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I discovered this "World-Wide Book Club" from a local newspaper article. I love the idea of connecting to other book-readers for the purpose of sharing good books & also book reviews. My bookshelf is always growing & I am always willing to trade books that I have previously read. My bookshelf lists a variety of books collected to appeal to a wide-range of readers, but it does not necessarily reflect my taste in books.

I am an artist/painter. I specialise in watercolor & acrylic paintings celebrating nature. I also enjoy being outdoors & walking in the woods and mountains, travel, music and of course, reading books. I am never without a book to read and have discovered so many wonderful books from this site!

BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR TRADE are marked with an"available" filter tab at the bottom of each bookshelf entry. Start searching by clicking on the "available" filter located on this page under Libby2's Books, Select Filters, upper right hand column.

BOOKS READ IN 2017: 3

FAVES - 2017
Leaving Time*
Yellow Crocus



BOOKS READ IN 2016: 36!

FAVES - 2016
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good**
The Pale Horse**
I'm A Stranger Here Myself**
Mystery of the Blue Train**
Enchantment (Audio)*
Faro's Daughter**
If I stay*
The Nightingale**
The Orphan Master's Son**
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd**
Bricking It**
Sweet Thoughtful Vallentine*
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian*
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky*
The Lady Who Walks in Sunshine**
Leisure Seeker**
I Must Say (Audio)**
Chance Development**
Kinsey and Me**
Before the Fall*
Precious and Grace**
The Rainbow Comes and Goes**


BOOKS READ IN 2015: 26

FAVES - 2015
The Children Act**
Olive Kitteridge (Audio)**
Where Are They Buried? How Did They Die?
Lila: A Novel**
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Audio)**
When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine*
Highwire Moon*
The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe'**
Mr. Mercedes**
Guests on Earth*
Watch Me Die
All the Light We Cannot See**
The Girl on the Train**
The Martian: A Novel**
A Spool Of Blue Thread**
Born with Teeth (Audio)**

BOOKS READ IN 2014: 30!

FAVES - 2014
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox**
The Magician's Assistant**
The Good Lord Bird**
The Tenth of December**
Marilyn: Norma Jean**
The Goldfinch**
Happier Than A Billionaire: The Sequel**
My Myself and Then Some*
A Murder is Announced
Call the Midwife (Audio)*
Johnny Carson*
Upstairs at the White House**
The Reluctant Widow (by Georgette Heyer)
Not Young, Still Restless**
Unbroken (Audio)*
Charity Girl** (by Georgette Heyer)
Foreign Affairs: A Novel*
Sky of Red Poppies
The Christmas Letters**
Not My Father's Son (Audio)**
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon*


BOOKS READ IN 2013: 35!

FAVES - 2013
My Mother Was Nuts
Frederica (By Georgette Heyer)*
Happier Than A Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week*
Taft**
Bossypants (Audio)**
The Wander Year
The End of Your Life Book Club**
The Limpopo Academy*
Life After Life**
Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman*
Click Clack the Rattlebag
How to Talk to Girls at Parties*
War Brides*
The Child in Time
Almost*
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand**
The Hearts of Horses**
Takedown Twenty
The Chaperone**
The Cookoo's Calling**


BOOKS READ IN 2012: 36!

FAVES - 2012
Breakdown Lane**
The Beginner's Goodbye**
Greyhound*
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
The Never Event** (A must-read for all healthcare workers & patients)
The Lacuna**
Truth and Beauty**
State of Wonder**
Gone Girl*
Wild*
The Trunk Key*
U is for Undertow*
Wishin' and Hopin'**


BOOKS READ IN 2011: 30!

FAVES - 2011
In The Company of Others*
How to Be A Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood*
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven & Back*
The Lincoln Lawyer*
The Double Comfort Safari Club*
The Help**
Good Stuff: My Life With Cary Grant*
The Paris Wife**
The Hunger Games**
Silver Sparrow**
Catching Fire*
The Tiger's Wife**
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo*
The Mockingjay*


BOOKS READ IN 2010: 10

FAVES - 2010
Pigs In Heaven**
Noah's Compass*


BOOKS READ IN 2009: 15

FAVES - 2009
The Reader**
Crow Lake**
The Road**
Eventide
Black Dogs


BOOKS READ IN 2008: 16

FAVES - 2008
Peace Like A River**
Plainsong**
To The Nines
Cane River*
We Were The Mulvaneys**


BOOKS READ IN 2007: 21!

FAVES - 2007
Purple Hibiscus*
M Is For Malice*
Never Let Me Go*
The Namesake*
N Is For Noose
Water for Elephants**
C Is For Corpse*
Digging To America*
The Painted Veil**
My Sister's Keeper**
A Thousand Splendid Suns**
The Vision of Emma Blau


BOOKS READ IN 2006: 30!

FAVES - 2006
The Year Of Magical Thinking**
The Amateur Marriage**
Gilead*
Talk Before Sleep**
Prodigal Summer*
The House On Mango Street*
Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant*
The Bean Trees*
Homeless Bird*
The Devil Wears Prada*
Among the Mushrooms
Murder With Puffins


*Excellent Book!
**Very Special & Highly Recommended!