Making this list is usually one of my favorite November traditions, but it’s fun in December, too! I’m really looking forward to reading these books this year!
Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding – 
– finished January 2022
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis – – finished January 2022
Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano – – finished January 2022
Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead by Elle Cosimano – – finished February 2022
This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins – – finished January 2022
Violeta by Isabel Allende – – finished January 2022
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak
Getting Clean with Stevie Green by Swan Huntley – 
– finished February 2022
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson – – finished January 2022
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
Dearly Beloved by Ann Patchett
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson – – finished February 2022
After the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport – – finished March 2022
The Prince by Dinitia Smith – – finished March 2022
Freedom by Mike Bond – 
– finished April 2022
Hooker Avenue by Jode Millman – – finished April 2022
Magpie by Elizabeth Day – – finished April 2022
Down to the River by Anne Whitney Pierce – – finished April 2022
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
Hunger by Roxanne Gay
My Only Sunshine by Shannon Jump
Night Tiger by Yangtze Choo
The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel by Abi Dare
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles
My Wife is Missing by DJ Palmer – – finished May 2022
Summer Love by Nancy Thayer – – finished May 2022
Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown – – finished May 2022
From Scratch by Tembi Locke
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Love and Ruin by Paula McClian
Even Though It’s Breaking by Shannon Jump
The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
Valentine: A Novel by Elizabeth Wetmore
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica
Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
The Comeback by Ella Berman
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
The Bucket List by Georgia Clark
Conviction by Denise Mina
Here for it by R. Eric Thomas
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
What are you reading this year? If you’re reading any of these, let me know – we can do a buddy read!! Also, if you’re looking for other reading recommendations, check out previous years’ TBR lists here and here.
