Books Read (2011-12)
2011
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
- Why? Because We Still Like You: An Oral History of the Mickey Mouse Club by Jennifer Armstrong
- This is Where We Live by Janelle Brown (audio book)
- The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
- ZooBorns by Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland
- The Cypress House by Michael Koryta
- The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
- Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
- You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
- Table of Contents by Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp
- Hollywood Hills by Joseph Wambaugh (audio book)
- Under the Mercy Trees by Heather Newton
- Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt
- Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
- Burning Bright by Ron Rash
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
- Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum
- Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
- 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro
- Lost & Found by Shaun Tan
- Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen (audio book)
- Skipping a Beat by Sarah Pekkanen
- Jake by Audrey Couloumbis
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut by Jill Kargman
- The Long Road Home by Mary Alice Monroe
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
- West of Here by Jonathan Evison
- Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
- Irish Lace by Andrew M. Greeley
- Dante’s Divine Comedy adapted by Seymour Chwast
- The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney
- Home to Woefield by Susan Juby
- Praying for Strangers by River Jordan
- The Trouble with Half a Moon by Danette Vigilante
- Posed for Murder by Meredith Cole
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
- Inconceivable by Carolyn Savage and Sean Savage (audio book)
- Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
- The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry
- Rae: My True Story of Fear, Anxiety and Social Phobia by Chelsea Rae Swiggett
- Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
- Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli
- Trauma Queen by Barbara Dee
- The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs
- Adios, Nirvana by Conrad Wesselhoeft
- Nutrition Diva’s Secrets for a Healthy Diet by Monica Reinagel
- The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
- Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Flying Changes by Sara Gruen (audio book)
- The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees
- Alexis: My Story of Being Seduced by an Online Predator by Alexis Singer
- Exposure by Therese Fowler
- Cut by Patricia McCormick
- A Heartbeat Away by Michael Palmer (audio book)
- The Moment by Douglas Kennedy
- This Totally Bites! by Ruth Ames
- The End of Everything by Megan Abbot
- Death of a Chimney Sweep by M. C. Beaton
- LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World by Elizabeth Dowsett
- The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen
- Alex Cross’s Trial by James Patterson and Richard Dilallo
- Viola in the Spotlight by Adriana Trigiani
- Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
- Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir by Steven Tyler (audio book)
- Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck
- This Life is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman (audio book)
- Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
- Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne
- Best Staged Plans by Claire Cook
- Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister
- The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- Big Nate on a Roll by Lincoln Pierce
- Dixie by Grace Gilman
- Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner
- Smokin’ Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
- Grammar Girl’s 101 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know by Mignon Fogarty
- Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook
- The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by Sonya Sones
- Grammar Girl’s 101 Misused Words You’ll Never Confuse Again by Mignon Fogarty
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- The Absolute Value of Mike by Kathryn Erskine
- Yankee Doodle Dixie by Lisa Patton
- The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
- Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gate by Eva Gray
- Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace by Eric Wight
- The Kid by Sapphire
- The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (audio book)
- One Day by David Nicholls
- What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
- Half a Life by Darin Strauss
- The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood (audio book)
- You Don’t Sweat Much for a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell
- Dark Souls by Paula Morris
- Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter (audio book)
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Smartest Woman I Know by Ilene Beckerman
- Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
- We the Animals by Justin Torres
- Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
- Planet Middle School by Nikki Grimes
- Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
- Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
- Hound Dog True by Linda Urban
- French Lessons by Ellen Sussman (audio book)
- The Mailbox by Marybeth Whalen
- Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral
- Holy Ghost Girl by Donna Johnson
- Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman (audio book)
- Drinking Closer to Home by Jessica Anya Blau
- Pie by Sarah Weeks
- Love Times Three: Our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage by Joe Darger, Alina Darger, Vicki Darger, and Valerie Darger
- The Book of (Holiday) Awesome by Neil Pasricha
- T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton
- Tomorrow Girls: Run for Cover by Eva Gray
- Saint Louis Armstrong Beach by Brenda Woods
- Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski
- The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston
- Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber
- Bedbugs by Ben H. Winters
- I Didn’t Ask to Be Born (But I’m Glad I Was) by Bill Cosby
- Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
- Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close (audio book)
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Tomorrow Girls: With the Enemy by Eva Gray
- Plugged by Eoin Colfer (audio book)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
- Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward
- The Puppy That Came for Christmas by Megan Rix
- With a Name like Love by Tess Hilmo
- Tina’s Mouth by Keshni Kashyap
- Everything We Ever Wanted by Sara Shepard (audio book)
- The Cut by George Pelecanos
- Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
- Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl by Sandra Beasley
- Bird in a Box by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Crazy Things Parents Text by Stephen and Wayne Miltz
- The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Save Me by Lisa Scottoline (audio book)
- We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee
- mental_floss: The Book: The Greatest Lists in the History of Listory
- Crow by Barbara Wright
- Love, Accidentally by Sarah Pekkanen (short story)
- Love at First Bark by Julie Klam
- How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
2012
- If Jack’s in Love by Stephen Wetta
- Unlikely Friendships by Jennifer S. Holland
- Hannah: My True Story of Drugs, Cutting, and Mental Illness by Hannah Westberg
- Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- Corked by Kathryn Borel
- Little Princes by Conor Grennan
- Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
- The Orchard by Theresa Weir
- Shelter by Harlan Coben
- The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell
- Big Nate: In a Class by Himself by Lincoln Peirce
- The Rebel Wife by Taylor Polites
- The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter by John Gosselink
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King (audio book)
- A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
- Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell (audio book)
- Wonder by R. J. Palacio
- The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
- Remarkable by Lizzie K. Foley
- Tomorrow Girls: Set Me Free by Eva Gray
- Charlotte Au Chocolat by Charlotte Silver
- Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It by Gail Carson Levine
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (audio book)
- The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
- Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green
- In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
- May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
- Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
- Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
- Mayday by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block (audio book)
- The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Fallen by Karin Slaughter (audio book)
- Restless Souls: The Sharon Tate Family’s Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders and a Crusade for Justice by Alisa Statman (audio book)
- The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
- Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator by Josh Berk
- The Watch that Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
- Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge
- Tabloid City by Pete Hamill (audio book)
- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms by Lissa Evans
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
- Story of the Titanic
- Gossip by Beth Gutcheon (audio book)
- Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo (audio book)
- These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen
- Jane Eyre: A Counting Primer by Jennifer Adams
- Alice in Wonderland: A Colors Primer by Jennifer Adams
- Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
- A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates (audio book)
- Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
- Beach House Memories by Mary Alice Monroe
- Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear (audio book)
- Guilt by Degrees by Marcia Clark
- Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
- All is Bright by Sarah Pekkanen (short story)
- A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash (audio book)
- Le Road Trip by Vivian Swift
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wow. you read incredibly fast. i told myself i’d read one book a week — i’m able to do that, and sometimes even two. but this list is amazing.
i’m currently reading Child 44. Pretty awesome.
On 22 February, I see that you and I are reading at a similar rate. I have completed 23 books this year and you list 25. I’m a wee bit ahead of last year’s pace, having finished my 19th book on 22 February 2010. I’ll be checking in with you throughout the year to see what you’re reading!
Hi, I see youve read quite a number of books so far this year. I´d very much like you to recommend me a few of suspense genre, I´m actually enjoying The Girl she used to be, whose author i have never heard before. I´ll be awaiting for your recommendation. Thanks and regards, Adriana
I liked your review of Origami Yoda. I’ll have to pick that one up soon. You’ve a heck of a list going and we’re not even half-way through the year yet. Keep it up!
Wow You read a lot of books. Spend most of my time editing for SmatteringsBooks. There are previews of the 1st chapters of both Knife of Truth books at our website http://smatteringsbooks.com/free.html. Agree to review one of our science fiction novels on the internet and I’ll be happy to send you a free copy.