I ended the year with over 200 books read. Of those, 40 were audiobooks. The list below is sorted by category in order that the books were read. Selections in bold are favorites for that category.
May the new year be filled with many more great books!
Biography/Memoir
- Dorothy Day, On Pilgrimage
- Ruth Wariner, The Sound of Gravel
- Mason Currey, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
- Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
- Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
- Robert Southey, The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson
- Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club
- Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father
- David R. Collins, George Washington Carver
- George Grant, Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Life of Theodore Roosevelt
- David McCullough, John Adams
- Tara Westover, Educated
- Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery
- Charles Ludwig, Michael Faraday
- Richard Henry Dana Jr, Two Years Before the Mast {Audible}
- Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
- Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier
- Nina Riggs, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
- Dolly Sumner Lunt, A Woman’s Wartime Journal: An account of the passage over a Georgia plantation of Sherman’s army on the march to the sea
- Solomon Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave
- Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
- Jonathan Rogers, The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor
- Doron Weber, Immortal Bird
- Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory
- Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here
History
- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
- Winston S. Churchill, The Age of Revolution {Audible}
- Frederic Bastiat, The Law
- David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Alexander William Kinglake, Eothen: or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
- Robert D. Kaplan, Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World
- Winston S. Churchill, The Great Democracies {Audible}
Classics
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist {Audible}
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows {Audible}
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park {Audible}
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey {Audible}
- George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin {Audible}
- Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow {Audible}
- Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth {Audible}
20th Century Literature
- L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
- L.M. Montgomery, Emily’s Quest
- Michael D. O’Brien, Strangers and Sojourners
- E.M. Forster, Howard’s End
- L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day {Audible}
- Charles Portis, True Grit {Audible}
- Robert Morgan, Gap Creek
- William Kennedy, Ironweed
- P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters {Audible}
- Charles Portis, The Dog of the South
- Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
- Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter {Audible}
- Willa Cather, My Antonia {Audible}
- Jack London, Call of the Wild
- Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep {Audible}
- Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier {Audible}
- Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
- Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
- Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men {Audible}
- Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian {Audible}
- Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
- John Updike, Rabbit, Run
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit {Audible}
- Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
- Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
- Agatha Christie, Endless Night {Audible}
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd {Audible}
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
Contemporary Fiction
- Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime {Audible}
- Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah {Audible}
- Ayobami Adebayo, Stay with Me
- Maggie O’Farrell, This Must Be the Place
- Jane Harper, Force of Nature {Audible}
- Kamila Shamise, Home Fire
- Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
- Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
- Khaled Hosseini, Kite Runner
- Marilynne Robinson, Home
- Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
- Michael N. Richard, Tobit’s Dog
- Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
- Laura Lippman, Sunburn
- Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies {Audible}
- Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
- Sujata Massey, The Widows of Malabar Hill
- Marisa de la Santos, I’ll Be Your Blue Sky
- Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince {Audible}
- Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
- Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking
- Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
- Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
- Katie Kitamura, A Separation
- Lauren Groff, Florida
- Nicole Krauss, History of Love
- Kristin Hannah, Comfort and Joy
- Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
- Richard Powers, The Overstory
- Eley Williams, Attrib. and Other Stories {Audible}
Young Adult/Juvenile
- Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now
- Janet Stevens, Tops and Bottoms
- Cece Bell, El Deafo
- Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie
- Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
- Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
- Pam Munoz Ryan, Echo
- Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
- E.T.A. Hoffman, The Nutcracker
Nonfiction
- Cal Newport, How to Be a High School Superstar
- Cal Newport, How to Become a Straight A Student
- Cal Newport, Deep Work
- Charlotte Mason, Ourselves
- H.E. Marshall, English Literature for Boys and Girls
- Jancee Dunn, How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
- Dorothy Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
- Liela Miller, Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak
- Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans
- James W. Sire, How to Read Slowly
- Richard J. Maybury, Evaluating Books: What Would Thomas Jefferson Think About This?
- Atul Gawande, Being Mortal
- Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
- John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
- Anne Bogel, I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
- Dorthea Brande, Becoming a Writer
- Kelly Corrigan, Tell Me More
- Laura Vanderkam, Off the Clock
- Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners
- Brene Brown, Dare to Lead
- John McPhee, Uncommon Carriers
- Adam Grant, Originals: How Nonconformists Move the World
- Joshua Gibbs, How to Be Unlucky: Reflections on the Pursuit of Virtue
- Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
- Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
- Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
- Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well
- Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
- Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
- Jessica Bruder, Nomadland
Science/Nature
- Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain
- Richard Feyman, Six Easy Pieces
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
- Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon
- Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
- Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne
- John McPhee, The Control of Nature
- Tristan Gooley, The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Gavin Pretor-Pinney, The Cloudspotter’s Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds
- Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die
- Richard Louv, The Nature Principle
- Nate Blakeslee, American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
- Helen Czerski, Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Kids – Read aloud/together
- Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun
- Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
- Irene Hunt, Across Five Aprils
- Madeline L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
- Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain
- Carl Hiaasen, Hoot {Waverly Library}
- Gary Paulsen, Harris and Me
- Robert C. O’Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- Elizabeth Yates, Mountain Born
- N.D. Wilson, 100 Cupboards
- Sheila Turnage, Three Times Lucky
- William Steig, Abel’s Island
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
- Gary Paulsen, Lawn Boy {Waverly Library}
- Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
- Will Hobbs, Crossing the Wire
- Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies
- Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home
- William Shakespeare, King Lear
- Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars
- Sara Nickerson, How to Disappear and Never Be Found
- Anne E. White, The Plutarch Project Volume 2: Pyrrhus, Nicias, and Crassus
- Lois Lowry, The Giver
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
- Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
- Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
- Ruth Sawyer, This Way to Christmas
- Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
- Cindy Rollins, Hallelujah: A Journey Through Advent with Handel’s Messiah
Kids – Audiobooks
- Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry {Audible}
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer {Audible}
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn {Audible}
- Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie {Audible}
- Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper {Audible}
- Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes {Audible}
- Sterling North, Rascal {Audible}
- Brandon Mull, Fablehaven {Audible}
- Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield {Audible}
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Men {Audible}
- E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers {Audible}
- Kate DiCamillo, Tale of Desperaux {Audible}
- Louisa May Alcott, Jack and Jill {Audible}