50 Book Challenge: 2021

 How can it be 2021 already?
Well, I was lucky enough to spend the very first day of 2021 reading....the latest "Lincoln Lawyer" story..... Good luck to you who love to read! I am always open to suggestions!

1. The Law of Innocence--Michael Connelly
2. Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays -- R. Eric Thomas
3. Girl Underwater--Claire Kells
4. The Vacation --T.M. Logan

5. The Chelsea Girls --Fiona Davis

6.  The Address --Fiona Davis

7. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice Not To Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol--Holly Whitaker

8. Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life -- Christie Tate

9. Deep Into The Dark -- P. J. Tracy

10.  Outsider: A Novel of Suspense-- Linda Castillo

11.  The Midnight Library--Matt Haig

12. Before She Disappeared --Lisa Gardner

13. Feels Like Falling --Kristy Woodson Harvey

14. The Dollhouse--Fiona Davis

15. Better Luck Next Time --Julia Claiborne Johnson

16. The Four Winds --Kristin Hannah

17. 29 Seconds --T.M. Logan

18.  Everything After --Jill Santopolo

19. Slightly South of Simple --Kristy Woodson Harvey

20. The Secret To Southern Charm --Kristy Woodson Harvey

21. The Southern Side of Paradise --Kristy Woodson Harvey

22. Bloodline--Jess Loury

23. Concrete Rose --Angie Thomas

24.  More Than Words --Jill Santopolo

25. The Ladies of the Secret Circus --Constance Sayers

26. The Cold Millions --Jess Walter 

27. A Witch in Time --Constance Sayers

28. Every Vow You Break --Peter Swanson

29. The Good Sister--Sally Hepworth

30. People We Meet On Vacation --Emily Henry

31. Mother May I? -- Joshilyn Jackson 

32. The Almost Sisters--Joshilyn Jackson

33. Malibu Rising--Taylor Jenkins Reid

34. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming --Joshilyn Jackson

35. Last Seen --Rick Mofina

36. Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir --Ashley C. Ford

37. Dance Away With Me --Susan Elizabeth Phillips

38.  A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty--Joshilyn Jackson

39. With or Without You--Caroline Leavitt

40. The Opposite of Everyone --Joshilyn Jackson

41. First Star I See Tonight--Susan Elizabeth Phillips

42. The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano --Donna Freitas

43. Three Women --Lisa Taddeo

44.  Never Have I --Joshilyn Jackson

45. Fallen --Linda Castillo

46. Pack Up the Moon--Kristan Higgens

47. Want: A Novel --Lynn Steger Strong

48. Choose Me--Tess Gerritsen & Gary Braver

49. That's Not a Thing--Jacqueline Friedland

50. The Newcomer --Mary Kay Andrews

51. When Stars Collide--Susan Elizabeth Phillips

52.  Finlay Donovan is Killing It-- Elle Cosimano

53. The Soulmate Equation --Christina Lauren

54. Are We There Yet? -- Kathleen West

55. False Witness --Karin Slaughter

56.  That Summer --Jennifer Weiner 

57. Golden Girl --Elin Hilderbrand

58. The Last Thing He Told Me --Laura Dave

59. The Forest of Vanishing Stars--Kristin Harmel

60. Lovely Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love you Want -- Alexandra Solomon

61. The Turnout --Megan Abbott

62. The Story of a Beautiful Girl--Rachel Simon*

63. A Slow Fire Burning --Paula Hawkins

64. Apples Never Fall --Liane Moriarty

65. Blush--Jamie Brenner

66. The Damage--Caitlin Wahrer

67. The Ugly Cry: A Memoir--Danielle Henderson

68. The Saturday Night Ghost Club --Craig Davidson

69. Last Girl Ghosted--Lisa Unger

70. We Are the Brennans--Tracey Lange

71. The Dark Hours--Michael Connelly

72. The Midnight Lock-- Jeffery Deaver

73. Falling: A Novel--T.J. Newman

74. The Sweetness of Water --Nathan Harris

*Re-read

50 Book Challenge: 2020

1:  Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years --Julie Andrews, with Emma Walton Hamilton
2. Know My Name: A Memoir -- Chanel Miller
3. The Secrets We Kept --Lara Prescott
4. The Wives --Tarryn Fisher
5.  Last Day --Luanne Rice
6. Where or When --Anita Shreve
7. When You See Me --Lisa Gardner
8. The Better Liar: A Novel --Tanen Jones
9. Open Book-- Jessica Simpson
10. Big Lies in a Small Town --Diane Chamberlain
11. The Giver of Stars --Jojo Moyes
12. The Wife and the Widow --Christian White
13. Regretting You--Colleen Hoover
14. Eight Perfect Murders--Peter Swanson
15. Untamed--Glennon Doyle
16. The Nowhere Child --Christian White
17. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird--Josie Silver
18. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy,  Paternity, and Love --Dani Shapiro
19. You are Not Alone--Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
20. Faithless--Karin Slaughter
21. Maid: Hard Word, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive--Stephanie Land
22.  The Lookalike -- Erica Spindler
23.  Today Will Be Different --Maria Semple
24. The Last Romantics--Tara Conklin
25. Stories We Never Told -- Sonya Yoerg  (**kindle**)
26. The Red Lotus--Chris Bohjalian
27. Holding Up the Universe--Jennifer Niven
28. The House Girl--Tara Conklin
29.  The Honey Don't List --Christina Lauren
30. Long Bright River --Liz Moor
31. Children of the Land--Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
32. A Woman is No Man --Etaf Rum
33.  American Dirt--Jeanine Cummins
34.  All I Ask--Corinne Michaels
35. I'd Give Anything --Marisa de los Santos
36. Blood Orange--Harriet Tyce
37. My Kind of You (Trillium Bay #1) --Kindle--Tracy Brogan
38. The Lies That Bind--Emily Giffin
39.  The Wife Stalker--Liv Constantine
40. Such a Fun Age--Kiley Reid
41. Always The Last To Know --Kristan Higgins
42. Dear Edward -- Ann Napolitano
43. Big Summer --Jennifer Weiner
44. In Five Years -- Rebecca Serle
45. Party of Two-- Jasmine Guillory
46. What You Wish For -- Katherine Center

47. The Knockout Queen--Rufi Thorpe

48. Fair Warning--Michael Connelly

49. Friends and Strangers --J. Courtney Sullivan

50. The Daughters of Erietown--Connie Schultz

51. Cleaning the Gold --Short Story --Karin Slaughter/Lee Child

52. The Night Swim --Megan Goldin

53. The Other Mrs. --Mary Kubica

54. He Started It --Samantha Downing

55. We Are All The Same In the Dark --Julia Heaberlin

56. High Achiever: the Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life --Tiffany Jenkins

57. The Swap --Robyn Harding 

58. Valentine --Elizabeth Wetmore

59. The Silent Wife --Karin Slaughter

60. One To Watch--Kate Stayman-London

61. The Book of Two Ways: A Novel--Jodi Picoult

62.  The Exiles--Christina Baker Kline

63. The Sweetness of Forgetting--Kristin Harmel

64. The Apple of My Eye: Trusting God's Guidance When We Can't See--Amy Beth Pederson

65. The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes: A Novel --Elissa R. Sloan

66. Lisa Murphy on Play: The Foundation of Children's Learning --Lisa Murphy

67. 28 Summers --Elin Hilderbrand

68. In a Holidaze--Christina Lauren

69. Confessions on the 7:45 --Lisa Unger

70. Black-Eyed Susans--Julia Heaberlin

71. Paper Ghosts--Julia Heaberlin

72. Where the Crawdads Sing--Delia Owens

73. Somewhere in the Dark --R.J. Jacobs

74. Layla--Colleen Hoover

75. Troubles in Paradise --Elin Hilderbrand

76. How Lulu Lost Her Mind --Rachel Gibson

77. One by One --Ruth Ware

78. Sweet Mess--Jayci Lee

79. Luster: A Novel -- Raven Leilani

80. The Lions of Fifth Avenue -Fiona Davis

81. Wolfpack--Abby Wambach

50 Book Challenge: 2019

1. The Guilty Dead-- P.J.  Tracy
2.  The Wife--Alafair Burke
3. The Life Intended -- Kristin Harmel
4. The Sea of Tranquility -- Katja Millay
5. The Woman Inside -- E.G. Scott
6. Verity --Colleen Hoover
7. Watching You-- Lisa Jewell
8. The Guy Who Died Twice -*(Kindle Eshort Story)--Lisa Gardner
9. Dark Sacred Night--Michael Connelly
10. One Day in December --Josie Silver
11. Sold on a Monday --Kristina McMorris
12. The Boy--Tami Hoag
13. Daisy Jones & the Six--Taylor Jenkins Reid
14. The Crooked Street-- Brian Freeman
15. The Accidental Beauty Queen --Teri Wilson
16. Before She Knew Him --Peter Swanson
17. Love and Other Words--Christina Lauren
18. Everything You Want Me To Be --Mindy Mejia
19. Mrs. Fletcher -- Tom Perrotta
20. My Lovely Wife--Samantha Downing
21. Wolfhunter River--Rachel Caine
22. The Proposal --Jasmine Guillory
23. Queenie--Candice Carty-Williams
24. Intercepted--Alexa Martin
25. Never Tell-- Lisa Gardner
26. I Know Who You Are--Alice Feeney
27. When Katie Met Cassidy -- Camille Perri
28. The Unhoneymooners --Christina Lauren
29. Stay Up With Hugo Best--Erin Somers
30. The Better Sister--Alafair Burke
31. The Friends We Keep --Jane Green
32. The Hate U Give--Angie Thomas
33. City of Girls--Elizabeth Gilbert
34. Howard Stern Comes Again--Howard Stern
35. Dear Wife--Kimberly Belle
36. If You Only Knew--Kristan Higgins
37. Recursion: A Novel --Blake Crouch
38. Now That You Mention It--Kristan Higgins
39. Good Luck With That --Kristan Higgins
40. The Night Window--Dean Koontz
41. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home --Tembi Locke
42. On Second Thought --Kristan Higgins
43. All American Boys-- Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely
44. The Nickel Boys--Colson Whitehead
45. Summer of '69 --Elin Hilderbrand
46. Summer People--Elin Hilderbrand
47. The Last Resort--Marissa Stapley
48. The Mother-In-Law--Sally Hepworth
49. Mrs. Everything--Jennifer Weiner
50. Life and Other Inconveniences --Kristan Higgins
51. The Escape Room--Megan Goldin
52. The Last Widow--Karin Slaughter
53. Surfside Sisters--Nancy Thayer
54. Whisper Network--Chandler Baker
55. Shamed--Linda Castillo
56. Things You Save in a Fire--Katherine Center
57. The Wildlands --Abby Geni
58. The Perfect Son--Lauren North
59. Ask Again, Yes --Mary Beth Keane
60. The Murder List--Hank Phillippi Ryan
61. Twice in a Blue Moon-- Christina Lauren
62. The Stranger Inside--Lisa Unger
63. Catch and Kill -- Ronan Farrow
64. Inside out: A Memoir --Demi Moore
65. What Happens in Paradise--Elin Hilderbrand
66.  The Night Olivia Fell -- Christine McDonald
67.  The Night Fire --Michael Connelly
68. Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn't Show Up the Way You Thought He Would? --Pete Wilson

50 Book Challenge: 2018

1.  Little Fires Everywhere --Celeste Ng
2. Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn --Melanie Shankle
3. The New Rules of Marathon and Half-Marathon Nutrition: A Cutting-Edge Plan to Fuel Your Body Beyond ""the Wall"" --Matt Fitzgerald
4. Before We Were Yours--Lisa Wingate
5. The Black Book--James Patterson & David Ellis
6. A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back--Kevin Hazzard
7.  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret --Judy Blume
8. Church of the Small Things: The Million Little Pieces that Make Up a Life--Melanie Shankle
9. The Deep Freeze--John Sanford
10. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane--Lisa See
11. Night Road-- Kristin Hannah
12. An American Marriage--Tayari Jones
13. The Wife Between Us --Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
14. The Woman in the Window-- A.J. Finn
15. Just What Kind of Mother Are you? -- Paula Daly
16.  Seven Days of Us --Francesca Hornak
17. Look For Me--Lisa Gardner
18. White Houses- Amy Bloom
19. Surprise Ending --Kindle Single--Jeffery Deaver
20. Breaking the Silence --Diane Chamberlain
21. Everything Here is Beautiful--Mira T. Lee
22. Sometimes I lie--Alice Feeney
23. All The Beautiful Lies--Peter Swanson
24. Catalina: A Novel--Liska Jacobs
25. The Light We Lost--Jill Santopolo
26. The Great Alone--Kristin Hannah
27. You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories --Curtis Sittenfeld
28. Happiness For Beginners--Katherine Center
29. I'll Be Your Blue Sky--Marisa de los Santos
30. Educated: A Memoir--Tara Westover
31. The Lost Husband --Katherine Center
32. Then She Was Gone --Lisa Jewell
33. The Outsider --Stephen King
34. The Flight Attendant--Chris Bohjalian
35. The Crooked Staircase--Dean Koontz
36.  Florida--Lauren Groff
37. Girl Last Seen--Nina Laurin
38. All We Ever Wanted--Emily Giffin
39. How To Walk Away --Katherine Center
40. The Female Persuasion --Meg Wolitzer
41. Three Days Missing--Kimberly Belle
42. The Perfect Couple --Elin Hilderbrand
43. Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of American's Guilty Pleasure--Amy Kaufman
44. Alter Ego-- Brian Freeman
45. Give Me Your Hand--Megan Abbott
46. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer--Michelle McNamara
47. A Gathering of Secrets --Linda Castillo
48. The Summer Wives--Beatriz Williams
49. Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You are so you can Become Who you are Meant To Be --Rachel Hollis
50. Pieces of Her: A Novel --Karin Slaughter
51. The Perfect Mother--Aimee Molloy
52. The Last Cruise --Kate Christensen
53. The Dream Daughter --Diane Chamberlain
54. The Shortest Way Home--Miriam Parker
55. The Forbidden Door--Dean Koontz
56. A Spark of Light -- Jodi Picoult
57. Our Little Secret --Roz Nay
58. Nine Perfect Strangers--Liane Moriarty
59.  Ghosted--Rosie Walsh
60. Girls Night Out--Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
61. Bird Box --Josh Malerman
62. Vox--Christina Dalcher
63. Winter in Paradise--Elin Hilderbrand
64. The Marriage Pact --Michelle Richmond
65. Under My Skin --Lisa Unger
66. We all Love the Beautiful Girls -- Joanne Proulx
67. Holy Ghost--John Sandford

50 Book Challenge: 2017

1.  The Princess Diarist -- Carrie Fisher
2.  This is Not My Beautiful Life: A Memoir-- Victoria Fedden
3. The Couple Next Door--Shari Lapena
4. The Life We Bury --Allen Eskens
5. Live Bait -- P.J.Tracy
6. Dead Run --P.J. Tracy
7. Behind Closed Doors --B.A. Paris
8. Snow Blind --PJ.Tracy
9. Shoot To Thrill -- PJ Tracy
10.  Love Warrior: A Memoir -- Glennon Doyle Melton
11. The River at Night --Erica Ferencik
12.  The Night Bird- Brian Freeman (Kindle)
13. Her Every Fear--Peter Swanson
14.  Off The Grid--PJ Tracy
15. Right Behind You --Lisa Gardner
16. The Sixth Idea--PJ Tracy
17.  On Turpentine Lane--Elinor Lipman
18.  Never Let You Go --Chevy Stevens
19. Good As Gone -- Amy Gentry
20.  The Marriage Lie-- Kimberly Belle
21.  Abandon --Blake Crouch
22.  Copycat--Erica Spindler
23. Behind Her Eyes -- Sarah Pinborough
24. Breakneck --Erica Spindler
25. The Widow of Wall Street --Randy Susan Meyers
26. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley --Hannah Tinti
27.  Parallel -- Lauren Miller
28.  Ill Will- Dan Chaon
29. Marathon--Brian Freeman
30. The Red Hunter --Lisa Unger
31. Talking as Fast as I Can: --Lauren Graham
32. The Stars are Fire --Anita Shreve
33. The Burial Hour --Jeffery Deaver
34. Saints for All Occasions- J. Courtney Sullivan
35. One Perfect Lie--Lisa Scottoline
36. Most Dangerous Place --James Grippando
37. The Second First Time --Elisa Lorello  (kindle)
38. Marlena --Julie Buntin
39. Matchup --Edited by Lee Childs
40. Into The Water--Paula Hawkins
41. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir --Sherman Alexie
42. Do Not Become Alarmed- Maile Meloy
43. Hunger: A Memoir --Roxane Gay
44. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo --Taylor Jenkins Reid
45. It Happens in the Hamptons --Holly Peterson
46.  Hello, Sunshine: A Novel -- Laura Dave
47.  The Almost Sisters--Joshilyn Jackson
48. The Late Show --Michael Connelly
49. The Arrangement -- Sarah Dunn
50.  The Awkward Age--Francesca Segal
51. Since We Fell- Dennis Lehane
52. Nothing Stays Buried --P.J. Tracy
53.  The Good Daughter --Karin Slaughter
54. The Sunshine Sisters--Jane Green
55. The Silent Corner --Dean Koontz
56. The Identicals --Elin Hilderbrand
57. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine --Gail Honeyman
58. Here and Gone --Haylen Beck
59. Down a Dark Road--Linda Castillo
60. Golden Prey --John Sandford
61. Every Last Lie--Mary Kubica
62. A Piece of the World --Christina Baker Kline
63. Pretending To Dance --Diane Chamberlain
64. I Know a Secret --Tess Gerritsen
65. Winter Solstice --Elin Hilderbrand
66. Stillhouse Lake--Rachel Caine
67. The Other Girl --Erica Spindler
68. Don't Let Go-Harlan Coben
69. The Stolen Marriage --Diane Chamberlain
70. Last Breath--Kindle Single --Karin Slaughter
71. After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search --Sarah Perry
72. I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual--Luvvie Ajayi
73. Running Home- Big-League Wife, Small-Town Story--Alisha Perkins
74. Landline --Rainbow Rowell
75.  The Whispering Room--Dean Koontz
76. Bonfire--Krysten Ritter
77.  Two Kinds of Truth --Michael Connelly
78. Sulfer Springs- William Kent Krueger
79. Killman Creek- Rachel Caine

50 Book Challenge: 2016

1. Sleep Tight --Rachel Abbott (Kindle)
2. Eyes on You --Kate White
3. Playing with Fire --Tess Gerritsen
4. It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History --Jennifer Wright
5. Hush--Kate White
6. The Crossing - Michael Connelly
7.  Esther: A Novel -- Rebecca Kanner
8. Corrupted: A Rosato & DiNunzio Novel--Lisa Scottoline
9. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology --Leah Remini
10.  The Quality of Silence --Rosamund Lupton
11. Maybe in Another Life--Taylor Jenkins Reid
12. Wildflower --Drew Barrymore
13. Fates and Furies --Lauren Groff
14. The Guest Room --Chris Bohjalian
15. The Bitter Season--Tami Hoag
16. Find Her --Lisa Gardner
17. After I Do-Taylor Jenkins Reid
18. Forever, Interrupted: A Novel --Taylor Jenkins Reid
19. The Ex--Alafair Burke
20.  What Alice Forgot --Liane Moriarty  ** Rereading**
21.  The Stranger --Harlan Coben
22. Eligible -- Curtis Sittenfeld
23.  The Steel Kiss- Jeffery Deaver
24. Scar Tissue --Anthony Kiedis & Larry Sloman
25. Spitting Devil (Jonathan Stride Novella)(Kindle) -- Brian Freeman
26. Fool Me Once -- Harlan Coben
27. Turn to Stone --Jonathan Stride short (Kindle) --Brian Freeman
28. Missing You --Harlan Coben
29. Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes --Karin Slaughter (Kindle Single)
30. Sweetbitter --Stephanie Danler
31. Finders Keepers--Stephen King
32. The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir-- Ruth Wariner
33. Don't You Cry-- Mary Kubica
34.  End of Watch --Stephen King
35. Goodbye to the Dead -- Brian Freeman
36. Ink and Bone --Lisa Unger
37. First Comes Love-- Emily Giffin
38. One True Loves --Taylor Jenkins Reid
39. Among the Wicked --Linda Castillo
40. The Passage --Justin Cronin  **(Kindle; Reread)**
41.  Here's to Us --Elin Hilderbrand
42. Wilde Lake --Laura Lippman
43. In Twenty Years-Allison Winn Scotch (Kindle)
44. The Singles Game --Lauren Weisberger (Kindle)
45. Truly Madly Guilty-- Liane Moriarty
46.  Dark Matter --Blake Crouch
47. The Underground Railroad --Colson Whitehead
48.  Falling --Jane Green
49. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness--Susannah Cahalan
50. You Will Know Me-- Megan Abbott
51. Why Not Me? --Mindy Kaling
52.  The Twelve --Justin Cronin (**Kindle; Reread**) (prepping for "City of Mirrors")
53. The Wonder --Emma Donoghue
54. The Evidence Room --Cameron Harvey
55. Winter Storms --Elin Hilderbrand
56. The Trespasser: A Novel-- Tana French
57.  The Kept Woman --Karin Slaughter
58. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo --Amy Schumer
59. Home--Harlan Coben
60.  A Little Thing Called Love: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between -- Linda Thompson
61.  The City of Mirrors--Justin Cronin (Kindle)
62.  The Wrong Side of Goodbye --Michael Connelly
63.  The Status of All Things --Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
64. Small Great Things--Jodi Picoult
65. Monkeewrench--P.J. Tracy (finished as the New Year 2017 started!)