Don't be fooled now. I started this book over the summer and ended up zooming off to Europe without it, and then when I got back, I had gotten myself into the middle of another book, so this one lay forgotten. Until now *evil grin*

49) The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Genre: Historical fiction -- Dracula
Pages: 642
Summary: "To you, perceptive ( Read more... )

46) This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 289
Summary: This is a novel about New York City and love, interracial marriage, sandhigs who dig tunnels, and men who build skyscrapers, dancing on beams hundreds of feet above the city. Even more, it is, perhaps, the first authentic novel about homelessness, about living below and ( Read more... )

45) Only Call Us Faithful: a novel of the Union Underground by Marie Jakober
Genre: Historical -- Fiction
Pages: 381
Summary: Richmond, Virginia, is the heart of the Confederacy, and for those whose hearts are still with the Union in 1861, it is a trying home. Liza Van Lew has long been an outsider in Richmond. She never married, and at her father ( Read more... )

No internet really makes me read more books! Who woulda thunk it. . .

44) P.S. Your Cat Is Dead by James Kirkwood
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 223
Summary: It's New Year's Eve. Your best friend died in September, you've been robbed twice, your girl friend is leaving you, you've just lost your job. . . and the only one left to talk to is a gay burglar ( Read more... )

43) Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Genre: Biography -- Historical -- Chinese -- Immigration
Pages: 309
Summary: Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen year old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a ( Read more... )

I may actually make my goal after all =)

42) Peony in Love by Lisa See
Genre: Historical -- Fiction -- China
Pages: 297
Summary: In seventeenth century China, in an elaborate villa on the shores of Hangzhou's West Lake, Peony lives a sheltered life. One night, during a theatrical performance in her parent's garden, Peony catches sight of an ( Read more... )

40) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Genre: Historical Fiction
Pages: 180
Summary: Hawthorne's masterpiece is one of the greatest American novels. Its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and ( Read more... )

39) Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Genre: Fiction -- Supernatural? -- Fantasy
Pages: 372
Summary: Under the streets of London, there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. ( Read more... )

35) The Sea by John Banville
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 264
Summary: When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the Grace twins, Chloe and ( Read more... )

31) Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Pages: 328
Summary: [from commonsensemedia.com] All her life, Aislinn has been able to see faeries, and they are everywhere, invisible to mortals except for her. And these are not your average cute Disney pixies -- they are the same size as humans, and can be very nasty, especially to those ( Read more... )