Books & Wine @ 31st: January 2023

Sunday, January 1, 2023

January 2023: The Radium Girls

Julie picked The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore for our January 2023 read.

Books we've read

#105 "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
"The Vanishing" by Wendy Webb
"The Bookish Life of Nina Hill" by Abbi Waxman
"Epic Solitude" by Catherine Keith
"So Close to Being the Sh*t, Ya'll Don't Even Know" by Retta
#100 "The World That We Knew" by Alice Hoffman
"The Heart Goes Last" by Margaret Atwood
"Future Home of the Living God" by Louise Erdrich
"The Body Keeps Score" by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Bronte
"One More Thing" by BJ Novak
"I Am Still Alive" by Kate Marshall
"Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain
"The Alice Network" by Kate Quinn
"Behind Closed Doors" by BA Paris
#90 "Once in a Blue Moon" by Lorna Landvik
"Women and Money" by Suze Orman
"Eligible" by Curtis Sittenfeld
"Daughters of the Lake" by Wendy Webb*
The Aviator's Wife" by Melanie Benjamin
"I'll be gone in the dark" by Michelle McNamara
The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
"Eductated: A Memoir" bu Tara Westover
"Born a Crime" by Trevor Noah
"Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
#80 Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle
"No One is Coming To Save Us" by Stephanie Powell Watts
"Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
"Burial Rites" by Hannah Kent
"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
"The Couple Next Door" by Shari Lapena
"Accidental Saints: Finding God in All The Wrong People" by Nadia Bolz-Weber
"Don't Say Anything to Anybody" by Bridgette Z. Yearman, Anika Hanisch
"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
"The Nest" by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
70 "Strangers Drowning: Impossible idealism, drastic choices, and the urge to help" by Larissa MacFarquhar
"The Letter" by Katherine Hughes
"A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
"A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman
"Fates and Furies" by Lauren Groff
"State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett
"Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathmaticians Who Helped Win the Space Race" by Margot Lee Shetterly
"A Redbird Christmas" by Fannie Flagg
"The Girl Before" by Rena Olsen
"Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
#60 "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence" by Amy Sedaris
"Where'd You Go, Bernadette" by Maria Semple
"Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson
"George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution" by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
"Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman who Saved the Appalacian Trail" by Ben Montgomery
"The Atonement Child" by Francine Rivers
"The Ice Twins" by S.K. Tremayne
"The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
"You" by Caroline Kepnes
"My Name is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok
"Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal" by Ava Chin
"Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal" by Mal Peet
"Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman
"Animal Vegetable Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver
"Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)" by Bill Gifford
"Raven Black" by Ann Cleaves
"Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
"A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving
"Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel
"Wild" by Cheryl Strayed
#40 "Everything I Never Told You" by Celeste Ng
"The Riddle-Master of Hed" by Patricia McKillip
"Help the Poor Struggler" by Martha Grimes
"Hannah, Delivered" by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrews
"Hyperbole and a Half" by Allie Brosh
"What Alice Forgot" by Liana Moriarty
"Blowback" by Valerie Plame
"Joyland" by Stephen King
"A Choice of Weapons" by Gordon Parks
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
"Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand
"Headhunters on My Doorstep" by J. Maarten Troost
"Fat Profits" by Bruce Bradley
"Beatrice & Virgil" by Yann Martel
"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
"Certain Women" by Madeleine L'Engle
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"Spirit Car" by Diane Wilson
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" by John le Carre
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
#20 "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein
"The Girls" by Lori Lansen
"Sing You Home" by Jodi Picoult
"Off the Grid" by P.J. Tracy
"The Tall Pine Polka" by Lorna Landvik
"My Name is Mary Sutter" by Robin Oliviera
"I Was Told There'd Be Cake" by Sloan Crosley
"The Traveler's Gift" by Andy Andrews
"The Spoiler" by Annalena McAfee
"Peace Like a River" by Leif Enger
"The Weird Sisters" by Eleanor Brown
"The Summerhouse" by Jude Deveroux
"Javascotia" by Benjamin Obler
"Last Child in the Woods" by Richard Louv
"The House at Riverton" by Kate Morton
"The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
"Lit" by Mary Kerr
"The Blue Zones" by Dan Buettner
"The Help" by Katheryn Stockett
#1 "The Latehomecomer" by Kao Kalia Yang
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#106 The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liana Moriarty
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
#110 The Girl in the White Gloves by Kerri Maher
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Emma Carey
The Queen of Tuesdays by Darin Strauss
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger by Suzanne Fortin
#120 Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Lift Your Voice by Angela Harrelson
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Book Women of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Departure Stories: Betty Crocker made matzoh balls (and other lies) by Elisa Bernick
Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
#130 Under the Whispering Door by TJ Kline
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Endgame: The Calling by James Frey
Enchantments of the Mississippi by Thomas Becknell
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly
The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell
Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia