106 Books I Couldn’t Put Down Over the Past Two Years

Before the pandemic, I’d pick up a bestseller every once in a while, but in the last 2.5 years, reading has become my favorite hobby. For me, heaven is being in a hot bath with a fully-charged Kindle in one hand and a can of ice-cold peach green tea in the other. Listed below – in no order whatsoever – are 106 unputdownable page-turners I’ve devoured since March 2020. The only thing these books have in common is that once I started reading them, I was hooked. 

Thrilling (but not thrillers):

1. French Exit, by Patrick deWitt
2. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
3. Love and Fury, by Samantha Silva
4. The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin
5. Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid
6. My Dark Vanessa, by Kate Elizabeth Russell
7. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
8. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V.E. Schwab
10. Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman
11. The Assistants, by Camille Perri
12. The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
13. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh
14. Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate

Thrillers:

1. The Lucky Ones, by Liz Lawson
2. Verity, by Colleen Hoover
3. The Maid, by Nita Prose
4. The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley
5. The Good Daughter, by Karin Slaughter
6. Choose Me, by Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver
7. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides
8. The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides
9. Sometimes I Lie, by Alice Feeney
10. Local Woman Missing, by Mary Kubica
11. The Push, by Ashley Audrain
12. The Good Sister, by Sally Hepworth
13. False Witness, by Karin Slaughter
14. The Boy in the Photo, by Nicole Trope
15. We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver
16. Conviction, by Denise Mina
17. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
18. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
19. The Guest List, by Lucy Foley
20. Snap, by Belinda Bauer
21. Triptych, by Karin Slaughter
22. Fractured, by Karin Slaughter
23. Undone, by Karin Slaughter
24. Broken, by Karin Slaughter
25. Fallen, by Karin Slaughter
26. Criminal, by Karin Slaughter 
27. Unseen, by Karin Slaughter
28. The Kept Woman, by Karin Slaughter
29. The Last Widow, by Karin Slaughter
30. The Silent Wife, by Karin Slaughter
31. The Housekeeper, by Natalie Barelli
32. Nothing Can Hurt You, by Nicola Maye Goldberg
33. Behind Closed Doors, by B.A. Paris
34. The Turn of the Key, by Ruth Ware
35. The Book of Accidents, by Chuck Wendig 
36. Pretty Girls, by Karin Slaughter
37. What it Seems, by Emily Bleeker
38. A Flicker in the Dark, by Stacy Willingham
39. The Moonlight Child, by Karen McQuestion
40. The Favorite Sister, by Jessica Knoll
41. The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware
42. When She Returned, by Lucinda Berry
43. Before She Disappeared, by Lisa Gardner
44. One of Us is Lying, by Karen M. McManus
45. The Perfect Marriage, by Jeneva Rose
46. The Last Mrs. Parrish, by Liv Constantine
47. The Family Across the Street, by Nicole Trope
48. Not a Happy Family, by Shari Lapena
49. Someone We Know, by Shari Lapena
50. The Younger Wife, by Sally Hepworth
51. Still Life, by Louise Penny
52. The Herd, by Andrea Bartz
53. Lying Next to Me by Gregg Olsen
54. The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
55. The Woman  in the Window, by A.J. Finn
56. The Wives, by Tarryn Fisher
57. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
58. Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn
59. Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
60. A Stranger in the House, by Shari Lapena
61. Magpie Lane, by Lucy Atkins
62. Through the Wall, by Caroline Corcoran
63. The Sister-in-Law, by Sue Watson
64. The Stranger’s Wife, by Anna-Lou Weatherley
65. One by One, by Ruth Ware
66. The End of Her, by Shari Lapena
67. The Shadow Box, by Luanne Rice
68. Invisible Girl, by Lisa Jewell
69. The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave
70. Watching You, by Lisa Jewell
71. The Girl from Silent Lake, by Leslie Wolfe
72. The Stepchild, by Nicole Trope
73. Little Secrets,  by Jennifer Hillier

Dystopian

1. Severance, by Ling Ma
2. The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan
3. 1984, by George Orwell
4. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
5. The Selection, by Kiera Cass
6. The Elite, by Kiera Cass
7. The One, by Kiera Cass
8. The Heir, by Kiera Cass
9. The Crown, by Kiera Cass

Non-Fiction

1. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson
2. Propaganda, by Edward Bernays
3. Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kolker
4. Trick Mirror, by Jia Tolentino
5. Educated: a Memoir, by Tara Westover
6. Your Time to Thrive, by Marina Khidekel
7. Untamed, by Glennon Doyle
8. Dare to Lead, by Brené Brown
9. The Ethical Journalist, by Gene Foreman
10. 101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest