Booklists

Favorites of 2023

The Messenger by Markus Zusak
Devotions by Mary Oliver
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Normal People by Sally Rooney
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Circe by Madeline Miller

Top 10 of All Time

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
The Kite Runner by Khaleid Hosseini
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Messenger by Markus Zusak

2024 Reading List

Fiction

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Non-fiction

Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
Long Life by Mary Oliver

Poetry

The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon
War of the Foxes by Richard Siken
The House of Light by Mary Oliver