It’s that time of year again. As my birthday rolls to a close here is my list of books that I read over the past year. I don’t know if it was harder that 34. I paced myself a bit better and only crammed in three books this week. Last year it was 7 I think. So hopefully that means I am improving and also that I am reading more and wasting less time…? One can only hope. I have already started War and Peace and Ulysses for next year…We’ll see if they even make it on the list of 36. Big ambitions! Anyway here’s this year’s list. Any suggestions for next year?

1. Till We have Faces by C. S. Lewis
2. The Lion, Witch & Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
3. Shaken by Tim Tebow
4. Watership Down by Richard Adams
5. The Horse & His Boy by C. S. Lewis
6. Alice by Christina Henry
7. Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
8. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
9. All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
10. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
11. Hope Heals by Jay & Katherine Wolfe
12. The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman
13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
14. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
15. At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
16. Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur
17. The little book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
18. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier
19. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
20. The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn
21. The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
22. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
23. The Year of Living Danishly by Hellen Russell
24. This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
25. The Giver by Lois Lowry
26. Son by Lois Lowry
27. Messenger by Lois Lowry
28. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
29. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
30. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
31. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
32. Of Mess & Moxie by Jen Hatmaker
33. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
34. Emma by Jane Austen
35. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

If you want to see a mostly complete list for the past few years (beginning around 2014, click here)