Favorite Five 2024
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The Deeply Formed Life by Rich Villas
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Favorite Five 2023
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Favorite Five 2023
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Nature's Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy
The Hobbit by JR Tolkien
Full list of 2023 reading here
Favorite Five 2022
The Hobbit by JR Tolkien
Full list of 2023 reading here
Favorite Five 2022
The Map of Salt & Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Let's Go (so we can get back) by Jeff Tweedy
The Body Keeps Score by Besse Van her Kolk
Favorite Five 2021
Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Old Testament by... God
Anxious People by Frederick Backman
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by Mark Comer
Favorite Five 2020
I remember reading hundreds of children's books.
I remember reading very little else.
Favorite Five 2019
Between the World & Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
One Thousand Gifts by Anne Voskamp
Prayer by Timothy Keller
Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
Grayson by Lynne Cox
All Time Favorites I Go Back to...
Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty
The Observers by Paul LaFarge (short story)
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Crime & Punishment by Dostoyevsky
Garfield by Jim David
Bonus:
Favorite 5 on the Screen
Favorite All Time 5 on the Stereo
*also known as I die of happiness every time
**or set my phone on fire with my own body heat whilst listening
***or hear all the voices of friends who I have sung these songs along with in years past
****or drive across the country listening to these beauties with the window rolled down. Preferably with you and your book of CDs.
California Stars by Wilco I'd give this world just to dream a dream with you
I Hear a Symphony by The Supremes Best love song since I first listened to it on my dad's record player
Skinny Love by Bon Iver *if you were there, you know. never the same
Possibly Maybe (Lucy Mix) by Bjork With you a dozen times a day...
Runners Up (because I can't stop)
When you Were Mine tied with I Would Die for You by Prince I love you more than I did when you were mine
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