2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Goal: 68/101+

January
1. ★★★★☆ (2018) The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding, Jennifer Robson
2. ★★★★★ (1943) These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. ★★★☆☆ (1992) The Black Echo, Michael Connelly
4. ★★★★☆ (1971) The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
5. ★★★☆☆ (1962) On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, Laura Ingalls Wilder
6. ★★★☆☆ (2018) The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn
7. ★★★★☆ (2018) Circe, Madeline Miller
8. ★★★☆☆ (2010) The Passage, Justin Cronin
9. ★★★★☆ (2018) All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir, Nicole Chung
10. ★★★★☆ (2013) The Circle, Dave Eggers

February
11. ★★★★★ (2016) Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
12. ★★★★★ (2016) The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
13. ★★★★★ (2018) An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
14. ★★★★☆ (2017) An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
15. ★★★★☆ (2017) The Changeling, Victor LaValle
16. ★★★★☆ (2015) Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
17. ★★★★☆ (2017) Piecing Me Together, Renée Watson
18. ★★★★☆ (2018) When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Khan-Cullors
19. ★★★★☆ (2018) The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, Anthony Ray Hinton
20. ★★★☆☆ (2017) Dear Martin, Nic Stone
21. ★★★★☆ (2018) The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory

March
22. ★★★☆☆ (2018) Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell
23. ★★★☆☆ (2016) The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
24. ★★★★★ (2018) My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
25. ★★★★☆ (2016) Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
26. ★★★★★ (2017) Stay with Me, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
27. ★★★★☆ (2010) Orange Is the New Black, Piper Kerman
28. ★★★★☆ (2016) The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
29. ★★★★☆ (2018) I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara
30. ★★★☆☆ (2017) This is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
31. ★★★☆☆ (2017) Home, Nnedi Okorafor
32. ★★★☆☆ (1992) Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon
33. ★★★★★ (2017) The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster, Sarah Krasnostein
34. ★★★☆☆ (2017) Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India, Sujatha Gidla

April
35. ★★★★☆ (2017) The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
36. ★★★★☆ (2014) Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
37. ★★★★★ (2013) Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
38. ★★★★☆ (2018) The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Clemantine Wamariya
39. ★★☆☆☆ (2004) The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
40. ★★★★★ (2016) Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
41. ★★★★★ (2018) An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (re-read for book club)
42. ★★★★★ (2018) Educated, Tara Westover
43. ★★★☆☆ (2019) The Current, Tim Johnston
44. ★★★★★ (1943) After You, My Dear Alphonse, Shirley Jackson
45. ★★★★☆ (2018) The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
46. ★★★★☆ (2018) The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey
47. ★★★★☆ (2014) The Bees, Laline Paull
48. ★★★☆☆ (2017) New Boy, Tracy Chevalier

May
49. ★★★★☆ (2006) The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Sandy Tolan
50. ★★★★☆ (2003) Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
51. ★★★★☆ (1999) Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
52. ★★★★☆ (1945) Animal Farm, George Orwell
53. ★★★★☆ (2012) The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson
54. ★★★☆☆ (2004) Birds of a Feather, Jacqueline Winspear
55. ★★★★☆ (2016) Over the Plain Houses, Julia Franks
56. ★★★☆☆ (1997) A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
57. ★★★☆☆ (2016) Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood

June
58. ★★★★☆ (2005) The Accidental, Ali Smith
59. ★★★☆☆ (2016) If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo
60. ★★★☆☆ (2018) Before She Sleeps, Bina Shah
61. ★★★☆☆ (2018) The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor
62. ★★★☆☆ (2019) Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid

July
63. ★★★☆☆ (2019) American Spy, Lauren Wilkinson

August
64. ★★★☆☆ (2018) A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza
65. ★★★☆☆ (2004) Case Histories, Kate Atkinson

September
66. ★★★☆☆ (2019) The Farm, Joanne Ramos
67. ★★★★☆ (2011) The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt

October
68. ★★★★☆ (2001) Remainder, Tom McCarthy