I set a goal for myself last January to read a book a week and lo and behold I did it! Many were children's books and several were re-reads, but they still count!
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley 2009 KINDLE
- When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead 2009
- Un Lun Dun China Mieville 2008
- Cocktails for Three Madeleine Wickham 2001
- Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl 2007
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 2007
- Anywhere but Here Mona Simpson 1992
- Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, No. 7) Janet Evanovich 2002
- The Tennis Partner - A Doctor's Story Of Friendship And Loss - Abraham Verghese 1998
- The Moorchild Eloise McGraw 1998
- Cutting for Stone: A novel Abraham Verghese 2009 Hands down the best book of 2009
- Room for One More Anna Perrott Rose 1950 Reread
- Finn Family Moomintroll. Tove. Jansson 1989
- Moominsummer Madness (Puffin Books) Tove Jansson 1973
- Light a Penny Candle Maeve Binchy 1983
- The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 2008 Reread, but still love this book
- Matters of Chance: A Novel Jeannette Haien 1998
- My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell 2004
- Certain Girls: A Novel Jennifer Weiner 2009
- Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) Stephenie Meyer 2006
- A Fatal Grace Louise Penny 2006 KINDLE This was a close second for "best"
- The Archivist: A Novel Martha Cooley 1999
- Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin 2007
- Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann 1997
- All-of-a-kind Family Sydney Taylor 1980 Reread
- The Witches of Worm Zilpha Keatley Snyder 1986
- The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2007
- Fearless Fourteen Janet Evanovich 2008
- The Whistling Season Ivan Doig 2007
- Talk Before Sleep A Novel Elizabeth Berg 1997
- Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung Martha Mason 2003
- Finding Betty Crocker Susan Marks 2005
- The Senator's Wife Sue Miller 2009
- Coraline Neil Gaiman 2006
- The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson 1987
- Eat Cake Jeanne Ray 2004
- Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World Vicki Myron 2008
- The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2004
- Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan 2001
- The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year Michael Stein 2009
- Water for Elephants: A Novel Sara Gruen 2007
- Lucky Everyday Bapsy Jain 2009
- I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir Giulia Melucci 2009
- The Know-It-All A. J. Jacobs 2005
- The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 2006 Stanza
- Twelve Sharp Janet Evanovich 2006
- Hungry Monkey Matthew Amster-Burton Good enough to read twice in one year.
- The Laws of Harmony: A Novel Judith R. Hendricks
- Academy X: A Novel Andrew Trees 2007
- The Middle Kingdom Andrea Barrett 1992
- Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited Elyse Schein 2008
- Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler 2004
4 comments:
amazing! How did you pick the books? Which were the best?
I loved Water for Elephants and, of course, the classic Fantastic Mr. Fox! What did you think of the Twilight Series? I love Barbara Kingsolver, but my favorite novel of hers is Prodigal Summer. The ending of the Poisonwood Bible disappoints me--it really seems to drag itself out in my opinion. I can't wait to read her latest!
Thought the first twilight book was very fun. I sooo wish I had read it before I knew it was about vampires. I thought the lead up to the heroine figuring out that he is a vampire was terrific. As you can tell from the list, I don't read a lot of heavy literature. I am fine with a little pre-teen trash.
Interesting. I liked poisonwood battle much more than prodigal summer. But I'll read anything she writes!
wow katie, how did you do it?
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