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Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
My Life and Hard Times, by James Thurber (reread)


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The Secret Life of Cows, by Rosamund Young (bookray by travelina)


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My Library Thing Page!

The Word Detective

McKays Used Books & More (My favorite book source, located in NC)

Cracked.com is hilarious and informative!


BOOKS READ IN 2023
1. The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt
2. Me, Myself, & Bob: A True Story about Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables, by Phil Vischer
3. The New Noah, by Gerald Durrell
4. The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners that Shape Who We Are Today, by Rob Dunn
5. Zoo Station, by David Downing
6. Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat, by David Dosa
7. Room, by Emma Donoghue
8. A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
9. Amglish In, Like, Ten Easy Lessons, by Arthur E. Rowse
10. Tales from the Dad Side: Misadventures in Fatherhood, by Steve Doocy
11. An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard
12. Ragtime, by E. L. Doctorow
13. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
14. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People, by Robert S. Desowitz
15. Life: Classic Photographs: A Personal Interpretation
16. Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight about Animals, by Hal Herzog
17. The March, by E. L. Doctorow
18. Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo
19. The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes, by Neil Gaiman
20. Tommy: The Gun that Changed America, by Karen Blumenthal
21. My Life in a Cat House: True Tales of Love, Laughter, and Living with Five Felines, by Gwen Cooper
22. The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver
23. The Sleeping Doll, by Jeffery Deaver
24. Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia, by Dennis Covington
25. Roadside Crosses, by Jeffery Deaver
26. Don't Know Much about History, by Kenneth C. Davis
27. Will Rogers: A Biography, by Donald Day
28. No Book but the World, by Leah Hager Cohen
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates, by David Cordingly
29. The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson (audiobook)
30. Pirate Latitudes, by Michael Crichton
31. The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific, by J. Maarten Troost
32. Killing Lincoln, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
33. Jamaica Inn, by Daphne du Maurier
34. Eaglesworth, by T. R. Pearson
35. First in Flight, by T. R. Pearson
36. The House at Riverton, by Kate Morton
37. Everyone Brave is Forgiven, by Chris Cleave
38. Drop Shot, by Harlan Coben
39. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (audiobook)
40. Don't Know Much about Geography, by Kenneth C. Davis
41. The Adventures of Sally, by P. G. Wodehouse (audiobook)
42. Discovering North Carolina: A Tar Heel Reader, edited by Jack Claiborne and William Price
43. An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke
44. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, by P. G. Wodehouse (audio)
45. Play Dead, by Harlan Coben
46. The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan


BOOKS READ IN 2022:
1. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, by Atul Gawande
2. Dearly Devoted Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
3. Troubled Blood, by Robert Galbraith
4. Feng Sh*t: The Art of Domestic Disorder, by Anna Crosbie
5. The Night Journal, by Elizabeth Crook
6. My Notorious Life, by Kate Manning
7. You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News, by Cracked.com
8. A Reporter's Life, by Walter Cronkite
9. Daddy Needs a Drink, by Robert Wilder
10. A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson
11. The Inimitable Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse
12. Appointment with Death, by Agatha Christie
13. Memories of the Old Plantation Home & A Creole Family Album, by Laura Locoul Gore
14. Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
15. Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms, by Carmela Ciuraru
16. Summerland, by Michael Chabon
17. 4:50 from Paddington, by Agatha Christie
18. Red Prophet, by Orson Scott Card
19. Asunder (A Dragon Age Novel), by David Gaider
20. The Living Reed, by Pearl S. Buck
21. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, by Mike Brown
22. Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, by John Bradshaw
23. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, by Alan Bradley
24. Wonders of Alligators and Crocodiles, by Wyatt Blassingame
25. Lessons from Lucy, by Dave Barry
26. A Field Guide to the Jewish People, by Dave Barry, Adam Mansbach, Alan Zweibel
27. A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
28. Hercule Poirot's Casebook, by Agatha Christie
29. Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World, by Paul Chambers
30. Lawrence in Arabia, by Scott Anderson
31. Careless Whiskers, by Miranda James
32. Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam, by Pope Brock
33. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews
34. My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell
35. The Parasites, by Daphne duMaurier
36. My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel without a Cure, by Shawn Decker
37. The Steel Kiss, by Jeffery Deaver
38. Crime and Punishment, by Feodor Dostoevsky
39. Last Flight, by Liane Merciel
40. Hard in Hightown, by Varric Tethras (Mary Kirby)