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2009: Your year in Books

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Keep track of the books you have read this year.

1. Home by Marilynne Robinson
2. The Associate by John Grisham
3. The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
4. Money Money Money by Ed McBain
5. The Ethical Assassin by David Liss
6. Tender Graces by Kathryn Magendie
7. The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
8. Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
9. Indignation by Philip Roth
10. The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
11. Cheating at Solitaire by Jane Haddam
12. True Detectives by Jonathon Kellerman
13. The Devil's Waltz by Jonathon Kellerman
14. Bad Love by Jonathon Kellerman
15. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
16. Mind Prey by John Stanford
17. Intervention by Robin Cook
18. 9 Dragons by Michael Connelly
19. Night and Day by Robert Parker
20. The Humbling by Philip Roth
21. Fugitive by Philip Margolin
22. Teatime for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith

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Literature Scholar

Soup's 2009 Book List

January

1. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein (01/02) *
2. Don't Be Impatient...Read a Short Story! - Ray Grant (01/02)
3. Aromabingo - David Gaffney (01/04)
4. Knockemstiff - Donald Ray Pollock (01/05)
5. A Confederate General from Big Sur - Richard Brautigan (01/05)
6. Dreaming of Babylon - Richard Brautigan (01/06)
7. Sharp Teeth - Toby Barlow (01/08)
8. The Hawkline Monster (A Gothic Western) - Richard Brautigan (01/09)
9. Girl Meets Boy (The Myth of Iphis) - The Canongate Myth Series - Ali Smith (01/09)
10. Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt - poems - Richard Brautigan (01/12)
11. Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork - poems - Richard Brautigan (01/12)
12. The Octopus Frontier - poems - Richard Brautigan (01/13)
13. Please Plant This Book - poems - Richard Brautigan (01/13)
14. June 30th, June 30th - poems - Richard Brautigan (01/13)
15. Ten Imaginary Still Lifes - poems (chapbook) - Joe Brainard (01/14)
16. Nanotales - Ziv Navoth (01/19)
17. The Sheep Breeders Dance (Stories - chapbook) - Aine Greaney (01/19)
18. Blink (Sudden Fiction by Minnesota Writers) - Edited by John Colburn & Margaret Miles (01/22)
19. Flash Fiction II - Craige Reeves (01/24)
20. Surviving Nashville (Stories) - Stacy Barton (01/26) *
21. Dial M for Monkey (Stories) - Andrew Maxwell (01/29)
22. The Night Heron's Scream (Flash Fiction) - Jack Swenson (01/30)
23. I Call This Flirting (flash fiction - chapbook) - Sherrie Flick (01/31)

February

24. Fast Forward (flash fiction anthology) - edited by K. Scott Forman, Kona Morris, & Nancy Stohlman - (02/01)
25. A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness (Four Chapbooks of Short short Fiction by Four Women) - Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith (02/05)
26. In the Land of the Free (flash fiction chapbook) - Geoffrey Forsyth (02/06)
27. I Remember - Joe Brainard (02/06)
28. Sudden Fictions (The Moosehead Anthology VI) - Edited by R.E.N. Allen and Grant Loewen (02/07)
29. Firmin - Sam Savage (02/12) *
30. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (02/13)
31. A Dog's Life - Peter Mayle (02/15)
32. The Darkest Evening of the Year - Dean Koontz (02/20)
33. Night After Night - Kathryn Smith (02/22)
34. Coraline - Neil Gaiman (02/24)
35. A Dream Story - Arthur Schnitzler (02/25)
36. Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald (02/26)
37. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway (02/28)

March

38. The Poetical Cat - Edited by Felicity Bast (03/02)
39. Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald (03/07)
40. Stolen Stories - Steve Katz (03/09)
41. The Best American Erotica 1993 - Edited by Susie Bright (03/09)
42. Voyage Around My Room (The Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre) - Xavier de Maistre (03/13)
43. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Excercises in Style - Matt Madden (03/16) *
44. The Best American Erotica 1996 - Edited by Susie Bright (03/17)
45. Freddie & Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody - Mike Dawson (03/17)
46. All Over (Stories) - Roy Kesey (03/19)
47. The Music Teacher - Barbara Hall (03/20)
48. The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald - Edited by Bryant Magnum (3/20)
49. My Date With Satan (Stories) - Stacey Richter (03/22)
50. Big World (Stories) - Mary Miller (03/23)
51. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald (03/25)
52. Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings - Kuzhali Manickavel (03/26)
53. The Overwhelming Urge - Andersen Prunty (03/28)

April

54. The Best of Everyday Fiction 2008 - Edited by Jordan Lapp, Camille Gooderham Campbell and Steve Smethurst (04/03)
55. Who I Was Supposed to Be (Short Stories) - Susan Perabo (04/07)
56. Lost in the Funhouse - John Barth (04/eight)
57. Before You She Was a Pit Bull - Elizabeth Ellen (04/09)
58. Unfictions - Jason Price Everett (04/10)
59. The Moon Opera - Bi Feiyu (04/11)
60. We'll Always Have Paris (Stories) - Ray Bradbury (04/13)
61. The Box Man - Kobo Abe (04/14)
62. Q & A - Vikas Swarup (04/18)
63. The Debt to Pleasure - John Lanchester (04/20)
64. King: A Street Story - John Berger (04/24)
65. Less Shiny (chapbook) - Mary Miller (04/28)
66. Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau (04/28)

May

67. Odd Hours - Dean Koontz (05/01)
68. The Abortion - Richard Brautigan (05/05)
69. Dark Carnival (Stories) - Ray Bradbury (05/06)
70. Aspects of Love - David Garnett (05/08)
71. The Ark Sakura - Kobo Abe (05/15)
72. The Woman Who Wouldn't - Gene Wilder (05/17)
73. Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau (05/19)
74. My French W hore - Gene Wilder (05/19)
75. Inez - Carlos Fuentes (05/23)
76. Small Mercy - Tom Dawes (05/28)

June

77. Love That Dog - Sharon Creech (06/02)
78. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate diCamillo (06/02) *
79. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl (06/02)
80. The Fur Person - May Sarton (06/06)
81. The Tale of Despereaux - Kate diCamillo (06/11)
82. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me - Roald Dahl (06/14)
83. Music's Spell: Poems About Music and Musicians - Edited by Emily Fragos (06/17)
84. The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology - Edited by Maureen McCarthy Draper (06/27)
85. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (06/29)
86. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry - Leanne Shapton (06/30)

July

87. Erotic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) - Edited by Peter Washington (07/05)
88. Esio Trot - Roald Dahl (07/12)
89. Anthropology (101 True Love Stories) - Dan Rhodes (07/18)
90. Limbo: A Memoir - A. Mannette Ansay (07/20)
91. My Goat Ate its Own Legs (Tales for Adults) - Alex Burrett (07/21)
92. The Frozen Thames - Helen Humphreys (07/21) *
93. Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love - Dan Rhodes (07/23)
94. Where the Money Went - Kevin Canty (07/27)
95. Hate That Cat - Sharon Creech (07/29)
96. Haiku Humor - Stephen Addiss, with Fumiko and Akira Yamamoto (07/29)
97. Fascination - William Boyd (07/30)

August

98. Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage and to my Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of their Childhood - Stanley Crawford (08/03)
99. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen/Seth Grahame-Smith (08/eight)
100. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (08/13)
101. My Elvis Blackout - Simon Crump (08/13)
102. Letters to Wendy's - Joe Wenderoth (08/16)
103. Book of Haikus - Jack Kerouac (edited and with an introduction by Regina Weinreich) (08/17)
104. Woman's World - Graham Rawle - (08/20) *
105. The Red Pony - John Steinbeck (08/22)
106. The Zebra Storyteller (Stories) - Spencer Holst (08/26)
107. Timoleon Vieta Come Home - Dan Rhodes (08/27)
108. The Leanin' Dog - K. A. Nuzum (08/29)
109. Chips: A Hometown Hero - Nancy M. West (08/31)
110. Fup - Jim Dodge (08/31)

September

111. Untamed - Hope Tarr (09/03)
112. Julius Winsome - Gerard Donovan (09/06)
113. The Key - Junichiro Tanizaki (09/eight)
114. Diary of a Mad Old Man - Junichiro Tanizaki (09/10)
115. What the Deaf-Mute Heard - G. D. Gearino (09/14)
116. How Shall I Tell the Dog? - Miles Kington (09/16)
117. The Little White Car - Danuta de Rhodes (Dan Rhodes) (09/19)
118. 6S (Six Sentences), Volume 1 - Created and Edited by Robert McEvily (09/24)
119. Beauty Salon - Mario Bellatin (09/24)
120. The Diving Pool (Three Novellas) - Yoko Ogawa (09/25)
121. Six Sentences (Volume 2) - Created and Edited by Robert McEvily (09/30)

October

122. Things You Should Know (A Collection of Stories) - A.M. Homes (10/02)
123. The World and Other Places (Stories) - Jeanette Winterson (10/05)
124. Paroles - Jacques Prevert (City Lights Edition, translated by Ferlinghetti) - (10/07)
125. Trailer Park Fragments (Online e-book, Magic Helicopter Press) - David Ensminger (10/07)
126. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Stories) - Kevin Wilson (10/09)
127. Movement in Black (Poetry by Pat Parker) - Pat Parker (10/10)
128. The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury (10/11)
129. Zombie - Joyce Carol Oates (10/13)
130. The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa (10/15)
131. Saints and Strangers - Angela Carter (10/17)
132. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami (10/25)
133. Codex Seraphinianus - Luigi Serafini (10/twenty-eight) *
134. Love in Infant Monkeys (Stories) - Lydia Millet (10/29) *
135. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories - Carson McCullers (10/31) *

November

136. The Principles of Uncertainty - Maira Kalman (11/01)
137. Sheep - Valerie Hobbs (11/02)
138. Beasts - Joyce Carol Oates (11/04)
139. The Soloist - Steve Lopez (11/06) *
140. Bradbury Speaks (Essays on the Past, the Future, and Everything in Between) - Ray Bradbury (11/eight)
141. Mexico is Missing and Other Stories - J David Stevens (11/10)
142. Barnaby and Me - Linn Sheldon (11/11)
143. The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs (11/12)
144. The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing - Richard Brautigan (11/13)
145. An Unfortunate Woman (A Journey) - Richard Brautigan (11/13)
146. Easter Rabbit - Joseph Young (11/16)
147. Phone Calls From the Dead - Wendy Brenner (11/17)
148. The Age of Wire and String - Ben Marcus (11/20)
149. The Tokyo-Montana Express - Richard Brautigan (11/24)
150. The Circus of Dr. Lao - Charles G. Finney (11/27)
151. My Days With Richard - Beverly Allen (11/27)
152. 17 and J (Two Novels) - Kenzaburo Oe (11/twenty-eight)
153. Une semaine de bonte (A Surrealistic Novel in Collage) - Max Ernst (11/twenty-eight)
154. Richard Brautigan (Western Writers Series) - Jay Boyer (11/29)
155. Brautigan, Richard, A Pilgrimage August, 1982 - D. F. Curran (11/30)

December

156. The World of Richard Dadd - Michael Mott (12/03)
157. Scuttlebutt Goes to War - As suggested by Lieutenant Dwight W. Follett, U.S.N.R. to Margaret Friskey (12/03)
158. Ocean Sea - Alessandro Barrico (12/04)
159. The Pearl - John Steinbeck (12/06)
160. JEEPS: A Dog for Defense - Sylvestre C. Watkins (12/07)
161. Private Pepper of Dogs for Defense - Frances Cavanah and Ruth Cromer Weir (12/eight)
162. Private Pepper Comes Home - Frances Cavanah and Ruth Cromer Weir (12/eight)
163. First Snow on Fuji - Yasunari Kawabata (12/10)
164. Karnak Cafe - Naguib Mahfouz (12/12)
165. Seedfolks - Paul Fleischman (12/12)
166. The Dreams (Including Dreams of Departure) - Naguib Mahfouz (12/13)
167. In His Own Write - John Lennon (12/13)
168. Feeding Strays (Short Stories) - Stefanie Freele (12/15)
169. Grapefruit - Yoko Ono (12/16)
170. Pobby and Dingan - Ben Rice (12/18) *
171. The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming - Lemony Snicket (12/18)
172. Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman (12/18)
173. Burning Bright - John Steinbeck (12/18)
174. Charactered Pieces (Stories) - Caleb J. Ross (12/20)
175. Motel (chapbook of short stories) - Stefanie Freele (12/21)
176. Nobody Trusts a Black Magician - (short stories; online publication) xTx (12/21)
177. Shudder Pageant (online publication) xTx (12/21)
178. Flash Fiction Plus (For Reading on the Go) - John B. Haney (12/21)
179. Sexual Rhythms (Short Stories) - Paul Milenski and Marilyn Grande (12/22)
180. Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens - Issue#7 (Online Flash Fiction/Micro Fiction Edition) - Ed. by Bradley Sands (12/23)
181. Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens - Volume 2, #2 (Online Flash Fiction/Micro Fiction Edition) - Ed. by Bradley Sands (12/23)
182. Come Unto These Yellow Sands: Four Radio Plays - Angela Carter (12/25)
183. & (thirteen) - (online e-book chapbook) - J.A.Tyler (12/26)
184. When the Height of You Outreaches Me (online e-book chapbook) - J.A. Tyler (12/26)
185. Revealing Moments ( online e-book chapbook) - Wayne Scheer (12/26)
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January

1. Dewey--that Cat Who Changed The World 1/1/09
2. The Secret Between Us - Barbara Delinsky 1/4/09
3. Before I Say Good-Bye - Mary Higgins Clark 1/12/09
4. Sail -- James Patterson 1/19/09
5. Double Cross -- James Patterson 1/28/09

February

6. Empire Falls -- Richard Russo 2/15/09
7. Little Altars Everywhere-Rebecca Wells 2/23/09
8. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss 2/28/09

March

9. Twenty Wishes ---- Debbie Macomber 3/05//09
10. Like the Red Panda - Andrea Seigel 3/11/09
11. A Good Woman -- Danielle Steel 3/15/09
12. Nighttime Is My Time - Mary Higgins Clark 3/20/09
13. Tribute -- Nora Roberts 3/27/09
14. Seven Minutes To -- Kate Pepper 3/30/09
Noon

April
15. While I Was Gone -- Sue Miller 4/7/09
16. Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson 4/11/09
17. Snow in August -- Pete Hammill 4/18/09
18. Whispers & Lies -- Joy Fielding 4/20/09
19. Family Tree -- Barbara Delinsky 4/25/09
20. Year of Fog -- Michelle Richmond 5/02/09

May
21. Turtle Moon -- Alice Hoffman 5/08/09
22. Cross Country -- James Patterson 5/17/09
23 Elsewhere -- Gabrielle Ziven 5/21/09
24. Girl in the Mirror -- Mary Alice Monroe 5/26/09
25. Don't Cry Now -- Joy Fielding 5/30/09
26. Pure Sunshine -- Brian James 5/31/09

June

27. Country Brides -- Debbie Macomber 6/4/09
28. Blood Orange -- Druscille Campbell 6/9/09
29 The Friday Night Knitting Club 6/14/09
30. Magic Hour -- Kristin Hannah 6/18/09
31. Everything Changes -- Jonathan Tropper 6/22/09
32. 8th Confession -- James Patterson 6/26/09
33. Still Alice 7/02/09

July

34. Time Is Like A River -- Mary Alice Monroe 7/09/09
35. Charley's Web -- Joy Fielding 7/15/09
36. Incantation -- Alice Hoffman 7/17/09
37. Keeping Faith -- Jodi Picoult 7/27/09
38. The River King -- Alice Hoffman 7/31/09

August

39. Summer on Blossom Street - Debbie Macomber 8/02/09
40. Heartstopper - Joy Fielding 8/05/09
41. The Wednesday Letters - Jason F. Wright 8/07/09
42. Child Of My Heart 8/11/09
43 No One You Know - Michelle Richmond 8/14/09
44. Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark 8/19/09
45. The Guernsey Literary & 8/25/09
Potato Peel Pie Society
46. The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton 9/01/09

September

47. The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls 9/5/09
48. Escape - Carolyn Jessop 9/11/09
49- Kabul Beauty School 9/19/09
50. Upside Down Inside Out - Monica McInerey 9/25/09
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My 50 book reading challenge is DONE!!

October

51. Swimsuit -- James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 10/2/09
52. 82 Pacific Blvd. -- Debbie Macomber 10/7/09
53. Mad River Road - Joy Fielding 10/13/09
54. The Book Thief - Mark Zusak 10/20/09
55. Without A Sound - Carla Cassidy 10/26/09

November

56. Smoke Screen - Sandra Brown 11/03/09
57. In The Blink of An Eye - Wendy Corsi Staub 11/09/09
58. How To Be Lost - Amanda Weyre 11/13/09
59. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate -- Jacqueline Kelly 11/19/09
60. The Murder of King Tut -- James Patterson 11/22/09
61. Don't Scream -- Wendy Corsi Staub 12/2/09

December

62. A Whole New Light -- Sandra Brown 12/5/09
63. Grand Avenue -- Joy Fielding 12/13/09
64. While My Sister Sleeps -- Barbara Delinsky 12/20/09
65. some kind of Christmas story

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Goddess of everything that flows

January-February

1( If She Only Knew by Lisa Jackson (ugh, avoid this one)
2) A Hole in Juan by Gillian Roberts (will be glad when this series is over)
3) Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner
4) Hide by Lisa Gardner
5) One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
6) Stripped by Michael Freeman
7) White Sister by Stephen J Cannell

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Underground, Ripley the Game by Patricia Highsmith
9) The First Victem by Ridley Pearson
10) Blinded by Stephen White
11) Dewey the Small Town Library Cat Vicki Myron
12) Morning After Lisa Jackson
13) Three Shirt Deal Stephen J Cannell
14) Affair Amanda Quick
15) Play Dead David Rosenfelt

March

16) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
17) Much Ado About You Eloisa James
18) Missing Persons Stephen White
19) Straight Man Richard Russo
20) After Dark Phillip Margolin
21) Middle of Nowhere Ridley Pearson
22) Meet Me at Midnight Suzanne Enoch
23) With This Ring Amanda Quick
24) Knots and Crosses Ian Rankin
25) I Went To Vassar For This? Naomi Neale
26) The Adventures of Frog and Toad Arnold Lobel
27) Playing for Pizza John Grisham--in process
28) The Third Circle Amanda Quick
29. I Thee Wed by Amanda Quick
30. Kill Me by Stephen White
31. Bleeding Hearts by Ian Rankin
32. Kiss Me Annabel by Eloisa James
33. A conventional Corpse by Joan Hess

April-June

34. Dark Angels by Karleen Koen
35. Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolan (stuck)
36. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
37. Dry Ice by Stephen White
38. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
39. Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
40. The Art of Deception by Ridley Pearson
41. Guilty Karen Robards
42. The Marriage Game Fern Michaels (don't think I can finish this one)
43. A Little Bit Wicked Victoria Alexander (couldn't finish it, too awful)
44. The Body of David Hayes Ridley Pearson
45. Chasing Darkness Robert Crais
46. Killer Heat Linda Fairstein
47. The Front Patricia Cornwell
48. All's Well that Ends Gillian Roberts
49. Phantom Prey John Sandford
50. Stalked Brian Freeman
51. A Slipping Down Life Ann Tyler
52. Nobody's Fool Richard Russo
53. What the Dead Know Laura Lippman
54. The Genius Jesse Kellerman
55. Plum Spooky Janet Evanovich
56. The Echo Maker Richard Powers
57. The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie
58. The Making of a Country Lawyer Jerry Spence (reading)
59. Bridge of Sighs Richard Russo
60. Fourth Hand John Irving
61. Little Earthquakes Jennifer Weiner
62. Agnes and the Hitman Jenifer Crusie
63. The French Lieutenant's Woman
64. Back to the Bedroom Janet Evanovich

July
65. Finger Lickin' Fifteen Janet Evanovich
66. Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life by Lauren (or was it Lawrence?) Bergreen
67. Island by Alistair Macleod
68. Dead Time by Stephen White
69. Silks by Dick and Felix Francis
70. Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin
71. Blackout by Annie Solomon
72. Cold Day in Hell by Richard Hawke
73. Santa Fe Rules by Stuart Woods
74. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeffrey Lindsay
75. Backspin by Harlan Coben
76. The 37th Hour by Jodi Compton
77. Chain of Evidence by Ridley Pearson
78. The Fallen byT. Jefferson Parker
79. +%#+$'s Child by Richard Russo
80. Sleeping Beauty by Philip Marglin (reading)

August

81. A Good Hanging by Ian Rankin
82. Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
83. Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
84. Send: The Essential Guide to Email by David Shipley and Will Schwaalb
85. One False Move by Harlan Coben
86. Probable Cause by Ridley Pearson
87. Slightly Shady by Amanda Quick
88. Black Water by T. Jefferson Parker
89. Savage Beauty: the Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
90. Don't Tell a Soul by David Rosenfelt
91. Lost Salt Gift of Blood by Alistair MacLeod
92. Flawless by Joshua Spanogle (reading)
93. The Black Book by Ian Rankin
94. Heat Lightning by John Sandford

September

95. Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
96. Final Detail by Harlan Coben
97. Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver
98. The Blue Hour by T. Jefferson Parker
99. Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin
100. Darkest Fear by Harlan Coben
101. Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
102. Long Lost by David Morrell
103. Red Light by t. Jefferson Parker
104. A Wicked Gentleman by Jane Feather

We wear the chains we forge in life. Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool

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(01/03/09 02:26)

Literature Scholar

January

1. A Man Without A Country~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2. The Manchurian Candidate~ Richard Condon
3. Three Novels~ Samuel Beckett (includes Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)
4. A Room With A View~ E.M. Forster
5. In The Woods~ Tana French
6. The Devil and Miss Prym~ Paulo Coelho
7. Crime and Punishment~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. War of the Worlds~ H.G. Wells

February

9. Blindness~ Jose Saramago
10. The Trial~ Franz Kafka
11. Glamorama~ Bret Easton Ellis
12. Their Eyes Were Watching God~ Zora Neale Hurston
13. Kafka on the Shore~Haruki Murakami
14. The Reluctant Fundamentalist~ Mosin Hamid

March

15. Light Before Day~ Christopher Rice

April

16. The Cave~ Jose Saramago
17. Jakob the Liar~ Jurek Becker
18. Everything is Illuminated~ Jonathan Safran Foer
19. The Reader~ Bernhard Schlink
20. Fatal Light~ Richard Currey
21. Animal Farm~ George Orwell
22. Armageddon in Retrospect~ Kurt Vonnegut jr.

May

23. The Unit~ Ninni Holmqvist
24. The Art of War (with critical analysis)~ Sun Tzu
25. The Master and Margarita~ Mikhail Buglakov

June

26. Drop City~ T.C. Boyle
27. The Red Badge of Courage~ Stephen Crane
28. The Crucible~ Arthur Miller

July

29. Smilla's Sense of Snow~ Peter Hoeg
30. All Quiet on the Western Front~ Erich Maria Remarque
31. Cat's Eye~ Margaret Atwood
32. The Black Dahlia~ James Ellroy
33. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone~ J.K. Rowling
34. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets~ J.K. Rowling
35. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban~ J.K. Rowling
36. Coraline~ Neil Gaiman

August

37. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire~ J.K. Rowling
38. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix~ J.K. Rowling
39. The Glass Castle~ Jeanette Walls
40. The Girl Who Played With Fire~ Stieg Larsson
41. The Pastures of Heaven~ John Steinbeck

September

42. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn~ Betty Smith
43. The Handmaid's Tale~ Margaret Atwood
44. Breaking Dawn~ Stephanie Meyer
45. The Book of Lost Things~ John Connolly
46. Freakonomics~ Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
47. The Kite Runner~ Kahled Hosseini
48. The Fall~ Albert Camus
49. Just After Sunset~ Stephen King

October

50. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao~ Junot Diaz
51. Crisis~ Robin Cook
52. Alias Grace~ Margaret Atwood
53. Death With Interruptions~ Jose Saramago
54. Dracula~ Bram Stoker

November

55. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince~ J.K. Rowling
56. The Amber Room~ Steve Berry
57. The Stranger~ Albert Camus

December

58. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows~ J.K. Rowling

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(01/04/09 07:42)

I'm going to make an effort to do this for 2009:

January
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years - Michael Palin
Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 by David Friend
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
The Hard Years - Joe Brown
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith
Lost Souls - Neil White
The Ghost Map - Steven Johnson
Restoree - Anne McCaffrey
Newton's Wake - Ken Macleod
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
The Draining Lake - Arnaldur Indridason
The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman
The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R King
Eleven on Top - Janet Evanovitch

February
The Girl Who Heard Dragons - Anne McCaffrey
Locked Rooms - Laurie R King
The Shadow in the North - Philip Pullman
The Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
What Killed Jane Austen? - Dr George Biro & Dr Jim Leavesley
Dragonfire - Jody Lynn Nye
The Tiger in the Well - Philip Pullman
The Villain by Jim Perrin
Twilight by Peter James - worst book this year so far.

...at which point I lose track and move on to...

March
Pegasus Descending - James Lee Burke
Against the Wall by Simon Yates
The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman
Midwinter of the Spirit by Phil Rickman
The Smile of a Ghost by Phil Rickman
The Fabric of Sin by Phil Rickman
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett
Scaredy Cat by John Billingham
Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

April
Black Saturday edited by John McGourty
Dying Light by Stuart MacBride
Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride
Flesh House by Stuart MacBride
Big Bangs! by Howard Goodall
Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
Metallic Love by Tanith Lee - 3nd worst book this year so far.

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale - best book of the year so far.

High Achiever: The Life & Climbs of Chris Bonington by Jim Curran

May
Black Sunday by Thomas Harris
Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride
The Remains of an Altar by Phil Rickman
BFI Film Classics: Kind Hearts & Coronets by Michael Newton
Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories by young writers aged 11-20 years
Trainspotting by Murray Smith (BFI contemporary classics series)
The Prayer of the Night Shepherd by Phil Rickman
Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin
Let it Bleed by Ian Rankin
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
Baneful Sorceries by Joan Sanders - 2nd worst book this year so far.

Black Harvest by Ann Pilling

June
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin
The Falls by Ian Rankin
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin
The Story of O, Part II by Pauline Reage
Beggars Banquet (short stories) by Ian Rankin
Unnatural Causes by PD James
Criminals by Margaret Livesey
Dead Souls by Ian Rankin

July
A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke
By Flower and Dean Street/The Love Apple by Patrice Chaplin
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit edited by Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively
Get Carter by Mike Hodges (screenplay)

August
To Dream of the Dead by Phil Rickman (a Merrily Watkins mystery)
Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffrey Deaver
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Kaspar, Prince of Cats by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Michael Foreman
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovitch
Swan Peak by James Lee Burke
Green Hand by Lillian Beckwith
Night by Elie Wiesel
2009 Victorian Bushfires Commission Interim Report
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Shadows in the Sun by Chad Oliver
35 UP - the book from the documentary series by Michael Apted

September
The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and a couple of other blokes
Hot Sun at Midnight by Robert Silverberg
Pitch Black by Frank Lauria (Novelisation of the sci-fi movie. Not good.)
Threshold by Sara Douglass
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
The Chronicles of Riddick by Alan Dean Foster (Another candidate for worst read of the year)
Pitch Black by Alex Gray (police procedural, set in Glasgow. Very ordinary.)
Black Coffee by Charles Osbourne (Novelisation of an Agatha Christie play)
Affinity by Sarah Waters
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Dwyer & Flynn

October
Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
Raise the Red Lantern by Su Tong (novella)
'48 by James Herbert
The Lighthouse by PD James
Tower Stories - an oral history of the attack on the World Trades Centre
Death in Holy Orders by PD James
A Shadow on the Glass by Ian Irvine
The Tower on the Rift by Ian Irvine
Um...

November
Um...
Dark is the Moon by Ian Irvine
The Way between the Worlds by Ian Irvine

Seven Up by Stella Bruzzi (BFI TV Classics)

1974 by David Peace
1977 by David Peace
...um, can't remember...

December
..I have completely lost the plot...
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia by Don Watson
An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
1980 by David Peace

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(01/06/09 02:34)

Bookhunter

The Wolf Sea by Robert Low
The White Mughals by William Dalrymple
Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson
Immoral by Brian Freeman
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
Stripped by Brian Freeman
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Voices By Aranuldar Indirason
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mosin Hami
The Draining Lake by Aranuldar Indirason
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
House of Leaves by Mark z. Danielewski
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
The State of Africa by Martin Meredith
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Spanish Conquistadores by F A Kilpatrick
The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton
The man in the yellow doublet by Arturo Perez Reverte
The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
The Serbian Dane by Leif Davidon
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
Venus In Furs by Joseph Von Sacher-Masoch
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Harukai Muraka
The White Raven by Robert Low
Vive La Revolution by Mark Steel
The Black Gods Kiss by C L Moore
A Secret History of the Future by Robie McAuley
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Georges Simenon
Raiders from the North by Alex Rutherford
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Dead Til Dark by Charlaine Harrison
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz
An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
The Irresistable Revolution - Shane Claiborne
Thomas More's Magician by Toby Green
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe

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KScribe

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(01/09/09 01:20)

Avid Reader

January --

The Thirteenth Tale
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."
- David Sedaris (Naked)

bluecaffeine

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(01/10/09 01:59)

Literature Scholar

1. Introducing Heidegger by Jeff Colluns and Howard Selina ***
2. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich *1/2
3. Absence of Nectar by Kathy Hepinstall **1/2
4. Faking 19 by Alyson Noel **
5. Conversations with the Fat Girl by Liza Palmer **
6. Sisterchicks in Gondolas by Robins Jones Gunn **
7. How the Other Half Hamptons by Jasmin Rosemberg

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(01/11/09 09:23)

January

1. Book of the Dead ~ Patricia Cornwell
2. Scarpetta ~ Patricia Cornwell
3. Untamed ~ Elizabeth Lowell
4. Seize the Night ~ Sherilyn Kenyon
5. Guerilla Marketing for the Small Business ~ Jay Conrad Levinson
6. Daring to Dream ~ Nora Roberts
7. Pandora's Daughter ~ Iris Johansen
8. Plum Spooky ~ Janet Evanovich
9. Carolina Moon ~ Nora Roberts
10. Body Heat ~ Carly Phillips
11. Blue Heaven ~ CJ Box
12. Devil May Cry ~ Sherilyn Kenyon
13. Forbidden ~ Elizabeth Lowell

February

1. Enchanted ~ Elizabeth Lowell
2. Holding the Dream ~ Nora Roberts
3. Foul Play ~ Janet Evanovich

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PatLewin

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(01/14/09 02:37)

Suspense Author

January

1. The Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
2. A Practical Guide to Buddhist Mediation by Paramanda

Pat Lewin (Author)

Gracewings

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(01/15/09 06:01)

January
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

February
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (a reread)
This Must Be the Place by Anna Winger

April
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith

May
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

June
Unashamed by Francine Rivers

July
The Darcys Give a Ball by Elizabeth Newark
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith

August
NF Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... by Cathcart & Klein

"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June." ~L. M. Montgomery

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Queen Of The Abyss

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(01/20/09 09:10)

Moderating from Beyond the Grave

January

The Mysterious Stranger~Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby~F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Man Who Lived in Inner Space~Arnold Federbush

February

The Attraction~Douglas Clegg
One More for the Road~Ray Bradbury

May
Strange Seed~T.M. Wright
The Vampire of Ropraz~Jacques Chessex
Otherland I: City of Golden Shadow~Tad Williams

June
The Time Machine~H.G. Wells
The Professor and the Madman~Simon Winchester
20th Century Ghosts~Joe Hill
Architects of Emortality~Brian Stableford
The Nature of Balance~Tim Lebbon

July
Childhood's End~Arthur C. Clarke
Beneath the Wheel~Hermann Hesse
House of Illusions~Ruby Jean Jensen
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories~Alexander Pushkin

August
Death is a Lonely Business~Ray Bradbury
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things~Lafcadio Hearn
Aladdin's Problem~Ernst Junger
Galveston~Sean Stewart

October
The Long Walk~Stephen King
Second Soul~Thomas Sullivan

December
The Door to Saturn~Clark Ashton Smith
King of all the Dead~Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis

*Disclaimer: Not responsible for lost, stolen, or eaten body parts*

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Savannah Smyles

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(01/21/09 06:27)

Dewey--that Cat Who Changed The World
The Genius- Jesse Kellerman
The Borrowed and Blue Murders- Merry Jones
Clubbed to Death: A Dead-End Job Mystery- Elaine Viets
The Brass Verdict- Michael Connelly
Stormy Weather- Carl Hiaasen
Atomice Lobster- Tim Dorsey
Born to Run- James Grippando
The Golliath Bone- Mickey Spillane- Hated this book, and I love the genre.

Cats are proof that God is a woman.Only a woman could come up with such a creature.

lordgaron

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(01/30/09 11:19)

Golden one

Platinum Member

January
The First Patient by Michael Palmer
Shall We Tell the President? by Jeffery Archer
Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey
Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich
Manhunt by Janet Evanovich

February
Full Blast by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes
Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich
Sail by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Simon R. Green
The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

March
Hell to Pay by Simon R. Green
Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen
Dogs and Goddesses by Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart and Lani Diane Rich
Q & A (Slumdog Millionaire) by Vikas Swarup
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
The Grand Finale by Janet Evanovich

April
Grayson by Lynne Cox
Rebel Waltz by Kay Hooper
Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
Tender Graces by Kathryn Magendie
The Ruins of Gorlan (The Ranger's Apprentice, Book 1) by John Flanagan

May
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing by Mignon Fogarty
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

June

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(02/25/09 09:13)

Book Lover

January
Game of Thrones George RR Martin
Clash of Kings George RR Martin
Storm of Swords George RR Martin
Valley of Horses Jean M Auel

February
The Mammoth Hunters Jean M Auel
Plains of Passage Jean M Auel
Stones of Shelter Jean M Auel
Eragon Christopher Paolini

March
Eldest Christopher Paolini
Brisingr Christopher Paoli

April
Bitten Kelley Armstrong
Stollen Kelley Armstrong
Dies the Fire S.M. Sterling

May
The Protector's War S.M. Sterling

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(02/28/09 08:00)

1. At First Sight - Nicholas Sparks
2. The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve
3. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
4. Midnight - Dean Koontz
5. The Wedding - Nicholas Sparks
6. Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks
7. Bag of Bones - Stephen King

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(06/13/09 03:15)

January - May
The Magican Nephew - CS Lewis
Since I Was a Princess: The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children - Jacqueline Pascarl

June
The Lord of the Rings - Dutch version 06-13-2009
Divine - Karen Kingsbury 06-26-2009

Yet to do
More than a skeleton - Paul Maier
the negotiator - Dee Henderson
The Resurrection File (Chambers of Justice Series #1) - Craig Parshall
Directed Verdict - Randy Singer
Storm Gathering - Rene Gutteridge
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela
Emma's War - Deborah Scroggins

With love,
Yadi

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(10/02/09 03:16)

Here's some of what I can remember reading in 2009.

1. The Shack by William Young
2. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
3. The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5. Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
7. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
8. The Life of Pi by Yan Martel
10. Clara Callen by Ricahrd B Wright
11. Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
12. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
13. Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
14. The Outlander by Gil Adamson
15. The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
16. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
17. True Believer by Nicholas Sparks
18. The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
19. The Camel Club by David Baldacci
20. All the Colors of Darkness by Peter Robinson
21. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate diCamillo
22. The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston
23. Fallen Skies by Phillippa Gregory
24. The Overlook by Michael Connelly
25. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
26. The Watchman by Robert Crais
27. Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
28.Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
29. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
30. Mr and Mrs Darcy by Sharon Lathan
31. The Passion of Chelsea Kane by Barbara Delinsky
32. A Piece of My Heart by Peter Robinson

There's a start, I know there are others I can't come up with right now.

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(11/20/09 11:46)

Ever Hopeful

Diamond Member

1. Muddle Earth by P. Stewart & C. Riddell ~ completed 01.16.09 ~ 450 pages
2. A Short History of the English People (vol. 1) by J. R. Green~completed 02.06.09~468 pgs
3. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski ~ completed 02.08.09 ~ 566 pages
4. The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkerson ~ completed 02.14.09 ~ 92 pages
5. The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory ~ completed 02.18.09 ~ 433 pages
6. The Curse of the Gloamgloazer by P. Stewart & C. Riddell~ completed 02.19.09~ 370 pages
7. Oblivion by Peter Abrahams ~ completed 03.13.09 ~ 337 pages
8. Shadows of Lancaster County by Mindy Starns Clark~ completed 03.16.09 ~ 326 pages
9. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill~ completed 03.20.09 ~ 376 pages
10. The Last of the Sky Pirates by P Stewart and C Riddell ~ completed 04.11.09 ~ 369 pages
11. The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood ~ completed 05.11.09 ~ 368 pages
12. The Disappearance by Efrem Sigel ~ completed 05.12.09 ~ 262 pages
13. The Stand by Stephen King ~ completed 05.18.09 ~ 1153 pages
14. A Short History of the English People (vol. 2) by J. R. Green~completed 05.27.09~463 pages
15. True Colors by Kristin Hannay ~ completed 06.11.09 ~ 343 pages
16. Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall ~ completed 06.18.09 ~ 431 pages
17. Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them by John Ortberg ~ completed 06.24.09 ~ 234 pages
18. The Vagrants by Yiyun Li ~ completed 06.25.09 ~ 337 pages
19. Saints by Orson Scott Card ~ completed 07.15.09 ~ 711 pages
20. Vox by P Stewart & C Riddell ~ completed 07.25.09 ~ 385 pages
21. The Interior by Lisa See ~ completed 07.30.09 ~ 501 pages ~ 1 behind
22. The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright ~ completed 08.11.09 ~ 280 pages
23. The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry ~ completed 08.29.09 ~ 385 pages
24. Winter Study by Nevada Barr ~ completed 09.10.09 ~ 370 pages
25. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon ~ completed 09.20.09 ~ 850 pages
26. The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi ~ completed 10.05.09 ~ 420 pages
27, Freeglader by P Stewart & C Riddell ~ completed 10.12.09 ~ 403 pages
28. Watership Down by Richard Adams ~ completed 10.19.09 ~ 474 pages
29. Relentless by Dean Koontz ~ completed 10.21.09 ~ 356 pages
30. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See ~ completed 10.29.09 ~ 314 pages
31. Drood by Dan Simmons ~ completed 11.14.09 ~ 771 pages
32. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri ~ completed 11.19.09 ~ 291 pages

Drood by Dan Simmons ~ 771 pages ~ completed 11/14/09

Currently Reading:
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (285/291)
and
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (000/814)
and
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (000/947)
and
The Winter Knights by P. Stewart & C. Riddell (000/382)

Ragamuffingirl

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(12/20/09 02:02)

Speaks Her Mind

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
If I Ever Return Pretty Peggy-O by Sharyn McCrumb
She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
The Song Catcher by Sharyn McCrumb
The Allegory of Love by C.S. Lewis
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffnegger
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Barclay's Apology in Modern English by Robert Barclay
Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshlyn Jackson
Rococo by Adriana Trigiani
Home To Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
C.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table
A Living Faith A Historical Study of Quaker Beliefs
The Complete Father Brown Stories by GK Chesterton
The Discarded Image by CS Lewis
Lenten Lands by David Gresham
Martin Luther the Christian Between God and Death
Present Concerns by CS Lewis
Can't Wait To Get To Heaven by Fannie Flagg
The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brashares
Underground by Kat Richardson
The Young Wan by Brendan O'Carroll (part of a series, read it!!)
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad
CS Lewis' Letters To Children by CS Lewis
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Vanished by Kat Richardson
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
Whip It by Shauna Cross
The Help by Kathryn Strockett
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
A Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
The Heretics Daughter by Kathleen Kent
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
Made In America by Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson

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