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How Beautiful the Beloved
by Gregory Orr
3.8/5

The Blessing
by Gregory Orr
3.7/5

Several Short Sentences About Writing
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
4.3/5

Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
4.4/5

Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
4/5

Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
4.2/5

The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write
by Gregory Orr
4.8/5

The War of Art
by Steven Pressfield

November 2019

Fire Sermon
by Jamie Quatro

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
4.7/5

Dementia
Living in the Memories of God
by John Swinton
4.5/5

The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
4.4/5

October 2019

River Teeth
by David James Duncan
3.8/5

A Door in the Ocean
by David McGlynn
3.8/5

Bangkok Wakes to Rain
by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
3.7/5

September 2019

Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit
3.7/5

Mockinjay
by Suzanne Collins (with the boys)
3.5/5

Housekeeping
by Marilyn Robinson
3.9/5

August 2019

Love in a Dish…and Other Culinary Delights
by M.F.K Fisher
3.9/5

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4.5/5

Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins (with the boys)
3.7/5

July 2019

In Another Time
by Jillian Cantor
3.8/5

The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins (with the boys)
3.9/5

Turtles All the Way Down
by John Green
3.8/5

The River
by Peter Heller
4.2/5

June 2019

My Name is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
4.5/5

Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
(with the boys)
3.7/5

This I Know
by Eldonna Edwards
3.7/5

The Towers of Trebizond
by Rose Macaulay
3.6/5

May 2019

The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
3.5/5

Harry Potter & the Cursed Child
by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany
3.9/5

Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
3.7/5

April 2019

The Giver
by Lois Lowry (with the boys)
4.5/5

The Stranger in the Woods
by Michael Finkel
4/5

Where the Crawdads Sings
by Delia Owens
3.8/5

March 2019

The Fishermen
by Chigozie Obioma
4.2/5

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
by JK Rowling
(with the boys)
4.7/5

Going to Meet the Man
by James Baldwin
4.5/5

Submission
by Michel Houellebecq
2.9/5

February 2019

The Light of the World
by Elizabeth Alexander
4.7/5

I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow
by Jonathan Goldstein
3.8/5

The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
4.2/5

The Water Cure
by Sophie Mackintosh
3.5/5

January 2019

Motherhood
by Sheila Heti
4/5

Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
by J.K. Rowling
(with the boys — RIP Dumbledore)
4/5

Sunshine State
by Sarah Gerard
3.2/5

Heavy
by Kiese Laymon
4/5

I Watched You Disappear
by Anya Krugovoy Silver
4.5/5

Virgil Wander
by Leif Enger
4.3/5

Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
3.5/5

December 2018

Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
4.5/5

She Would Be King
by Wayétu Moore
4.4/5

November 2018

Tell Me More
by Kelly Corrigan
3.5/5

Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
by J.K. Rowling
(with the boys)
4/5

The Blessings
by Elise Juska
3.7/5

October 2018

Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks
3.9/5

American Savage 
by Dan Savage
3.7/5

September 2018

Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
3.6/5

Strangers Tend To Tell Me Things
by Amy Dickinson
2.5/5

My Brother
by Jamaica Kincaid
3.5/5

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
by Hanif Abdurraqib
4.7/5

Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
3/5

Still Life
by Louise Penny
3.1/5

August 2018

Carnal Acts
by Nancy Mairs
4.3/5

Changing My Mind
by Zadie Smith
4/5

The Woman in the Window
by A.J. Finn
3.4/5

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
by JK Rowling
(with the boys)
4.2/5

House of Broken Angels
by Luis Alberto Urrea
4.5/5

July 2018

The Changeling
by Victor LaValle
4.2/5

Calypso
by David Sedaris
3.9/5

June 2018

Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
4.4/5

Laurus
by Eugene Vodolazkin
3.5/5

May 2018

Educated
by Tara Westover
4.1/5

Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
by JK Rowling
(with the boys)
4.6/5

Winter Kept Us Warm
by Anne Raeff
3/5

What is The Bible? 
by Rob Bell
4.2/5

The Widow
by Fiona Barton
3.6/5

Men We Reaped
by Jesmyn Ward
4.2/5

A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeiline L’Engle
3.2/5

Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
by JK Rowling
(with the boys)
4/5

April 2018

The Immortalists
by Chloe Benjamin
4.1/5

The Child
by Fiona Barton
3.6/5

Wonder
by R.J. Palacio
4.0/5

Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3.2/5

March 2018

Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone
by JK Rowling
(with the boys)
4.6/5

The Anatomy of Dreams
by Chloe Benjamin
3.1/5

February 2018

Lit 
by Mary Karr
3.6/5

The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
4.4/5

The Last Battle
by C.S. Lewis (with the boys)
3.9/5
(the last two chapters of this one really bumped the rating up)

An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
3.9/5

The Fifth Season
by N.K. Jemisin
4/5

The Silver Chair
by C.S. Lewis (with the boys)
3/5

January 2018

The House of  Unexpected Sisters
by Alexander McCall Smith
2.9/5

Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
3.9/5

Voyage of the Dawn Treader
by C.S. Lewis (with the boys)
3.2/5

The Long Goodbye
by Meghan O’Rourke
4.2/5

Death Wore White
by Jim Kelly
3.7/5

December 2017

Beloved Poison
by E.S. Thomson
3.4/5

November 2017

Goodbye, Vitamin
by
Rachel Khong
3.9/5

Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate
3.4/5

Hunger
by Roxane Gay
4.2/5

October 2017

Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
4.4/5

The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
4.6/5

Cry, The Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
4.7/5

September 2017

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (with the boys)
by CS Lewis
4.1/5

The Child Finder
by Rene Denfeld
3.8/5

Honest to God
by John A. T. Robinson
4.7/5

A Life in Parts
by Bryan Cranston
3.6/5

The Magician’s Nephew  (with the boys)
by C.S. Lewis
4.4/5

August 2017

The Untold
by Courtney Collins
4/5

Between Them – Remembering My Parents
by Richard Ford
3.5/5

The Rules Do Not Apply
by Ariel Levy
3.4/5

Career of Evil
by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)
3.9/5

July 2017

Moonglow
by Michael Chabon
3.4/5

Belong to Me
by Marisa de los Santos
3.2/5

June 2017

Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
4.4/5 

May 2017

The Silkworm
by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)
3.9/5

April 2017

Underground Airlines
by Ben Winters
3.7/5

Love Warrior
by Glennon Melton
4.2/5

Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah
4/5

March 2017

Hillbilly Elegy
by J.D. Vance
3.5/5 

The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein
3.5/5

The Road Back to You
by Cron & Stabile
4.2/5 

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
3.5/5

February 2017

Homegoing 
by Yaa Gyasi
4.4/5

The Weight of Water
by Anita Shreve
3.5/5

God Laughs and Plays
by David James Duncan
4.7/5

Shrill — Notes from a Loud Woman
by Lindy West
3.9/5

January 2017

A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
4.1/5

Green Island
by Shawna Yang Ryan
3.9/5

December 2016

Brain on Fire  
by Susannah Cahalan
4.2/5

City of Thieves
by David Benioff
4.1/5

Book Posts

God Laughs & Plays
The Sympathizer
We Need New Names
The Chosen
Americanah
The Brothers K
A House in the Sky
My Top 10 Books
The Good Earth
Novels & Other Stories
Between the World & Me – Quotable

2016 NBAs

As in, Nance’s Book Awards — click here.