I keep a current reading list updated here, but for the past few years, I've been reading:
2011
- Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
- The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
- Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- 29 Gifts: How A Month of Giving Can Change Your Life by Cami Walker
- Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
- My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
- The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace
- Little Bee by Chris Cleave
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- Beautiful Days by Anna Godbersen
- Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity and the Women Who Made America Modern by Joshua Zeitz
2012
- The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
- The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer
- A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes
- Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometimes Adversary by Herbert Breslin
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- The Legacy by Katherine Webb
- I'm A Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
- Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story by Vicki Myron
- Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea Handler et. al.
- The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
- Daughter of the Saints by Dorothy Allred Solomon
- Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
2013
- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
- The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
- The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
- Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
- Freeman by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Insurgent by Veronica Roth
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and their Biblical Roots by Dr. Scott Hahn
- The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark
- Man Up!: Tales of My Delusional Self-Confidence by Ross Mathews
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
- The Flappers: Vixen by Jillian Larkin
- The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman
- The Flappers: Ingenue by Jillian Larkin
- Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God by Dr. Scott Hahn
- The Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polites
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
- Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige hill