Reading List

Inspired by the list I saw on Fyrefly’s Book Blog, I decided to start a reading list of my own. This is a list of books I’ve completed and it starts mid-June of this year.

2008

1. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
2. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
3. The Kills by Linda Fairstein
4. My Appalachia by Sidney Saylor Farr
5. Phantom Prey by John Sandford
6. Hero Mama by Karen Spears Zacharias
7. 7th Heaven by James Patterson
8. The Husband by Dean Koontz
9. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
10. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
11. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
12. The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis
13. the girl who stopped swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
14. The Shiniest Jewel: A Family Love Story by Marian Henley
15. Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood by Rachel Manley
16. The Clinton Diaries by Fred Petrovsky
17. Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller
18. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
19. The Wooden Mile: Something Wickedly Weird by Chris Mould
20. The Road Home by Rose Tremain
21. Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
22. Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons
23. Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
24. Against Medical Advice by James Patterson and Hal Friedman
25. The Phoenix Egg by Richard A. Bamberg
26. I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson
27. Testimony by Anita Shreve
28. The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
29. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
30. Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir
31. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
32. Kindred Spirits by Marilyn Meredith
33. When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
34. The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir by John Grogan
35. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
36. See You in A Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America by Logan Ward
37. Capote in Kansas by Kim Powers
38. The Gifted Gabaldón Sisters by Lorraine López
39. The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson
40. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
41. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
42. Life After Genius by M. Ann Jacoby
43. The Gate House by Nelson DeMille
44. Rocket Man by William Elliott Hazelgrove
45. Divine Justice by David Baldacci
46. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
47. A Thousand Veils by D. J. Murphy
48. Flirting With Forty by Jane Porter
49. When Wanderers Cease to Roam by Vivian Swift
50. Cross Country by James Patterson
51. The Paper Bag Christmas by Kevin Alan Milne
52. Santa Responds by Santa Claus
53. The Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego
54. I, Lorelei by Yeardley Smith
55. Seeing Venice by Mark Doty
56. The Magician’s Book by Laura Miller
57. Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
58. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (audio book)
59. The Kings of Innocence by Michael Burns
60. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
61. The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
62. This One is Mine by Maria Semple
63. Wife in the North by Judith O’Reilly
64. The Secret Papers of Madame Olivetti by Annie Vanderbilt
65. The Misadventures of Oliver Booth by David Desmond
66. When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (audio book)
67. Love and Other Natural Disasters by Holly Shumas

2009

1. The Cradle by Patrcik Somerville
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
4. Dating da Vinci by Malena Lott
5. American Savior by Roland Merullo
6. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert (audio book)
7. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
8. Eat, Drink, and Be from Mississippi by Nanci Kincaid
9. The Icy Hand: Something Wickedly Weird by Chris Mould
10. The American Journey of Barack Obama by the Editors of Life
11. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
12. A Long Stone’s Throw by Alphie McCourt (audio book)
13. Cathy’s Ring by Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman
14. Speaking For Myself by Cherie Blair
15. Little Pink House by Jeff Benedict (audio book)
16. Drood by Dan Simmons
17. Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
18. Run For Your Life by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
19. Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith
20. Above the Law by Tim Green
21. That Went Well by Terrell Harris Dougan
22. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
23. The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood
24. Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
25. This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
26. Fifty Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Linda Kelsey
27. The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith
28. Where Am I Wearing? by Kelsey Timmerman
29. Undress Me in The Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
30. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell (audio book)
31. Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
32. The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel
33. The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano
34. The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson (audio book)
35. Zig-Zagging by Tom Wilson
36. Laura Rider’s Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
37. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman
38. Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith
39. Confessions of a Former Child by Daniel J. Tomasulo
40. Secrets to Happiness by Sarah Dunn
41. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
42. Hungry Woman in Paris by Josefina López
43. An Offer You Can’t Refuse by Jill Mansell
44. The Side-Yard Superhero by Rick D. Niece
45. The Great Expectations School by Dan Brown
46. Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz
47. The Accountant’s Story by Roberto Escobar (audio book)
48. The Way Home by George Pelecanos
49. The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer
50. Boneman’s Daughter by Ted Dekker
51. Sima’s Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
52. Follow Me by Joanna Scott
53. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
54. Ravens by George Dawes Green
55. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
56. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
57. Bless Your Heart, Tramp by Celia Rivenbank
58. The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer (audio book)
59. The 8th Confession by James Patterson
60. SLOB by Ellen Potter
61. Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away by June Cross
62. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
63. The Turnaround by George Pelecanos
64. Life’s That Way by Jim Beaver
65. The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
66. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (audio book)
67. Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse (audio book)
68. Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton
69. The Soloist by Steve Lopez
70. The Host by Stephanie Meyer
71. Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater (audio book)
72. Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino
73. Miranda’s Big Mistake by Jill Mansell
74. Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
75. Isolation by Travis Thrasher
76. The Nine Lessons by Kevin Alan Milne
77. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
78. Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
79. The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas
80. Beach Trip by Cathy Holton
81. Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (audio book)
82. April & Oliver by Tess Callahan
83. Every Last Cuckoo by Kate Maloy
84. Priceless Memories by Bob Barker with Digby Diehl (audio book)
85. The Castaways by Elin Hildebrand
86. Home Repair by Liz Rosenberg
87. The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
88. Last Light over Carolina by Mary Alice Monroe
89. Two Years, No Rain by Shawn Klomparens
90. The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell
91. Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of  a World War II Fighter Pilot by Bruce & Andrea Leininger with Ken Gross
92. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
93. Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
94. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
95. Holly’s Inbox by Holly Denham
96. American Lion by Jon Meacham
97. Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood
98. Nothing But Ghosts by Beth Kephart
99. The Sweetheart of Prosper County by Jill S. Alexander
100. The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles
101. Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett
102. Apologize, Apologize! by Elizabeth Kelly
103. Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
104. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
105. Hume’s Fork by Ron Cooper
106. A Teenager in Hitler’s Death Camps by Benny Grünfeld
107. The Natural Laws of Good Luck by Ellen Graf
108. De Marco Empire by J Lou McCartney
109. The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark
110. The Woodstock Story Book by Linanne G. Sackett
111. Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
112. Undercover by Beth Kephart
113. Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley (audio book)
114. Blame by Michelle Huneven
115. Three Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
116. Stray Affections by Charlene Ann Baumbich
117. Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
118. Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
119. A Separate Country by Robert Hicks
120. The Lonely Shadow by Clay Rice (children’s book)
121. Strega Nona’s Harvest by Tomie dePaola (children’s book)
122. Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani
123. 31 Hours by Masha Hamilton
124. Stitches by David Small
125. Tell Me Something True by Leila Cobo
126. A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
127. Undead and Unreturnable by Mary Janice Davidson (audio book)
128. Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
129. The Unquiet by John Connolly (audio book)
130. The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
131. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
132. Willow by Julia Hoban
133. Angels by Chuck Fischer
134. Permissions Slips by Sherri Shepherd
135. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
136. Family Sentence: The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad by Jeanine Cornillot
137. One Hundred Butterflies by Harold Feinstein
138. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
139. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
140. Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick
141. All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
142. I Have My Mother’s Eyes by Barbara Ruth Bluman
143. Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman
144. The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman
145. A Christmas Ride: The Miracle of Lights by Edie Hand with Jeffrey Addison