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

2021

Books I've read this year:

• Lovely War
• The Nature of Fragile Things
  
• Maybe We Should Talk
• 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

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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...  :/

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

2021

Books I've read this year:

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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

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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