Links to the books I’m reading/have read, as seen on Instagram or discussed on the blog. They are grouped them in the order I’ve read them, so the most recent reads are at the top, and in no particular genre organization, and under the year in which I’ve read them.

Hope this helps with your To Be Read lists!

2021

• You’re a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero (nonfiction)
• Homeland Elegies: A Novel by Ayad Akhtar
• We Came Here to Shine by Susie Orman Schnall
• War: How Conflict Has Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
• One by One by Ruth Ware
• The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett
• Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of An American Family by Robert Kolker

2020

• A Promised Land by Barack Obama (nonfiction)
• Something to Live For by Richard Roper (fiction)
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (nonfiction)*
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (fiction)*
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (nonfiction)
• One Year of Ugly: A Novel by Caroline Mackenzie (fiction)
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell (nonfiction)
• Red, White and Royal Blue: A Novel by Casey McQuiston (fiction)
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink (nonfiction)
• Difficult Women by Roxane Gay (short stories)
• Big Girl Panties: A Novel by Stephanie Evanovich (fiction)
• One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul (nonfiction)
• All the Right Mistakes: A Novel by Laura Jamison (fiction)
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown (nonfiction)
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (nonfiction)
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (nonfiction)
• What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memior by Kristin Newman (nonfiction)
• One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (nonfiction)
• The Family Upstairs: A Novel by Lisa Jewell (fiction)
• Long Bright River: A Novel by Liz Moore (fiction)
• Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes by William Bridges (nonfiction)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (fiction)
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (nonfiction)
• Firefly Lane: A Novel by Kristin Hannah (fiction)
• Time’s Convert: A Novel by Deborah Harkness (fiction)
• Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte (nonfiction)
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle (essays)
• Whisper Network by Chandler Baker (fiction)
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (fiction)
• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown (nonfiction)
• The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Carlton Abrams (nonfiction)
• She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (nonfiction)
• Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time by Melody Beattie (nonfiction)
• In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (fiction)
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brene Brown (nonfiction)
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron (nonfiction)
• A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler (fiction)
• Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown (nonfiction)
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (fiction)
• Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (fiction)
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (fiction)
• How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan (nonfiction)
• NPR American Chronicles: First Ladies (nonfiction)
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (fiction)
• Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (nonfiction)
• Recursion by Blake Crouch (fiction)
• The Night Swim by Megan Glodin
• Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…and Maybe the. World by William H. McRaven