2021 Books Read

 2021 Reading Goals:  I am not joining any online reading challenges as I want to focus on the following:

1. to read an average of one book per week = minimum of 52 books
2. to read half of my goal from my own TBR pile = 26 books (these will be bolded).
3. to complete books for book clubs before the meeting time (love book clubs!)
4. to read more series (love series!)
5. to completely read more professional books 
6. to read more ebooks 
7. to continue to read more young adult books
8. to read a classic...or four!

Chronological Reading List:

1. Someone Like Me by Karen Kingsbury
2. Meg and Jo by Virginia Kantra (LC Book Club)
3. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (SCHS Student Book Club)
4. All Through the Night by Tara Johnson
5. Vilonia Beebe Takes Charge by Kristin Gray (ALA Book Club)
6. Three Story House by Courtney Miller Santo (Monthly Keyword Challenge: story)
7. The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan
8. Marrying Miss Marshall by Lacy Williams (ebook)
9. The Daniel Prayer by Ruth Graham Lotz
10. Eventide by Sarah Goodman (ALA Book Club)
11. Spring Rain by Gayle Roper (Monthly Keyword Challenge: rain)
12. Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
13. Letters on the Table by Pattie Howse-Duncan
14. Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
15. Hunter's Moon
16. Midlife Curses (ebook)
17. Divided in Death by Nora Roberts
18. Naked in Death by Nora Roberts (ebook/Overdrive)
19. Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts
20. The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes (Keyword Reading Challenge: lost)
21. Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts
22. The Hollow by Nora Roberts
23. The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts
24. Birthright by Nora Roberts
25. Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts
26. Dance of the Gods by Nora Roberts
27. Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts
28. Lawless by Nora Roberts
29. Blue Midnight by Tess Thompson (ebook)
30. A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (AR Teen Book Nominee)
31. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab (Overdrive ebook)
32. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
33. Three Sisters Island Trilogy by Nora Roberts
34. The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser (Random House Book of Month)
35. Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy by Nora Roberts
36. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (Lyon College Book - June)
37. Before He Kills by Blake Pierce (ebook)
38. Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock (ebook)
39. The Unforgiven by Heather Graham
40. The Long Cold Winter by Colin Conway (ebook)
41. The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice (ebook)
42. - 60.  The Krewe of Hunters Series - ebooks 1-19 - by Heather Graham

    61.  The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis (AR Read)

    62.  Three Missing Days by Colleen Coble (library book!)

    63.  The Bookshop by the Sea by Denise Hunter (library book)

    64.  The Coocoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

    65.  The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

    66.  Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

    67.  Take the Lead by Shelley Shepard Gray (library book)

    68.  Independent Bones by Carolyn Haines (library book)

    69-71.  The Key Trilogy by Nora Roberts

    72.  The Lineage of Grace by Francine Rivers (Making Choices Bible Study)

    73.  Sea Change by T. Gracie and Joe Reese (Lyon College Book Club)

    74.  When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (Lyon College Book Club)

    75.  A Christmas Prayer by Wanda E. Brunstetter (book bought to give as gifts)

    76.  A Royal Christmas Wedding by Rachel Hauck (book bought to give as gifts)

    77.  The Mistletoe Murder by Laurinda Wallace (ebook)

    78.  Country Romance by Carolyne Aarsen (ebook)

    79.  Return to Christmas by Kathi Macias (book bought to give as gifts)

    80.  The Christmas Swap by Melody Carlson (ebook)

    81.  Finding Holly by B. E. Baker (ebook)

    82.  The Doctor' Christmas Quilt by Kathi Macias (book bought to give as gifts)

    83.  The Christmas Promise by Richard Paul Evans

    84.  The Bible - Old and New Testaments

    85.  The Clause in Christmas by Rachael Bloome (ebook)

Book Club:  Arkansas Literacy Association

1. January:  Vilonia Beebe Takes Charge by Kristin L. Gray
2. February:  Eventide by Sarah Goodman
3. Sept./Oct:  All Learning Is Social and Emotional

Book Club:  Lyon College

1. January 18:  Meg and Jo by Virginia Kantra
2. Feb/Mar:  Caste:  The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
3. June:  The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan 
4. August:  Sea Changes by T Gracie and Joe Reese
5. September:  When Breath Becomes Air by Pal Kalanithi

SCHS Student Book Club

1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
2. Where the Crawdads Sing (already read)
3. The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes