Your Reading Heart

Somewhat out of order, I think. I was bad at record keeping!

1. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

By Micheal Zapata

2. Hard Choices

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

3. The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Chupacabras of the Rio Grande
By Adam Gidwitz

4. Postcards from the Edge

By Carrie Fisher

5. My Beloved World

By Sonia Sotomayor

6. The Joy of Movement

By Kelly McGonigal

7. Turn Coat

By Jim Butcher

8. Life After Suicide
By Jennifer Ashton, MD

9. Death by Dumpling

By Vivien Chien

10. The Data Detective

By Tim Harford

Twenty-two skidoo

Late in posting as usual. Book ten was finished in March! More to come this year... I hope!

1. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

by Michelle McNamara

2. Broken Horses

by Brandi Carlile

3. Becoming

By Michelle Obama 

4. White Magic

By Elissa Washuta

5. Thursday Night Murder Club

By Robert Osman

6. Giant

By Edna Ferber

7. Chasing Hillary

By Amy Chozick

8. What Happened

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

9. How Y’all Doing?

By Leslie Jordan

10. From Cradle to Stage

By Virginia Hanlon Grohl

Maybe Someday

Likely not a complete list but at least I posted something this year! 

1. Untamed

  Glennon Doyle

2. The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Sasquatch and the Muckleshoot

  Adam Gidwitz and Joseph Bruchac

3. The Power of Myth

  Joseph Campbell

4. On the Shoulders of Giants

  Kareen Abdul-Jabbar

5. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  Suzanne Collins

6. Small Favor

  Jim Butcher

7. The Martian

  Andy Weir

8. Scarred

 Sarah Edmondson

9. Never Caught

  Erica Armstrong Dunbar

10. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

by Sarah Vowell

A Good Read

1: Call Me Anna
  Patty Duke

2: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  Betty Smith

3: A Brilliant Madness
  Patty Duke

4. My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish
  Mo O'Hara

5. The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Creature of the Pines
  Adam Gidwitz and Jesse Casey

6. The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Basque Dragon
  Adam Gidwitz and Jesse Casey

7. Swamplandia

  Karen Russell

8. Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

  Stella Gibbons

9. Mrs. Bridge

  Evan Connell

10. The Gift of Forgiveness

  Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

Reading the Room

My last list of the year was a long time coming. Two(!) of these books I read on my Kindle as opposed to listening to the audiobook. I dropped my book club and listened to a lot more podcasts, which accounts for only reading 20 or so books this year. I'll try to do better in 2019.


1. Kiss Me Like a Stranger
  Gene Wilder

2. It's Always Something (abridged)
  Gilda Radner 

3. The Witch of Lime Street
  David Jaher

4.  Becoming Kareem
  Kareem Abdul-Jabar

5.  Leviathan Wakes
  James S. A. Corey

6: Salvage the Bones
  Jesmyn Ward

7: The Boy Kings of Texas
  Domingo Martinez

8: The Man in the High Castle
  Philip K. Dick

9.  We Fed an Island
  Jose Andres

10. The Black List (abridged)
  Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Throw the Book at 'em!

These might be slightly out of order since I used two different platforms to listen (Hoopla and Overdrive). 

1: Proven Guilty
  Jim Butcher

2: The Holy or the Broken
  Alan Light

3: White Night
  Jim Butcher

4: Pieces of My Heart (abridged)
  Robert Wagner 

5: The Righteous Mind
  Johnathan Haidt

6: Looking for Calvin and Hobbes
  Nevin Martell

7. Catching the Big Fish
  David Lynch


8. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination that Changed America
  Wil Haygood

9. Bored and Briliant
  Manoush Zomorodi

10. Wishful Drinking
  Carrie Fisher

To be continued

Have some more books!

1: My Own Words
  Ruth Bader Ginsburg


2: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Hugette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
  Bill Dedman

3: Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life
  Deepak Chopra

4: Sons of Wichita
  Daniel Schulman

5: Unsinkable
  Debbie Reynolds

6: Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends
  Debbie Reynolds

7: Hillbilly Elegy
  J.D. Vance

8: The Audacity of Hope
  Barack Obama

9:  Three Cups of Tea
  Greg Mortenson

10: I Loved Her in the Movies
  Robert Wagner