It’s already two weeks into a new year. I hope yours is off to a good start. I set a reading goal of 60 books and achieved that number just as the calendar prepared to flip. As always, my list contains a mixture of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, and self-help. There is one book that stands out as a favorite, a book that captivated me from page one: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. I highly recommend it!
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” Garrison Keillor
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | Mark Manson |
| The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah |
| AWE: The Automatic Writing Experience | Michael Sandler |
| The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss | Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD |
| Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting | Clare Pooley |
| The Authenticity Project | Clare Pooley |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan |
| We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of Friendship | Will Schwalbe |
| Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin |
| On Hitler’s Mountain | Irmgard A. Hunt |
| The Good Life: Lessons From The World’s Longest Scientific Study Of Happiness | Robert Waldinger, MD & Marc Schultz, PhD |
| Hello Beautiful | Ann Napolitano |
| At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys To The Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better | William J. Peters with Michael Kinsella, PhD |
| The Villa | Rachel Hawkins |
| Reckless Girls | Rachel Hawkins |
| Snap Out Of It | Maddie Dawson |
| Matchmaking for Beginners | Maddie Dawson |
| The Body Papers | Grace Talusan |
| The Opposite of Maybe | Maddie Dawson |
| The Survivor’s Guide to Family Happiness | Maddie Dawson |
| The Collected Regrets of Clover | Mikki Brammer |
| The Book of Lost Names | Kristin Harmel |
| Before We Were Yours | Lisa Wingate |
| Wake Up With Purpose: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years | Sister Jean with Seth Davis |
| The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah |
| The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson |
| The Trail | Meika Hashimoto |
| Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived The Tennessee Children’s Home Society | Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate |
| Finding Dorothy | Elizabeth Letts |
| Community Board | Tara Conklin |
| The Guncle | Steven Rowley |
| Wade In The Water | Nyani Nkrumah |
| Find The Good: Unexpected Life Lessons From A Small-Town Obituary Writer | Heather Lende |
| You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism | Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar |
| The Third Wife | Lisa Jewell |
| The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell | Robert Dugoni |
| The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments | Hadley Vlahos, RN. |
| Finding The Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose | Colin Campbell |
| Keeper and Kid | Edward Hardy |
| Welcome To Beach Town | Susan Wiggs |
| The Family Remains | Lisa Jewell |
| Return To Willow Lake | Susan Wiggs |
| Watching You | Lisa Jewell |
| And Then There’s Margaret | Carolyn Clarke |
| The Book Woman’s Daughter | Kim Michele Richardson |
| The Secret | Rhonda Byrne |
| Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin |
| The Whispers | Ashley Audrain |
| The Covenant of Water | Abraham Verghese |
| A Heart That Works | Rob Delaney |
| The Jolliest Bunch: Unhinged Holiday Stories | Danny Pellegrino |
| First Gen: A Memoir | Alejandra Campoverdi |
| Legitimate Kid: A Memoir | Aida Rodriguez |
| Homer: The Ninth Life of a Blind Wonder Cat | Gwen Cooper |
| Amazing Grace Adams | Fran Littlewood |
| Being Henry: The Fonz…and Beyond | Henry Winkler |
| Dear Jacob: A Mother’s Journey of Hope | Patty Wetterling with Joy Baker |
| The Little Liar | Mitch Albom |
| Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, Or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat | Gwen Cooper |
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