I’ve been in a reading slump for 4 months *cue tiny violin. And listen, I can only blame myself. I attempted two different celebrity debuts (one poetry and one self-help) when I’m usually a mystery/thriller, horror or romance reader (my red flag…?). The change of pace totally threw me off! So to inspire myself to get my nose back into a book, I wanted to compile a list of some of my favorites from the last year based on my Goodreads reviews:

1. 5/5 The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

2. 5/5 Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

3. 5/5 Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

4. *Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

5. *Paris: the Memoir by Paris Hilton

6. 4/5 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

7. *The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

8. 5/5 The Only One Left by Riley Sager

9. 5/5 The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder by C.L. Miller

10. 4/5 The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes

*Side note, I prefer to listen to memoirs by audiobook rather than read it, especially if the author is narrating! I also don’t like to rate memoirs, as it is someone’s personal story, so I typically give these 5s as long as I liked the author and felt more connected to them by the end!

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