Books 2011
I did much better than last year, but then again, I re-read three series. My favorites last year were the Hunger Games trilogy, My Name is Mary Sutter, The Help, and The Agony and the Ecstasy. I still highly highly recommend both the Buckshaw Chronicles (up to book 4 now) by Alan Bradley and the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Allstyne books (up to book 7 at present) by Julia Spencer-Fleming.
* Read before
^ For book club
January (10)
The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins ^
Catching Fire (audiobook): Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay (audiobook): Suzanne Collins
Middlemarch: George Eliot ^
Overtime: Joseph Millar ^
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: Helen Simonson ^ *
Poetry on Record (audio): Various
The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins *
Catching Fire: Suzanne Collins *
Mockingjay: Suzanne Collins *
February (9)
The Tempest: William Shakespeare ^
Dance Unto the Lord: George Dell
Special Orders: Poems: Edward Hirsch ^
The Phantom of the Opera (audiobook): Gaston Leroux ^ *
A Hole in Texas: Herman Wouk
Mudbound: Hillary Jordan ^
Room: Emma Donoghue
Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: Ree Drummond
Red Suitcase: Naomi Shihab Nye ^ *
March (10)
Books: A Memoir: Larry McMurtry
In the Lake of the Woods: Tim O'Brien ^
Dr. Horrible & Other Horrible Stories: Zack Whedon
Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale: Joss Whedon
For Love and Liberty: The Untold Civil War Story of Major Sullivan Ballou and His Famous Love Letter: Robin Young
The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Hidden History: Margaret S. Creighton
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: Jasper Fforde *
One of Our Thursdays is Missing: Jasper Fforde
Don't Know Much About the Civil War (audiobook): Kenneth C. Davis
The Crimson Rooms: Katharine McMahon ^
April (5)
A Red Herring Without Mustard (audiobook): Alan Bradley
The Time Machine (audiobook): H.G. Wells ^
Robinson Crusoe (audiobook): Daniel Defoe ^
My Name is Mary Sutter: Robin Oliviera ^
Precipitates: Debra Kang Dean ^
May (10)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Michael Chabon ^
Red Suitcase: Naomi Shihab Nye ^ *
One Was a Soldier: Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Help: Kathryn Stockett ^
In the Bleak Midwinter: Julia Spencer-Fleming *
A Fountain Filled with Blood: Julia Spencer-Fleming *
Out of the Deep I Cry: Julia Spencer-Fleming *
To Darkness and To Death: Julia Spencer-Fleming *
All Mortal Flesh: Julia Spencer-Fleming *
I Shall Not Want: Julia Spencer-Fleming *
June (3)
Live Wire: Harlan Coben
Bloodroot: Amy Greene ^
Daughter of Fortune (audiobook): Isabel Allende
July (4)
The Fortress of Solitude: Jonathan Lethem ^
Unfamiliar Fishes (audiobook): Sarah Vowell
Failure: Phillip Schultz ^
The Book of Fires: Jane Borodale ^
August (13)
Crime and Punishment (audiobook): Fyodor Dostoyevsky ^
Smokin' Seventeen: Janet Evanovich
Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle (audiobook): Ann B. Ross
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: J.K. Rowling *
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: J.K. Rowling *
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: J.K. Rowling *
Elegy: Mary Jo Bang ^
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: J.K. Rowling *
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: J.K. Rowling *
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: J.K. Rowling *
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: J.K. Rowling *
Stay: Allie Larkin ^
Blue Collar Eulogies: Michael Meyerhofer ^
September (7)
The Zookeeper's Wife: Diane Ackerman
A Confederate General from Big Sur: Richard Brautigan ^
The Planets (audiobook): Dava Sobel
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much (audiobook): Allison Hoover Bartlett
Dreaming of Babylon: Richard Brautigan
The Hawkline Monster: Richard Brautigan
Claiming Ground: Laura Bell ^
October (12)
Shelter: Harlan Coben
Deal Breaker: Harlan Coben *
Drop Shot: Harlan Coben *
Fade Away: Harlan Coben *
Back Spin: Harlan Coben *
One False Move: Harlan Coben *
The Final Detail: Harlan Coben *
Darkest Fear: Harlan Coben *
Promise Me: Harlan Coben *
Long Lost: Harlan Coben *
The Tale of Halcyon Crane: Wendy Webb ^
Prairie Fever: Mary Biddinger ^
November (5)
The Forgotten Garden: Kate Morton
Blizzard of One: Mark Strand ^
Island Beneath the Sea (audiobook): Isabel Allende
Remarkable Creatures: Tracey Chevalier ^
The Angel's Game: Carlos Ruiz Zafón ^
December (3)
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Irving Stone
The Tiger's Wife: Téa Obreht ^
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: Alan Bradley
Grand Total: 91