I have a problem. I have a problem that many book readers have. People keep publishing too many books that I want to read. I buy the book, I put it on the shelf fully with the intention of reading them in the future, but then another book comes along and I want to read that one, and then... and then... and then...
So, I have a stack of books - well, not a stack, shelves full - of books that I mean to read, but haven't. So here is my end of the year accountability post for all of the neglected books that are a little bit depressed because I haven't gotten around to reading them yet. If you see one I would love and should start with, by all means, let me know!
I'm going to try and do these as alphabetically as possible:
- Adams, Taylor. No Exit
- Ahmadi Miller, Enjeela. The Broken Circle
- Ashley, Renee. Minglements.
- Backman, Fredrik. Anxious People
- Barth, John. The Sot-Weed Factor
- Beckerman, Hannah. If Only I Could Tell You
- Bennett, Brit. The Mothers
- Bennett, Brit. The Vanishing Half
- Cahalan, Susanna. The Great Pretender
- Callender. Felix Ever After
- Cameron, Julia. The Right to Write
- Chambers, Becky. A Prayer for the Crown Shy
- Choi, Mary H.K. Permanent Record
- Clarke, Susanna. Piranesi
- Coates, Ta-nehisi. The Water Dancer
- Crimp, Imogen. A Very Nice Girl
- Crouch, Blake. Recursion
- DeLuca, Jenna. Well Met
- Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why it's so hard to talk to white people about racism
- Erpenbeck, Jenny Go, Went, Gone
- Finlay, Victoria. Fabric
- Foley, Lucy. The Guest List.
- Foo, Stephanie. What My Bones Know
- Ford, Ashley C. Somebody's Daughter
- Fowler, Therese Anne. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
- Gaiman, Neil. Coraline
- Gay, Roxanne. Hunger
- Gwynn, Gioia. The Art of the Short Story
- Gyasi, Yaa. Transcendent Kingdom
- Hannah, Kristen. The Four Winds
- Hannah, Kristen, The Great Alone
- Hibbert, Talia. Get a Life, Chloe Brown
- Hoang, Helen. The Kiss Quotient
- Hoffman, Alice. The Book of Magic
- Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner
- Iglesias, Gabino. The Devil Takes You Home
- Jackson, Holly. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- Jackson, K.M. How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 days.
- Jemison, N.K. The City We Became
- Jenkins Reid, Taylor. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Johnson, Kim. This is My America.
- Johnson, Nancy. The Kindest Lie.
- Kelly, Anita. Love and Other Disasters
- King, Lily. Writers and Lovers.
- Klune, T.J. Under the Whispering Door
- Koch, Richard. The Mindful Writing Workshop
- Krueger, William Kent. This Tender Land
- Kuhn, Sarah. Heroine Complex
- LaPlante, Alice. The Making of a Story. The Norton Guide to Creative Writing.
- Laurens, Stephanie. The Masterful Mr. Montague.
- Lee, Jenny. Anna K: A Love Story
- Lopate, Philip. The Art of the Personal Essay.
- Majumdar, Megha. A Burning
- Maclear, Kyo. Birds, Art, Life.
- Mansala, Mia P. Arsenic and Adobo
- Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely
- Maxwell, Everina. Winter's Orbit
- McBride. Me: Moth.
- McCaughrean, Geraldine. Where the World Ends
- McCreight, Kimberly. A Good Marriage
- McKee, Robert. Story
- McMillan Cottam, Tressie. Thick.
- McQuiston, Casey. One Last Stop
- Meyer, Melissa. Renegades.
- Monk Kidd, Sue. The Secret Lives of Bees
- Morrison, Toni. Paradise.
- Natera, Cleyvis. Neruda on the Park.
- National Writing Project. Because Digital Writing Matters.
- Owens, Delia. Where the Crawdads Sing
- Pearson, Mary. The Adoration of Jenna Fox.
- Philippe. The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
- Preston, Natasha. The Lost
- Rhimes, Shonda. A Year of Yes
- Richardson, Samuel. Clarissa
- Robinette Kowal, Mary. Of Noble Family.
- Rochon, Farrah. The Boyfriend Project.
- Rooney, Sally. Normal People
- Rosenthal, Amy Krouse. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.
- Roth, Philip. Everyman.
- Roth, Philip. The Ghost Writer.
- Roth, Philip. Zuckerman Unbound.
- Rowell, Rainbow. Wayward Son: Simon Snow 2
- Rowell, Rainbow: Any Way the Wind Blows. Simon Snow 3
- Sager, Riley. Home Before Dark
- Schultz, Kathryn. Lost and Found
- Schwartz, Dana. Anatomy: A Love Story
- Shamsie, Kamila. Home Fire
- Silver, Josie. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
- Smith, Will with Manson, Mark. Will
- Soseki. I am a Cat.
- Srinivasan, Amia. The Right to Sex.
- Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy
- Straub, Emma. All Adults Here.
- Taddeo, Lisa. Three Women.
- Thomas, Angie. Concrete Rose.
- Valdez Quade. The Five Wounds
- Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing.
- Westerfield, Scott. Afterworlds
- Winch, Tara June. The Yield.
- Woolf, Virginia. The Mrs. Dalloway Reader.
- Yoon, Nicola. Instructions for Dancing
- Zauner, Michelle. Crying in H-Mart