Book List of recently read books

Here are a list of the books I've read recently, some good, some really good, and some, well, not as good as I would have liked, but you might like them.  Happy Reading.

1. A Midcoast Murder – Stephen Stanley*****
2. Abide with Me – Elizabeth Strout*****
3. Aimless Love – Billy Collins – Poetry
4. Any Bitter Thing – Monica Wood  *****
5. Bridge of Sighs – Richard Russo  *****
6. Carthage – Joyce Carol Oates  *****
7. Chestnut Street – Maeve Binchy (short stories)
8. Empire Falls – Richard Russo  *****
9. Ernie’s Ark – Monica Wood  *****
10. Etched in Sand – Regina Calcaterra (a memoir)  *****
11. Fin and Lady – Cathleen Schine (set in the 60s)
12. Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman – Short Stories
13. Freeman – Leonard Pitts, Jr.
14. High Lonesome, New & Selected Stories – Joyce Carol Oates
15. I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had – Tony Danza
16. Innocence – Dean Koontz
17. Light Between Oceans – M. L. Stedman  *****
18. Lydia – Brian Willson
19. Madd Addam – Margaret Atwood (Book 3 of trilogy)
20. Mudwoman – Joyce Carol Oates  *****
21. Object Lesson – The Paris Review (short stories)
22. One-Way Bridge – Cathie Pelletier – fun story of life in northern ME *****
23. Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline *****
24. Pigs Can’t Swim – Helen Peppe (a memoir)*****
25. Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea – Morgan Callan Rogers (MHS Grad) *****
26. Riding the Tiger – Milena Banks – historical fiction
27. Stone Mattress, Nine Tales – Margaret Atwood – short stories
28. Tenth of December – George Saunders – Short Stories
29. The Bartender’s Tale – Ivan Doig *****
30. The Book of Jonas – Stephen Dau
31. The Bookman’s Tale – Charlie Lovett *****
32. The Burgess Boys – Elizabeth Strout *****
33. The English Teacher – Lily King *****
34. The Leftovers – Tom Perrotta
35. The Light Between Oceans – M. L. Stedman *****
36. The Lincoln Deception – David O. Stewart
37. The Mill River Recluse – Darcie Chan
38. The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman *****
39. The Orchardist – Amanda Coplin *****
40. When We Were the Kennedys – Monica Wood (a memoir) *****
41. Julia - Peter Straub
42. The Story I Want to Tell, Explorations in the Art of Writing - The Telling Room (student & professional writers)
43. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro *****
44. A Year After Henry - Cathie Pelletier *****
45. The Blessings - Elise Juska
46. The Furies - Natalie Haynes
47. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman *****
48. The Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George
49. New and Selected Poems - Marjory Wentworth
50. The State We're In, Maine Stories - Ann Beattie (short stories)
51. I am No One You Know - Joyce Carol Oates (short stories)
52. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You she's Sorry - Fredrik Backman -*****
53. Eve - Wm. Paul Young - *****
54. The Witches: Salem, 1692 - Stacy Schiff (Nonfiction)
55. The Heart Goes Last: A Novel - Margaret Atwood - *****
56. The Secret Life of Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus - K. C. McKinnon (Cathie Pelletier) Buy online at www.Ethelbooks.com - *****
57. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - *****
58. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin - *****
59. Ashley Bell - Dean Koontz - *****
60. Did You Ever Have a Family - Bill Clegg - *****  
61. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah - *****
62. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald - *****
63. Written on My Heart - Morgan Callan Rogers - *****
64. My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout - ***** 
65. Honeydew - Edith Pearlman - (short stories)
66. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi  (Non-fiction) - *****
67. The Given World - Marian Plaia
68. The One in a Million Boy - Monica Wood - *****
69. Brit-Marie Was Here - Fredrick Backman - *****
70. The Life of Elves - Muriel Barbery
71. In the Unlikely Event - Judy Blume - *****
72. The Underground Railroad - *****
73. A Voice in the Tide - Nancy Shappell *****
74. Crane Pond - Richard Francis - *****
75. The Mothers - Brit Bennett - *****
76. The Tattooed Girl - Joyce Carol Oates - *****
77. The Zookeepers Wife - Diane Ackerman*****
78. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - Fredrick Backman *****
79. This House is Mine - Dorte Hanson - *****
80. The Second Mrs. Hockaday - Susan Rivers - *****
81. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis - 
82. The Shack - Wm. Paul Young - *****
83. Twenty Four Eyes - Sakae Tsuboi - *****
84. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - *****
85. The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi - *****
86. a piece of the world - Christina Baker Kline - *****
87. Setting Free the Kites - Alex George - *****
88. Miller's Valley - Anna Quindlen - *****
89. The Women in the Castle - Jessica Shattuck - *****
90. Beartown - Fredrick Backman - *****
91. Anything is Possible - Elizabeth Strout - *****
92. The Orphan's Tale - Pam Jenoff - *****
93. Once, in Lourdes - Sharon Solwitz - *****
94. Grief Cottage  - Gail Godwin
95. Future Home of the Living God - Louise Erdrich - *****
96. To Die in Spring - Ralf Rothmann - *****
97. The Ninth Hour - Alice McDermott - *****
98. Heart Spring Mountain - Robin MacArthur - *****
99. Fly Away  - Kristin Hannah - *****
100. The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah - *****
101. The City Where We Once Lived - Eric Barnes - *****
102. LaRose - Louis Erdrich - ****
103. The View From Here: Craft, Community, and the Creative Process - Stuart Kestenbaum *****
104. Paris by the Book - Liam Callahan *****
105. The Crossing - Jason Mott *****
106. The Deal of a Lifetime - Fredrick Blackman *****
107. Us Against Them - Fredrick Blackman *****
108. Hag - Kathleen Kaufman *****
109. A Shout in the Ruins - Kevin Powers *****
110. The book of Dreams - Nina George *****
111. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood *****
112. Chances Are ... - Richard Russo *****
113. Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout *****
114. Little French Bistro - Nina George *****
115. Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis *****
116. Women in the Castle - Jessica Shattuck *****
117. The Year of Living Danishly - Helen Russell
118. The Paris Library  - Janet Skeslien Charles
119. The Four Wings - Kristin Hannah - *****
120. How to Love a Country - Poetry - Richard Blanco - *****
121. Mrs. God - Peter Straub - *****
122. The Juniper Tree - Peter Straub 
123. Kindest Regards - Poetry - Ted Kooser - *****
124. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Anne Barrows *****
125. Everything Comes Next  - Poetry - Naomi Shihab Nye *****
126. Beneficence - Meredith Hall *****
127. Chances Are - Richard Russo *****
128. We Should All be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *****
129. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *****
130. All New People - Anne Lamott *****
131. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig *****
132. The Stranger in the Lifeboat - Mitch Albom *****
133. Some Months in 1968 - Baron Wormser *****
134. Landslide - Susan Conley *****
135. The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
136. The Slynx - Tatyana Tolstaya *****
137. The Night Ship - Jess Kidd ***** 
138. The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks - Shauna Robinson
139. Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng *****
140. Night of the Living Res - Morgan Talty
141. Prophet Song - Paul Lynch 
142. How to Read a Book: A Novel - Monica Wood  *****
143. Clear: A Novel - Cary Davies  *****
144. The Women: A Novel - Kristin Hannah *****
145. Somehow: Thoughts on Love - Anne Lamott
146. Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice - Natalie Goldberg
147. Tell Me Everything: A Novel - Elizabeth Strout *****
148. The White Book: A Novel - Han Kang
149. The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters *****
150. The Vegetarian - Han Kang *****
151. James - Percival Everett *****
152. The Blue Hour - Paula Hawkins *****
153. The Life Impossible - Matt Haig *****
154. The Story Collector - Evie Woods *****
155. Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment - Signe Pike *****
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***** - more highly recommend than others.