NEW update on books I’ve read lately

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Happy Friday!

I’ve noticed a few #WOYBS What’s On Your BookShelf posts lately, so I thought I’d write an update on my quest to read a book from every genre listed on GoodReads (original blog HERE). I started this challenge/quest around the first of July.

Unfortunately, I haven’t read anything that has overwhelmingly WOWED me (yet!). Here’s hoping that book is right around the corner! Here’s what I’ve read/listened to so far, plus my GoodReads star rating (looks like A LOT of very average 3 stars!).

Art: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon (3 stars).

Biography: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman (3 stars)

Business: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance (3 stars)

Chick Lit: Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks (3 stars)

Children’s: TBR

Christian: Forgiving What You Can’t Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again (2 stars)

Classics: TBR

Comics: TBR

Contemporary: Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (3 stars)

Cookbooks: TBR

Crime: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (3 stars)

Ebooks: TBR (although I’ve read multiple books via Ebooks!)

Fantasy: Six of Crows (currently listening to)

Fiction: Homecoming by Kate Morton (3 stars)

Gay and Lesbian: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (3 stars)

Graphic Novels: TBR

Historical Fiction: Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (3 stars)

History: The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff Guinn (3 stars)

Horror: TBR

Humor and Comedy: How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur (3 stars)

Manga: TBR

Memoir: TBR

Music: TBR

Mystery: Little Big Lies by Liane Moriarty (3 stars)

Nonfiction: The Tale-Tell Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran (3 stars)

Paranormal: TBR

Philosophy: TBR

Poetry: Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway (3 stars)

Psychology: TBR

Religion: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (3 stars)

Romance: TBR

Science: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin (3 stars)

Science Fiction: TBR

Self Help: Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown (3 stars)

Suspense: TBR

Spirituality: TBR

Sports: TBR

Thriller: The Whistler by John Grisham (3 stars)

Travel: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (3 stars)

Young Adult: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (3 stars)

And that’s it! Feel free to recommend any great books in the genres I still need to read.

Have a great day and do or learn…or READ something NEW!

8 thoughts on “NEW update on books I’ve read lately”

  1. Wow, you do a lot of reading! 🙂 I never seem to have enough time to read everything I want to. The historical book you mentioned, The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip, sound really interesting!

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    • It was an interesting book. I didn’t know those two famous men were such good friends. They took their families and a whole entourage and most of the trips became a PR event.

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  2. Hi – this is an ambitious reading challenge! I appreciate when you say that many of the books you’ve read so far have not wowed you and are 3 star reads. That’s the model I follow too. I did enjoy The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – I had to check to see what I gave it (4 stars). I’ve read a few books by Moriarty, but not Big Little Lies. Here’s hoping you find a “wow” book soon!

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    • Hello Barb! I may have been introduced to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo from you. I liked it too. My Goodreads rating system is 1:hated 2: didn’t like 3: liked 4: loved 5: GOAT!! Although my son says I’m a “harsh” rater, haha.

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      • Haha – I also use the Goodreads model. Three stars means I liked it! People get caught up in the idea that 3 stars means average. I totally disagree. And you can’t put all the good books together – certainly greats like For Whom the Bell Tolls or Gone with the Wind deserve the distinction. 🙂

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  3. That’s quite the list. I’m not nearly as broad in my reading genres. I stick mostly to the classics, history, historical fiction, biography/autobiography, self-help, and photography with the occasional cookbook thrown in and all are e-books. I love many things about this format, including the fact that they don’t take up any space in m home like paper books used to. My current quest is reading (or re-reading) as many of the the classics as I can. My cookbooks are all ones for either the Instant Pot or the Ninja Foodi Grill (my 2 fave appliances), so unless you have those appliances, my recommendations wouldn’t work for you.

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    • I have a pressure cooker and a Ninja foodie air fryer. Tell me what you love about the Foodi Grill and I might have to invest in one! After this all-genre quest is complete, I’m back to historical fiction, classics, biographies etc. Those are my faves too.

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      • The 5-in-1 Foodi Grill is the one I have. I keep it in our Texas home. They have a 7-in-1 too, but this one meets my needs and doesn’t take up as much real estate on my counter. I love the indoor grill feature. It’s as good as outdoor grilling, and doesn’t smoke up your kitchen. It also air fries, bakes, dehydrates and roasts. It takes up less electricity than my oven, and doesn’t heat up the house, so it’s my go-to in Texas.

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