Turn of Mind – Alice LaPlante
The News Sorority – Sheila Weller
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark – Anna North
I Take You – Eliza Kennedy
The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
Fire on the Track – Rosanne Montillo
The Spectrum of Hope – Gayatri Devi
More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us – Steve Leder
Wonder Valley – Ivy Pochoda
Amanda Wake Up – Alyson Camaroda
Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
The Rules Do Not Apply – Ariel Levy
Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue
The World Between Two Covers – Ann Morgan
My Paris Dream – Kate Betts
The Rocks – Peter Nichols
The Queen of the Night – Alexander Chee
The Nest – Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Eligible – Curtis Sittenfeld
Commonwealth – Ann Patchett
Imagine Me Gone – Adam Haslett
LaRose – Louise Erdich
Sweetbitter – Stephanie Danler
Modern Lovers – Emma Straub
The Girls – Emma Cline
Today Will Be Different – Maria Semple
The Wangs vs. The World – Jade Chang
Kitchens of the Great Midwest – J. Ryan Stradel
The Song Machine – John Seabrook
City on Fire – Garth Risk Hallberg
The Mothers – Brit Bennett
Dark Matter – Blake Crouch
The River at Night – Erica Ferencik
History of Wolves – Emily Fridlund
The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
The Wangs Vs. the World – Jade Change
Settle for More – Megyn Kelly
The Princess Diariest – Carrie Fisher
The Sun Is Also a Star – Nicola Yoon
The Girls – Emma Cline
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo – Amy Schumer
All the Single Ladies – Rebecca Traister
Talking as Fast as I Can – Lauren Graham
Hotels of North America – Rick Moody
The Restaurant Critic’s Wife
Bennington Girls Are Easy – Charlotte Silver
Straight to Hell – John LeFevre
The Hand That Feeds You – AJ Rich
Everybody Rise – Stephanie Clifford
Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan
China Rich Girlfriend – Kevin Kwan
As If! – Jen Chaney
Gonzo Girl – Cheryl Della Pietra
Movie Start by Lizzie Pepper – Hilary Liftin
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget – Sarah
Among the Ten Thousand Things – Julia Pierpont
Black Chalk – Christopher Yates
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
This Is How You Lose Her – Junot Diaz
Sutton – J.R. Moehringer
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage – Ann Patchett
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers – Tom Rachman
The Last Magazine – Michael Hastings
Rita Moreno –Rita Moreno
Mermaids in Paradise – Lydia Millet
Us – David Nichols
The Divorce Papers – Susan Rieger
Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg
The Children Act – Ian McEwan
We Are Not Ourselves – Matthew Thomas
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
One Plus One – Jojo Moyes
Missing Reels – Farran Smith Nehme
Letters of Note – Shaun Usher
Red Rising – Pierce Brown
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
We Are Not Ourselves – Matthew Thomas
Golden Son – Pierce Brown
The Kind Worth Killing – Peter Swanson
Arts and Entertainments – Christopher Beha
A Story Lately Told – Anjelica Huston
I’ll Drink to That – Betty Halbreich
The Loudest Voice in the Room – Gabriel Sherman
Frog Music – Emma Donoghue
You Should Have Known – Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Silent Wife – ASA Harrison
The Good Luck of Right Now – Matthew Quick
Everybody’s Got Something – Robin Roberts
Twelve Tribes of Hattie – Ayana Mathis
I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies – Sara Vilkomerson
Ten Years Later – Hoda Kotb
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul – Bob Shacochia
The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty
Americannah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Love Song of Jonny Valentine – Teddy Wayne
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat – Edward Kelsey Moore
Wife 22- Melanie Gideon
The Daylight Marriage – Heidi Pitlor
A God in Ruins – Kate Atkinson
The Battle of Versailles – Robin Givhan
Delicious Foods – James Hannaham
Vanessa and Her Sister – Priya Parmar
Her – Harriet Lane
The Teleportatoin Accident – Ned Beauman
Funny Girl – Nick Hornby
My Sunshine Away – M.O. Walsh
A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler
I Left It On the Mountain – Kevin Sessums
Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice – Kevin Cullen, Shelly Murphy
Gaudi: A Biography – Gijs van Hensbergen
Grace, Gold and Glory – Gabrielle Douglas
Telegraph Avenue – Michael Chabon
Add More –Ing to Your Life – a Hip Guide to Happiness – Gabrielle Bernstein
Hope: A Tragedy – Shalom Auslander
The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
Grace – Grace Coddington
Every Day – David Levithan
The Innocents – Francesca Sega
Gilded Age – Claire McMillan
What the Nanny Saw – Fiona Neill
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
NW – Zadie Smith
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures – Emma Straub
A Lover’s Dictionary – David Levithan
A Doubters Almanac – Ethan Canin
Unbecoming – Jenny Downham
West of Eden – Jean Stein
The Pain and the Great One – Judy Blume
All the Single Ladies – Rebecca Traister
Innocents and Others – Dana Spiotta
The Best – Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of LA Punk – John Doe
Somethingotfoodabout – Quest Love
Three Martini Lunch – Suzanna Rindell
The Job – Steve Osborne
The Summer Before the War – Helen Simonson
Alice and Oliver – Charles Bock
Mothering Sunday – Graham Swift
The Summer Guest – Alison Anderson
Casting Lots – Susan Silverman
Sweet Bitter – Stephanie Danler
Everybody’s Got Something – Robin Roberts
The Girls – Emma Clina
Truly Madly Guilty – Liane Moriarty
You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
Behold the Dreams – Imbolo Mbue
The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Wane
Modern Lovers – Emma Straub
Her Again – Michael Schulman
Labor of Love – Moira Weigel
We Could Be Beautiful – Swan Huntley
Not On Fire But Burning
They May Not Mean To But They Do – Cathleen Schine
Queenpin – Megan Abbott
London – Richard Ford
Where We Belong – Emily Giffin
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
A Vision from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Cosmopolis – Don DeLillo
Navel Gazing – Micahael Ian Black
Bullies – Alex Abramovich
Take a Stand: Lessons from Rebels – Jorge Ramos
The Whites – Richard Price
All the Single Ladies – Rebecca Traister
A Mother’s Reckoning – Sue Kleibold
Master of Ceremonies – Joel Grey
Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder – Claudia Kalb
American Governor – Matt Katz
Girl Through Glass – Sari Wilson
NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football
One Last Thing Before I Go – Jonathan Tropper
This Is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Building Stories – Chris Ware
Between You and Me – Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
Motherland – Amy Sohn
Prospect Park West – Amy Sohn
What the Nanny Saw – Fiona Neill
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
An Adventure History of Paris – Graham Robb
Happy Now? – Katherine Shonk
The Cranes Dance – Meg Howrey
A Walk Across the Sun – Corban Addison
Hard Measures – Jose Rodriguez
The Dark Side – Jane Mayer
The Presidents Club – Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
Father’s Day – Buzz Bissinger
The Disenchantments – Nina LaCour
The Sickle’s Compass: A Novel of Love, War, and Alzheimer’s Disease – Stephen Woodfin
City of Scoundrels – Gary Krist
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend – Susan Orlean
Nightwoods – Charles Frazier
She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
The Submission – Amy Waldman
Sex and the City – Candace Bushnell
Lucky Girls – Neil Freudenberger
Lust and Other Stories – Susan Minot
Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War – Hal Vaughan
Walt Before Mickey – Charles Solomon
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – Michael Lewis
Last Man in Tower – Aravind Adiga
The Brothers Bulger – Howie Carr
The End of Your Life Book Club – Will Schwalbe
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
The Dovekeepers – Alice Hoffman
The Edge of Change: Women in the 21st Century Press – June O. Nicholson, Pamela J. Creedon, Wanda S. Lloyd, Pamela J. Johnson
Shine – Lauren Myracle
My Long Trip Home – Mark Whitaker
The Death Instinct – Jed Rubenfeld
The Bourne Series
Carry the One – Carol Anshaw
Once Upon a River – Bonnie Jo Campbell
Northwest Corner – John Burnham Schwartz
Attachments – Rainbow Rowell
Summer in the City – Candace Bushnell
The Romantics – Galt Niederhoffer
Malled – Caitlin Kelly
The Lincoln Lawyer – Michael Connelly
A Time to Kill – John Grisham
Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
Prime Time – Jane Fonda
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Robopocolypse – Daniel H. Wilson
Buried Prey – John Sandford
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
How to Build a Girl – Caitlin Moran
The Confidence Gap – Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
Dismantled – Jennifer McMahon
The Strain – Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The Eight – Katherine Neville
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
Good As Gold – Louise Patten
In The Place of Justice – Wilbert Rideau
Red Hook Road – Ayelet Waldman
The Five – Robert McCammon
Sliding Into Home – Kendra Wilkinson
Flash Boys – Michael Lewis
Save the Date – Jen Doll
The Noble Hustle – Colson Whitehed
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant – Roz Chast
Letters of Note – Shaun Usher
Friendship – Emily Gould
Bittersweet – Miranda Beverly Whittemore
The Shelf – Phyllis Rose
Bellweather Rhapsody – Kate Racculia
The Vacationers – Emma Straub
This Is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper
The Actress – Amy Sohn
A Gift For Ron – Kevin B. Blackistone
My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times – Gerald M. Boyd
The Year We Left Home – Jean Thompson
True Prep: It’s a Whole New World – David Colman
My Year of Flops – Nathan Rabin
The Late Shift – Bill Carter
The War for Late Night – Bill Carter
Turn of Mind – Alice LaPlante
Priceless – Nicole Richie
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime – John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain – Portia De Rossi
Villette – Charlotte Bronte
The Magicians – Lev Grossman
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Keeping the House – Ellen Baker
Decoded – Jay-Z
A Reporter’s Life – Walter Cronkite
The Hypnotist – Lars Kepler
The Nightmare – Lars Kepler
Gold – Chris Cleave
The Cranes Dance – Meg Howrey
The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
Little Men – Louisa May Alcott
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture – Kimberly Springer, Trystan T. Cotten
Something Happened – Joseph Heller
Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Arcadia – Lauren Groff
Emma – Jane Austen
War and Peace
A Handmaiden’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
New York Diaries 1609-2009 – Teresa Carpenter
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You Can’t Go Home Again – Thomas Wolfe
The Feminine Mistake – Leslie Bennetts
Defending Jacob – William Landay
Appointment in Samcurra – John O’Hara
By-Line: Ernest Hemingway – Ernest Hemingway
Is It Just Me? – Whoopi Goldberg
The Promise – President Obama, Year One – Jonathan Atler
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter – Linda Grant
We Had It So Good – Linda Grant
Prince of Thieves – Chuck Hogan
Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict – Avis Cardella
Jennifer Weiner ANYTHING
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids – Alexandra Robbins
Jodi Picoult ANYTHING
Push – Sapphire
The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
The Kid – Sapphire
Under the Tuscan Sun
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand
The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
ANYTHING Nicholas Sparks
Barbara Walters Audition
ANYTHING Jennifer Weiner
Heart of the Matter – Emily Giffin
The Burgess Boys – Elizabeth Strout
Extreme Measures – Jessica Nutik Zitter
The Marriage Pact – Michelle Richmond
The Misfortunate of Marion Palm – Emily Culliton
The Wangs vs. The World – Jade Chang
Today Will Be Different – Maria Semple
Before the Fall – Noah Hawley
Heroes of the Frontier – Dave Eggers
All Is Not Forgotten – Wendy Walker
Emma in the Night – Wendy Walker
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
Sing Unburied Sing – Jesmyn Ward
Goodbye Vitamin – Rachel Khong
Unbelievable – Katy Tur
Sourdough – Robin Sloan
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies – Mike Ausiello
Thanks Obama – David Litt
Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan
A Thousand Pardons – Jonathan Dee
Gods Like Us – Ty Burr
And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
Reconstructing Amelia – Kimberly McCreight
Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
The Animators – Kayla Rae Whitaker
Chemistry – Weike Wang
Night of Fire – Colin Thubron
Modern Death – Haider Warraich
Carve the Mark – Veronica Roth
The Dry – Jane Harper
Perfect Little World – Kevin Wilson
Dead Letters – Caite Dolan-Leach
How Bad Do You Want It? – Matt Fitzgerald
The Gauntlet – Karuna Riazi
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea – Alyssa Mastromonaco
I Can Fly
Option B – Sheryl Sandberg
No One Is Coming to Save Us – Stephanie Powell Watts
The Last Battle – Stephen Harding
American Heiress – Jeffrey Toobin
Success Through Stillness – Russell Simmons
Extreme You. Step Up.. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat. – Sarah Robb O’Hagan
We Were the Lucky Ones – Georgia Hunter
The Leavers – Lisa Ko
The People We Hate At the Wedding – Grant Ginder
Al Franken: Giant of the Senate – Al Franken
Theft by Finding – David Sedaris
Startup – Doree Shafrir
Raven Rock – Garrett Graff
Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud – Anne Helen Petersen
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Windfall – Diksha Basu
Saints for All Occasions – J. Courtney Sullivan
Hunger – Roxane Gay
The Smart One – Jennifer Close
The Girls: A Novel – Lori Lansens
Commencement – J. Courtney Sullivan
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted – Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
Unsinkable – Debbie Reynolds
The Interestings – Meg Wolitzer
Overdressed – Elizabeth Kline
The Engagements – J. Courtney Sullivan
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang – Chelsea Handler
Decision Points – George W. Bush
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You and I have a lot of books in common – our tastes are quite similar =)
Looking for review of Dreams of Joy by Lisa See.
Hi Rita. This Reading List is a list of books I want to read. I haven’t read Dreams of Joy yet, so no review.
While we have a lot of books in common, I noticed an absence of John Steinbeck. Log from the Sea of Cortez is one of my favorites especially his tribute to his friend Doc, Ed Ricketts.
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