Books

I love to read, especially novels. While I was in law school I didn’t have much time to read for fun–when you’re reading hundreds of pages of cases each night the last thing you want to do after you’ve finished your homework is pick up another book–and when I graduated I just wasn’t in the habit of reading anymore. So last year I decided to set a goal for myself to read 52 books over the course of the year. That’s a book each week. I thought this was pretty ambitious and wasn’t sure I’d be able to do it. Well. Turns out it wasn’t that difficult for me to get back into the habit at all. I read 77 books in 2018.

The number one thing that was responsible for me being able to accomplish my goal was the DC Public Library. When you’re trying to read so many books it can get expensive fast. And it can get heavy fast. The library allowed me to read an amazing number of books for free! And my absolute favorite part o the DC library is their mobile app, Libby. Libby is the library version of the app Overdrive and lets you use your library card to check out ebooks and audiobooks and read/listen to them on your phone, ipad, kindle, or your computer! This was ideal for me since it allowed me to read on my commute to and from work on the metro without adding more weight to my bag. I’d just open to app on my phone and be good to go!

Here are the books I read in 2018, unfortunately these are only titles, I didn’t keep track of the authors in my list last year (I am this year, live and learn). I’ve marked my favorites with a *

1. Chemistry, a novel
2. Gone Girl
3. The Moon and More
4. That Summer
5. Larger Than Life
6. Leaving Time
7. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
8. When Breath Becomes Air
9. What Happened To Goodbye
10. Just Listen
11. The Girls
12. Saint Anything
13. Dreamland
14. Keeping the Moon
15. Between the Lines
16. Once and For All
17. Off the Page
18. This Will Be My Undoing
19. The Language of Flowers*
20. Why Not Me?
21. The Storyteller
22. Text Me When You Get Home
23. Goodbye, Vitamin
24. Garlic & Sapphires*
25. Everything I Never Told You
26. The Truth About Forever
27. Lock and Key
28. The Arrangement
29. My Sister’s Keeper
30. Make Trouble
31. What Happened
32. The Power*
33. Truly Madly Guilty
34. Helter Skelter*
35. Crazy Rich Asians*
36. China Rich Girlfriend
37. Rich People Problems
38. She Regrets Nothing
39. Turtles All The Way Down
40. The Pisces
41. The Assistants*
42. The Girl On The Train
43. The Husband’s Secret
44. What Alice Forgot
45. The Magnolia Story
46. The Child Finder
47. All The Ugly And Wonderful Things
48. What She Knew
49. An American Marriage
50. Tell Me Three Things
51. Into The Water
52. Evicted
53. Girls Burn Brighter*
54. Talking As Fast As I Can
55. The Rules Do Not Apply
56. You Will Know Me
57. Dark Places
58. Pretty Little Liars
59. Flawless
60. I’ll Be Gone In The Dark*
61. Sharp Objects
62. Educated: A Memoir*
63. The Wife Between Us*
64. Cuckoo’s Calling*
65. We Were Liars*
66. Genuine Fraud
67. Watch Me Disappear
68. The Silkworm
69. Career of Evil
70. To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
71. Dare Me
72. The Fever
73. The Mars Room
74. The End of Everything
75. This is How I Leave You
76. Final Girls
77. The Good Girl