Alright, this page may be more for my sake than anyone else's, but I've wanted to be better about keeping track of the books Andrew and I read over the years. I have terrible memory when it comes to books I've read. Honestly, I will forget characters' names a week after I've finished the book; it really is that bad. 

So here Andrew and I will keep a quick list of the books we have read or listed to over the year. We will also add a basic rating out of 5 stars total. Honestly, I cant remember all the books from the last year, and 2016 and 2017 have kinda shmooshed together in my mind so I will have to create a list just based on what I remember. Sorry. I promise to be better about remembering and recording from this point forward. 

Maichael's Book List

2022
Books I've read this year:
  • The Power by Naomi Alderman
  • The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
  • The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
  • Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
  • Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaellen Doucleff
  • Dune (didn't finish it)
  • Before we were yours
  • Think Again by Adam Grant
  • The Self-Driven Child: the science and sense of giving your kids more control over their lives by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson
2021
Books I've read this year:
  • The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
  • Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson
  • The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 
  • Malibu Rising  by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
  • The Woman they Could Not Silence: the shocking story of a woman who dared to fight back by Kate Moore
  • Lovely War
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
  • Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
  • The Nature of Fragile Things
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone ​by Lori Gottlier
  • The Book of Longings
  • The Royal We
  • Being Mortal by Atul Gwande
  • ​A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  • The Sound of Love by Kyle Shoop

2018

Currently reading:
  • Happiest Baby on the Block
  • 12 hours' Sleep by 12 Weeks Old
  • A Gentleman in Moscow

Books I've finished:
  • ​....well...this is embarrassing...  :/.....One word: babies

2016-2017

Books I've finished:
  • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman- 5 stars!
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline- 4 stars
  • Inferno by Dan Brown- 2 stars
  • Home by Harlan Coban- 3 stars
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr- 4 star
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - 5 stars!
  • Other Side of the Sky by - 3 stars
  • Red Rising trilogy (just the first 2) by Pierce Brown- 3 stars
  • Copper Sun by Sharon M Draper - 4 stars
  • Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare - 4 stars
  • The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby and John Busby - 4 stars
  • 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know by Jeff Anderson - 4 stars
  • Cinnamon Moon by Tess Hilmo - 4 stars
  • The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff - 5 stars!
  • Talk Like Ted by Carmine Gallo- 5 stars!
  • 1984 by George Orwell - 2.5 stars
  • Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe - 4 stars
  • Mindset by Carol Dweck - 3.5 stars
  • In the Middle by Nancie Atwell- 5 stars!
  • Kindred by Octavia Butler- 5 stars!
  • A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - 5 stars!
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie- 4 stars
  • Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys- 4.5 stars
  • Lunar Chronicles (Winter) by Marissa Meyer- 4 stars

Andrew's Book List

2022
Books I've read this year:
  • Dune

2018


Books I've finished:
  • Lorian Legacy Series (I am Number Four)- 5 stars!
  • Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness- 5 stars!
  • The Hobbit- 3 stars
  • Iron Gold (from the Red Rising series)

2016-2017

Books I've finished:
  • QB: My Life Behind the Spiral by Steve Young - 5 stars!
  • Armada by Ernest Cline- 3 stars
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - 5 stars!
  • Harry Potter books by JK Rowling - 5 stars!
  • David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell - 3 stars
  • Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown- 4 stars
  • The Da Vinici Code by Dan Brown - 4stars
  • We Are Legion by Denis Taylor - 3 stars
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight - 5 stars!
  • The Power of Habit- 4 stars
  • The Outsiders- 4 stars

Our Favorites

Ok, going through all the books we have read might be exhausting, so here are a few highlights of our favorite books:

Maichael's Favorites:

  • Harry Potter series- Duh!
  • Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • Unwind by Neil Shusterman
  • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

I love historical fiction (especially anything that has to do with the Holocaust and World War II):
  • Code Name Verity
  • The Book Thief
  • Unbroken (non fiction and incredible)
  • Kindred

And then there are those good "girl" books that enthrall you with a little bit of romance, a little bit of fantasy, and a little bit of powerful female roles:
  • Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
  • basically anything written by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Beauty by Robin McKinley
  • Ella Enchanted (the book is WONDERFUL; the movie is TERRIBLE!) by Gail Carson Levine

Andrew's Favorites:

  • Harry Potter (listen to the audio books! They are how I got hooked)
  • Hunger Games (especially Catching Fire) by Suzanne Collins
  • The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott