Favourites - Fiction
*World War Z - Max Brooks
This is a really well-executed idea, and if you can buy the zombie thing, actually quite plausible. (And terrifying.) Maybe a little long, as I neared the last 50 pages I was ready for it to be over. I'm not sure I got all the tie-togethers of each story, but I am quite impressed by this book.

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( Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8), The Thin Man, The Copper Beech, Sushi for Beginners, Minding Frankie, Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Vanishing Victim, The Conqueror, The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery Volume I, Blood Lines )

( Fall of Giants, The Return of the King, Prizes, The Children of Henry VIII, Archangel, Jovah's Angel, The Alleluia Files )

Non-specific spoilers for Mockingjay below the cut, just FYI.

( The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible, Acts of Faith, The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong, Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization, Mockingjay, The Next Thing on My List, The Best American Sports Writing 2008, Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1), And Thereby Hangs A Tale, The Poison Throne (The Moorehawke Trilogy, #1), The Man Who Lost Himself - the Terry Evanshen Story, The Crowded Shadows (Moorehawke Trilogy, #2), The Class, Diary of a Provincial Lady )

( Our Man Weston, The Lost Symbol, Mistress Anne, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Unclutter Your Life in One Week, A Conspiracy of Kings, The 5-Factor Diet, Superior Women, Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL, The Reluctant King: the Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952 )

( Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess, Lonesome Dove, Lilibet, A Year with the Queen, Bellwether, 44 Scotland Street, Elizabeth: The Woman and the Queen, Seven and the Magician )

( Blackout, The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove, The Wife's Tale, Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work, Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life, Dear Enemy, The Ship of Brides, One Year to an Organized Work Life: From Your Desk to Your Deadlines, the Week-by-Week Guide to Eliminating Office Stress for Good, The Glass Lake, The Charlemagne Pursuit )

( Cross My Heart and Hope to Die, The Art of Detection, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, The Best American Sports Writing 2009, Heart and Soul, The Best American Travel Writing 2009, The Lady in the Tower, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, The God of the Hive )

( The Big House: a Century in the Life of an American Summer Home, Royal Assassin, Homer & Langley, Quentins, A Letter of Mary, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, The Queen of Attolia, The Language of Bees, The Happiness Project: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Daddy Long Legs, Tomorrow When the War Began, Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter, Unwind, The King of Attolia, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Mommywood )

( Blood Debt, The Thief, My Losing Season, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?, Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, Assassin's Apprentice,
Pope Joan, North to the Night, The Name Game: Football, Baseball, Hockey & Basketball How Your Favorite Sports Teams Were Named, Swann, Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft, The Happiness Project: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Relative Stranger: A Life After Death )