Reading List Update

It's been almost five months since I created my 2014 Reading List and I thought I'd post a little update. I've read some, strayed from my list a bit, and ready some good books. While I have a ways to go, I feel like I'm off to a good start considering I've been more busy the past couple months than I can remember.

In case you are needing a good book, I thought I'd star the ones I think are worth reading. This is just my opinion. If one of these books changed your life, good! Reading is personal. Sometimes you'll be moved, entertained, bored, or inspired. Each book is different, and I'm loving the journey I'm on this year with my reading list.

* Worth a Read.

** Good Book and Worth Recommending.

*** YES. Must read.

Here we go:

READING NOW

Wild -  Cheryl Strayed

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook - Gary Vaynerchuk

Daring Greatly - Brene Brown

READ

The Circle by Dave Eggers *
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed ***

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

Love Does by Bob Goff and Donald Miller **

The House Girl by Tara Conklin **

Sycamore Row by John Grisham **

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes ***

Women Who Don't Wait in Line by Reshma Saujani

NOT ON THE ORIGINAL LIST BUT READ

The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd **

The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer *

The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion 

Allegiant - Veronica Roth **

I TRIED

The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

Everything Is Perfect When You Are A Liar by Kelly Oxford

TO READ

Personal History by Katharine Graham

The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont

Beautiful Player by Christina Lauren

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Silent Wife by A.S.A Harrison

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Following Jane by Samantha Scordato

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

Monuments Men by Robert Edsel

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

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

The Woman's Room by Marilyn French

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

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

Frida by Hayden Herrera

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

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

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram

The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson

South of Superior by Ellen Airgood

The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry

Envy by Sandra Brown

I Shall Be Near To You by Erin Lindsay McCabe

The Sisterhood by Helen Bryan

When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Six Years by Harlan Coben

Genesis by Bernard Beckett

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

The Buddha in the Attic by Julia Otsuka

Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng

The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle

The English Girl by Daniel Silva

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Half The Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

Backlash by Susan Faludi

Get to Work by Linda Hirshman

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong and Fay Weldon

Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister

xoxo,

Alex