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Pinkoeria: Measure of a Man;
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Jet Set y la Movida
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the Belly
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lost in the mail; Oppem: The Heretic's Daughter (2nd copy)
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GOALS 2010
1. 46 books off Mt. TBR: 46/46 Goal Accomplished on 11/11/10
2. 20,000+ pages:19981/20,221= 100+% of goal Goal Accomplished on 12/1/10
3. 12 non fiction:12/12Goal Accomplished on 11/11/10
4. to keep track of time spent reading: over 532 hours
5. To read 6 classics (or pre WW1 or written by a classic author)Goal Accomplished on 12/1/10
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Books Read in 2010
1. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenneger, fiction 416 pgs, 504 min TBR1 bookring
2. The Book of Air and Shadows, Michael Gruber, fiction, 649pgs(1065) 900MIN(1404) hours
3. The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks, fiction, 400 pgs (1465), 360 min(1764)
4. The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd, fiction, 216 pgs (1681), 325 min (2116 min total)
5. The Camel Bookmobile, Misha Hamilton, fiction, 336 pgs/2,027 pgs -- 336 min/2,415 mim
6.6. The Hiding Place by Carrie ten Boom, 242 pgs/2269 and 302 min/2,717
2,269 pages and 2,717 minutes read in January FEBRUARY
7. The Help by Kathryn Stockett, 451 pgs/2,729 and 752 min/3469 min
8. Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry, 208 pages/ 2,937 and 346 min/3815
9. The Good Indian Wife by Anne Cherian, 374 pages/3311 and 524 min/4,339 min
10. The Immoralist, Andre Gide, 170 pages/3481 and 170 min/4,509min
11. Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach, 281 pg/3762 and 240 min/4,749min
12. Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich, 256 pg/4,018 and 251 min/5000min
13. The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith, 208 pgs/4,226 and 250 min/5,250 min
14. Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford, 320 pgs/4546 and 10 hours or 600 min/5,850 minutes
MARCH15. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 325/4871 and 465 min/6,315 min
16. Witch Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic 188/5,059 and 313 min/6,628 min
17. The River Wife by Jonis Agee, 432/5491 and 864 min/7492 min
APRIL 18. Ines of my Soul by Isabel Allende, 321 pgs/5812 and 521 min/8013 minutes total
19. The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander, 229 pgs/6041 and 343/8356
20. The Healing of America, T.R.Reid, 288pgs/6139 and 432/8788
21. The Double Bind, Chris Bohjalian, 395 pgs/6,534 and 494 min/9,282 total
22. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson, 368 pgs/6902 and 633 min/9915 total
23. Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks, 264 pgs/7166 and 198 min/10,113 total
24 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 73pgs/7239 and 216 min/10329
MAY 25. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton 552 pgs/7791 and 938 min/11267min
26. Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg 210pgs/8,001 and 235min/11,502min
27. This Proud Heart, Pearl S. Buck, 358 pgs/8,359 and 511 min/12,013min
28. The Heretic's Daughter, Kathleen Kent 352pgs/8711 and 600 min/12,613min
29. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen, 324pgs/9035 and 540 min/13,153 min
JUNE 30. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese 688pgs/9723 and 1060 min/14,213
31. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson 636pgs/10,359 and 1156 min/15369 min total
32. The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel (non-fiction) 320pgs/10,679 and 480min/15,849total
33. Reaching to Heaven by James van Praagh 191pgs/10870 and 240 min/16089min total
34. Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb 368pgs/11238 and 360 min/16449
JULY 35. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 352pgs/11590 and 405 min/16854 classic
36. Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George 646pgs/12236 and 1192 min/18046
37. The Captain's Wife by Douglas Kelley 336 pgs/12572 and 420/18466min
38. Larry's Party, Carol Shield 150+pages/12732 and 225 min/18691min
AUGUST 39. Lost Nation, Jeffrey Lent 370 pages/13102 and 740 min/19431min
40. The Works of Vincent Van Gogh 95pgs 13197 and 65 min/19496min
41. The Tortilla Curtain, T.C.Boyle 355 pgs 13552 and 575 min/20071
42. Sea Glass, Anita Shreve, 400 pgs 13,952 and 600 min/20,671
43. Those Who Save Us, Jenna Blum, 482 pgs/14,434 and 670min/21341
44. The Road not Taken, Robert Frost, 64pgs/14,495 and 128min/21,469
45. The Nieuwe Kerk (the Amsterdam cathedral) 78pgs/14,573 and 120/21,579
SEPTEMBER 46. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer 340pgs/14,913 and 500 min/22,079 -- #35 off Mt. TBR
47. Mudbound, Hillary Jordan 340 pgs/15,253 and 510 min/22,589 min total
48. Anne Frank House A Museum with a Story 248 pgs/15501 and 190min/22779 TBR#36
49. Night Flight, Antoine de Saint Exupery 98pgs/15599 and 98min/22977 TBR#37
OCTOBER 50. The Lion by Nelson DeMille 448pgs/16,047 and 15hrs,45min/397 and 45 min total
51. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner 569pgs/16,616 and 22hrs/419hours TBR#38
52. The News from Paraguay, Lily Tuck 245/16,856 and 4hrs/423hrs TBR#39
53. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell 256/17112 and 5hrs30/458.30 TBR#40
54. Women Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros 192/17304 and 4 hrs/462.30
55. Stolen Innocence, Elissa Walls, 448/17752 and 16 hours/478.30
56. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith, 256pgs/17808 and 9 hrs, 25 min/488hrs
NOVEMBER 57. The Ladies of Missalonghi, Colleen McCullough, 189pgs/17941 and 4.5hrs/492.5hrs
58. While I Was Gone, Sue Miller 305pgs/18246 and 7.5hrs/500 hrs
59. Love, Again - Doris Lessing 352pgs/18598 and 6 hours/506hrs
60. The Observations, Jane Harris 406pgs/19004 and 15.5hrs/521.5hrs
61. 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff 112pgs/19,116pgs and 3 hrs/524.5
62. The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor, 240 pgs/20,221pgs and 8hrs/532.5
DECEMBER 63. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson, 256 pgs/20,477pgs and 18hrs/550.5hrs
64. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, 286/20763 and 16hrs/566.5hrs
65. Her Boston Experience, Margaret Allston, 208pgs/20,911 and 5 hrs/671.5
66. Night Train to Turkistan, Stuart Stevens, 252pgs/21,163 and 7 hrs/678.5
Winter in Madrid, C.J.Samson; 544 pgs/ 21,707pgs and 22 hours/700.5hrs
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People of the Book OPEN
The Book Thief OPEN
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women OPEN AND REVIVED WITH A NEW COPY
Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman OPEN
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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad CLOSED
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III CLOSED
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith CLOSED
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READING GOALS 2009
Read 45 books from Mt. TBR, Read 7 longer books (500+pgs), 20 non-fiction books, and 1 classic (out of the 6 I intended to read) Read well over 20,000 pages.
Books Read in 2009
1. There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled, compiled by Dave Lansky, TBR1, non-fiction, 216 pages
2. Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee, fiction TBR2, 241 pgs
3. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry, fiction TBR3, 500 pgs 4. The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana, bookring, fiction, 147 pgs
5. Getting Stoned with Savages, A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu, J. Maarten Troost, 239 pgs non fiction book club TBR 4
6. The Friendship Test, by Elizabeth Noble, fiction, 448 pgs TBR5
7. Mr. Pip, by Lloyd Jones, book ring, fiction 272 pgs TBR6
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, fiction, book ring 467 pgs, TBR 7
9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, fiction, TBR8, 220 pgs
10. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories, by Ernest Hemingway, book club 144 pgs
11. Talking Dirty (with the Queen of Clean) TBR9, 244 pgs
12. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, fiction/non-ficiton TBR 10, 431 pgs
13. Writ of Execution by Perri O'Shaughnessy, TBR 11, 402 pgs, fiction
14. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, TBR 12, 206 pgs, non-fiction
15. Oblivious by Cyndia Depre, book club, 280 pgs, fiction 16. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith, TBR 13, fiction, 352 pgs
17. The Year of Fog, Michelle Richmond, TBR 14, fiction, 412 pgs
18. Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith, TBR 15, fiction 256 pgs
19. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, TBR16, fiction 944 pgs
20. Still Alice by Lisa Genova, TBR 17, fiction, 320 pgs 21. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, TBR 18, fiction 400 pgs
22. The Reader by Bernard Schlink, TBR 19, fiction 224 pgs
23. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, TBR 20, nonfiction, 240 pgs 24. Chang and Eng, Davin Strauss, TBR 21, fiction, 336 pgs
25. The Gate House, Nelson DeMille, fiction, 688 pgs
26. The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes, Diane Chamberlain, 528 pages
27. Fire in the Blood by Irene Nimirovsky, fiction, TBR 23 160 pages,
28. The Hummingbird's Daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea, fiction, TBR24, 528 pages
29. In the Skin of the Lion by Michael Ondaatje TBR 25,fiction, 256 pages
30. Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton, TBR 26, 214 pages 31. A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor, TBR27, 233 pages fiction
32. March by Geraldine Brooks, TBR28, fiction 304 pages
33. Morality for Beautiful Girls, TBR 29, fiction, 227 pages 34. Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulic, TBR 30 non-fiction, 224 pgs
35. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, fiction TBR 31, 976 pages
36. Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo, fiction TBR 32, 656 pages
37. Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, 272 pages, non fiction, TBR 33
38. The Devil and Miss Prym, Paolo Coelho, fiction TBR 34, 270 pages
39. The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff, fiction TBR 35, 544 pages
40. Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz, 288 pgs non-fiction TBR 36
41. The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman non-fiction, 244 pgs, TBR 37
42. Talking to Heaven: A Medium's Message of Life After Death, James Van Praagh, non fiction, 304 pages, TBR 38
43. Zoya's Story, Zoya, non fiction, 256 pgs TBR 39, non-fiction
44. Early Voyageurs, by Marie Savage, non fiction, 144 pages, non-fiction TBR 40
45. Paper Daughter, by M. Elaine Mar, non fiction, 304 pages, non-fictionTBR 41
46. The Horrors of Salem's Witch Dungeon, R. Cahill, 56 pages,non-fiction TBR 42
47. Women in Colonial Times, C. Holliday, 319 pages, TBR 43, non-fiction
48. The Measure of a Man, Sidney Poitier, 272 pages, TBR 44, non fiction
49. Big Russ & Me, Tim Russert, 352 pages, TBR 45 non fiction
50. Father Joe, The Man Who Saved my Soul, by Tony Hendra, TBR 46 non fiction, 304 pages
51. A Separate Peace, John Knowles, TBR 47, fiction, 196 pgs
52. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, fiction, 576 pgs 53. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, fiction, 608 pgs
54. People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks, fiction, 585 pgs
55. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, classic fiction, 128 pgs 56. Belong to Me, Marisa de los Santos, fiction 416 pgs
57. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson, 447 pages
58. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Steig Larsson, 512 pages pages added up to and incluing this book.
59. The History of Love, Nichole Krauss, fiction, 252 pgs
60. Nothing to Declare, memoir, 256 pgs 61. Il Postino, Antonio Sarmiento, 120 pgs
62. Breakpoint, Richard Clarke, 320 pages, fiction
63. Amsterdam, Bruges and Brussels, 484 pgs. non fiction 64. The Masterpieces Guide, Rijks Museum Amsterdam, 164 pgs, non-fiction
Books Read in 2008
1. The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith (fiction)tbr 1
2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by S. Lee (fiction) book club
3. The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland (fiction) tbr2 4. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (play) tbr3
5. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (fiction) tbr 4
6. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (biography) tbr 5 7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (fiction) tbr 6
8. Parvana by Deborah Ellis (fiction) bookring 9. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (fiction) TBR 7
10. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (non fiction) TBR 8
11. Changes by Ama Ata Aidoo (fiction) TBR 9 12. San Francisco Than and Now by Bill Yenne (non-fiction) TBR 10
13. Persian Girls, a memoir by Nahrid Rachlin (non-fiction) TBR 11
14. The Yankee Girl by Kyusun Chung (fiction) bookring,
15. Yuppies, Jet Set, La Movida y Otras Especies de Carmen de Posadas TBR 12 (non-fiction)
16. Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire (non-fiction) TBR 13
17. A Thousand Country Roads by R. J. Waller (fiction) TBR 14
18. Daughters of Islam (non-fiction) TBR 15 19. Up Country by Nelson DeMille (fiction) audio
20. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (fiction) TBR 16
21. The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy (fiction short stories) TBR 17
22. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (non-fiction) TBR 18 23. El Viejo que Leia Novelas de Amor by Luis Sepulveda (fiction) TBR 19
24. Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez (fiction) tbr 20
25. Open House by Elizabeth Berg (fiction) tbr 21 26. Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy (fiction) tbr 22
27. The Virgin Blue by Tracey Chevalier (fiction) tbr 23
28. Confieso que He Vivido by Pablo Neruda (memoir) tbr 24 29. A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena De Blasi (memoir) tbr 25
30. A Thread of Grace (book club) tbr 26 31. Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton tbr 27
32. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson (fiction)tbr 28
33. Mi Pais Inventado by Isabel Allende (memoir) tbr 29
34. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (memoir) tbr 30 bookclub
35. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (fiction) tbr 31
36. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (fiction) memoir 37. The Good Wife Strikes Back (fiction) TBR 33
38. Children of Strangers by Lyle Saxon (fiction) TBR 34
39. The Year of Naked Swim Parties, (fiction) book club 40. Mrs. Astor's Horse by Stanley Walker (non-fiction) TBR 35
41. The Map of Love (fiction) bookring 42. The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc by S. Despres (fiction) TBR 36
43. February Hill by Victoria Lincoln (fiction) TBR 37
44. Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger (fiction) bookclub 45. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (non-fiction) TBR 38
46. The Professor by Charlotte Bronte (fiction) TBR 39
47. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feile (non-fiction) TBR 40
48. The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman (fiction) TBR 41
49. The Girl at the Lion D'Or by Sebastian Faulks (fiction) TBR 42
50. Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman (non-fiction) TBR 43
51. P is for Peril by Sue Grafton (fiction) TBR 44 52. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, (fiction) bookclub
53. The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer (fiction) TBR 45
54. About a Boy by Nick Hornby (fiction) TBR 46 55. Cat Stories by James Herriot (non-fiction) TBR 47
56. Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult (fiction) TBR 48
57. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coehlo TBR 49 58. The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer TBR 50 bookclub (fiction)
59. Snow in August by Pete Hamill TBR 51 (fiction)
60. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris TBR 52 (bookclub)
61. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks TBR 53 62. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (bookring) fiction
63. Savages by Joe Kane non-fiction TBR 54 64. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, fiction TBR 55
65. Oranges are not the only Fruit, Jeanette Wasterson TBR 56
66. Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck, fiction TBR 57
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Books Read in 2007
1. The Audacity of Hope, Barak Obama (non-fiction)
2. Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs(allegedly non-fiction)BC
3. The Log of the Skipper's Wife by James Balano (non-fiction)TBR-1
4. Loving Women, Pete Hamill (fiction)ray it forward
5. The Caliph's House, a Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah (non-fiction)
6. Siberian Huskies, by Ken Kern (non-fiction) 7. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris (non-fiction)TBR-2
8. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver (fiction) book swap
9. Bush at War, Bob Woodward (audio, non-fiction) 10. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (fiction)TBR-3
11. The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble (fiction)book ring
12. Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald (fiction) 13. Richard III, by William Shakespeare (readalong - play)TBR-4
14. The Pursuit of Happyness, By Chris Gardner (memoir)BC
15. The Pickup, by Nadine Gordimer (Nobel Prize winner - fiction)TBR-5
16. When the Emperor was Divine, Julie Otsuka (fiction)book ring
17. Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran (fiction)book ring 18. Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton (memoir) BC
The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay - (fiction) unfinished TBR-6
19. The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant - (fiction) TBR -7
20. Total Money Makeover by David Ramsey non-fiction
21. Comedy of Error by William Shakespeare, readalong -TBR 8 22. Cronica de una Muerte Anunciada, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez TBR-9
23. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie fiction/bookring
24. Tha Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri fiction/bookring
25. Gypsy Marsala by Preethi Nair fiction/bookring 26. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence fiction/ BC
27. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck memoir bookring
28. Inherit the Wind, J. Lawrence and R. Lee (play) 29. Bel Canto by Anne Prachett tbr#10 (fiction)
30. Titus Andronicus by W. Shakespeare, (play) readalong TBR 11
31. Cinnamon City By Miranda Innes (non-fiction), TBR 12 32. The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll (fiction) bookring
33. Inside the Kingdom, My Life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Ladin (memoir) for book club
34. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (fiction) bookring
35. seven types of ambiguity by elliot perlman (fiction) tbr 13
36. Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult (fiction)for book ring 37. Ojo de Buey by Jose Marzo, (short stories) tbr 14
38. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (fiction) tbr 15
39. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (fiction) book club 40. The Red Moon by Kuwana Haulsey (fiction) tbr 16
41. Knitting Under the Influence by Claire LaZebnik fiction (loaned)
42. The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith audio (fiction)
43. The Confessor by Daniel Silve (fiction) audio
44. Lifeguard by James Patterson (fiction) audio 45. The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost (tbr17)
46. The Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M.Coetzee (fiction) bookring
47. Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon tbr 18 (fiction)
48. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (fiction) bookclub 49. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini(fiction) tbr 19 loan
50. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (fiction) tbr 20
51. The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji (non fiction) TBR 21
52. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (fiction) 22
53. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction) tbr 23 54. Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult (fiction) bookclub
55. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (non-fiction) bookring
56. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (play) readalong tbr24
57. The Pact by Jodi Picoult (fiction) bookring 58. Marley and Me by John Grogan (memoir) bookring
59. El Tunel by Ernesto Sabato (fiction) bookring
60. Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund (fiction) bookclub tbr25 61. Othello by William Shakespeare for readalong (play) tbr 26
62. A Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrestein (fiction) bookring
63. Jesus for the Non-Religious by John Shelby Spong (nonfiction) tbr 27
64. Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali (fiction) tbr 28 65. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (fiction) bookring
66. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugidines (fiction) book club tbr 29
67. The Shadow of the Wind (fiction) bookring 68. The Constant Princess (fiction) bookring
69. Sarah's Quilt (fiction) bookring 70. Atonement (fiction) tbr 30
71. Chasing the Devil's Tail by David Fulmer (fiction) bookclub
72. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (fiction) bookclub 73. Glasgow and Clyde Valley by Callum Dalziel Cochrane
74. Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (short stories) bookring
75. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (fiction) tbr 31
76. In the Country of Men by Hirsham Matar (fiction) bookring 77. Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney (fiction) tbr32
78. Three to get Ready by Janet Evanovich (fiction) tbr 33
79. Afrodita by Isabel Allende (non fiction) tbr 34 80. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (play) tbr 35
Books Read in 2006
1. Leaving the Saints 2. The Nature of Good and Evil, Sylvia Browne
3. The Templar Legacy 4. The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
5. From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman 6. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel 8. Bee Season, A Novel, Myla Goldberg
9. Night Fall, Nelson DeMille 10. Big Trouble, Dave Barry
11. Under the Banner of Heaven, A Story of Violent Faith, Jon Krakauer
12. The Translator, Leila Aboulela 13. the Swallows of Kabul, Yasmina Khadra
14. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Kidd Monk 15. Saturday, Ian McEwan
16. Pope Joan, Donna Cross 17. Misfortune, Wesley Stace
18. The Master Butchers Singing Club, Louise Erdrich
The Master, Colm Toibin 19. The Known World, Edward P. Jones
20. Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini 21. Honky, Dalton Conley
22. The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Mohja Kahf 23. Easter Island, Jennifer Vanderbes
24. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 25. The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay
26. Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee 27. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Mark Haddon
28. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant 29. Wildfire, Nelson DeMille
30. The Bookseller of Kabul, Anse Seierstad 31. Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coehlo
32. The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo 33. The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
34. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai 35. The Summer of Ordinary Ways, Nicole Helget
36. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster 37. To the Nines, Janet Evanovich
38. Big Trouble, Dave Barry
THE TO-BE-READ ALPHA AUTHOR LIST
The idea is to read through my TBR list in ABC order by author, reading at least one book from each letter on my shelf. Of course I reserve the right to throw in other books in between other for book club, rays or pleasure!
A - Al Aswany, Yacoubian Building
..... Ali, Infidel
..... Austen, Pride and Prejudice
..... Aidoo, Changes
...... Atwood, The handmaid's Tale
B - Binchy, The Return Journey
..... Binchy, Whitethorn Woods
..... Benitez, Bitter Grounds
..... Berg, Open House
C - Chevalier - The Virgin Blue
.....Coelho - Veronika Decides to Die
D - DeBlasi - A Thousand Days in Venice
..... Despres - The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Leblanc
E - No E authors, all sent to the AVL list
F - Feiler, Abraham
,,,,,Fasman, The Geographer's Library
.....Faulks, The girl at the Lion D'Or
.....Follett, Pillars of the Earth
G - Golden-Gelman, Tales of a Female Nomad
.....Grafton, P is for Peril
.....Gibbons, Divining Women - dropped
.....Gordimer, The House Gun
H....Hornby, About a Boy
.....Herriot, Cat Stories
.....Hamill, Snow in August
.....Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
.....Hicks, Widow of the South
I....
J....
K....Kane, Savages
L....Lansky, There's No Toilet Paper
M....Mukherjee, Jasmine
.....Mistry, Family Matters
.....Mar, Paper Daughter
N....Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise
O....O'Shaughnessy, Writ of Execution
P....Pausch, The Last Lecture
Q....Quinlan, Blessings - not read
R....Richards, A year of Fog
.....Roberts, Shantaram
S....Smith, Dodie, I Capture the Castle
.....Smith, Alexander McCall, Morality for Beautiful Women
.....Szpilman,The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
T....Thornton, Lawrence, Imagining Argentina
.....Taylor, Peter, A Summons to Memphis
U....
V....Van Praagh, Talking to Heaven
W....Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
X....
Y....
Z....Zoya, Zoya's Story
RINGS AND RAYS
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