What did you read in January?

[ufcasey]

What did your reading list look like last month? Have any favorites?

[tacokick]

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
My Favorite Things by Maira Kalman
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Kill Me Now by Timmy Reed
The Au Pair by Emma Rous
Hippie by Paulo Coelho
Black Sheep by Rory Scholl
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
Me for You by Lolly Winston
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

I liked the Ruth Reichl a lot. Great peek into magazine publishing.

[snshne322]

I had a productive reading month! Some were better than others.


Gathering Darkness - Morgan Rhodes (Reread) ****
Frozen Tides - Morgan Rhodes (Reread) ****
I Have Lost My Way - Gayle Forman ****
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan ***
As Bright as Heaven - Susan Meissner ****
The Perfect Game - J.Sterling **
Hail Mary - Nicola Rendell **
Heartless - Michelle Horst **
Three Dark Crowns - Kendare Blake ***
Diamond Fire - Ilona Andrews ****
Becoming - Michelle Obama ****

11/119

[Vespasia]

Becoming by Michelle Obama (audiobook) - 5*
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny - 3*
A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley -3*

Becoming was definitely my favorite. The other two books were disappointing but not terrible. 

[meowmaps]

Severance by Ling Ma 3-3.5*
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 5*
Becoming by Michelle Obama 4.5*
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan 4.5-4.75*
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung 3.5*
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller 4*

[dontlook]

9/52
1. Becoming by Michelle Obama
2. The tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
3. Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
4. Dark Matter by Blake Couch
5. Until It Fades by KA Tucker
6. Bring me back by BA Paris
7. Two by two by Nicholas Sparks
8. How to walk away by Katherine Center
9. Where the dead sit talking by Brandon Hobson

I really liked Becoming, Dark Matter, Until It Fades and Two by two (the ending was bad but I liked the rest).

I also read a few terrible books this month: Bring me back, How to walk away and Where the dead sit taking.

Tattooist and Barracoon where both good because of the subject matter but I had issues with the format/writing for both.

[minzy]

January was a great reading month, lots of books and many of them were great.

1 In Defense of Food - An Eater’s Manifesto - Michael Pollan - 4 stars
2 Us Against Them - Fredrik Backman - 5 stars
3 Use Less Stuff - Environmental Solutions for Who We Really Are - Robert Lilienfeld and William Rathje - 5 stars
4 The Art of Gathering - How We Meet and Why It Matters - Priya Parker - 4.5 stars
*5 What The Eyes Don’t See - A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City - Mona Hanna-Attisha - 5 stars
6 The Line Becomes A River - Dispatches From The Border - Francisco Cantu - 4 stars
7 Class Mom - Laurie Gelman - 3 stars
8 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 5 stars
9 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling - 5 stars

*So good, go read it!

[sarahswim]

1. The Breakdown (BA Paris)
2. The Good Liar (Catherine McKenzie)
3. The Nest (Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney)
4. Fish in a Tree (Lynda Mullaly Hunt)
5. Wishtree (Katherine Applegate)
6. When Life Gives You Lululemons (Lauren Weisberger)
7. Imperfect Birds (Anne Lamott)
8. A Simple Favor (Darcey Bell)
9. The One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate)
10. Give Me Your Hand (Megan Abbott)

[ufcasey]

This is the most 5 Stars reads I have ever read in a single month. Usually I'm lucky if I get one!

2 Stars
The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2) by Holly Black

2.5 Stars
Rogue Royalty (Savage Trilogy, #3) by Meghan March
The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8) by Louise Penny

3 Stars
Spellbinder Thea Harrison

3.5 Stars
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Rogue Spy by Joanna Bourne
Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

4 Stars
One Day in December by Josie Silver
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
The Lady Most Willing by Julia Quinn

5 Stars*
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy, #3) by Katherine Arden
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

*I recommend all of these!

[pinotgrig]

It was a good month for me, both in quantity (11 books) and quality*! Lots of 3-4 star books this month and one 5 star book (Beartown).
* Save for Into the Water which was exceptionally terrible, lol.

Far From the Tree - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beartown - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
An American Marriage - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journal - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Children of Blood and Bone - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Behind Closed Doors - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Into the Water - ⭐️
Modern Romance- ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chasing Daylight - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[travella]

Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny 4*
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave 4*
Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden 3.5*
The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory, 3.5*
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 2*

[rootbeerfloat]

Juliet Naked, Nick Hornby - 3.5*
All-American Boys, Jason Reynolds - 4*
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, Leah Remini - 3*
Persuasion, Jane Austen - 4*

[mrspez07]

I feel like I’ve been slogging along for the entire month of January. The books from the first part of the month feel like forever ago! I’m going to have to find some easy reads for February.!

My Lady’s Choosing: an interactive novel 2*
Only Time Will Tell 2*
Modern Rainbow: 14 Imaginative Quilts 4*
The Cruelest Month (audio) 4*
You Will Know Me 2*
Running Out of Time (YA?), 4* I read it with my 9yo, very exciting! his first taste of suspense, cliffhangers at the end of each chapter.

[abs]

January was a great reading month for me! I guess getting sick with strep and then mono will give you more reading time, lol!

The first half of the month was better than the last.

Echoes of Scotland Street 4*
Moonlight on Nightingale Way 4*
The Last Mrs. Parrish 3*
Two Can Keep a Secret 3*
Slayer 4*
Winter in Paradise 4*
Winter Street 2*
Smile 5*

I started but did not finish The Hating Game. The writing was so bad! I also started but did not finish I'll Be Gone in the Dark because it gave me nightmares.

[charlatti]

The Current by Tim Johnston, 3.5*
In an Absent a Dream by Seanan McGuire 5* (Wayward Children fantasy series)
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker 4*
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (audio) 4*
When Will There Be Good News? By Kate Atkinson (re-read) 5*
Leave No Trace by Mindy Mejia 3*
Stuck in Manistique by Dennis Cuesta 2*
Becoming by Michelle Obama 5*

Pretty good start to the year!

[dorothyinAus]

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart 4****
Einstein the Lazy Kitty by Renae Rae (not rated, this was a Kindle Freebie I literally read waiting to be called to the desk at the bank)
Withering-by-Sea by Judith Rossell 5*****
Probable Claws by Rita Mae & Sneaky Pie Brown 5*****
Assaulted Caramel by Amanda Flower 3***
All Fudged Up by Nancy Coco 3***
The Math Inspectors #1: The Case of the Claymore Diamond by Daniel Kenny & Emily Boever 4****

Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt was interesting, especially the background on the suffrage movement in both the US and England, but it was a slog of a read.
Withering-by-Sea was fun, and I am anxious to read the next-in-series. It was really cool that the ink on the pages was colored to match the book cover and artwork
Probably Claws was good, and I am really enjoying the historical aspect of the story. I'd really like it if Rita Mae Brown spun that off to its own series.
Assaulted Caramel & All Fudged Up were basically the same book, just in different settings. Neither was a stand-out, and I'm not actively searching for any other books in either series, but it I were, I'd read the Amanda Flower series first. The main character in All Fudged Up was unlikeable.
The Math Inspectors was just a fun read. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.