Sunday, January 27, 2013

2013: Books Read - 19

January:

A Fatal Winter
by G. M. Malliet

The Racketeer
by John Grisham

Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn 

February:

Pure Nostalgia: Memories of Early Iowa
by Carl Hamilton 

Cabin:  Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine
by Lou Ureneck 

 March:

Wild
by Cheryl Strayed 

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis

Marie Antoinette:  The Journey
by Antonia Fraser

April:

Apron Anxiety:  My Messy Affairs In and Out of the Kitchen
Alyssa Shelasky

May:

Population 485:  Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
by Michael Perry

The Dark-Thirty
by Patricia McKissack

The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook
by Fred Bronson

Inferno
by Dan Brown

June:

My Man Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse

July:

I'm With Fatty:  Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks
by Edward Ugel

Confessions of a Carb Queen
by Susan Blech

September:

A Short Autobiography
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway

November:

The Good Life Lab:  Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living
by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne

Mrs. Kennedy and Me
by Clint Hill
 

Monday, January 2, 2012

2012: Books Read - 41

January:

Daisy, Daisy: A Journey Across America on a Bicycle
by Christian Miller

A Childhood in Scotland
by Christian Miller

The Bucolic Plague
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Candy Stripers
by Lee Wyndham

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by Julie Powell

The Wilder Life:  My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
by Wendy McClure

Lost Horizon
by James Hilton

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett

February:

Ghost Story
by Peter Straub

The Royals
by Kitty Kelley

The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion

As Always, Julia:  The Letters of Julia Child & Avis DeVoto
Edited by Joan Reardon

March:

The Broker
by John Grisham

The Appeal
by John Grisham

April:

Pioneer Children on the Journey West
by Emmy E. Werner

The Best of Friends
by Mariana Pasternak

Eight Women, Two Model T's, and the American West
by Joanne Wilke

To Marry an English Lord
by Gail MacColl and Carol McD. Wallace

The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins

The Sixes
by Kate White

May:

It Ain't All About the Cookin'
by Paula Deen

Being Martha:  The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and her Amazing Life
by Lloyd Allen

Twenties Girl
by Sophie Kinsella

June:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt
by Caroline Preston

August:

Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips
by Kris Carr

September:

The World of Downton Abbey
by Jessica Fellowes

So Pretty It Hurts
by Kate White

Dead Level
by Sarah Graves

October:

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey:  The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
by The Countess of Carnarvon

The Litigators
by John Grisham

Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
by Mary Downing Hahn

Top of the Rock:  Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
by Warren Littlefield and T. R. Pearson

November:

We Wanted to be Writers:  Life, Love and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
by Eric Olsen and Glenn Schaeffer

Life Among the Dead
by Lisa Williams

Who Could That Be at This Hour?
by Lemony Snicket

December:

The Beautiful Mystery
by Louise Penny

Almost Amish
by Nancy Sleeth

Upstairs and Downstairs:  The Illustrated Guide to the Real World of Downton Abbey
by Sarah Warwick
 

Monday, January 3, 2011

2011: Books Read - 36

January:

The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown

The Lost Girls: Three Friends, Four Continents, One Unconventional Detour Around the World
by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett, and Amanda Pressner

Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
by Susan Cheevers

William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls
by Katie Nicholl

February:

William & Kate: A Royal Love Story
by James Clench

The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
by Hakan Nesser

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
by Chelsea Handler

Oprah: A Biography
by Kitty Kelley

1939: The Last Season of Peace
by Angela Lambert

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King

March:

1939: The Last Season
by Anne de Courcy

Debs at War: How Wartime Changed Their Lives, 1939-1945
by Anne de Courcy

Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes
by Fiona MacCarthy

Where the Boys Are
by Glendon Swarthout

Funny Farm: A Sweeping Epic of the Sticks
by Jay Cronley

April

My Love Affair with the State of Maine
by Scotty Mackenzie, with Ruth Goode

July

The Firm
by John Grisham

Hush
by Kate White

The Day Diana Died
by Christopher Andersen

The Pale Horse
by Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Mr. Quin
by Agatha Christie

The Associate
by John Grisham

August

The Last Juror
by John Grisham

September

The Snowman
by Jo Nesbo

October

The Making of a Royal Romance
by Katie Nicholl

Love, Lust and Faking It
by Jenny McCarthy

The Summons
by John Grisham

Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
by Chelsea Handler

The Brethren
by John Grisham

November

The Pelican Brief
by John Grisham

The King of Torts
by John Grisham

December

The Troubled Man
by Henning Mankell

Headhunters
by Jo Nesbo

The Inspector and Silence
by Hakan Nesser

Wicked Autumn
by G. M. Malliet

The Bucolic Plague
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Saturday, August 21, 2010

2010: Books Read - 21

July:

 Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child
by Noel Riley Fitch

The Maeve Binchy Writer's Club
by Maeve Binchy

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by Melanie Rehak

House of Happy Endings: A Memoir
by Leslie Garis

Death of a Valentine: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
by M.C. Beaton

Death of a Witch: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
by M.C. Beaton

August:

 Death of a Maid: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
by M.C. Beaton

Shadow Government
by Grant R. Jeffrey

Faceless Killers
by Henning Mankell

Like a Deer Chased by Dogs: The Life of Chief Oshkosh
by Scott Cross for the Oshkosh Public Museum

Oshkosh: A South Sider Remembers
by Ron La Point

Decade of Despair: Winnebago County During the Great Depression. 1929-1939
by Werner E. Braatz and Thomas J. Rowland

Oshkosh: The Way We Were - Remembering People and Places
by Ron LaPoint

September:

My Footprint
by Jeff Garlin

Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House
by Stacy Parker

The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

November:

Sleeping Murder
by Agatha Christie

Murder at the Vicarage
by Agatha Christie

45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters
by Victoria Lynn Schmidt

Official Illustrated Movie Companion for Twilight - Eclipse
by Mark Cotta Vaz

December:

Walt Disney's World of Fantasy
by Adrian Bailey