
            Started: March 22, 2021
            Dropped: May 12, 2021

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