As mentioned in my last post, I made it to 71 book this year 🤓 Here’s the final list - If it has a star beside it, I highly recommend it:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
Hiroshima - John Hersey ⭐
Boy Snow Bird - Helen Oyeyemi
The Orenda - Joseph Boyden
Full tilt - Dervla Murphy
Oryx and crake - Margaret Atwood ⭐
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson
Braving the Wilderness - Brene Brown
Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O'Neil ⭐
Sh*t My Dad Says - Justin Halpern
The beauty myth - Naomi Wolf
Dept. of speculation - Jenny Offill
Hope in the dark - Rebecca Solnit ⭐
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
Barrelling Forward - Eva Crocker
The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Hunger - Roxanne Gay ⭐
Young Jane Young - Gabrielle Zevin
The Notorious RGB - Irin Camrom, Shana Knizhnik
The Clay Girl - Heather Tucker
MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood
The Red Parts - Maggie Nelson
Coralline - Neil Gaiman
Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
Heart Burn - Nora Ephron ⭐
The Circle - Dave Eggers
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Bloomability - Sharon Creech
What Happened - Hilary Rodham Clinton
Modern Lovers - Emma Straub
The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
The Nest - Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Muse - Jessie Burton ⭐
Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari
Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness - Marie Tourell Søderberge ⭐
The Nix - Nathan Hill ⭐
The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - Margaret Atwood ⭐
The Gypsy Moth Summer - Julia Fierro
Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist - Martina Scholtens ⭐
The Course of Love - Alain De Botton
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Book of Joan - Lydia Yuknavitch
All We Leave Behind - Carol Off ⭐
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge ⭐
The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson
Shrill - Lindy West
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
The Power - Naomi Alderman ⭐
Shrewed - Elizabeth Renzetti ⭐
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion ⭐
The Fifth Season - NK Jemisin ⭐
Heart Berries - Theresa Marie Mailhot ⭐
The Obelysk Gate - NK Jemisin
The Rock Warriors Way - Arno Ilgner
Barbarian Days - William Finnegan
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman ⭐
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Meaty - Samantha Irby
Like a Mother - Angela Garbes
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
This Will Be My Undoing - Morgan Jerkins ⭐
The Best Laid Plans - Terry Fallis
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi ⭐
The Goldfinch - Donna Tart
Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosh