My 2014 Reading List

I am what you would call a voracious reader. In fourth grade, I read over 500 books. Law school killed my love of reading a bit, but this August, K gave me a Kindle and I can't stop reading. I started making a list of books to read, and then I asked friends for their suggestions, and my list began to grow. Which is great, because one of my goals for 2014 is to read more. There are so many books I haven't read. And because I just love sharing book suggestions, I thought I'd share my epic list with you. Here we go!

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Beautiful Player by Christina Lauren

Bel Canto (P.S.) by Ann Patchett

Envy by Sandra Brown

Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar by Kelly Oxford

Following Jane by Samantha Scordato

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera

Genesis by Bernard Beckett

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro

I Shall Be Near to You: A Novel by Erin Lindsay McCabe

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram

Love Does by Bob Goff and Donald Miller

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Monuments Men by Robert Edsel

Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan

Personal History by Katharine Graham

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore

Six Years by Harlan Coben

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

South of Superior by Ellen Airgood

Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Sycamore Row by John Grisham

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

The Buddha in the Attic by Julia Otsuka

The Circle by Dave Eggers

The English Girl by Daniel Silva

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The House Girl by Tara Conklin

The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Silent Wife by A.S.A Harrison

The Sisterhood by Helen Bryan

The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont

The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Marjorie Williams and Timothy Noah

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Women's Room by Marilyn French

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Until I Say Goodbye by Susan Spencer-Wendel and Bret Witter

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde

With my passion for leadership and gender equality, I've also made a goal to read a feminist book a month. Here's the list I'm working off of:

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Backlash by Susan Faludi

Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong and Fay Weldon

Get to Work by Linda Hirshman

Half The Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Women Who Don't Wait in Line by Reshma Saujani

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Any suggestions to add to my list?

xoxo,

Alex