What I’m Reading

Books I’ve Read in 2025

• The House in the Pines, Ana Reyes
• Things We Never Got Over, Lucy Score
• The Lost Bookshop, Evie Woods
• The Wedding People, Alison Espach
• You Like It Darker, Stephen King
• Lights Out, Navessa Allen
• Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros
• The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus #3), Rick Riordan
• Foundational Exercises for Life, Clybe Symonds
• Home Before Dark, Riley Sager
• Seize the Night, Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer: The Artistry, Joy, and Career of Storytelling, J. Michael Straczynski
• A Sea of Unspoken Things, Adrianne Young
• Lover Avenged, J.R. Ward
• The Pairing, Casey McQuiston
• The Nightmare Before Kissmass, Sara Raasch
• The Breakthrough Effect, Douglas E. Richards
• Face the Fire, Nora Roberts
• Write Fearless, Edit Smart, Get Published: A Master Class for Fiction Writers, Lisa Mangum
• No Two Persons, Erica Bauermeister
• Lock Every Door, Riley Sager
• Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown
• Run, Blake Crouch
• Small Town, Big Magic, Hazel Beck
• The New Menopaus: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts, Mary Claire Haver

Books I Read in 2024

• The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient #1), Helen Hoang
• The Bodyguard, Katherine Center
• The Troop, Nick Cutter
• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson #5), Rick Riordan
• The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei
• My Darling Girl, Jennifer McMahon
• The Brother’s Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games #4), Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Business or Pleasure, Rachel Lynn Solomon
• Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1), Tracy Deonn
• You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion, Meera Shah
• Welcome Home, Stranger, Kate Christensen
• Great and Precious Things, Rebecca Yarros
• The Night Olivia Fell, Christina McDonald
• Rouge, Mona Awad
• Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt
• Book Lovers, Emily Henry
• Carrie Soto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• This Wretched Valley, Jenny Kiefer
• My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones
• Wrech the Halls, Tessa Bailey
• Mister Magic, Kiersten White
• One Italian Summer, Rebecca Serle
• Rick Steves Italy, Rick Steves
• Behind Every Lie, Christina McDonald
• The Only One Left, Riley Sager
• Good Rich People, Eliza Jane Brazier
• Black Sheep, Rachel Harrison
• A Court This Cruel & Lovely (Kingdom of Lies #1), Stacia Stark
• Rick Steves Sicily, Rich Steves
• What the Wind Knows, Amy Harmon
• How to Survive Your Murder, Danielle Valentine
• Whalefall, Daniel Kraus
• Liar, Dreamer, Thief, Maria Dong
• Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder
• Weather Girl, Rachel Lynn Solomon
• Hooked (Never After #1), Emily McIntire
• Alice (The Chronicles of Alice #1), Christina Henry
• Such Sharp Teeth, Rachel Harrison
• Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails #1), Katee Robert
• All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive, Rainesford Stauffer
• The Roughest Draft, Emily Wibberley
• Uprooted, Naomi Novik
• Hello Stranger, Katherine Center
• Maybe in Another Life, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• There There, Tommy Orange
• The Ex Talk, Rachel Lynn Solomon
• Wolfsong (Green Creek #1), T.J. Klune
• The Swallows, Lisa Lutz
• Stay and Fight, Madeline Ffitch
• Mother-Daughter Murder Night, Nina Simon
• The Five-Star Weekend, Elin Hilderbrand
• Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin
• Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues, Jonathan Kennedy
• Understanding Girls with ADHD, Kathleen G. Nadeau
• Bad Summer People, Emma Rosenblum
• Yellowface, R.F. Kuang
• Elevation, Stephen King
• 12 Principles for Raising a Child with ADHD, Russel A. Barkley
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
• Deadbeat Druid (Adam Binder #3), David R. Slayton
• The Guest, Emma Cline
• We Ride Upon Sticks, Quan Barry
• Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang
• Under the Influence, Noelle Crooks
• Zen and the art of writing, Ray Bradbury
• The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning, Peter J. Hotez
• A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers
• Bittersweet (True North #1), Sarina Bowen
• How to Fall Out of Love Madly, Jana Casale
• The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save our Democracy, Katherine M. Gehl
• The Ghosts of Trappist (NeoG #3), K.B. Wagers
• Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall
• Mary, Nat Cassidy
• Look Closer, David Ellis
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, Jocko Willink
• The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
• Tempt Me (The Wolf Hotel #1), Nina West
• Big Swiss, Jen Beagin
• Break Me (The Wolf Hotel #2), Nina West
• Teach Me (The Wolf Hotel #3), Nina West
• Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
• Surrender to Me (The Wolf Hotel #4), Nina West
• Making it So, Patrick Stewart
• The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young
• 99 Percent Mine, Sally Thorne
• The Butcher and the Wren, Alaina Urquhart
• Empire of the Vampire, Jay Kristoff
• The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus #1), Rick Riordan
• Tell Me Three Things, Julie Buxbaum
• The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling
• Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind, Molly McGhee
• The Housemaid, Freida McFadden
• What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew, Sharon Saline
• Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
• The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow
• Funny Story, Emily Henry
• Stone Cold Fox, Rachel Koller Croft
• Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao
• Chlorine, Jade Song
• Blood Like Mine, Stuart Neville
• The Grandest Game, Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Bride, Ali Hazelwood
• None of This Is True, Lisa Jewell
• Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Fredrik Backman
• What Lies in the Woods, Kate Alice Marshall
• Wrong Place Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister
• Just for the Summer, Abby Jimenez
• You Deserve Good Gelato, Kacie Rose
• The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
• Own Me, K.A. Tucker
• Nightmares of My Own: Short Stories, Terra Luft
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear
• Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
• The Best Man’s Ghostwriter, Matthew Starr
• Part of Your World, Abby Jimenez
• The Last Letter from Your Lover, Jojo Moyes
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
• Butcher & Blackbird, Brynne Weaver
• Will They of Won’t They, Ava Wilder
• How to End a Love Story, Yulin Kuang
• Middle of the Night, Riley Sager
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Mandanna
• Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, Michael Harriot
• Leather & Lark, Brynne Weaver
• The Son of Neptune, Rick Riordan
• We Used to Live Here, Marcus Kliewer
• Little Secrets, Jennifer Hillier
• All’s Well, Mona Awad

Books I Read in 2023

• The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson #3), Rick Riordan
• Ready Player Two (Ready Player One #2), Ernest Cline
• The Measure, Nikki Erlick
• the Hawthorn Legacy (Inheritance Games #2), Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• The Charm Offensive, Alison Cochrun
• Love on the Brain, Ali Hazelwood
• Like a Love Story, Abdi Nazemian
• I Liked My Life, Abby Fabiaschi
• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
• Laziness Does Not Exist, Devon Price
• La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust #1), Philip Pullman
• When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill
• The Final Gambit (Inheritance Games #3), Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• The Art of Invisibility, Kevin D. Mitnick
• Behind the Throne (Indranan War #1), K.B. Wagers
• The Last Flight, Julie Clark
• Writing for Emotional Impact, Karl Iglesias
• Archenemies (Renegades #2), Marissa Meyer
• The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell
• Juggling Elephants, Jones Loflin & Todd Musig
• Thank You For Listening, Julia Whelan
• Spare, Prince Harry
• How Will You Measure Your Life?, Clayton M. Christensen
• Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed
• Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi
• One True Loves, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Radiant Sin (Dark Olympus #4), Katee Robert
• Bad Mormom: A Memoir, Heather Gay
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
• Flock (The Ravenhood #1), Kate Stewart
• After the Crown (Indranan War #2), K.B. Wagers
• The Never King, Nikki St. Crowe
• Love and Other Words, Christina Lauren
• Finding Me, Viola Davis
• If He Had Been with Me, Laura Nowlin
• The Getaway, Lamar Giles
• 2,000 to 10,000: How to write faster, write better, and write more of what you love, Rachel Aaron
• Olga Dies Dreaming, Xochitl Gonzalez
• A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
• We Are Not Like Them, Christine Pride
• Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010, Charles Murray
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor
• You Shouldn’t Have Come Here, Jeneva Rose
• My Sinful Nights, Lauren Blakely
• Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, Kerry Patterson
• Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica
• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson #4), Rick Riordan
• The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey
• Spells For Forgetting, Adrienne Young
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
• Fourth Wing (Empyrean #1), Rebecca Yarros
• Cleaning House, Kay Wills Wyma
• The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live, Heather B. Armstrong
• Exodus (Ravenhood #2), Kate Stewart
• The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, A.N. Roquelaure
• My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell
• The Happy Ever After Playlist, Abby Jimenez
• Happy Place, Emily Henry
• Never Have I Ever, Lauren Blakely
• Pageboy, Elliot Page
• Abandon, Blake Crouch
• Hunt the Stars (Starlight’s Shadow #1), Jessie Mihalik
• Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Weyward, Emilia Hart
• Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell
• The Women Could Fly, Megan Giddings
• Wilder Girls, Rory Power
• The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias
• Camp Damascus, Chuck Tingle
• The Broken Darkness, Theresa Braun
• Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste
• Do Hard Things, Steve Magness
• The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw
• This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar
• The Pallbearers Club, Paul Tremblay
• A Very Typical Family, Sierra Godfrey
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman
• Ocean’s Echo, Everina Maxwell
• Jar of Hearts, Jennifer Hillier
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
• Love Life, Rob Lowe
• Bunny, Mona Awad
• Wish You Were Here, Jodi Picoult
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six, Lisa Unger
• Motherthing, Ainslie Hogarth
• Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe
• It’s Not Summer Without You (Summer #2), Jenny Han
• Wool, Hugh Howey
• Story of a Girl, Sara Zarr
• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson
• The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young
• Every Summer After, Carley Fortune
• Tell Me Lies, Carola Lovering
• Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
• We’ll Always Have Summer (Summer #3), Jenny Han
• Iron Flame , Rebecca Yarros
• The Woman in Me, Britney Spears
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins
• The Lonely Hearts Book Club, Lucy Gilmore
• Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
• Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, Rachel Maddow
• Black Tide, K.C. Jones
• Love, Theoretically, Ali Hazelwood
• Funny You Should Ask, Elissa Sussman
• Icebreaker, Hannah Grace
• Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh
• All That’s Left in the World, Erik J. Brown
• One Dark Window, Rachel Gillig
• An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir
• Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
• In the Lives of Puppets, T.J. Klune
• No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results, Cy Wakeman
• Crying In H Mart, Michelle Zauner

Books I Read in 2022

• The Book of Accidents, Chuck Wendig
• Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
• People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry
• The Egg and Other Stories, Andy Weir
• Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski
• Recursion, Blake Crouch
• The Bromance Book Club (Bromance Book Club #1), Lyssa Kay Adams
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth
• Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Live, Susan David
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reed
• How Women Rise, Sally Helgesen
• The Child (Kate Waters #2), Fiona Barton
• Billy Summers, Stephen King
• The Shadows, Alex North
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls #1), Hank Green
• Beautiful World, Where are You, Sally Rooney
• Dark and Shallow Lies, Ginny Myers Sain
• A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls #2), Hank Green
• Will, Will Smith
• Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz
• The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson
• 1984, George Orwell
• Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1), Talia Hibbert
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks
• Dare to Lead, Brené Brown
• A Pale Light in the Black (NeoG #1), K.B. Wagers
• How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them, Barbara F. Walter
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
• Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters #2), Talia Hibbert
• The 7 Secrets of the Prolific: The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Writer’s Block, Hillary Rettig
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson
• Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters #3), Talia Hibbert
• Perfectly Undone, Jamie Raintree
• The Lighting Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1), Rick Riordan
• Utah’s Best Poetry and Prose 2022, League of Utah Writers
• It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover
• Aurora Blazing (Consortium Rebellion #2), Jessie Mihalik
• The Last Thing She Told Me, Linda Green
• The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood
• The Awakening, Caroline Peckham
• The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
• Chaos Reigning (Consortium Rebellion #3), Jessie Mihalik
• November 9, Colleen Hoover
• This is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
• The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune
• The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol 1: At the Edge of Empire, Daniel Kraus
• Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
• The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey
• Neon Gods (Dark Olympus #1), Katee Robert
• Permanent Record, Edward Snowden
• Rotters, Daniel Kraus (plus a re-read because it was that good!)
• The (Un)Popular Vote, Jasper Sanchez
• The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo
• Rock Paper Scissors, Alice Feeney
• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera
• The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss, Jason Fung
• The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
• Bent Heavens, Daniel Kraus
• I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy
• Verity, Colleen Hoover
• Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, Robert B. Reich
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward
• All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1), Martha Wells
• A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, Frank Wilczek
• Upgrade, Blake Crouch
• Spells for Forgetting, Adrienne Young
• The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos, Judy Batalion
• Electric Idol (Dark Olympus #2), Katee Robert
• The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson #2), Rick Riordan
• Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey
• Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney
• Hold Fast Through the Fire (NeoG #2), K.B. Wagers
• All Boys Aren’t Blue, George M. Johnson
• The Atlas Six (The Atlas #1), Olivie Blake
• Say Yes, Elle Kennedy
• The Hating Game, Sally Thorne
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon
• Stuck with You, Ali Hazelwood
• Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
• Upgrade, Blake Crouch
• Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
• Below Zero, Ali Hazelwood
• Fairy Tale, Stephen King
• The Summer I Turned Pretty, Jenny Han
• Beach Reed, Emily Henry
• We Are the Ants, Shaun David Hutchinson
• The Inheritance Games, Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Lies Like Wildfires, Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
• Where I Left Her, Amber Garza
• Wicked Beauty (Dark Olympus #3), Katee Robert
• Under One Roof, Ali Hazelwood
• Renegades, Marissa Meyer
• Lifted: Adventures in Ride Sharing, Jared Quan
• The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
• Bones & All, Camille DeAngelis
• The Anatomy of Story, John Truby
• Writing in the Dark, Tim Waggoner

Books I Read in 2021

• Organizational Culture and Leadership, Edgar H. Schein
• Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
• We Were Liars, E. Lockhart
• Contemporary Business, Louis E. Boone
• Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
• Leaving Time, Jodi Picoult
• The Winter People, Jennifer McMahon
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Night Swim, Megan Goldin
• Second Skin, Christian White
• Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), Leigh Bardugo
• A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals #1), Alyssa Cole
• Queen’s Peril, E.K. Johnston
• When You Find Me, P.J. Vernon
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
• That Inevitable Victorian Thing, E.K. Johnston
• The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany, Lori Nelson Spielman
• Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
• Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk about How to Do It Right, Linda K. Trevino
• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily Nagoski
• The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
• Queen’s Shadow, E.K. Johnston
• Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate
• The Year We Fell Down (The Ivy Years, #1), Sarina Bowen
• A Duke by Default (Reluctant Royals #2), Alyssa Cole
• The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1), N.K. Jemisin
• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie
• The Flight Girls, Noelle Salazar
• The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah
• The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Tevis
• Change Management and Innovation, MindEdge Inc.
• The Afterward, E.K. Johnston
• Unfuck Your Boundaries: Build Better Relationships Through Consent, Communication and Expressing Your Needs, Faith G. Harper
• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
• Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living, Jes Baker
• Magic Hour, Kristin Hannah
• Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program the Works, Evelyn Tribole
• It’s Not All Downhill From Here, Terry McMillan
• The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner
• Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage, Arthur A. Thompson Jr.
• The Power, Naomi Alderman
• Radicalized, Cory Doctorow
• Not the Girls You’re Looking For, Amina Mae Safi
• The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen Trilogy, #1), Signe Pike
• Tom Clancy’s The Division: Hearts on Fire, Kc Wayland
• Aetherbound, E.K. Johnston
• Little Brother (Little Brother, #1), Cory Doctorow
• Forty Acres, Dwayne Alexander Smith
• The Hiding Place, C.J. Tudor
• When We Believed in Mermaids, Barbara O’Neal
• Restless, William Boyd
• On the Beach, Nevil Shute
• The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher
• The Scent Keeper, Erica Bauermeister
• Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
• Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell
• Boyfriend Material (Boyfriend Material #1), Alexis Hall
• One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston
• Trailer Park Trickster (Adam Binder #2), David R. Slayton
• The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
• The Guest List, Lucy Foley
• Peeps (Peeps #1), Scott Westerfeld
• Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam
• Cytonic (Skyward #3), Brandon Sanderson
• Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
• In Five Years, Rebecca Serle
• Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
• Devil Versus Alpha (The Millennium Wolves #1)
• Ghosted Soul (The Millennium Wolves #2)
• The Vanishing Falf, Brit Bennett
• Ravel, Cassidy Ward
• The Wife Upstairs, Freida McFadden
• Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive #2.5), Brandon Sanderson
• Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, Max Brooks

Books I Read in 2020

• The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
• A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1), Arkady Martine
• One Small Sacrifice (Shadows of New York, #1), Hilary Davidson
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• The Minimalist Way: Minimalism Strategies to Declutter Your Life and Make Room for Joy, Erica Layne
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
• Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1), Neal Shusterman
• Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
• Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2), Neal Shusterman
• The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3), Neal Shusterman
• Trail of Broken Wings, Sejal Badani
• The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel, Erin Macdonald
• Tell Me Lies, J.P. Pomare
• November Road, Lou Berney
• The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott
• Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story, K.M. Weiland
• ITIL Service Transition, Cabinet Office
• The City We Became (Great Cities #1), N.K. Jemisin
• Write Naked: A Bestseller’s Secrets to Writing Romance & Navigating the Path to Success, Jennifer Probst
• Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
• Bird Box (Bird Box, #1), Josh Malerman
• Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone, Brené Brown
• How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
• Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones
• The Mountain and the Sea, Kwame Dawes
• Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues, Molly Harper
• Starsight (Skyward #2), Brandon Sanderson
• The Whisper Man, Alex North
• By Virtue Fall, Bryan Young et all
• City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
• Mindtap Business Communications, Mary Ellen Guffey
• The Institute, Stephen King
• The Roommate, Dervla McTiernan
• Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1), Tamsyn Muir
• Managing Human Capital, Jean M. Phillips
• The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen (re-read)
• The Decision: Overcoming Today’s BS for Tomorrow’s Success, Kevin Hart
• The Forgetting Time, Sharon Guskin
• The Outsider, Stephen King
• White Trash Warlock, David R. Slayton
• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box, The Arbinger Institute
• As Bright as Heaven, Susan Meissner
• Leadership 2.0, Travis Bradberry
• Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust, Edgar H. Schein
• Feed, M.T. Anderson
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• The Cuckoo’s Cry, Caroline Overington
• BattleTech: Honor’s Gauntlet (BattleTech Novel), Bryan Young
• The Conception of Terror: Tales Inspired by M. R. James – Volume 1, M.R. James
• Ink, Jonathan Maberry
• The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
• Mars One, Jonathan Maberry
• King of Sting: The Story of Australian Conman Peter Foster, Justin Armsden
• Silverswift, Natalie Lloyd
• Evil Eye, Madhuri Shekar
• Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2), Tamsyn Muir

Books I Read in 2019

• Where Should We Begin: The Arc of Love, Esther Perel
• The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1), Patrick Ness
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Power Moves: Lessons from Davos, Adam M. Grant
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
• Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, Mark Manson
• Brave, Rose McGowan
• The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, Lex Williford (editor)
• Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane, Brett King
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
• The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
• 2018 Associated Press Stylebook, Associated Press
• McGraw-Hill’s Proofreading Handbook, Laura Killen Anderson
• This is PR: The Realities of Public Relations, Doug Newsom
• Out of My Mind, Alan Arkin
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
• The Last Days of August, Jon Ronson
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, Dr. Brene’ Brown
• Sometimes I Lie, Alice Feeney
• Lucky Suit, Lauren Blakely
• Educated, Tara Westover
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts., Dr. Brené Brown
• The 3-Day Effect, Florence Williams
• Profit First, Mike Michalowicz
• Mala, Melinda Lopez
• I, Jedi, Michael Stackpole
• Social Media for Writers, Tee Morris & Pip Ballantine
• Create Your Writer Platform, Chuck Sambuchino
• Social Media Communication, Jeremy H. Lipschultz
• Becoming, Michelle Obama
• Eat Fat, Get Thin, Mark Hyman
• The Murder House, James Patterson
• It’s Not What It Looks Like, Molly Burke
• The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders, Michael D. Watkins
• Skyward, Brandon Sanderson
• The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
• I Know Who You Are, Alice Feeney
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert
• Three-Fifths, John Vercher
• Organizational Behavior, Talya Bauer
• Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel, Lisa Cron
• We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
• Stillhouse Lake, Rachel Caine
• The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling
• The Ninja Daughter, Tori Eldridge
• The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon, Todd Zwillich
• Polaris Rising, Jessie Mihalik
• Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn
• Sleeping Beauties, Stephen King & Owen King

Books I Read in 2018

• It Came From the Great Salt Lake: A Collection of Utah Horror, K. Scott Forman (editor)
• Monster Hunter Alpha (Monster Hunter International #3), Larry Correia
• Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty
• Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Malone Scott
• Artemis, Andy Weir
• Personality: Theory and Research, Cervone
• Henry V, William Shakespeare
• Sonnets, William Shakespeare
• Macbeth, William Shakespeare
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
• The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
• Twelfth Night, William Shakespear
• Flipped, Wendelin Van Draanen
• What Immortal Hand, Johnny Worthen
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• Hamlet, William Shakespear
• Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal
• Rot & Ruin, Jonathon Maberry
• Shadow and Bone (The Grisha Trilogy #1),
• Red Clocks, Leni Zumas
• Wonder, R.J. Palacio
• Feed, Mira Grant
• Love on Location, September Roberts
• American War, Omar El Akkad
• Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture, Stanley J. Baran
• Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach, Curt R. Bartol, Anne M Barton
• The Code Red Revolution: How Thousands of People are Losing Weight and Keeping it off Without Pills, Shakes, Diet Foods, or Exercise, Cristy Code Red Nikel
• The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
• Human Evolution and Culture: Highlights of Anthropology, Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Peter N. Peregrine
• Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction, Kristin Denham, Ann Lobeck
• The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
• The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
• Playing Big: The Unsexy Truth About How to Succeed in Business, Kim Flynn
• Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer
• Authority, Jeff Vandermeer
• Acceptance, Jeff Vandermeer
• The Raven Boys – Maggie Stievater
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• Design Solutions – Robin Landa
• The Dream Thieves, Maggie Stievater
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gillman
• The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker
• Tear Me Apart, J.T.Ellison
• The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1), Mary Robinette Kowal
• Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
• The Devil’s Only Friend (John Cleaver #4), Dan Wells
• Literary Theory: The Basics, Hans Bertens
• A Cold and Lonely Place, Sara J. Henry
• Midnight Riot, Ben Aaronovitch
•  New Family Values, Andrew Solomon

Books I Read in 2017

• I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid
• Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
• Enchantress from the Stars, Sylvia Engdahl *didn’t finish*
• The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
• 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories, Heidi Pitlor (editor)
• The Book of Joy, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
• First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham
• IT, Stephen King
• The Real World: Introduction to Sociology, Kerry Ferris
• A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
• Unwind (Unwind #1), Neal Shusterman
• The Art of Writing Fiction, Andrew Cowan
• A Grown Up Kind of Pretty, Joshilyn Jackson
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
• The Lie that Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction, John Dufresne
• A Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire #1), George R.R. Martin
• A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
• Sustainable Energy, Jefferson W. Tester
• Introduction to Mythology, Eva Thury
• Finders Keepers, Stephen King
• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
• Bluescreen (Mirador #1), Dan Wells
• Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult
• Service Fanatics, James Merlino M.D.
• Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
• The College Handbook of Creative Writing, Robert DeMaria
• Red Queen (Red Queen #1), Victoria Aveyard
• Dark Matter, Blake Crouch
• Pope Joan, Donna Woolfolk Cross
• The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower #7), Stephen King

Books I Read in 2016

• Song of Suzannah (The Dark Tower #6), Stephen King
• Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower #5), Stephen King
• Jewel, Bret Lott
• The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
• Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4), Stephen King
• Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, Emily Carpenter
• The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3), Stephen King
• The Passenger, Lisa Lutz
• The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2), Stephen King
• The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1), Stephen King
• The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn #6), Brandon Sanderson
• Vicious, V.E. Schwab
• Keep Quiet, Lisa Scottoline
• David (The Unseen #3), Johnny Worthen
• The Dark, James Herbert
• A Walk In the Woods, Bill Bryson
• Calamity (The Reckoners #3), Brandon Sanderson
• Yellow Crocus, Laila Ibrahim
• Strangers, Michaelbrent Collins
• Living the Secular Life, Phil Zuckerman
• The Tell Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
• Shadow of the Wind (Cemetary of Forgotten Books #1), Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku
• Shadows of Self (Mistborn #5), Brandon Sanderson
• The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stephen King
• Waiting for Sunrise, Eva Marie Everson
• Old Scratch and Owl Hoots: A Collection of Utah Horror, short story collection
• The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
• The Finger Trap, Johnny Worthen
• Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill

Books I Read in 2015

• The Innocent, Harlan Coben
• The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
• The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Laroux
• The Good Girl, Mary Kubica
• The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
• Birthmarked, Caragh M. O’Brien
• All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• The Fold, Peter Clines
• The Paper Magician, Charlie N. Holmberg
• Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson
• Mao’s Last Dancer, Li Cunxin
• Mr Mercedes, Stephen King
• Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
• Celeste, The Unseen #2, Johnny Worthen (ARC)
• The Wise Man’s Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2), Patrick Rothfuss
• Altered Perceptions, short stories to benefit mental health
• The Brand Demand, Johnny Worthen
• Bog Child, Siobhan Dowd
• ITIL Service Strategy
• The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman
• The Archangel Agenda, A.K. Alexander & Jen Greyson
• Cutting For Stone, Abraham Verghese
• Firefight, Brandon Sanderson
• Pretty Things, Christine Haggerty

Books I Read in 2014

• Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology, Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowall, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler
• Insurgent, Veronica Roth
• Revival, Stephen King
• The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
• The Martian, Andy Weir
• ITIL Continual Service Improvement
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
• The Giver, Lois Lowry
• Heart of Annihilation, C.R. Asay
• Mitosis, Brandon Sanderson
• Suspect, Robert Crais
• The End of Dieting, Joel Fuhrman
• The Colony: Renegades, Michealbrent Collings
• Divergent, Veronica Roth
• Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth
• Plot and Structure, James Scott Bell
• Monster Hunter Vendetta, Larry Correia
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
• ITIL Service Operation
• Second Firsts, Christina Rasmussen
• Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
• The Shining, Stephen King
• Copper Descent (ARC), Angela Hartley
• Heft, Liz Moore
• Monster Hunter International, Larry Correia
• The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
• The Circle, Dave Eggers
• NOS4A2, Joe Hill
• Eleanor, Johnny Worthen (ARC)
• The Colony: Genesis, Michealbrent Collings
• In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, Irene Gut Opdyke
• Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson
• Beatrysel, Johnny Worthen
• A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer
• Wild, Cheryl Strayed
• The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson
• Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell
• These Is My Words, Nancy E. Turner
• The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor