2020 Books, TV, & Movies

  1. An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena (4.5 stars)
  2. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (4.5 stars)
  3. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Rey Terciero (4 stars)
  4. Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris (3 stars)
  5. *Unqualified by Anna Faris (2 stars)
  6. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (5 stars)
  7. *The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō (2 stars)
  8. FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven (3.5 stars)
  9. *I Know I Am, But What Are You? by Samantha Bee (3 stars)
  10. The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon (4 stars)
  11. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (3 stars)
  12. *Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon (3 stars)
  13. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (3 stars)
  14. From Scratch by Tembi Locke (2 stars)
  15. Missing Molly by Natalie Barelli (4 stars)
  16. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (5 stars)
  17. The Dilemma by B.A. Paris (3.5 stars)
  18. *The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (4 stars)
  19. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld (5 stars)
  20. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (3.5 stars)
  21. The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur (4 stars)
  22. Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (4.5 stars)
  23. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (4 stars)
  24. *Bird Box by Josh Malerman (4 stars)
  25. Defending Jacob by William Landay (3 stars)
  26. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (5 stars)
  27. A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight (4.5 stars)
  28. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (4 stars)
  29. *I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez (4 stars)
  30. The Guest List by Lucy Foley (4 stars)
  31. Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center (4 stars)
  32. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (4.5 stars)
  33. *Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling (4 stars)
  34. The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda (4.5 stars)
  35. *Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling (4.5 stars)
  36. No Exit by Taylor Adams (2.5 stars)
  37. The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (4 stars)
  38. *Me by Elton John (5 stars)
  39. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (4 stars)
  40. The End of Her by Shari Lapena (3.5 stars)
  41. *The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson (4 stars)
  42. The Half Sister by Sandie Jones (3.5 stars)
  43. *Open Book by Jessica Simpson (4 stars)
  44. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (4 stars)
  45. *Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (4 stars)
  46. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (4 stars)
  47. *The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves (3.5 stars)
  48. When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole (4 stars)
  49. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (4 stars)
  50. On the Horizon by Lois Lowry (4 stars)
  51. He Started It by Samantha Downing (2.5 stars)
  52. One by One by Ruth Ware (4.5 stars)
  53. Sula by Toni Morrison (4 stars)
  54. *So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (4 stars)
  55. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (4.5 stars)
  56. *Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (4.5 stars)
  57. *The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (3.5 stars)
  58. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd (4 stars)
  59. March: Book One by John Lewis (5 stars)
  60. *Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump (4.5 stars)
  61. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (4 stars)
  62. Wonderland by Zoje Stage (3 stars)
  63. *The Shadows by Alex North (4 stars)
  64. Intensity by Dean Koontz (4 stars)
  65. *Shrill by Lindy West (5 stars)
  66. If You Tell by Gregg Olsen (5 stars)
  67. *The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West (4.5 stars)
  68. Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson (4 stars)
  69. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison (4.5 stars)
  70. Devolution by Max Brooks (3 stars)
  71. The Roanoke Colony: America’s First Mystery by Chris Schweizer (4 stars)
  72. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf (4 stars)
  73. *A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (3 stars)
  74. The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk (3.5 stars)
  75. Don’t Look for Me by Wendy Walker (4 stars)
  76. *Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper (4 stars)
  77. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (4 stars)
  78. I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (3.5 stars)
  79. *Inside Out by Demi Moore (4.5 stars)
  80. Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon (4 stars)
  81. Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey (4 stars)
  82. What You Wish For by Katherine Center (4.5 stars)
  83. Shit, Actually by Lindy West (4 stars)
  84. *American Predator by Maureen Callahan (4 stars)
  85. Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell (4 stars)
  86. *The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee (3.5 stars)
  87. Malorie by Josh Malerman (4.5 stars)
  88. Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson (4.5 stars)
  89. Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson (4.5 stars)
  90. Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier (4 stars)
  91. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni (3.5 stars)
  92. *Nothing Like I Imagined by Mindy Kaling (4 stars)
  93. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger (4 stars)
  94. The Last Flight by Julie Clark (4 stars)
  95. Becoming RBG by Debbie Levy (4 stars)
  96. The Wives by Tarryn Fisher (4 stars)
  97. Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell (4.5 stars)
  98. Breathless by Jennifer Niven (4.5 stars)
  99. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll (4 stars)
  100. The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon (3.5 stars)
  101. *Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker (3.5 stars)
  102. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger (4 stars)
  103. March: Book Two by John Lewis (4.5 stars)
  104. *Untamed by Glennon Doyle (4.5 stars)
  105. *Dolly Parton, Songteller by Dolly Parton (4.5 stars)
  106. The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher (3.5 stars)
  107. Kent State by Deborah Wiles (4.5 stars)
  108. Take It Back by Kia Abdullah (4.5 stars)
  109. Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane (4 stars)
  110. Bloodline by Jess Lourey (4 stars)
  111. Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory (4 stars)
  112. New Kid by Jerry Craft (3.5 stars)
  113. *Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom (4 stars)
  114. In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn (4 stars)
  115. Modoc by Ralph Helfer (4 stars)
  116. The Swap by Robyn Harding (4 stars)
  117. *Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (4 stars)
  118. *Fair Play by Eve Rodsky (4 stars)
  119. Home Body by Rupi Kaur (4.5 stars)
  120. I Heard God Laughing by Hafez (3.5 stars)

* = Audiobook

TV:

  • Freaks and Geeks (4 stars)
  • Shrill: Season 1 (4.5 stars)
  • Shrill: Season 2 (4 stars)
  • The Office: Season 2 (4 stars)
  • The Office: Season 3 (4 stars)
  • The Office: Season 4 (4 stars)
  • The Office: Season 5 (4 stars)
  • The Office: Season 6 (4 stars)
  • Fleabag: Season 1 (4 stars)
  • Fleabag: Season 2 (5 stars)
  • The Stranger (4 stars)
  • The Outsider (4.5 stars)
  • Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (4.5 stars)
  • Ozark: Season 1 (4 stars)
  • Ozark: Season 2 (4 stars)
  • Ozark: Season 3 (5 stars)
  • Modern Family: Season 11 (4 stars)
  • Little Fires Everywhere (5 stars)
  • Never Have I Ever: Season 1 (5 stars)
  • Dead To Me: Season 2 (4 stars)
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral (5 stars)
  • Defending Jacob (3.5 stars)
  • Servant: Season 1 (4.5 stars)
  • The Morning Show: Season 1 (5 stars)
  • The Sinner: Season 3 (4 stars)
  • Truth Be Told (4 stars)
  • Don’t F**k With Cats (4 stars)
  • Yellowstone: Season 1 (4 stars)
  • Shameless: Season 10 (4 stars)
  • Schitt’s Creek: Season 1 (4 stars)
  • Schitt’s Creek: Season 2 (4 stars)
  • Schitt’s Creek: Season 3 (4 stars)
  • Schitt’s Creek: Season 4 (4 stars)
  • Schitt’s Creek: Season 5 (4 stars)
  • Schitt’s Creek: Season 6 (5 stars)
  • Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (4 stars)
  • The Boys: Season 1 (4 stars)
  • The Boys: Season 2 (4 stars)
  • Lovecraft Country (4 stars)
  • Cobra Kai: Season 1 (4.5 stars)
  • Cobra Kai: Season 2 (5 stars)
  • Sex and the City: Season 1 (4.5 stars)
  • The Undoing: Season 1 (4 stars)
  • Wayne: Season 1 (4.5 stars)
  • Sex and the City: Season 2 (4.5 stars)
  • Sex and the City: Season 3 (4 stars)

Movies:

  • Dolemite Is My Name (3.5 stars)
  • Parasite (5 stars)
  • Hustlers (4 stars)
  • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (3.5 stars)
  • Just Mercy (4.5 stars)
  • Uncut Gems (3.5 stars)
  • Fighting with My Family (3 stars)
  • Terms of Endearment (3 stars)
  • Jojo Rabbit (4 stars)
  • Pretty Woman (5 stars)
  • Harriet (3 stars)
  • The Invisible Man (4.5 stars)
  • Yesterday (3.5 stars)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (5 stars)
  • Murder Mystery (3.5 stars)
  • Bird Box (4 stars)
  • Candyman (3 stars)
  • Booksmart (4 stars)
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (4.5 stars)
  • The Lovebirds (3.5 stars)
  • 12 Monkeys (3 stars)
  • Rocketman (4.5 stars)
  • Bringing Down the House (3.5 stars)
  • Midsommar (4 stars)
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer (3.5 stars)
  • Fantasy Island (2 stars)
  • Get Out (4.5 stars)
  • The Hunt (3.5 stars)
  • Blockers (4.5 stars)
  • Straight Outta Compton (4.5 stars)
  • The Town (5 stars)
  • The Way Back (4.5 stars)
  • Palm Springs (3.5 stars)
  • Changeling (3.5 stars)
  • The Peanut Butter Falcon (5 stars)
  • The King of Staten Island (4.5 stars)
  • The Wretched (3.5 stars)
  • The Nest (4 stars)
  • Psycho (4 stars)
  • American Murder: The Family Next Door (5 stars)
  • The Oath (3.5 stars)
  • Cujo (2.5 stars)
  • Ghost (4 stars)
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (4 stars)
  • Halloween (4 stars)
  • Cabin in the Woods (4.5 stars)
  • Holidate (4 stars)
  • Intensity (4 stars)
  • Dolly Parton: Here I Am (4 stars)
  • Holiday in the Wild (4 stars)
  • Knock Knock (2 stars)
  • Let Him Go (4 stars)
  • A Bad Moms Christmas (4 stars)
  • The Princess Switch (3.5 stars)
  • The Santa Clause (4 stars)
  • Run (4.5 stars)
  • Antebellum (4 stars)
  • The Mystery of D.B. Cooper (3.5 stars)
  • The Happiest Season (4 stars)
  • Krampus (4.5 stars)
  • Last Christmas (4 stars)
  • Love Actually (5 stars)
  • Better Watch Out (4 stars)
  • The Night Before (4.5 stars)
  • Jingle All The Way (3 stars)
  • Mean Girls (4 stars)
  • Promising Young Woman (4.5 stars)
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2019 Books, TV, & Movies

  1. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero (4 stars)
  2. *I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (3 stars)
  3. Beartown by Fredrik Backman (5 stars)
  4. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (4 stars)
  5. Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House by Geronimo Stilton (4 stars)
  6. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (4 stars)
  7. Verity by Colleen Hoover (4 stars)
  8. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (3 stars)
  9. The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani (4 stars)
  10. *The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (4 stars)
  11. The Round House by Louise Erdrich (4 stars)
  12. *An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (5 stars)
  13. The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy (4 stars)
  14. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (5 stars)
  15. *Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney (3.5 stars)
  16. Sadie by Courtney Summers (4 stars)
  17. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (5 stars)
  18. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (4 stars)
  19. *Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina (3 stars)
  20. An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (4 stars)
  21. Watching You by Lisa Jewell (4 stars)
  22. *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (4 stars)
  23. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel by Lois Gladys Leppard (3 stars)
  24. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (4 stars)
  25. The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and Renee Nault (5 stars)
  26. *Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (5 stars)
  27. Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda (3 stars)
  28. *George by Alex Gino (4 stars)
  29. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (4 stars)
  30. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (4 stars)
  31. False Step by Victoria Helen Stone (4 stars)
  32. Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson (5 stars)
  33. *The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (4 stars)
  34. Normal People by Sally Rooney (3.5 stars)
  35. Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware The Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, and Brooke A. Allen (4 stars)
  36. *The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman (3.5 stars)
  37. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (5 stars)
  38. *Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White (4 stars)
  39. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (4.5 stars)
  40. The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel by Khaled Hosseini (4 stars)
  41. The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine (5 stars)
  42. The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani (3.5 stars)
  43. *Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison (4 stars)
  44. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (5 stars)
  45. The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (3.5 stars)
  46. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager (4 stars)
  47. *Life Will Be the Death of Me… and You Too! by Chelsea Handler (4 stars)
  48. The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda (4 stars)
  49. Interview with the Vampire: Claudia’s Story by Ashley Marie Witter (3.5 stars)
  50. Educated by Tara Westover (5 stars)
  51. *Don’t Let Go by Harlan Coben (4 stars)
  52. The Widow by Fiona Barton (4 stars)
  53. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena (5 stars)
  54. The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell (4 stars)
  55. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (4 stars)
  56. *Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (4 stars)
  57. The Broken Girls by Simone St. James (4 stars)
  58. Pet Sematary by Stephen King (4 stars)
  59. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (4 stars)
  60. Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation by Miles Hyman (4 stars)
  61. *Yes Please by Amy Poehler (4 stars)
  62. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (4 stars)
  63. *This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps (5 stars)
  64. The Whisper Man by Alex North (4 stars)
  65. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal (4 stars)
  66. The Chain by Adrian McKinty (4 stars)
  67. *Sisters First by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush (4 stars)
  68. *This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today by Chrissy Metz (4 stars)
  69. Conviction by Denise Mina (3.5 stars)
  70. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (4 stars)
  71. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (4 stars)
  72. *The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (4 stars)

* = Audiobook

TV:

  • You: Season 1 (5 stars)
  • The Sinner: Season 2 (5 stars)
  • Homecoming: Season 1 (4 stars)
  • The Good Place: Season 3 (3.5 stars)
  • Shrill: Season 1 (5 stars)
  • Vice Principals: Season 2 (4 stars)
  • Splitting Up Together: Season 2 (3.5 stars)
  • Barry: Season 1 (4 stars)
  • Dead To Me: Season 1 (5 stars)
  • Modern Family: Season 10 (3.5 stars)
  • Game of Thrones: Season 8 (4 stars)
  • Shameless: Season 9 (4 stars)
  • Dirty John (5 stars)
  • The Act: Season 1 (4.5 stars)
  • Stranger Things: Season 3 (4.5 stars)
  • Glow: Season 3 (4 stars)
  • Unbelievable (5 stars)
  • The Mindy Project: Season 1 (5 stars)
  • Big Little Lies: Season 2 (4 stars)
  • The Righteous Gemstones: Season 1 (5 stars)
  • The Mindy Project: Season 2 (5 stars)
  • The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 3 (4 stars)
  • The Office: Season 1 (5 stars)
  • The Affair: Season 5 (5 stars)
  • American Horror Story: 1984 (4.5 stars)
  • Undeclared (4.5 stars)
  • Cougar Town: Season 1 (5 stars)
  • Castle Rock: Season 2 (4 stars)
  • You: Season 2 (5 stars)
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral (5 stars)

Movies:

  • Bird Box (4 stars)
  • Lizzie (3 stars)
  • The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (4.5 stars)
  • Gone with the Wind (4 stars)
  • The Favourite (3.5 stars)
  • Due Date (3 stars)
  • Ben is Back (4 stars)
  • The Uninvited (3 stars)
  • The Sixth Sense (3 stars)
  • Green Book (4 stars)
  • Casablanca (4 stars)
  • Flatliners (3 stars)
  • I, Tonya (5 stars)
  • Isn’t It Romantic? (4.5 stars)
  • Happy Death Day 2U (3.5 stars)
  • Boy Erased (3.5 stars)
  • Pet Sematary – 1989 (2.5 stars)
  • Ingrid Goes West (4 stars)
  • Willow Creek (3 stars)
  • Us (3.5 stars)
  • Shag (3.5 stars)
  • The Wedding Singer (5 stars)
  • Pet Sematary – 2019 (3.5 stars)
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall (5 stars)
  • Like Crazy (3.5 stars)
  • Instant Family (4 stars)
  • The Hate U Give (4.5 stars)
  • Long Shot (4 stars)
  • Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (4 stars)
  • Cruel Intentions (4 stars)
  • Aladdin (4 stars)
  • Ma (4 stars)
  • Deadwood (4 stars)
  • Always Be My Maybe (4 stars)
  • Booksmart (4 stars)
  • A Star Is Born (5 stars)
  • Rocketman (5 stars)
  • Office Space (4 stars)
  • The Public (4 stars)
  • Child’s Play (4 stars)
  • Midsommar (4.5 stars)
  • Old School (4 stars)
  • The Lion King (4 stars)
  • Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (4.5 stars)
  • Pitch Perfect (5 stars)
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain (4.5 stars)
  • Notting Hill (3.5 stars)
  • Good Boys (4 stars)
  • The Bodyguard (3.5 stars)
  • Ready or Not (4.5 stars)
  • The Spectacular Now (3.5 stars)
  • It (4.5 stars)
  • To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (3.5 stars)
  • It: Chapter Two (4 stars)
  • Late Night (4 stars)
  • Downton Abbey (4 stars)
  • Coherence (3.5 stars)
  • Summer of ’84 (3 stars)
  • Trick ‘r Treat (4 stars)
  • Joker (4 stars)
  • Needful Things (3.5 stars)
  • Prom Night (2 stars)
  • The Shining (4 stars)
  • The Irishman (4 stars)
  • Knives Out (4 stars)
  • Doctor Sleep (4 stars)
  • Noelle (3 stars)
  • Let It Snow (4 stars)
  • Bombshell (4 stars)
  • Gremlins (4 stars)
  • Love Actually (5 stars)
  • 12 Dates of Christmas (4 stars)
  • Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (3 stars)
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Books Read in 2018

  1. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (4 stars)
  2. Scythe by Neal Shusterman (4 stars)
  3. Ape House by Sara Gruen (4 stars)
  4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (3 stars)
  5. The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (5 stars)
  6. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson (4 stars)
  7. Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris (4 stars)
  8. Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner (4 stars)
  9. The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner (4 stars)
  10. All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson (4 stars)
  11. A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena (4 stars)
  12. Live To Tell by Lisa Gardner (4 stars)
  13. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (5 stars)
  14. The Other Woman by Sandie Jones (3 stars)
  15. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter (4 stars)
  16. Alone by Lisa Gardner (3 stars)
  17. Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage (5 stars)
  18. Hunger by Roxane Gay (4 stars)
  19. You by Caroline Kepnes (5 stars)
  20. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (4 stars)
  21. Cop Town by Karin Slaughter (4 stars)
  22. When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica (3 stars)
  23. A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult (4 stars)
  24. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell (4 stars)
  25. There There by Tommy Orange (4 stars)
  26. Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson (4 stars)
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Books Read in 2017

  1. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (5 stars)
  2.  Escape by Carolyn Jessop (5 stars)
  3. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (4 stars)
  4.  Maus I by Art Spiegelman (4 stars)
  5.  Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini (4 stars)
  6. Fish In A Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt (4 stars)
  7. Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson (4 stars)
  8. Find Her by Lisa Gardner (5 stars)
  9. Girl in the Dark by Marion Pauw (4 stars)
  10.  Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris (5 stars)
  11. Most Wanted by Lisa Scottoline (4 stars)
  12. A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline (4 stars)
  13. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (4 stars)
  14. The River at Night by Erica Ferencik (4 stars)
  15.  The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda (5 stars)
  16. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (4 stars)
  17. The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley (4 stars)
  18. The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood (4 stars)
  19. Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner (4 stars)
  20. The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (4 stars)
  21. Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica (4 stars)
  22. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware (4 stars)
  23. Final Girls by Riley Sager (5 stars)
  24. The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty (4 stars)
  25. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4 stars)
  26. Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough (4 stars)
  27. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (4 stars)
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Books Read in 2016

  1. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (4 stars)
  2. You Are a Cat! by Sherwin Tjia (4 stars)
  3. The Heir by Kiera Cass (4 stars)
  4. Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy (4 stars)
  5. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh (4 stars)
  6. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (5 stars)
  7. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (5 stars)
  8. Blood Wounds by Susan Beth Pfeffer (4 stars)
  9. After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman (4 stars)
  10. The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld (4 stars)
  11. The Siren by Kiera Cass (4 stars)
  12. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver (3 stars)
  13. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (4 stars)
  14. The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight (4 stars)
  15. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (5 stars)
  16. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus (5 stars)
  17. The Crown by Kiera Cass (4 stars)
  18. Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld (5 stars)
  19. Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica (4 stars)
  20. Ten by Gretchen McNeil (3 stars)
  21. Summerlost by Ally Condie (4 stars)
  22. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (5 stars)
  23. Night by Elie Wiesel (4 stars)
  24. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda (4 stars)
  25. Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee (4 stars)
  26. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty (4 stars)
  27. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (5 stars)
  28. The Name of the Game Was Murder by Joan Lowery Nixon (4 stars)
  29. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (5 stars)
  30. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (4 stars)
  31. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer (5 stars)
  32. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (5 stars)
  33. Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven (4 stars)
  34. The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (4 stars)
  35. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (4 stars)
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Books Read in 2015

  1. Rooms by Lauren Oliver (4 stars)
  2. El Deafo by Cece Bell (4 stars)
  3. Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer (3 stars)
  4. This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer (4 stars)
  5. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (5 stars)
  6. The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson (5 stars)
  7. Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight (5 stars)
  8. This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash (4 stars)
  9. At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen (4 stars)
  10. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson (3 stars)
  11. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica (4 stars)
  12. Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver (3 stars)
  13. My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh (3 stars)
  14. The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor (3 stars)
  15. Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan (3 stars)
  16. Bossypants by Tina Fey (4 stars)
  17. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (4 stars)
  18. Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica (5 stars)
  19. It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini (4 stars)
  20. The Living by Matt de la Pena (4 stars)
  21. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (4 stars)
  22. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling (5 stars)
  23. The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne (5 stars)
  24. Flight by Sherman Alexie (4 stars)
  25. The Son by Philipp Meyer (5 stars)
  26. Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson (5 stars)
  27. Day Four by Sarah Lotz (2 stars)
  28. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (4 stars)
  29. The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson (4 stars)
  30. Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee (4 stars)
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Books Read in 2014

  1. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Random Riggs (4 stars)
  2. A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash (4 stars)
  3. Serena by Ron Rash (5 stars)
  4. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (4 stars)
  5. On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves (4 stars)
  6. Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan (4 stars)
  7. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (4 stars)
  8. Panic by Lauren Oliver (4 stars)
  9. Uganda Be Kidding Me by Chelsea Handler (5 stars)
  10. The Selection by Kiera Cass (4 stars)
  11. The Elite by Kiera Cass (4 stars)
  12. The One by Kiera Cass (4 stars)
  13. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (4 stars)
  14. The Giver by Lois Lowry (4 stars)
  15. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (4 stars)
  16. Sold by Patricia McCormick (5 stars)
  17. Wild by Cheryl Strayed (5 stars)
  18. The Fever by Megan Abbott (2 stars)
  19. Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham (3 stars)
  20. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (4 stars)
  21. Unwind by Neal Shusterman (4 stars)
  22. Wolfsbane by Amanda McCrohan (4 stars)
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Literary Junkies

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1. What are you reading right now? Tell us about it!
I just finished Panic by Lauren Oliver. I really liked it! Here’s the Goodreads synopsis: Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. She’d never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought. Dodge has never been afraid of Panic. His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game, he’s sure of it. But what he doesn’t know is that he’s not the only one with a secret. Everyone has something to play for. For Heather and Dodge, the game will bring new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first love for each of them—and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear are those we need the most.

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2. Divergent, Hunger Games, or Twilight… Which do you prefer and why?
I like them all but I think Hunger Games was the most well-written and the movies have been great! I liked the Twilight books but only two out of the five movies. I didn’t love the Divergent books, but I loved the ending and I loved the movie!

3. TV series based on books… They start out very close to the book to draw in the fans but then will start to separate themselves by changing things and adding characters. What are you thoughts on this?
I wonder what TV show the person who wrote this question was thinking about?? Game of Thrones is so far very similar to the books and it’s in season four! The only other show that I can think of that I watch and is based on books is True Blood. The book and show are very different but I don’t mind because then you don’t know wha tis going to happen!

4. You’ve just been recruited to help a movie studio bring your favorite book to the big screen. What’s the movie and who are you choosing to play the main characters?
I would love to see The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie as the next YA-novel-turned-film. Not sure who I would cast though!

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5. Going back to the above question, do you keep it word-for-word the same or do you use this chance to change little things you thought would make the book better?
I think the best way to turn a book into a movie is to let the author write the screenplay and direct the film, like The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

6. After you finish a physical copy of a book do you keep it for a reread, put it on a shelf to collect dust, donate it to Goodwill, or do you just not purchase physical copies of books?
I only purchase books that I am getting signed by authors or travel guidebooks. Obviously I keep my signed copies! Travel books I will pass along to friends or donate to the library if I don’t think I’ll need them again.

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