Learned intense love of reading from a Dad who was never to be found without literature in his life. Eclectic taste...not much of a short story or poetry afficionado, however. Prize customer of Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Waldenbooks, and Books A Million but out of room in my house...would rather share!

Books read in 2008 (current read on top)
Auschwitz by Laurence Rees
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
Signed, Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy
The Franchise Babe by Dan Jenkins
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford
The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
The Rice Mother
Ship of Ghosts by James D. Hornfischer
Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor
102 Minutes; The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn

Books read in 2007 (current read on top)
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Sky Burial by Xinran
Love in the Time of Cholera
In the Deep
The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
Escape by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Zookeeper's Wife
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee
The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
Harbor Boys
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Consuela and Alva Vanderbilt by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff (bookring)
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
Water for Elephants
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Cigarette Century
Strange Side of Paradise
A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl with Sarah Crichton
This Voice in My Heart A runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith and Forgiveness by Gilbert Tuhabonye
What Remains by Carole Radziwill
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Falling Man by Don DeLillo
The Last Empress
The Beautiful Cigar Girl by Daniel Stashower
Sala's Gift by Ann Kirschner
A Woman in Jerusalem
The Truth of the Matter by Robb Forman Dew
The Memories We Keep
The Book Thief
The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
About Alice by Calvin Trillin
The Crowded Heart by Nicholas Papandreou
Dean and Me, A Love Story by Jerry Lewis
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
The Dreams of Ada by Robert Mayer
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
The Looming Tower: Al Queda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Manhunt: the 12 Day Hunt for Lincoln's Killer by James J. Swanson
Gravesend Light by David Payne
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips