A Complete List of Every Book I Have Ever Read

My mom came to me with a story of a friend who kept a book list of everything she had read. We immediately thought back to the time I started reading chapter books and were able to recall and document all of them. In 2019, I started recording the books I finished in real time, including the date I finished each book and the rating I gave it out of 10. I keep this list, my most prized possession, in a composition notebook on my bookshelf and continue to add to it with each new book I read. Below is a digital version of that list.

2010 – 2018

Ivy and Bean (series) – Annie Barrows
The Magic Treehouse (series) – Mary Pope Osborne
Ramona and Besus – Beverly Cleary
Rainbow Magic – Meadows, Chapman, Dhami
Wishbone: Be a Wolf – Brad Strickland
Rump: The True Story of Rumplestiltskin – Leisl Shurtliff
The Pendericks (series) – Jeanne Birdsall
Scumble – Ingrid Law
Savy – Ingrid Law
The Wanderer – Sharon Creech
Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand
Doll People – Anna Martin, Laura Godwin
I Survived (series) – Lauren Tarshis
Criss Cross – Lynne Rae Perkins
Dork Diaries (series) – Rachel Renee Russell
Divergent (series) – Veronica Roth
Hunger Games (series) – Suzanna Collins
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
Ralph and the Motorcycle – Beverly Cleary
Nate the Great – Sharmat
Fancy Nancy – Jane O’Connor
Toe Shoe Trouble – Whoopi Goldberg
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series) – Rick Riordan
Heros of Olympus (series) – Rick Riordan
Olivia Sharp – Sharmat
Nancy Drew (series) – Carolyn Keene
Holes – Louis Sachar
The Shakespeare Stealer – Gary Blackwood
Fish in a Tree – Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Bud Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis
Mick Harte Was Here – Barbara Park
The Cricket in Times Square – George Selden
Prisoner B3087 – Alan Gratz
Making Bombs for Hitler – Marsha Skrypuch
Long Walk to Water – Linda Sue Park
Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frakenweiler – E. L. Konigsburg
A Wrinkle in Time (series) – Madeleine L’Engle
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
The Banker’s Wife – Cristina Alger
When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead
Loser – Jerry Spinelli
Things Not Seen – Andrew Clements
The Journal Belongs to Ratchet – Nancy J. Cavanaugh
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place – Julia Berry
The Art of Secrets – James Klise
Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradburry
The Outsiders – S. E. Hilton

2019

3/11/19: Exodus – Leon Uris
3/11/19: Things Hoped For – Andrew Clements
3/13/19: To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
8/12/19: Cry the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
9/19/19: Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
12/2/19: 1894 – George Orwell

2020

1/5/20: Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
3/5/20: Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
3/30/20: Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
5/2/20: The Weight of Ink – Rachel Kadish
5/10/20: Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
5/11/20: Just Jane – William Lavender
7/11/20: Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
8/3/20: The Secret of Sarah Revere – Ann Rinaldi
8/29/20: Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
9/10/20: Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko
9/22/20: Postmortem – Patricia Cornwell
10/3/20: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
11/30/20: Huckleberry Fin – Mark Twain
12/23/20: Body of Evidence – Patricia Cornwell

2021

2/24/21: Their Eyes Were Watching God – Nora Zeale Hurston
3/10/21: The Great Gatsby – Scott Fitzgerald
3/11/21: All That Remains – Patricia Cornwell
8/15/21: When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
9/6/21: Cruel and Unusual- Patricia Cornwell
9/11/21: The Body Farm – Patricia Cornwell
9/28/21: From Potters Field – Patricia Cornwell
10/14/21: Cause of Death – Patricia Cornwell
10/17/21: The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger

2022

1/12/22: The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
3/21/22: The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
3/30/22: Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
4/30/22: Sorcerer’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
5/4/22: Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
5/22/22: The Stranger – Albert Camus
5/24/22: Prisoner from Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
6/22/22: Life of Pi – Yann Martel
7/7/22: The Premonition – Michael Lewis
8/22/22: A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
9/20/22: The Things We Cannot Say – Kelly Rimmer
9/26/22: The Maid – Nita Prose
9/29/22: One Two Three – Laurie Frankel
10/10/22: The Christie Affair – Nina de Gramont
10/30/22: Gilgamesh – Stephen Mitchell
11/14/22: Equus – Peter Shaffer
11/19/22: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin

2023

1/16/23: Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
1/27/23: Olga Dies Dreaming – Xochitl Gonzalez
3/2/23: Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
4/30/23: Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
5/1/23: Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
5/9/23: Hello Beautiful – Ann Napolitano
5/11/23: The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
5/14/23: Where’d Ya Go, Bernadette – Maria Semple
5/19/23: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor J. Reid
7/18/23: The House Across the Lake – Riley Sager
7/19/23: Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
7/22/23: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
7/23/23: A Molecule Away from Madness – Sara M. Peskin
8/7/23: The Measure – Nikki Erlick
9/1/23: Black Candle Women – Diane Marie Brown
9/3/23: Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
9/6/23: Go as a River – Shelley Read
9/18/23: I Have Some Questions for You – Rebecca Makkai
11/8/23: The Light Pirate – Lily Brooks-Dalton
11/30/23: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century – Kim Fu
12/4/23: Baby Proof – Emily Griffin
12/17/23: The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown
12/23/23: Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawguchi

2024

1/4/24: This is Happiness – Niall Williams
1/5/24: Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
8/31/24: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
9/2/24: The Girl Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson
9/9/24: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest – Stieg Larsson
12/20/24: Heaven and Earth Grocery Store – James McBride
12/20/24: Shark Heart – Emily Habeck
12/21/24: Unnatural Exposure – Patricia Cornwell
12/23/24: Point of Origin – Patricia Cornwell
12/27/24: Black Notice – Patricia Cornwell

2025

1/3/25: Red Rising – Pierce Brown
1/25/25: Golden Son – Pierce Brown
4/23/25: Morning Star – Pierce Brown
5/6/25: How to Say Babylon: A Memoir – Safiya Sinclair
5/8/25: The Hating Game – Sally Thorne
5/20/25: People We Meet on Vacation – Emily Henry
5/21/25: Love and Other Words – Christina Lauren
6/9/25: An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
6/18/25: Armagedon – Leon Uris
6/29/25: Blow Fly – Patricia Cornwell
7/2/25: Trace – Patricia Cornwell
8/10/25: Predator – Patricia Cornwell
8/12/25: Book of the Dead – Patricia Cornwell
8/15/25: The Last Precinct – Patricia Cornwell
8/17/25: Scarpetta – Patricia Cornwell
8/31/25: The Scarpetta Factor – Patricia Cornwell
9/7/25: Port Mortuary – Patricia Cornwell
11/21/25: Red Mist – Patricia Cornwell
12/29/25: The Bone Bed – Patricia Cornwell

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