Apollo the Great Dane on the cover of The Friend 
Books by my new favorite author 
Cover of Beale Street 
The goal is one book each week….
January’s Books
- Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
- Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton
- No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore
- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
February’s Books
- Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity & Love by Dani Shapiro
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
- Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
March’s Books
- Looker by Laura Sims
- Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
- Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
- You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
APRIL‘s Books
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
- The War On Normal People by Andrew Yang
- The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
- Open House by Elizabeth Berg
- The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
- A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
MAY’s Books
- The Day That Went Missing: A Family’s Story by Richard Beard
- The River by Peter Heller
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
JUNE’s Books
- Say Nothing A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Celine by Peter Heller
- The Current by Tim Johnston
JULY’s Books
- Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
AUGUST’s Books
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Inland by Tea Obreht
- The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
- Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
SEPTEMBERS’s Books
- Kudos by Rachel Cusk
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah
OCTOBERS’s Books
- The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfield
- The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
NOVEMBERS’s Books
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
- She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
decemBERS’s Books
- Wild Game My Mother, Her Lover and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
- Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
- November Road by Lou Berney