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" She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." - Louisa May Alcott
JANUARY 2014
- The Colour of Milk - Nell Leyshon
MAR/APRIL/MAY
- Me Before You - JoJo Moyes
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
- The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
- Beautiful Unbroken - Mary Jane Nealon
- Lessons for the Living - Stan Goldberg
- The Midwife of Venice - Roberta Rich
- The Lake - Banana Yoshimo
- The Emigrants - Vilhelm Moberg
- Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer - Fr. Michael Lapsley
JANUARY 2013
- A Mapmaker's Dream - James Cowan
- Morgan's Passing - Anne Tyler
- Sweetness in the Belly - Camilla Gibb
FEBRUARY
- Francesca's Kitchen - Peter Pezzelli
- Help, Thanks, Wow - Anne Lamott
- We Can All Do Better - Bill Bradley
- Home to Italy - Peter Pezzelli
- Safe from the Sea - Peter Geye
- The Long Walk - Slavomir Rawicz
MARCH
- Run - Anne Patchett
- The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany - Susan Vreeland
- Bounce: Living the Resilient Life - Robert J. Wicks
- The Measure of Our Days - Jerome Groopman, MD
APRIL
- Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers - Adriana Trigiani
- Lost in Translation - Jean Kwok
- Children and Fire - Ursula Hegi
- The Seventeen Second Miracle - Jason F. Wright
- A Corner of the Marais - Alex Karmel
MAY
- Italian Lessons - Peter Pezzelli
- Moloka'i - Alan Brennert
- Lydia's Charm - Wanda Brunstetter
- Sand Dollar Island - Rob Smith
- Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality - Richard Rohr
- My Cousin the Saint - Justin Catanoso
- The Lace Makers of Glenmara - Heather Barbieri
JUNE
- The Beginner's Goodbye - Anne Tyler
- The Grace of Silence - Michele Norris
- Rick Steves Hidden Europe
- Villa Mirabella - Peter Pezzelli
JULY
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
- Failing America's Faithful - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
- Amandine - Marlena de Blasi
- The Importance of Being Seven - Alexander McCall Smith
- Wicked Bugs - Amy Stewart
AUGUST
- Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
- Symbols - Jerry Apps
- Babylon Sisters - Pearl Cleage
- Bachelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast - Bill Richardson
SEPTEMBER
- The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
- You've Got to Read This - Jack Canfield
- A Whole New Life - Reynolds Price
- Monsieur Linh and His Child - Philippe Claudel
- Miss Julia Paints the Town - Ann B. Ross
OCTOBER
- Scandal on Rincon Hill - Shirley Tallman
-In a Japanese Garden - Charmaine Aserappa
- My Foreign Cities: A Memoir - Elizabeth Scarboro
- The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
- The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom
NOVEMBER
- How to Paint a Dead Man - Sarah Hall
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers - Robert Sapolsky
- Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of 7 Women Mystics - Carol L. Flinders
- Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman
DECEMBER
JANUARY 2012
- Grace (Eventually)- Anne Lamott
- Skeletons at the Feast - Chris Bohjalian
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
- Ultimate Journey - Richard Bernstein
- Private Life - Jane Smiley
- French Lessons - Ellen Sussman
- Gabby - Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua
FEBRUARY
- The Housekeeper & the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
- Crones Don't Whine - Jean Shinoda Bolen
- The Blood of Flowers - Anita Amirrezvani
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
MARCH
- Unravelling - Elizabeth Graver
- Life! Celebrate It - Luci Swindoll
- The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
- Tilli's Story: My Thoughts are Free - Tilli Schulz & Lorna Collier
- Magic Hour - Kristin Hannah
- Notes Left Behind - Brooke & Keith Desserich
APRIL
- The Boy I Once Knew - Elizabeth Stone
- Tuscany & Umbria - Karen Brown
- Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace - Cathleen Falsani
- The Miracle,The Message,The Story: Jean Vanier & l'Arche-Kathryn Spink
- Every Day in Tuscany - Frances Mayes
MAY
- A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel
- True to Form - Elizabeth Berg
- Faith Beyond Borders - Donald Mosley
- Mrs. Bridge - Evan S. Connell
- Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
- Dark Water: Art, Disaster, & Redemption in Florence - Robert Clark
JUNE
- Blackbirds of Mulhouse - Eric Maisel
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power - Rachel Maddow
- Family Tree - Barbara Delinsky
- Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
- A Life Well-Lived - Charles Swindoll
- Patience with God - Frank Schaeffer
JULY
- Hope's Boy - Andrew Bridge
- The Winter of Our Disconnect - Susan Maushart
- Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral - Kris Radish
- Breakfast at Sally's - Richard LeMieux
AUGUST
- I Love You Like a Tomato - Marie Giordano
- Shelter Me - Juliette Fay
- Crossroads Cafe - Deborah Smith
- Heart of the Matter - Emily Giffin
- To the Field of Stars - Kevin Codd
- Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum
- That Summer in Sicily - Marlena de Blasi
SEPTEMBER
- The Tuscan Year - Elizabeth Romer
- Beneath Blossom Rain - Kevin Grange
- The Angel with the Golden Glow: A Family's Journey Through Loss & Healing - Elissa Al-Chokhachy
- On Any Given Day - Joe Martin
- The Girls - Lori Lansens
OCTOBER
- Plague Tales - Ann Benson
- Renaissance Brides - Barbara Youree
- In Case We're Separated - Alice Mattison
- Paper Moon - Joe David Brown
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt
- The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
- Private Peaceful - Michael Morpugo
- Dreams of Joy - Lisa See
NOVEMBER
- A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard
- Dream Work - Mary Oliver
- The All of It - Jeanette Haien
- Leave It Better Than You Found It - Bruce A. Nordstrom
- Room - Emma Donoghue
DECEMBER
- Round Robin - Jennifer Chiavarini
- The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede
- An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
- Compass Points - Meeting God Every Day at Every Turn - Margaret Silf
Books read in 2011
JANUARY
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano
- Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
- A Brooklyn Odyssey - Albert Rothman
- The Girls from Ames - Jeffrey Zaslow
- Queen of Dreams - Chitra Divakaruni
- Saving Graces - Elizabeth Edwards
FEBRUARY
- How to Host a Killer Party - Penny Warner
- Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
- Love over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Breath of the Soul - Joan Chittister
- The World According to Bertie - A.M. Smith
MARCH
- The Ash Garden - Dennis Bock
- The Unbearable Lightness of Scones - Alexander McCall Smith
- Lessons for the Living - Stan Goldberg
APRIL
- The Eternal Journey: How Near-Death Experiences Illuminate our Earthly Lives - Lindahl
- The Gilded Chamber - Rebecca Kohn
- The Sweet Life in Paris - David Lebovitz
- Murder at the Monk's Table - Carol Anne O'Marie
- Promise Me - Richard Paul Evans
- Needles & Pearls - Gil McNeil
- All Things at Once - Mika Brzezinski
- My Antonia - Willa Cather
MAY
- The Stones of Florence - Mary McCarthy
- The Doorbells of Florence - Andrew Losowsky
- Lift - Kelly Corrigan
- The Seventh Unicorn - Kelly Jones
- My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
- The Power of Pause - Terry Hershey
- The Next Big Story - Soledad O'Brien
JUNE
- The Faith Club - Idliby, Oliver, Warner
- Piano: The Making of a Steinway...James Barron
- Pearl of China - Anchee Min
- Escape - Carolyn Jessop
- The Road Home - Rose Tremain
- A Mended & Broken Heart: The Life & Love of Francis of Assisi - Wendy Murray
- Home - Marilynne Robinson
JULY
- First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - Loung Ung
- In the Company of Others - Jan Karon
- Waking Up to This Day: Seeing the Beauty Right Before Us- Paula D'Arcy
- Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
- Martyr of the Amazon: The Life of Sister Dorothy Stang - Roseanne Murphy
AUGUST
- Brava, Valentine - Adriana Trigiani
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich
SEPTEMBER
- Glimpses of Heaven - Trudy Harris
- Within Tuscany - Matthew Spender
- Dark Water - Robert Clark
- The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
OCTOBER
- School for Love - Olivia Manning
- Miracles of Prato - Laurie Albanese & Laura Morowitz
- Coffee with Nonna - Vincent Iezzi
- Sacred Hearts - Sarah Dunant
- In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving - LeighAnne & Sean Tuohy
- Day After Night - Anita Diamant
- The Charming Quirks of Others - Alexander McCall Smith
NOVEMBER
- Banker to the Poor: Microlending... Muhammad Yunus
- The Force of Kindness - Sharon Salzberg
- The Vagrants - Yiyun Li
- La's Orchestra Saves the World - A.M. Smith
- Giovanni's Light - Phyllis Theroux
- Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson
- Proust & the Squid: The Story & Science of the Reading Brain - Maryanne Wolf
- Under This Unbroken Sky - Shandi Mitchell
- The Blessing of a Skinned Knee - Wendy Mogel
- Half-Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls
DECEMBER
- Secrets of Eden- Chris Bohjalian
Books read in 2010
JANUARY
- Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love - Lara Vapnyar
- The Florist's Daughter - Patricia Hampl
- The Buildings of Berkeley - Robert Bernhardi
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Luncheon of the Boating Party - Susan Vreeland
- The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
FEBRUARY
- The Freedom - Christian Parenti
- Meeting God at Every Turn - Catherine Marshall
- Sugar Time - Jane Adams
- Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
- Angels and Ages - Adam Gopnik
- The Unspeakable - Charles Laird Calia
MARCH
- Halfway to Each Other - Susan Pohlman
- Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
- The Rossetti Letter - Christi Phillips
- Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness - Richard Cohen
APRIL
- Back on Blossom Street - Debbie Macomber
- The Postcard - Beverly Lewis
- If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This - Robin Black
- Rooftops of Tehran - Mahbod Seragi
- Refining Emma - Delia Parr
MAY
- The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
- The Winding Ways Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
- Trail of Crumbs - Kim Sunee
- Salt Dancers - Ursula Hegi
- Murder on the Ile St. Louis - Cara Black
- The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
JUNE
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- The Glassblower of Murano - Marina Fiorato
- Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul - Tony Hendra
- In this Mountain - Jan Karon
- The Arms of God - Lynne Hinton
- Forgive Me - Amanda Eyre Ward
- Home Safe - Elizabeth Berg
JULY
- Deafening - Frances Itani
- The Wedding Officer - Anthony Capella
- Ester & Ruzya: - Masha Gessen
- Accidentally on Purpose: - Mary Pols
- The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
- Dreamers of the Day - Maria Doria Russell
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
AUGUST
- Traveling with Pomegranates - Ann Kidd Taylor&Sue Monk Kidd
- There Is No Me Without You - Melissa Fay Greene
- The Journal of Helene Berr - Helene Berr
- Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay & the Making of a Musician - Barbara Lourie Sand
SEPTEMBER
- Not Becoming My Mother - Ruth Reichl
- In Memoriam - Henri Nouwen
- A Letter of Consolation - Henri Nouwen
- Housekeeping - Marilyne Robinson
- Sacajawea - Joseph Bruchac
OCTOBER
- Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall Smith
- Outcasts United - Warren St. John
- Not Becoming My Mother... - Ruth Reichl
- When I Lay My Isaac Down - Carol Kent
- The Stones of Florence - Mary McCarthy
- The Help - Kathryn Stockett
NOVEMBER
- Botticelli's Secret - Marina Fiorata
- Love in the Driest Season - Neely Tucker
- The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green - Joshua Braff
- Always Looking Up - Michael J. Fox
- Walk in a Relaxed Manner - Life Lessons from the Camino - Joyce Rupp
- A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
- City of Thieves - David Benioff
- Gift of the Red Bird - Paula D'Arcy
- Keeping the Feast: Paula Butterini
- The Council of Dads: Bruce Feiler
DECEMBER
- Tallgrass - Sandra Dallas
- In Our Hearts We Were Giants - Koren & Negev
- April in Paris - Michael Wallner
- 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith
Books read in 2009
JANUARY
- If Today Be Sweet - Thrity Umrigar
* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer and Barrows
- A Memory of War - Frederick Busch
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
- Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
- Senior Days - Colleen Nicol
- Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron
- The Persia Cafe - Melany Neilson
- I Am America (and so can you) - Stephen Colbert
- Still Life - Louise Penny
FEBRUARY
- The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted - Elizabeth Berg
- Jim the Boy - Tony Earley
- The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
- An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
- Tomboy Bride - Harriet Fish Backus
- The Necklace - Cheryl Jarvis
MARCH
- The Shack - William P. Young
- The Sea - John Banville
- Then She Found Me - Elinor Lipman
- Expecting Adam - Martha Beck
- The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett
- Italian Fever - Valerie Martin
- A Change of Heart - Philip Gulley
- Leap of Faith - Queen Noor
- Law of Love - Laura Esquivel
APRIL
- The Sixteen Pleasures - Robert Hellenga
- Things You Get for Free - Michael McGirr
- Grace - Richard Paul Evans
- Ride - David Walton
- Carlo Caretto: Selected Writings - Carlo Caretto
- DK Eyewitness Guide: Top 10 in Florence & Tuscany
- Peaks & Valleys - Spencer Johnson
MAY
- A Little Love Story - Roland Merullo
- After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell
- The Secret of Lost Things - Sheridan Hay
- The Woman Who Wouldn't - Gene Wilder
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
- Made in the USA - Billie Letts
- Testimony - Anita Shreve
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- The Eighth Promise - William Poy Lee
- A Mercy - Toni Morrison
- The Little Giant of Aberdeen County - Tiffany Baker
JUNE
- A Thread of Grace - Mary Doria Russell
- The Middle Place - Kelly Corrigan
- Lessons for the Living - Stan Goldberg
JULY
- Can Any Mother Help Me? - Jenna Bailey
- The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
- Where the Heart Leads - Kim Vogel Sawyer
- The Sewing Circles of Herat - Christina Lamb
- Lucy - Ellen Feldman
- Murder in the Latin Quarter - Cara Black
AUGUST
- Looking for Mary - Beverly Donofrio
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank
- The Importance of Living - Lin Yutang
- Truth and Consequences - Alison Lurie
- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
- The Awakening - Kate Chopin
- Father Malachy's Miracle:A HeavenlyStory w/ an Earthly Meaning-Bruce Marshall
- Peony in Love - Lisa See
- Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
- We Are All Welcome Here - Elizabeth Berg
SEPTEMBER
- Object of Virtue - Nicholas Nicholson
- Resistance - Anita Shreve
- A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
- Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
- Showing Up for Life - Bill Gates, Sr.
- Ever Is a Long Time - W. Ralph Eubanks
- City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
OCTOBER
- Coming of Age in Mississippi - Anne Moody
- A New Kind of Normal - Carol Kent
- Little Saint - Hannah Green
- The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society - Beth Pattillo
- The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Little Bee - Chris Cleave
- Talking with Young Children about Adoption - Watkins & Fisher
- Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope - Jenna Bush
- The Miracle at Speedy Motor - Alexander McCall Smith
NOV
- The Dead of the House - Hannah Green
- Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire - Rafe Esquith
- Lavinia - Ursula LeGuin
- The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Gift of Years - Joan Chittister
- Sala's Gift - Ann Kirschner
- The Art of Mending - Elizabeth Berg
- This Little Light:...Sister Thea Bowman - Michael O'Neill McGrath
- My Abandonment - Peter Rock
- Julie & Julia - Julie Powell
- Devil in the Details - Jennifer Traig
- Sweet Mandarin - Helen Tse
DEC
- Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
- The Mistress of Spices - Chitra Divakaruni
- The Unknown Errors of Our Lives - Chitra Divakaruni
- The Distance from Normandy - Jonathan Hull
- Run - Ann Patchett
- In the Land of Cotton - Martha Taylor
Books read in 2008
JANUARY
- The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar - Robert Alexander
- Ricochet - Sandra Brown
- Intuition - Allegra Goodman
- My Russian Love - Dan Franck, Jon Rothschild
- Dead in Dixie - Charlaine Harris
- Human Oddities: Stories - Nora Jablonski
- What Is the What? - Dave Eggers
- Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg
- Beneath a Marble Sky - John Shors
- In an Instant - Lee & Bob Woodruff
- Tourmaline - Joanna Scott
- Snow Mountain Passage - James D. Houston
- The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
- The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
FEBRUARY
- Thirst: Poems - Mary Oliver
- Vita - Melania Mazzucco
- The Solace of Leaving Early - Haven Kimmel
- The Things I Know Best - Lynne Hinton
- The Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg
- Lamb in Love - Carrie Brown
- Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Case of Lies - Perri O'Shaughnessy
MARCH
- The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan
- True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall - Mark Salzman
- Home to Harmony - Philip Gulley
- Red Weather - Pauls Toutonghi
- No Room at the Inn - Melody Carlson
- As Always, Jack: A Wartime Love Story - Emma Sweeney
- Prague and the Czech Republic: Travelers' Tales - Farley/Sholl,eds.
APRIL
- A New Day Rising - Lauraine Snelling
- Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
- The Tea House on Mulberry Street - Sharon Owens
- Midnight Diary of Zoya Blume - Laura Shaine Cunningham
- Good Hope Road - Lisa Wingate
- True Love - Robert Fulghum
MAY
- Losing You - Nicci French
- Invisible Prey - John Sanford
- Meet Me in Venice - Elizabeth Adler
- Seminary Boy: A Memoir - John Cornwell
- Cage of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitchard
- Just Shy of Harmony - Philip Gulley
- Murder in the Sentier - Cara Black
- Signs and Wonders - Philip Gulley
- The Dead Don't Dance - Charles Martin
- The BindingChair:or,A Visit from the FootEmancipationSociety-K.Harrison
- The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- This Is Not the Life I Ordered... - Stephens, Risley, Speier, Yanehiro
JUNE
- The Girls - Helen Yglesias
- Too Late to Die Young - Harriet McBryde Johnson
- The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
- The House in Amalfi - Elizabeth Adler
- Sleep Toward Heaven - Amanda Eyre Ward
- Triangle - Katherine Weber
- Gathering of Angels - Katherine Valentine
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
- Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
- When God Winks - SQuire Rushnell
JULY
- Maybe a Miracle - Brian Strause
- Faith and Politics - Sen. John Danforth
- The End of the Alphabet - Cs Richardson
- A Desert in Bohemia - Jill Paton Walsh
- How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
AUGUST
- Changing Habits - Debbie Macomber
- Grace Will Lead You Home - Karen Valentine
- Mystic Street:Meditations on a Spiritual Path - S.T. Georgiou
- Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Listen:Finding God in the Story of your Life - Keri Wyatt Kent
SEPTEMBER
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
- Two Old Women - Wallis
- You Come Too - Robert Frost
- Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor - Dan Maloney
OCTOBER
- The Angels of Morgan Hill - Donna VanLiere
hmm - forgot to keep track
NOVEMBER
- The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully - Joan Chittister
DECEMBER
- Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan
- Shepherds Abiding - Jan Karon
- A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants - Jaed Coffin
Books read in 2007
JANUARY
* Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War - Nathaniel Philbrick
* Rococo - Adriana Trigiani
* The Pearl Diver - Jeff Talarigo
* 47 - Walter Mosley
* Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
* Old School - Tobias Wolff
* The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad
* A Whole New Life - Reynolds Price
* A Castle in the Backyard: The Dream of a House in France - Draine&Hinden
* A Miracle for St. Cecilia's - Karen Valentine
* The Center of Everything - Laura Moriarty
* March - Geraldine Brooks
* Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
* The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
FEBRUARY
* The Last Promise - Richard Paul Evans
* Leaving Mother Lake - Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
* Be Anxious for Nothing - Joyce Meyer
* Old Friends - Tracy Kidder
* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
* Accidental Buddhist - Dinty Moore
* Notes from my Travels - Angelina Jolie
* Any Human Heart - William Boyd
* A Bell for Adano - John Hersey
* Reduce Me to Love - Joyce Meyer
MARCH
* Blessings - Anna Quindlen
* Every Day I Love You More (just not today) - Nancy Shulins
* She Got Up Off the Couch - Haven Kimmel
* The Happiest Toddler on the Block - Harvey Karp, MD
* The Monk Downstairs - Tim Farrington
APRIL
* Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling - Ross King
* A Summer in Tuscany - Sandra J. Swanson
* The Romanovs - Robert K. Massie
* True Believer - Nicholas Sparks
* The Zigzag Way - Anita Desai
MAY
* Clay's Quilt - Silas House
* For One More Day - Mitch Albom
* The Dancing Girls of Lahore - Lousie Brown
* A Christmas Story - Jean Shepard
* Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Linda Brent
* The Twins - Tessa DeLoo
* Dream When You're Feeling Blue - Elizabeth Berg
* Knight in Shining Armour - Jude Devereaux
* Not Even My Name - Thea Halo
* A Year Since Yesterday - George Edward Zintel
* The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra
JUNE
* Full of Grace - Dorothea Benton Frank
* A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, Thanksgiving Visitor - Truman Capote
* The Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
* Abide with Me - Elizabeth Strout
* The Guardian - Nicholas Sparks
* The Russian Word for Snow - Janis Cooke Newman
* On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
* My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
* Towelhead - Alicia Erian
* Durable Goods - Elizabeth Berg
JULY
* Fire in the Rock - Joe Martin
* The Whole World Over - Julia Glass
* The Boy and the Dog are Sleeping - Nasdijj (FICTION!)
* Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders - Mark Perry
* The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography - Sidney Poitier
* Waiting for Summer's Return - Kim Vogel Sawyer
* Waiting for Daisy - Peggy Orenstein
* The Sisters Mortland - Sally Beauman
* The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
* Mountains beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
* Among Schoolchildren - Tracy Kidder
AUGUST
* Summer in Tuscany - Elizabeth Adler
* The Ladies from St. Petersburg - Nina Berberova
* Escape from Botany Bay - Hausman
* Aunt Crete's Emancipation - Grace Livingston Hill
* Good Grief - Lolly Winston
* Meeting Luciano - Anna Esaki-Smith
* Epitaph of a Peach - Masumoto
* Lost in Translation - Nicole Mones
* The Rug Merchant - Meg Mullins
* Meeting Luciano - Anna Esaki-Smith
* In this Mountain - Jan Karon
SEPTEMBER
* Venetian Mask - Rosalind Laker
* Woebegone Boy - Garrison Keillor
* Eventide - Kent Haruf
* A View from a Monastery - Bro.Benet Tvedten
* Drenched in Light - Lisa Wingate
* The Virtues of Aging - Jimmy Carter
* The Quilter's Daughter - Wanda Brunstetter
OCTOBER
* The Storekeeper's Daughter - Wanda Brunstetter
* Murder in Amsterdam - Ian Buruma
* In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
* The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
* Wedding in December - Anita Shreve
* Sammy's Hill - Kristen Gore
* The Hills of Tuscany - Ferenc Mate
* Otherwise - Jane Kenyon
* A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
* The Bishop's Daughter - Wanda Brunstetter
NOVEMBER
* Crossing to Avalon - Jean Shinoda Bolen
* A Merry Heart/ Looking for a Miracle/ Plain&Fancy/ The Hope Chest - Wanda Brunstetter
* The Soloist - Mark Salzman
* When the Elephants Dance - Tess Uriza Holthe
* Patchwork Holiday - Wanda Brunstetter, et al
* Celebration of Simplicity - Joyce Meyer
DECEMBER
(my reading and keeping track of books dropped sharply during the wonderful month of December, when our daughter/husband adopted a baby boy born in Chicago, took care of him there til the adoption was official, while we flew up to Oregon to care for their 2-year old son. After a week back home, the whole family came down to California for 8 wonderful, fun, nonstop days!
Happy 2008 to all!)
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JANUARY 2014
- The Colour of Milk - Nell Leyshon
MAR/APRIL/MAY
- Me Before You - JoJo Moyes
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
- The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
- Beautiful Unbroken - Mary Jane Nealon
- Lessons for the Living - Stan Goldberg
- The Midwife of Venice - Roberta Rich
- The Lake - Banana Yoshimo
- The Emigrants - Vilhelm Moberg
- Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer - Fr. Michael Lapsley
JANUARY 2013
- A Mapmaker's Dream - James Cowan
- Morgan's Passing - Anne Tyler
- Sweetness in the Belly - Camilla Gibb
FEBRUARY
- Francesca's Kitchen - Peter Pezzelli
- Help, Thanks, Wow - Anne Lamott
- We Can All Do Better - Bill Bradley
- Home to Italy - Peter Pezzelli
- Safe from the Sea - Peter Geye
- The Long Walk - Slavomir Rawicz
MARCH
- Run - Anne Patchett
- The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany - Susan Vreeland
- Bounce: Living the Resilient Life - Robert J. Wicks
- The Measure of Our Days - Jerome Groopman, MD
APRIL
- Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers - Adriana Trigiani
- Lost in Translation - Jean Kwok
- Children and Fire - Ursula Hegi
- The Seventeen Second Miracle - Jason F. Wright
- A Corner of the Marais - Alex Karmel
MAY
- Italian Lessons - Peter Pezzelli
- Moloka'i - Alan Brennert
- Lydia's Charm - Wanda Brunstetter
- Sand Dollar Island - Rob Smith
- Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality - Richard Rohr
- My Cousin the Saint - Justin Catanoso
- The Lace Makers of Glenmara - Heather Barbieri
JUNE
- The Beginner's Goodbye - Anne Tyler
- The Grace of Silence - Michele Norris
- Rick Steves Hidden Europe
- Villa Mirabella - Peter Pezzelli
JULY
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
- Failing America's Faithful - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
- Amandine - Marlena de Blasi
- The Importance of Being Seven - Alexander McCall Smith
- Wicked Bugs - Amy Stewart
AUGUST
- Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
- Symbols - Jerry Apps
- Babylon Sisters - Pearl Cleage
- Bachelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast - Bill Richardson
SEPTEMBER
- The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
- You've Got to Read This - Jack Canfield
- A Whole New Life - Reynolds Price
- Monsieur Linh and His Child - Philippe Claudel
- Miss Julia Paints the Town - Ann B. Ross
OCTOBER
- Scandal on Rincon Hill - Shirley Tallman
-In a Japanese Garden - Charmaine Aserappa
- My Foreign Cities: A Memoir - Elizabeth Scarboro
- The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
- The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom
NOVEMBER
- How to Paint a Dead Man - Sarah Hall
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers - Robert Sapolsky
- Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of 7 Women Mystics - Carol L. Flinders
- Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman
DECEMBER
JANUARY 2012
- Grace (Eventually)- Anne Lamott
- Skeletons at the Feast - Chris Bohjalian
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
- Ultimate Journey - Richard Bernstein
- Private Life - Jane Smiley
- French Lessons - Ellen Sussman
- Gabby - Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua
FEBRUARY
- The Housekeeper & the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
- Crones Don't Whine - Jean Shinoda Bolen
- The Blood of Flowers - Anita Amirrezvani
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
MARCH
- Unravelling - Elizabeth Graver
- Life! Celebrate It - Luci Swindoll
- The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
- Tilli's Story: My Thoughts are Free - Tilli Schulz & Lorna Collier
- Magic Hour - Kristin Hannah
- Notes Left Behind - Brooke & Keith Desserich
APRIL
- The Boy I Once Knew - Elizabeth Stone
- Tuscany & Umbria - Karen Brown
- Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace - Cathleen Falsani
- The Miracle,The Message,The Story: Jean Vanier & l'Arche-Kathryn Spink
- Every Day in Tuscany - Frances Mayes
MAY
- A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel
- True to Form - Elizabeth Berg
- Faith Beyond Borders - Donald Mosley
- Mrs. Bridge - Evan S. Connell
- Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
- Dark Water: Art, Disaster, & Redemption in Florence - Robert Clark
JUNE
- Blackbirds of Mulhouse - Eric Maisel
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power - Rachel Maddow
- Family Tree - Barbara Delinsky
- Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
- A Life Well-Lived - Charles Swindoll
- Patience with God - Frank Schaeffer
JULY
- Hope's Boy - Andrew Bridge
- The Winter of Our Disconnect - Susan Maushart
- Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral - Kris Radish
- Breakfast at Sally's - Richard LeMieux
AUGUST
- I Love You Like a Tomato - Marie Giordano
- Shelter Me - Juliette Fay
- Crossroads Cafe - Deborah Smith
- Heart of the Matter - Emily Giffin
- To the Field of Stars - Kevin Codd
- Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum
- That Summer in Sicily - Marlena de Blasi
SEPTEMBER
- The Tuscan Year - Elizabeth Romer
- Beneath Blossom Rain - Kevin Grange
- The Angel with the Golden Glow: A Family's Journey Through Loss & Healing - Elissa Al-Chokhachy
- On Any Given Day - Joe Martin
- The Girls - Lori Lansens
OCTOBER
- Plague Tales - Ann Benson
- Renaissance Brides - Barbara Youree
- In Case We're Separated - Alice Mattison
- Paper Moon - Joe David Brown
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt
- The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
- Private Peaceful - Michael Morpugo
- Dreams of Joy - Lisa See
NOVEMBER
- A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard
- Dream Work - Mary Oliver
- The All of It - Jeanette Haien
- Leave It Better Than You Found It - Bruce A. Nordstrom
- Room - Emma Donoghue
DECEMBER
- Round Robin - Jennifer Chiavarini
- The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede
- An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
- Compass Points - Meeting God Every Day at Every Turn - Margaret Silf
Books read in 2011
JANUARY
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano
- Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
- A Brooklyn Odyssey - Albert Rothman
- The Girls from Ames - Jeffrey Zaslow
- Queen of Dreams - Chitra Divakaruni
- Saving Graces - Elizabeth Edwards
FEBRUARY
- How to Host a Killer Party - Penny Warner
- Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
- Love over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Breath of the Soul - Joan Chittister
- The World According to Bertie - A.M. Smith
MARCH
- The Ash Garden - Dennis Bock
- The Unbearable Lightness of Scones - Alexander McCall Smith
- Lessons for the Living - Stan Goldberg
APRIL
- The Eternal Journey: How Near-Death Experiences Illuminate our Earthly Lives - Lindahl
- The Gilded Chamber - Rebecca Kohn
- The Sweet Life in Paris - David Lebovitz
- Murder at the Monk's Table - Carol Anne O'Marie
- Promise Me - Richard Paul Evans
- Needles & Pearls - Gil McNeil
- All Things at Once - Mika Brzezinski
- My Antonia - Willa Cather
MAY
- The Stones of Florence - Mary McCarthy
- The Doorbells of Florence - Andrew Losowsky
- Lift - Kelly Corrigan
- The Seventh Unicorn - Kelly Jones
- My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
- The Power of Pause - Terry Hershey
- The Next Big Story - Soledad O'Brien
JUNE
- The Faith Club - Idliby, Oliver, Warner
- Piano: The Making of a Steinway...James Barron
- Pearl of China - Anchee Min
- Escape - Carolyn Jessop
- The Road Home - Rose Tremain
- A Mended & Broken Heart: The Life & Love of Francis of Assisi - Wendy Murray
- Home - Marilynne Robinson
JULY
- First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - Loung Ung
- In the Company of Others - Jan Karon
- Waking Up to This Day: Seeing the Beauty Right Before Us- Paula D'Arcy
- Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
- Martyr of the Amazon: The Life of Sister Dorothy Stang - Roseanne Murphy
AUGUST
- Brava, Valentine - Adriana Trigiani
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich
SEPTEMBER
- Glimpses of Heaven - Trudy Harris
- Within Tuscany - Matthew Spender
- Dark Water - Robert Clark
- The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
OCTOBER
- School for Love - Olivia Manning
- Miracles of Prato - Laurie Albanese & Laura Morowitz
- Coffee with Nonna - Vincent Iezzi
- Sacred Hearts - Sarah Dunant
- In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving - LeighAnne & Sean Tuohy
- Day After Night - Anita Diamant
- The Charming Quirks of Others - Alexander McCall Smith
NOVEMBER
- Banker to the Poor: Microlending... Muhammad Yunus
- The Force of Kindness - Sharon Salzberg
- The Vagrants - Yiyun Li
- La's Orchestra Saves the World - A.M. Smith
- Giovanni's Light - Phyllis Theroux
- Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson
- Proust & the Squid: The Story & Science of the Reading Brain - Maryanne Wolf
- Under This Unbroken Sky - Shandi Mitchell
- The Blessing of a Skinned Knee - Wendy Mogel
- Half-Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls
DECEMBER
- Secrets of Eden- Chris Bohjalian
Books read in 2010
JANUARY
- Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love - Lara Vapnyar
- The Florist's Daughter - Patricia Hampl
- The Buildings of Berkeley - Robert Bernhardi
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Luncheon of the Boating Party - Susan Vreeland
- The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
FEBRUARY
- The Freedom - Christian Parenti
- Meeting God at Every Turn - Catherine Marshall
- Sugar Time - Jane Adams
- Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
- Angels and Ages - Adam Gopnik
- The Unspeakable - Charles Laird Calia
MARCH
- Halfway to Each Other - Susan Pohlman
- Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
- The Rossetti Letter - Christi Phillips
- Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness - Richard Cohen
APRIL
- Back on Blossom Street - Debbie Macomber
- The Postcard - Beverly Lewis
- If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This - Robin Black
- Rooftops of Tehran - Mahbod Seragi
- Refining Emma - Delia Parr
MAY
- The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
- The Winding Ways Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
- Trail of Crumbs - Kim Sunee
- Salt Dancers - Ursula Hegi
- Murder on the Ile St. Louis - Cara Black
- The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
JUNE
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- The Glassblower of Murano - Marina Fiorato
- Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul - Tony Hendra
- In this Mountain - Jan Karon
- The Arms of God - Lynne Hinton
- Forgive Me - Amanda Eyre Ward
- Home Safe - Elizabeth Berg
JULY
- Deafening - Frances Itani
- The Wedding Officer - Anthony Capella
- Ester & Ruzya: - Masha Gessen
- Accidentally on Purpose: - Mary Pols
- The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
- Dreamers of the Day - Maria Doria Russell
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
AUGUST
- Traveling with Pomegranates - Ann Kidd Taylor&Sue Monk Kidd
- There Is No Me Without You - Melissa Fay Greene
- The Journal of Helene Berr - Helene Berr
- Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay & the Making of a Musician - Barbara Lourie Sand
SEPTEMBER
- Not Becoming My Mother - Ruth Reichl
- In Memoriam - Henri Nouwen
- A Letter of Consolation - Henri Nouwen
- Housekeeping - Marilyne Robinson
- Sacajawea - Joseph Bruchac
OCTOBER
- Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall Smith
- Outcasts United - Warren St. John
- Not Becoming My Mother... - Ruth Reichl
- When I Lay My Isaac Down - Carol Kent
- The Stones of Florence - Mary McCarthy
- The Help - Kathryn Stockett
NOVEMBER
- Botticelli's Secret - Marina Fiorata
- Love in the Driest Season - Neely Tucker
- The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green - Joshua Braff
- Always Looking Up - Michael J. Fox
- Walk in a Relaxed Manner - Life Lessons from the Camino - Joyce Rupp
- A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
- City of Thieves - David Benioff
- Gift of the Red Bird - Paula D'Arcy
- Keeping the Feast: Paula Butterini
- The Council of Dads: Bruce Feiler
DECEMBER
- Tallgrass - Sandra Dallas
- In Our Hearts We Were Giants - Koren & Negev
- April in Paris - Michael Wallner
- 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith
Books read in 2009
JANUARY
- If Today Be Sweet - Thrity Umrigar
* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer and Barrows
- A Memory of War - Frederick Busch
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
- Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
- Senior Days - Colleen Nicol
- Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron
- The Persia Cafe - Melany Neilson
- I Am America (and so can you) - Stephen Colbert
- Still Life - Louise Penny
FEBRUARY
- The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted - Elizabeth Berg
- Jim the Boy - Tony Earley
- The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
- An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks
- Tomboy Bride - Harriet Fish Backus
- The Necklace - Cheryl Jarvis
MARCH
- The Shack - William P. Young
- The Sea - John Banville
- Then She Found Me - Elinor Lipman
- Expecting Adam - Martha Beck
- The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett
- Italian Fever - Valerie Martin
- A Change of Heart - Philip Gulley
- Leap of Faith - Queen Noor
- Law of Love - Laura Esquivel
APRIL
- The Sixteen Pleasures - Robert Hellenga
- Things You Get for Free - Michael McGirr
- Grace - Richard Paul Evans
- Ride - David Walton
- Carlo Caretto: Selected Writings - Carlo Caretto
- DK Eyewitness Guide: Top 10 in Florence & Tuscany
- Peaks & Valleys - Spencer Johnson
MAY
- A Little Love Story - Roland Merullo
- After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell
- The Secret of Lost Things - Sheridan Hay
- The Woman Who Wouldn't - Gene Wilder
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
- Made in the USA - Billie Letts
- Testimony - Anita Shreve
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- The Eighth Promise - William Poy Lee
- A Mercy - Toni Morrison
- The Little Giant of Aberdeen County - Tiffany Baker
JUNE
- A Thread of Grace - Mary Doria Russell
- The Middle Place - Kelly Corrigan
- Lessons for the Living - Stan Goldberg
JULY
- Can Any Mother Help Me? - Jenna Bailey
- The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
- Where the Heart Leads - Kim Vogel Sawyer
- The Sewing Circles of Herat - Christina Lamb
- Lucy - Ellen Feldman
- Murder in the Latin Quarter - Cara Black
AUGUST
- Looking for Mary - Beverly Donofrio
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank
- The Importance of Living - Lin Yutang
- Truth and Consequences - Alison Lurie
- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
- The Awakening - Kate Chopin
- Father Malachy's Miracle:A HeavenlyStory w/ an Earthly Meaning-Bruce Marshall
- Peony in Love - Lisa See
- Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
- We Are All Welcome Here - Elizabeth Berg
SEPTEMBER
- Object of Virtue - Nicholas Nicholson
- Resistance - Anita Shreve
- A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
- Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
- Showing Up for Life - Bill Gates, Sr.
- Ever Is a Long Time - W. Ralph Eubanks
- City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
OCTOBER
- Coming of Age in Mississippi - Anne Moody
- A New Kind of Normal - Carol Kent
- Little Saint - Hannah Green
- The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society - Beth Pattillo
- The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Little Bee - Chris Cleave
- Talking with Young Children about Adoption - Watkins & Fisher
- Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope - Jenna Bush
- The Miracle at Speedy Motor - Alexander McCall Smith
NOV
- The Dead of the House - Hannah Green
- Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire - Rafe Esquith
- Lavinia - Ursula LeGuin
- The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Gift of Years - Joan Chittister
- Sala's Gift - Ann Kirschner
- The Art of Mending - Elizabeth Berg
- This Little Light:...Sister Thea Bowman - Michael O'Neill McGrath
- My Abandonment - Peter Rock
- Julie & Julia - Julie Powell
- Devil in the Details - Jennifer Traig
- Sweet Mandarin - Helen Tse
DEC
- Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
- The Mistress of Spices - Chitra Divakaruni
- The Unknown Errors of Our Lives - Chitra Divakaruni
- The Distance from Normandy - Jonathan Hull
- Run - Ann Patchett
- In the Land of Cotton - Martha Taylor
Books read in 2008
JANUARY
- The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar - Robert Alexander
- Ricochet - Sandra Brown
- Intuition - Allegra Goodman
- My Russian Love - Dan Franck, Jon Rothschild
- Dead in Dixie - Charlaine Harris
- Human Oddities: Stories - Nora Jablonski
- What Is the What? - Dave Eggers
- Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg
- Beneath a Marble Sky - John Shors
- In an Instant - Lee & Bob Woodruff
- Tourmaline - Joanna Scott
- Snow Mountain Passage - James D. Houston
- The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
- The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
FEBRUARY
- Thirst: Poems - Mary Oliver
- Vita - Melania Mazzucco
- The Solace of Leaving Early - Haven Kimmel
- The Things I Know Best - Lynne Hinton
- The Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg
- Lamb in Love - Carrie Brown
- Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Case of Lies - Perri O'Shaughnessy
MARCH
- The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan
- True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall - Mark Salzman
- Home to Harmony - Philip Gulley
- Red Weather - Pauls Toutonghi
- No Room at the Inn - Melody Carlson
- As Always, Jack: A Wartime Love Story - Emma Sweeney
- Prague and the Czech Republic: Travelers' Tales - Farley/Sholl,eds.
APRIL
- A New Day Rising - Lauraine Snelling
- Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
- The Tea House on Mulberry Street - Sharon Owens
- Midnight Diary of Zoya Blume - Laura Shaine Cunningham
- Good Hope Road - Lisa Wingate
- True Love - Robert Fulghum
MAY
- Losing You - Nicci French
- Invisible Prey - John Sanford
- Meet Me in Venice - Elizabeth Adler
- Seminary Boy: A Memoir - John Cornwell
- Cage of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitchard
- Just Shy of Harmony - Philip Gulley
- Murder in the Sentier - Cara Black
- Signs and Wonders - Philip Gulley
- The Dead Don't Dance - Charles Martin
- The BindingChair:or,A Visit from the FootEmancipationSociety-K.Harrison
- The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- This Is Not the Life I Ordered... - Stephens, Risley, Speier, Yanehiro
JUNE
- The Girls - Helen Yglesias
- Too Late to Die Young - Harriet McBryde Johnson
- The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
- The House in Amalfi - Elizabeth Adler
- Sleep Toward Heaven - Amanda Eyre Ward
- Triangle - Katherine Weber
- Gathering of Angels - Katherine Valentine
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
- Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
- When God Winks - SQuire Rushnell
JULY
- Maybe a Miracle - Brian Strause
- Faith and Politics - Sen. John Danforth
- The End of the Alphabet - Cs Richardson
- A Desert in Bohemia - Jill Paton Walsh
- How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
AUGUST
- Changing Habits - Debbie Macomber
- Grace Will Lead You Home - Karen Valentine
- Mystic Street:Meditations on a Spiritual Path - S.T. Georgiou
- Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Listen:Finding God in the Story of your Life - Keri Wyatt Kent
SEPTEMBER
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
- Two Old Women - Wallis
- You Come Too - Robert Frost
- Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor - Dan Maloney
OCTOBER
- The Angels of Morgan Hill - Donna VanLiere
hmm - forgot to keep track
NOVEMBER
- The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully - Joan Chittister
DECEMBER
- Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan
- Shepherds Abiding - Jan Karon
- A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants - Jaed Coffin
Books read in 2007
JANUARY
* Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War - Nathaniel Philbrick
* Rococo - Adriana Trigiani
* The Pearl Diver - Jeff Talarigo
* 47 - Walter Mosley
* Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
* Old School - Tobias Wolff
* The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad
* A Whole New Life - Reynolds Price
* A Castle in the Backyard: The Dream of a House in France - Draine&Hinden
* A Miracle for St. Cecilia's - Karen Valentine
* The Center of Everything - Laura Moriarty
* March - Geraldine Brooks
* Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
* The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
FEBRUARY
* The Last Promise - Richard Paul Evans
* Leaving Mother Lake - Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
* Be Anxious for Nothing - Joyce Meyer
* Old Friends - Tracy Kidder
* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
* Accidental Buddhist - Dinty Moore
* Notes from my Travels - Angelina Jolie
* Any Human Heart - William Boyd
* A Bell for Adano - John Hersey
* Reduce Me to Love - Joyce Meyer
MARCH
* Blessings - Anna Quindlen
* Every Day I Love You More (just not today) - Nancy Shulins
* She Got Up Off the Couch - Haven Kimmel
* The Happiest Toddler on the Block - Harvey Karp, MD
* The Monk Downstairs - Tim Farrington
APRIL
* Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling - Ross King
* A Summer in Tuscany - Sandra J. Swanson
* The Romanovs - Robert K. Massie
* True Believer - Nicholas Sparks
* The Zigzag Way - Anita Desai
MAY
* Clay's Quilt - Silas House
* For One More Day - Mitch Albom
* The Dancing Girls of Lahore - Lousie Brown
* A Christmas Story - Jean Shepard
* Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Linda Brent
* The Twins - Tessa DeLoo
* Dream When You're Feeling Blue - Elizabeth Berg
* Knight in Shining Armour - Jude Devereaux
* Not Even My Name - Thea Halo
* A Year Since Yesterday - George Edward Zintel
* The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra
JUNE
* Full of Grace - Dorothea Benton Frank
* A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, Thanksgiving Visitor - Truman Capote
* The Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
* Abide with Me - Elizabeth Strout
* The Guardian - Nicholas Sparks
* The Russian Word for Snow - Janis Cooke Newman
* On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
* My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
* Towelhead - Alicia Erian
* Durable Goods - Elizabeth Berg
JULY
* Fire in the Rock - Joe Martin
* The Whole World Over - Julia Glass
* The Boy and the Dog are Sleeping - Nasdijj (FICTION!)
* Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders - Mark Perry
* The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography - Sidney Poitier
* Waiting for Summer's Return - Kim Vogel Sawyer
* Waiting for Daisy - Peggy Orenstein
* The Sisters Mortland - Sally Beauman
* The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
* Mountains beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
* Among Schoolchildren - Tracy Kidder
AUGUST
* Summer in Tuscany - Elizabeth Adler
* The Ladies from St. Petersburg - Nina Berberova
* Escape from Botany Bay - Hausman
* Aunt Crete's Emancipation - Grace Livingston Hill
* Good Grief - Lolly Winston
* Meeting Luciano - Anna Esaki-Smith
* Epitaph of a Peach - Masumoto
* Lost in Translation - Nicole Mones
* The Rug Merchant - Meg Mullins
* Meeting Luciano - Anna Esaki-Smith
* In this Mountain - Jan Karon
SEPTEMBER
* Venetian Mask - Rosalind Laker
* Woebegone Boy - Garrison Keillor
* Eventide - Kent Haruf
* A View from a Monastery - Bro.Benet Tvedten
* Drenched in Light - Lisa Wingate
* The Virtues of Aging - Jimmy Carter
* The Quilter's Daughter - Wanda Brunstetter
OCTOBER
* The Storekeeper's Daughter - Wanda Brunstetter
* Murder in Amsterdam - Ian Buruma
* In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
* The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
* Wedding in December - Anita Shreve
* Sammy's Hill - Kristen Gore
* The Hills of Tuscany - Ferenc Mate
* Otherwise - Jane Kenyon
* A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
* The Bishop's Daughter - Wanda Brunstetter
NOVEMBER
* Crossing to Avalon - Jean Shinoda Bolen
* A Merry Heart/ Looking for a Miracle/ Plain&Fancy/ The Hope Chest - Wanda Brunstetter
* The Soloist - Mark Salzman
* When the Elephants Dance - Tess Uriza Holthe
* Patchwork Holiday - Wanda Brunstetter, et al
* Celebration of Simplicity - Joyce Meyer
DECEMBER
(my reading and keeping track of books dropped sharply during the wonderful month of December, when our daughter/husband adopted a baby boy born in Chicago, took care of him there til the adoption was official, while we flew up to Oregon to care for their 2-year old son. After a week back home, the whole family came down to California for 8 wonderful, fun, nonstop days!
Happy 2008 to all!)
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