Cassandra’s Comments (group member since Jan 16, 2016)

Cassandra’s comments from the Shelfari 50 Book Challenge group.

Woot - first post for the new year!
Starting with some freebie from Kindle monthly, then hoping Martyr! and James finally show up in Libby.

1. The Drowning Game - Barbara Nickless 3.5* Meh
2. Scorpio - Mark Kloos 4*
3. Long Island Compromise - Tiffany Brodesser-Akner 3.5* Endless.
4. I Cheerfully Refuse - Leif Enger 4.5*
5. Swan Song - Elin Hilderbrand 4*
6. Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar 4*
7. Mr. Whisper - Andrew Mayne 3* Slapdash ending
8. Somewhere Beyond the Sea - T.J. Kline 4.5*
9. Children of Memory - Adrian Tchaikovsky 4*
10. The Sequel - Jean Hanff Korelitz 4.5*
11. Queen of Shadows - Sarah J. Maas 4*
12. All the Colors of the Dark - Chris Whittaker 5** Holy hell this was long, but engrossing!
13. Bluebird, Bluebird - Attica Locke 4*
14. The Last Voice You Hear - Mick Herron 4*
15. The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness 3.8*
16. Down Cemetery Road - Mick Herron 4*
17. Heaven, My Home - Attica Locke 4*
18. The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits - Jennifer Weiner 4.5*
19. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders - Sōji Shimada 3.75
20. The Midnight Feast - Lucy Foley 4
21. Fallen - Karin Slaughter 4.5* Finished it in 2 days!
22. Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson 4*
23. Empire of Storms - Sarah J Maas 4.5*
24. We Solve Murders - Richard Osman 4*
25. The One - John Marrs 5* Loved this one
26. Tiny Daggers - Caroline Corcoran 3.75*
27. Close to Death - Anthony Horowitz 4.5*
28. London Rules - Mick Herron 5*
29. The Amateur - Robert Littell 4*
30. Why We Die - Mick Herron 4.5*
31. Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen 4* romp!
32. The List - Yomi Adegoke 4*
33. The Surgeon - Tees Gerritson 3.75*
34. Homemaker - Ruthie Knox
35. The Rose Code - Kate Quinn 5*
36. Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy 5*
37. First Lie Wins Ashley Elston 4*
38. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 5*
39. Warlight - Michael Ondaatje 4*
40. American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson 4*
41. Slow Horses - Mick Herron 4.5*
42. Heartwood - Amity Gaige 4*
43. The Poppy Fields - Nikki Erlich 4.5*
44. Spook Street - Mick Herron 5*
45. Foundation - Isaac Asimov 2.5* Almost DNF. Did not get it.
46. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn - Mark Lawrence 4.5*
47. American by Day - Derek B. Miller
48. A House Between Sea and Sky - Beth Cato 5*
49. Starter Villain - John Scalzi 5* Loved it!
50. Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix 3.75* Short - read in an afternoon.
Made it to 50 !
51. Redshirts - John Scalzi 4.5*

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2024 List - Whew, just made it. Lots of 900 page Sarah J Maas though: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2023 List - 61 books. Most great. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2022 List - 70 books. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2021 List - plenty of pandemic time to read! 71 books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2020 List 57 books - mostly fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2019 List 62 books - most were good...https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2018 List - 58 books - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2017 List - 58 books -
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 List - Yikes, didn't travel enough, only 49 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...

Hello 2024!

1. A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers - Started the year off cozy 4.5*
2. The Wishing Game - Meg Shaffer 4*
3. The Outsider - Stephen King 5*
4. Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher 5* Feels YA
Either/Or -DNF Ugh - whiney
5. Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld 4*
6. Broken - Karin Slaughter 4.5*
7. The Kind Worth Killing - Peter Swanson 4*
8. The Bullet That Missed - Richard Osman 4*
9. Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros 5*
10. Last Night - Luanne Rice 3.75*
11. Pineapple Street - Jenny Jackson 4*
12. Turtles All the Way Down - John Green 4* YA?
13. Black Sheep - Rachel Harrison 3.75*
14. Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas 4*
15. Weyward - Amelia Hart 4*
16. Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon 4*
17. Thus Was Adonis Murdered: A Novel 3 DNF
18. Trust - Hernan Diaz 4.5*
19. Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros 5* Wow
20. The Photograph - Penelope Lively 4*
21. The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz 4.5*
22. Resurrection Walk - Michael Connely 4* Lincoln Lawyer 7.
23. A Short Walk Through a Wide World - 4.5* Online reviews are mixed, but I kind of dug it.
24. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson 5* Right up my alley!
25. Bad Actors - Mick Herron 5*
26. Zero Days - Ruth Ware 4*
27. Crown of Midnight - Sarah J. Maas 4.5*
28. The Quantum Spy - David Ignatius 3.75*?
29. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect - Benjamin Stevenson 5* Right up my alley!
30. The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo 4*
31. The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley 4.5*
32. One Perfect Couple - Ruth Ware 4*
33. A Punishing Breed -DC Frost 4*
34. House of Flame and Shadow - Sarah J. Maas. 900+ pages! 4.5*
35. How to Age Disgracefully - Clare Pooley 3.5*
36. The Peacock and the Sparrow - I.S. Berry 4.5*
37. The Postscript Murders - Elly Griffiths 3.75
38. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters 5* I gasped aloud!
39. The Fragile Threads of Power - V.E. Schwab 5* Better than Sarah J Maas
40. Death at the Sign of the Rook - Kate Atkinson 5*
41. The Tourist - Olen Steinhauer 5*
42. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters 4*
43. A Calamity of Souls - David Baldacci 4*
44. The Life Impossible - Matt Haig 4*
45. Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner 3.5*
46. The Bee Sting - Paul Murray Ooof. the ending! 4.5
47. The Silent Watcher - Victor Mathos 3.5*
48. Heir of Fire - Sarah J Maas 4.5*
51. Burn - Peter Heller 4.5*

Missed somehow earlier in sequence:
49. Fractured - Karin Slaughter
50. Shorefall - Robert Jackson Bennett


2023 List - 61 books. Most great. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2022 List - 70 books. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2021 List - plenty of pandemic time to read! 71 books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2020 List 57 books - mostly fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2019 List 62 books - most were good...https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2018 List - 58 books - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2017 List - 58 books -
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 List - Yikes, didn't travel enough, only 49 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...

Welcome 2023! What should I read next?

1. The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde 4*
2. The Paris Diversion - Chris Pavone 4*
3. The Peripheral - William Gibson 3* Nothing like the tv series
4. Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo 4*
5. The Measure - Nikki Erlick 4*
Checkout 19 -DNF. Bleah
6. The Appeal - Janice Hallett 4.5*
7. Tell Me an Ending - Jo Harkin 4*
8. The Cloisters - Katy Hays 3.5*
9. The Murder Rule - Derva McKiernan 3.5*
10. Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafka 4*
11. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick 3*
12. Joe Country - Mick Herron 5*
13. Locust Lane - Stephen Amidon 4*
14. Portrait of a Thief - Grace D. Li 4*
15. Down the River Unto the Sea - Walter Mosley first of his I’ve read. 4*
16. A World of Curiosities - Louis Penny 5*
17. The Trees - Percival Everitt 5*
18. The Patient's Secret - Loreth Anne White 4*
19. The Stranger Diaries - Ella Griffith 4.5*
20. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke 5*
21. Exiles - Jane Harper 5*
22. City on Fire - Don Winslow 5*
23. House of Earth and Blood - Sarah J Maas 4.5* (for oddly graphic sex scenes?)
24. Babel: An Arcane History - R.F. Kuang 5*
25. Every Man a King - Walter Mosely 4*
26. Quantum Radio - A.G. Riddle 4*
27. The Vibrant Years - Somali Dev 3.75*
28. The Golden Spoon - Jessa Maxwell 4* strong start, abrupt end.
29. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q Sutanto 4*
30. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt 3.5*
31. House of Sky and Breath - Sarah J Maas 4* (for more oddly graphic sex scenes?)
32. Desert Star - Michael Connelly 4* Bosch
33. What Never Happened - Rachel Howzell Hall 3.75*
34. The Hanging City - Charlie N Holmberg 4*
35. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix 4*
36. Triptych - Karin Slaughter 5* Could not put this down. Read in 2 days!
37. Straight Man - Richard Russo 4*
38. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky 5*
39. Wool Omnibus -Hugh Howey 5*
40. Beach Read - Emily Henry 4*
41. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson 3.5*
42. All the Sinners Bleed- S.A Cosby 4*
43. The Librarianist -Patrick DeWitt4*
44. The Shallows 3*
45. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver 4.5*
46. A Thousand Recipes for Revenge - Beth Cato 3.5*
47. Wanderers - Chuck Wendig 5*
48. Small Mercies - Dennis Lehane 4.5*
49. I Will Find You - Harlen Coben 4*
50. Don't Believe It - Charlie Donlea 4*
51. The Judge's List - John Grisham - 3.75
52. The It Girl - Ruth Ware - 4*
53. Behind Closed Doors - b. A. Paris 3*
54. The Haunting of Hill House - Sghirly Jackson 4*
55. A Share in Death - Deborah Crombie 4*
56. The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton 4.5*
57. Fractured - Karin Slaughter 5*
58. This Is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel 4.5* Great story, some overly long descriptions and asides.
59. Verity - Colleen Hoover 5*
60. Yellowface - R.F. Kuang 5*
61. Undone - Karin Slaughter 4.5*

That's a wrap on 2023!

2022 List - 70 books. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2021 List - plenty of pandemic time to read! 71 books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2020 List 57 books - mostly fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2019 List 62 books - most were good...https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2018 List - 58 books - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2017 List - 58 books -
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 List - Yikes, didn't travel enough, only 49 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...

Welcome, 2022! What should I read next?

1. The Cipher - Isabella Maldonado 3.5*
2. Every Last Secret - A. R. Torre 4.5*
3. The Burning Girls - C. J. Tudor 4*
4. Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo 4*
5. The Good Sister - Sally Hepworth 4*
6. The Intangible - CJ Washington 4*
7. The Girls Are All So Nice Here - Laurie Elizabeth Flynn 3.5*
8. Bewilderment - Richard Powell
9. Local Woman Missing - Mary Kubica
10. The Wife Upstairs - Rachel Hawkins 3.5*
11. Dial A for Aunties - Jessie Q Sutanto 4.5* Funny romp. Would make a good movie.
12. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern. 4.5* lovely.
13. Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo 3.5*
14. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid 4*
15. The Book of M - Peng Shepherd 4* Feels like the start of a series?
16. Beautiful World, Where Are You 3*meh. I didn't get it.
17. Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr 5*

18. The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd 4.5* more a thriller. Could see it as a movie.
19. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell 3.5* Slow, but lovely; abrupt ending.
20. The Maid - Nita Prose 4*
21. Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo 4*
22. Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy 4*
23. Apples Never Fall - Liane Moriarty 4*
24. Matrix - Lauren Groff 4.5*
25. A Darkness Absolute - Kelley Armstrong 5*
26. This Fallen Prey - Kelley Armstrong 5* Something about this Rockton series is so fascinating!
27. Something New Under the Sun - Alexandra Kleeman 3.75*
28. The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman 4*
29. An American Spy - Olen Steinhauser 4*
30. The Candid Life of Meena Dave - Namrata Patel
31. The Last Tourist - Olen Steinhauser 4*
32. The Nearest Exit - Olen Steinhauser 4*
33. Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. john Mandel 4.5* - Reminds me of Cloud Atlas
34. Rock Paper Scissors - Alice Feeney 4*
35. Then Came You - Jennifer Weiner 3.5*
36. Not a Happy Family - Shari Lapena 4* - what an unlikeable group of characters!
37. An Equal Justice - Chad Zunker 3.5* - Grisham lite
38. Lost Hills - Lee Goldberg 3.5
39. Intimacies - Katie Kitamura 4*
40. Hell of a Book - Jason Mott 5*
41. Last Night in Montreal - Emily St. John Mandel 4.5*
42. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabriel Zezinho 5*
43. Two Nights in Lisbon - Chris Pavone 4*
44. The Candy House - Jennifer Egan 4*
45. French Braid - Anne Tyler 4*
46. The Last Lie Told - Debra Webb 3.5*
47. The Push - Ashley Audrain 4*
48. Rich Blood - Robert Bailey 3.5*
49. The Latecomer - Jean Hanff Korelitz 5*
50. Kismet-Amina Akhtar 4*
51. Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan 4*
52. City Dark - Roger A Canaff 3.7*
53. The Devil and Webster - Jean Hanff Korelitz 4*
54. Watcher in the Woods - Kelley Armstrong 5*
55. My Name Is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout 5*
56. Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout 5*
57. The Housemaid - Freida McFadden 4*
58. No Cry For Help - Grant McKenzie 3.5*
59. Family Money - Chad Zunker 3.5* Clunky writing
60. Noir - Christopher Moore 4*
61. The Anomaly - Herve le Tellier 5*
62. Alone in the Wild - Kelley Armstrong5*
63. A Slow Fire Burning - Paula Hawkins 5*
64. Tiny Imperfections - Alli Frank & Asha Youmans 3.75*
65. Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson 5*
66. Us Against You - Fredrik Backman 4*
67: Upgrade - Blake Crouch 4*
68. Killers of a Certain Age - Deanna Rayburn 5*
69. Real Life - Brandon Taylor 3* meh
70. Matrix - Lauren Groff


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2021 List - plenty of pandemic time to read! 71 books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2020 List 57 books - mostly fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2019 List 62 books - most were good...https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2018 List - 58 books - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2017 List - 58 books -
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 List - Yikes, didn't travel enough, only 49 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...

Starting 2021 off right! What should I read next?

1. An Unwanted Guest - Shari LaPena 4* - riff on A. Christie
2. Pretty as a Picture - Elizabeth Little 4* Autistic(?) film editor Fun read.
3. Pretty Things - Janelle Brown 4* Imposter thriller.
4. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides 3.5*
5. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens 5*
6. What She Saw - Sheila Lowe - Meh 3*
7. Anxious People - Frederik Bachmann 5*
8. Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha 4*
9. When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole 3*
10. Home Before Dark - Riley Sager 3.5*
11. My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh 3.5*
12. One by One - Ruth Ware 4*
13. The Dragon Republic - R.F. Kuang 5*
14. The Boy from the Woods - Harlan Coben 4*
15. All the Devils Are Here - Louise Penny 4.5*
16. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It - Elle Cosimano 3.5*
17. City of the Lost - Kelley Armstrong 4.5*
18. The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel 4.5*
19. The Cold Millions - Jess Walter 4*
20. If It Bleeds - Stephen King - 4*
21. Not the End of the World - Kate Atkinson 3*
22. The Burning God - R.F. Kuang 4* quick ending to good series
23. The Wives - Tarryn Fischer 4*Unique thriller
24. The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alex E. Harrow 4.5 lovely
25. The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave 4* decent thriller
26. The Fifth Witness - Michael Connelly 4*
27: The Searcher - Tana French 5* Lovely!
28: Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata 3.5*
29. Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate 4.5*
30. Blue Murder - Emma Jameson 3*
31. Backlash - Brad Thor 4* fast-paced thriller
32. Path of the Assassin - Brad Thor 4*
33. Home - Harlan Coben 4*
34. Supreme Courtship -Christopher Buckley - 3.5*
35. The Empress of Salt and Fortune - Nghi Vo 4*
36. Invisible Girl - Lisa Jewell 4*
37. Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam 5** odd, but lovely book!
38. Her Last Breath - Hilary Davidson 4* Library all-read
39. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed - Lori Gottlieb 5*
40. The Book of Two Ways - Jodi Picoult 4.5*
41. Bath Haus - P. J. Vernon
42. - E.J. Mellow 3.5* YA?
43. The Partner - John Grisham 4*
44. The Woman in the Woods - John Connely 5*
45. I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh 4*
46. A Song of Shadows - John Connely 4.5*
47. The House in the Cerulean Sea T.J.Klune 5*
48. True Fiction - Lee Goldberg 4*
49. The Rationing - Charles Wheelan 4* funny!
50. She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Park-Chan 5* Great 50th book!
51. Constance - Matthew FitzSimmons
52. The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz 5*
53. A Curve in the Road - Julianne Maclean 4*
54. Billy Summers - Stephen King
55. Dune - Frank Herbert 4*
56. The Chaos Kind - Barry Eisler 4*
57. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
58. Wayward - Dana Spiotta 3.5*
59. The Drowning Kind - Jennifer McMahon 3*
60. Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro 4*
61. Severance - Ling Ma 5*
62. Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo 4* teen scifi
63. The Bestseller - Olivia Goldsmith 5*
64. People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry 4*
65. Her Perfect Family - Teresa Driscoll 3*
66. Win - Harlan Coben 4*
67. The Chalk Man - C.J. Tudor 4*
68. The Survivors - Jane Harper 5*
69. The Maidens - Alex Michaelides 5*
70. A Separation - Katie Kitamura 3*
71. We Begin at the End - Christ Whitaker 5* And what a great way to end the year.


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2020 List 57 books - mostly fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2019 List 62 books - most were good...https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2018 List - 58 books - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2017 List - 58 books -
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 List - Yikes, didn't travel enough, only 49 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...

Greetings new decade!
What should I read now?

1. All This Could Be Yours - Jami Attenberg 3.5*
2. Drop Shot- Harlan Coben
3. The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon 4*
4. The Turn of the Key - Ruth Ware 4.5*
5. The Guardians - John Grisham 4*
6. Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney 4*
7. The Mime Order - Samantha Shannon 4*
8. Vicious -V E Schwab 4*
9. Vengeful - V. E. Schwab 4*
10. Lady in the Lake - Laura Lippmann 4*
11. The Maze at Windermere - Gregory Blake Smith 4*
12. The Lost Man - Jane Harper 4*
13. The Perfect Girl - GillyMacMillan
14. Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough 4*
15. Game Changer - Douglas E. Richards
16. Fleishman Is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner 4.5*
17. A Perfect Grave - Rick Mofina 3.5*
18. Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloane
19. The Missing Sister - Elle Marr 3.5*
20. Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson 5*
21. The Sympathiser - Viet Thanh Nguyen 4*
22. Pretty Girls - Karin Slaughter 4.5* for the first half, then incredibly disturbing.
23. Black Water Rising - Attica Locke
24. A Man - Keiichiro Hirano 5*
25. The Dutch House - Ann Patchett 4*
26. Oona Out of Order - Margarita Montimore 5*
27. A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab 4*
28. Opium and Absinthe - Lydia Kang 3.5*
29. Long Bright River - Liz Moore 5*
30. The Resisters - Gish Jen 4*
31. The Lying Game - Ruth Ware 3.5*
32. Wrongful Death - Robert Dugoni 3.5*
33. The Family Fang -Kevin Wilson 5*
34. The Guest List - Lucy Foley 4*
35. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green 4.5*
36. The Cutting Season - Attica Locke 4.5*
37. A Gathering of Shadows V.E. Schwab 5*
38. Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid 3.5*
39. Big Summer - Jennifer Weiner 3.5*
40. The Drowning - Camille Lackberg 5*
41. All Adults Here - Emma Straub 4*
42. A Conjuring of Light - V. E. Schwab 5*
43. Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
44. Strangers and Cousins - Leah Hager Cohen 3.5*
45. Pieces of Her - Karin Slaughter 4.5*
46. Writers & Lovers - Lily King 5*- Lyrical!
47. Spellbreaker - Charlie N. Holmberg
48. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre - Max Brooks 4*
49. The Haunting of Brynn Wilder - Wendy Webb
50. The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai 5* Wow. What a great 50th book. Stunning.
51. The Institute - Stephen King 4.5*
52. Someone We Know- Shari Lapena 4* for guilty pleasure read.
53 The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern 4.5*
54. Dear Daughter - Elizabeth Little 4.5*
55. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab 5+* Best book I read this year.
56. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig - also 5*- lovely!
57. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennet 3.5* Meh, why the hype?

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2019 List 62 books - most were good...https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2018 List - 58 books - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2017 List - 58 books -
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 List - Yikes, didn't travel enough, only 49 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...

Hello 2019.
What should I read now?
1. A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness 3.5*
2. Too Clever By Half - Will North 4*
3. Rules of Civility - Amor Towles 4*
4. Spinning Silver - Naomi Novic 4.5*
5. China Rich Girlfriend - Kevin Kwan 4*
6. The Library Book - Susan Orlean 5* Could not put this down!
7. Math Fact Fluency: 60+ Games and Assessment Tools to Support Learning and Retention - Jennifer Bay-Williams 5*
8. Winter in Paradise - Elin Hilderbrand 3.75*
9. Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennet 4.5*
10. The Dawn Patrol - Don Winslow 4*
11. Transcription - Kate Atkinson 4*
12. Legend - Marie Lu 3*
13. The Queen's Man - Sharon Kaye Penman
14. What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty 5*
15. The Punishment She Deserves - Elizabeth George 5* (back in form!)
16. The Eighth Sister - Robert Dugoni 4*
17. Rich People Problems - Kevin Kwan
18. Prodigy - Marie Lu
19. The Overdue Life of Amy Byler - Kelly Harms 3*
20. The Power of the Dog _ Don Winslow 5* Oh my...
21. The Witch Elm - Tana French 5*
22. The Better Sister - Alafair Burke
23. The Paper Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg
24. The Russian Assassin: A Max Austin Thriller, Book #1 - Jack Arbor
25. House of Spies - Danial Silva 4.5*
26. Critical Vulnerability: A Sasha McCandless Companion Novel - MelissaF. Mayer 3*
27. The President Is Missing - James Patterson 3*
28. Kingdom of the Blind -Louise Penny 4.5*
29. A Ladder to the Sky- John Boyne 5*
30. The Late Show - Michael Connelly 4*
31. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 4* long, 1st in a series
32. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley 5*
33. The Plastic Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg
34. Recursion - Blake Crouch 5*
35. What You Did - Claire McGowan
36. Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty - 5*
37. The Unhoneymooners - Christina Lauren 3.5*
38. Don't Even Breathe - Keith Houghton
39. The Death of Mrs. Westaway - Ruth Ware 4.5*
40. All Systems Red - Martha Wells
41. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch 5*
42. Bent Road - Lori Roy
43. Dark Sacred Night - Michael Connelly
44. Champion - Marie Lu
45. Let Me Die in His Footsteps - Lori Roy 5*
46. Live by Night - Dennis Lehane
47. The Gifted School - Bruce Holsinger 3.75*
48. The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker 3*
49. Evvie Drake Starts Over - Linda Holmes 4*
50. Early Riser - Jasper Fforde 4*
51 The Shape of Water - Andrea Camilleri 4*
52. The Black Dahlia - James Macelroy 4*
53. Little Voices - Vanessa Lille 3.5*
54. The Rooster Bar - John Grisham 3.5*
55. Rubbing Stones - Nancy Burkey 3.5*
56. The Bone Collector - Jeffrey Deaver 3.5* (for gore)
57. The Terra-Cotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri
58. The House of Closed Doors - Jane Steen 3.5*
59. Keep the Ghost - Scott Kelly 3.5*
60. Deal Breaker - Harlen Coben 4.5* Nice start to a series.
61. Big Sky - Kate Atkinson
62. Something in the Water - Catherine Steadman




2018 List - 58 books - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2017 List - 58 books -
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 List - Yikes, didn't travel enough, only 49 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...

1. Glass Houses - Louise Penny 5*
2. Tips for Living - Renee Shafransky 3*
3. The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware 4*
4. The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
5. A Merciful Death - Kendra Eliot 4*
6. The Naturalist - Andrew Mayne 3*
7. The 7th Canon - Robert Dugoni 3.5*
8: The Thief - Fuminori Nakamura 3*
9: Gallows View - Peter Robinsons
10: Rich People Problems - Kevin Kwan3.5*
11. Into the Water - Paula Hawkins 3.5*
12. Devil's Move - Leslie Wolfe 3*
13. The Senator - Ken Fite 3*
14. Twist of Faith - Ellen J. Green 3.5*
15. The Dry - Jane Harper 5*
16. Horns of the Devil - Marc Ranier 3*
17. Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan 4*
18. Real Tigers - Mick Herron 4*
19. Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng 5*
20. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman 5*
21. Force of Nature - Jane Harper 5*
22. Young Jane Young - Gabrielle Zevin 5*
23. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkine Reid 4*
24. How to Stop Time - Matt Haig 4*
25. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N. K. Jemisin 4*
26. Euphoria - Lily King 4*
27, The Good Liar - Catherine McKenzie 4*
28. The Thinnest Air - Minka Kent 3.5*
29. The Broken Kingdoms - N.K. Jemsin 4.5*
30. Red Clocks - Leni Zumas 3* Creepy
31. The Other Lady Vanishes - Amanda Quick 3.5*
32. The Music Shop - Rachel Joyce 4*
33. How Hard Can It Be? - Allison Pearson 5*, gross, but good!
34. The Woman in the Window - A. J. Finn 3.5*
35. The Fallen Angel - Daniel Silva 4*
36. Wildwood - Colin Meloy 4* decent YA novel
37. Girl in Snow - Dana Kukafka
38. The Black Widow - David Silva 5*
39. Less - Andrew Sean Green 4*
40. An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
41. The Heist - Daniel Silva
42. Artemis - Andy Weir
43. Seraphina - Rachel Hartman
44. Tangerine - Christine Mangan 3.5*
45. The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohjalian 3*
46. Political Justice - Dennis Carstens 3*
47. Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
48. The Poppy War - R. F. Kuang
49. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
50. The Perfect Couple - Elin Hilderbrand
51. Daughters of the Lake - Wendy Webb
52. The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks
53. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
54. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
55. The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
56. Macbeth - Jo Nesbo 4*
57. Circe - Madeline Miller 5*
58. The Weight of Ink - Rachl Kadish 5*


What should I read now?

2017 List - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 List - Yikes, didn't travel enough, only 49 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/... https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1. The Trespasser - Tana French 5*
2. The Girls - Emma Cline 3*
3. Everybody's Fool - Richard Russo 4*
4. A Great Reckoning - Louise Penny 5+*
5. Iron Lake- William Kent Krueger
6. The Association of Small Bombs - Karan Mahajan
7. The Night Bird - Brian Freeman
8. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
9. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
10. Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult
11. Life As We Knew It - Sarah Peiffer
12. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
13. Bone Box - Jay Amberg
14. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
15. The Nix - Nathan Hill
16. Slade House - David Mitchell
17. The Confessor - David Silva
18. A Death in Vienna - David Silva
19. The Obelisk Gate- N. K. Jemisin
20. Dead Certain - Adam Mitzner
21. Out of My Mind - Sharon M. Draper
22. Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
23. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
24. Beach Lawyer- Avery Duff
25. Crashed - Timothy Hallinan
27. Little Elvises - Timothy Hallinan
28. You Will Know Me - Megan Abbott
29. The Drop - Dennis Lehane
30. Split Second - Douglas E. Richards
31. Quicksand - Malin Persson Giolito
32. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
33. The Dying Hour - Rick Mofina
34. A German Requiem - Phillip Kerr
35. Girls in White Dresses - Jennifer Close
36. An Accidental Death - Peter Grainger
37. The Man of Legends - Kenneth Johnson
38. A Man Called Ove - Frederick Backman
39. The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
40. A Field of Red - Greg Enslen
41. Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neufeld
42. Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
43. Waking Gods - Sylvain Neuvel
44. Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
45. In a Dark, Dark Wood - Ruth Ware
46. The Force - Don Winslow
47. The Identicals - Elin Hildenbrand
48: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett - Chelsea Sedoti
49: The Quiet Game - Greg Iles
50: The Unremembered Girl - Eliza Maxwell
51. Michael Gresham - John Ellsworth
52. Turning Angel - Greg Iles
53. Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
54. The Girl Before - J. P. Delaney
55. The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemisin
56. The Cartel - Don Winslow
57. Beartown - Frederik Backman 11*
58. Commonwealth - Ann Patchett

What should I read now?
2017 List - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 List - Yikes, didn't travel enough, only 49 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...

Boohoo, missing Shelfari already...

1. One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
2. When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
3. A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson
4. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
5. Fates and Furies
6. A Banquet of Consequences - Elizabeth George
7. Circled - Anne McAneny
8. Secondhand Smoke: A Wickedly Dark Comedy - Patty Friedmann
9. The Tracker - Chad Zunker
10. Tahoe Blue Fire- Todd Borg
11. Whiskey Rebellion - Lilliana Hart
12. The Charm School - Nelson Demille
13. The English Assassin - Daniel Silva
14. March Violets - Philip Kerr
15. Ready Player One - Ernest Kline
16. The Pale Criminal - Philip Kerr
17. The Martian - Andy Weir
18. Louisiana Hotshot - Julie Smith
19. City of Stairs - Robert Jackson Bennet
20. Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
21. The Butterfly Garden - Dot Hutchinson
22. Beyond A Reasonable Death - John Ellsworth
23. The Witch of Napoli - Michael Schmicker
24. Luckiest Girl Alive - Jessica Knoll
25. After I'm Gone - Laura Lippman
26. A Murder in Time - Julie McElwain
27. The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
28. Orange Is the New Black - Piper Kerman
29. Before the Fall - Noah Hawley
30. Find Her - Lisa Gardner
31. The Nest - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
32. Truly Madly Guilty - LiaEverything We Keepne Moriarty
33. Palace of Treason - Jason Matthews
34. The Expats - Chris Pavone
35. Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
36. Red Sparrow - Jason Matthews
37. Everything We Keep - Kerry Lonsdale
38. The Temporary Agent - Daniel Judson
39. This Doesn't Happen In The Movies - Renee Pawlish
40. The Short Drop - Matthew FitzSimmons
41. The Braque Connection - Estelle Ryan
42. The Paris Protection - Bryan Devore
43. No Way Back - Rick Mofina
44. Amid the Shadows - Michael Grumley
45. The Accident - Chris Pavone
46. The Weekenders - Mary Kay Andrews
47. Glass Sword - Victoria Aveyard
48. The Sellout - Paul Beatty
49. Shelter - Jung Yun
50.

What should I read now?


2015 List - 62 books (but some were really long!) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2014 List - 89 books! A new record! http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2013 List - 73 books! O.K, So I traveled a lot last year) http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2012 List - 57 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...
2011 List - 39 books: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/...