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Nancy
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I love memoirs, beautifully written fiction, books about ordinary people living life in an extraordinary way and books that open my heart.


Each year I include a list of my 25 favorite books in with my Christmas cards. At the end of the year, I delete any books read that year that are not in my top 25 list, so other than the most recent books listed, all in my LT library are favorites.

My ratings are as follows:

5 - one of the best books I've ever read
4 1/2 - an outstanding, memorable book
4 - a great book


Top 25 list for 2022 in order (books read between 12/21 and 11/22)

  • Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
  • Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris
  • Finding Me - Viola Davis
  • Unseen World - Liz Moore
  • Horse - Geraldine Brooks
  • One Blade of Grass - Henry Shukman
  • True Biz - Sara Novic
  • The Promise - Damon Galgut
  • Great Circle -Maggie Shipstead
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
  • Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen
  • Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T K Madden
  • Bewilderment -Richard Powers
  • Count the Ways - Joyce Maynard
  • These Precious Days - Ann Patchett
  • Brown White Black - Nishta Mehra
  • Mr. Loverman - Bernardine Evaristo
  • Sea of Tranquility - Emily St John Mandel
  • Between Shades of Gray - Ruta Sepetys
  • Honor - Thrity Umrigar
  • Once There Were Wolves - C. McConaghy
  • Hell of A Book - Jason Mott
  • Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict
  • Miss Benson's Beetle - Rachel Joyce
  • Paper Palace - Miranda C. Heller


Top 25 list for 2021

  • Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell.
  • Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy.
  • Cantoras - Carolina DeRobertis.
  • Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart.
  • Hunger - Roxane Gay.
  • Between Two Kingdoms - Suleika Jaouad
  • Four Winds - Kristin Hannah.
  • Memorial Drive - Natasha Trethewey.
  • Astonishing Color of After - Emily XR Pan.
  • Salt Houses - Hala Alyan.
  • Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi.
  • The Guncle - Steven Rowley.
  • Patsy - Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn.
  • In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado.
  • Prettiest Star - Carter Sickles.
  • Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner.
  • Absolutist - John Boyne.
  • The Mountains Sing - Nguyen Phan Que Mai
  • Heft - Liz Moore.
  • Color of Air - Gail Tsukiyama.
  • Afterlife - Julia Alvarez.
  • Redefining Realness - Janet Mock.
  • Disappearing Earth - Julia Phillips.
  • Sandcastle Girls - Chris Bohjalian.
  • Bright Precious Thing - Gail Caldwell

Top 25 list for 2020

  • Apeirogon - Colum McCann
  • Know My Name - Chanel Miller  
  • The Choice - Dr. Edith Eva Eger
  • So You Want To Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
  • The Sun Does Shine - Anthony Hinton
  • Dearly Beloved - Cara Wall
  • Girl At War - Sara Novic
  • How To Be An Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
  • Dutch House - Ann Patchett
  • Correspondents - Tim Murphy
  • Tin Man - Sarah Winman
  • Pull Of The Stars - Emma Donoghue
  • Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
  • Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo
  • White Chrysanthemum - Mary Lynn Bracht
  • Girl With the Louding Voice - Abi Dare
  • Gods of Tango - Carolina De Robertis
  • Golden Boy - Abigail Tarttelin
  • Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
  • Olive Again - Elizabeth Strout
  • Museum of Modern Love - Heather Rose
  • Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • My Notorious Life - Kate Manning
  • Hidden Valley Road - Robert Kolker
  • My Life On The Road - Gloria Steinem



Top 25 list for 2019

  • Becoming - Michelle Obama
  • A Place For Us - Fatima Mirza
  • The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
  • Secrets Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
  • Barking To The Choir - Gregory Boyle
  • Walks Away Woman - Ki Longfellow
  • Feast Your Eyes - Myla Goldberg
  • Red At The Bone - Jacqueline Woodson
  • Island Of Sea Women - Lisa See
  • Aristotle and Dante Discover.... - Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • The Overstory - Richard Powers
  • Glory Over Everything - Kathleen Grissom
  • The Tender Land: A Family Love Story - Kathleen Finneran
  • Walk Through Walls - Marina Abramovic
  • The Bright Hour: A Memoir - Nina Riggs
  • Hamilton: The Revolution - Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Storyteller's Secret - Sejal Badani
  • The Bold World: A Memoir - Jodie Patterson
  • Everything Here Is Beautiful - Mira T. Lee
  • Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Robert Dugoni
  • Heavy: Am American Memoir - Kiese Laymon
  • I Am, I Am, I Am - Maggie O'Farrell
  • Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
  • All The Things We Never Knew - Sheila Hamilton
  • Wolf At Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey


Top 25 List for 2018

  • Where The Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
  • Find Me Unafraid - Kennedy Odede
  • Tattoos On The Heart - Gregory Boyle
  • We Were The Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter
  • Educated - Tara Westover
  • The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane - Lisa See
  • Go Went Gone - Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Between The World And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Marriage of Opposites - Alice Hoffman
  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
  • Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
  • Running For My Life - Lopez Lomong
  • Born A Crime -Trevor Noah
  • Raising Ryland - Hillary Whittington
  • Beneath A Scarlet Sky - Mark Sullivan
  • You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Sherman Alexie
  • Stranger In The Woods - Michael Finkel
  • Every Note Played - Lisa Genova
  • An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
  • The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
  • Radium Girls - Kate Moore
  • Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
  • Eventide - Kent Haruf
  • Lucky Boy - Shanthi Sekaran
  • Where The Wind Leads - Dr. Vinh Chung

    Favorite Films and Television 2022
  • Power of the Dog'
  • Passing
  • This is Us
  • Two of Us
  • Fablemans
  • Shameless (134 episodes)
  • Ted Lasso (22 episodes)
  • West Side Story
  • Most Beautiful Thing
  • Tick Tick Boom
  • Rewind
  • Night Comes on
  • Lost Daughter
  • Dropout
  • Spencer
  • Dear Zachary
  • Giant Little Ones
  • Worst Person In The World
  • Breaking Bad (62 episodes)
  • Coda
  • Steps
  • Only Murders in the Building (20 episodes)
  • Come As You Are
  • Mozart In The Desert (40 episodes)
  • Honey Boy

    Favorite Films, Documentaries and Television 2021
  • In the Heights
  • Offspring (85 episodes)
  • Pose (26 episodes)
  • Fleabag (12 episodes)
  • The Crown (40 episodes)
  • Blue Jay
  • My Octopus Teacher
  • Nomadland
  • I May Destroy You (12 episodes)
  • Voices of Fire
  • Maid (10 episodes)
  • Leaving Neverland
  • In Treatment (season 4, 8 episodes)
  • Giving Voice
  • Minari
  • The Tale
  • It's a Sin (5 episodes)
  • I Dream of Dance
  • White Tiger
  • Pieces of a Woman
  • Jane Fonda in 5 Acts
  • What Happened Miss Simone
  • The Life Ahead
  • My Happy Family
  • Like Stars on Earth (Taare Zameen Par)

    Favorite Films, Documentaries and Television 2020
  • The Fosters (102 episodes)
  • Schitts Creek (80 episodes)
  • Unorthodox (4 episodes)
  • Marriage Story
  • Queen’s Gambit (7 episodes)
  • Secret Love
  • Becoming (Michelle Obama)
  • Hannah Gadsby - Douglas
  • Unbelievable (8 episodes)
  • Crip Camp
  • We The Animals
  • Knock Down The House
  • Cracked Up - Darrell Hammond
  • Marcus (2020)
  • We Are The Dream
  • God’s Own Country
  • American Factory
  • Bloodline (season 1 only)
  • Private Life
  • Little Women
  • Pain and Glory
  • Miseducation of Cameron Post
  • Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
  • Clouds of Silas Maria
  • 20th Century Women

    Favorite Films, Documentaries, and Television 2019
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • The Hate You Give
  • The Cakemaker
  • Tell Me Who I Am
  • Outside In
  • Tales Of The City
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me
  • Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
  • Goldfinch
  • Harriet
  • Roma
  • It's Not Yet Dark
  • Merata: How Mum Decolonised The Screen
  • Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
  • Mudbound
  • Rocketman
  • Free Solo
  • Green Book
  • Trevor Noah: Son Of Patricia
  • Broadchurch
  • Evelyn
  • Women's Balcony
  • Kindergarten Teacher
  • Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
  • Everybody Knows (2018)
Informazione su di me
I am a book fanatic living in South Florida. I love travel, photography, reading, and living in joy. I have a spiritual counseling practice and also for many years facilitated Artist's Way and Vein of Gold classes (based on Julia Cameron's books).
One of my favorite authors, Zora Neale Hurston, spent her last years in Fort Pierce, the town I have called home since 2005. Her unmarked grave was located by Alice Walker who honored this spectacular writer as she so deserved.

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Fort Pierce, FL
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Librerie: Vero Beach Book Center

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