2010/2011 Books Read List
*** means i loved it, ** means i enjoyed it
if i didn't star it, it was good but didn't leave a lasting impression one way or the other.
if it was really bad, i left a comment saying so, or i just gave up and didn't list it at all
Child/YA/Teen Fic:
***Anna and the French Kiss / Stephanie Perkins
**Lola and the Boy Next Door / Stephanie Perkins
**If I Stay / Gayle Forman
**Where She Went / Gayle Forman
***Revolution / Jennifer Donnelly
**13 Little Blue Envelopes / Maureen Johnson
**The Last Little Blue Envelope / Maureen Johnson
**The Name of the Star / Maureen Johnson
**Illyria / Elizabeth Hand
**Ruined / Paula Morris
***Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow / Dedra Johnson
*Walk of the Spirits / Richie Tankersley Cusick
*Shadow Mirror / Richie Tankersley Cusick
*The House Next Door / Richie Tankersley Cusick
Darker Still / Leanna Renee Hieber (boring Wilde rip-off)
**The Invention of Hugo Cabret / Brian Selznick
Sweep I, II, III / Cate Tiernan (gave up)
Adult Fic & Non-Fic:
Ten Thousand Saints / Eleanor Henderson
**Choke Hold / Christa Faust
**The Physic Book of Deliverance Dane / Katherine Howe
**The Rose Garden / Susanna Kearsley
**The Winter Sea / Susanna Kearsley
**The Help / Kathryn Stockett
**Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen
***Control Freak / Christa Faust (again, again)
**Sepulchre / Kate Mosse
Labyrinth / Kate Mosse
**Naamah's Curse / Jacqueline Carey
**Naamah's Blessing / Jacqueline Carey
**The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B / Sandra Gulland
***Mistress of the Sun / Sandra Gulland
The Sticks / Andy Deane
**Madeleine's Ghost / Robert Girardi
The Pirate's Daughter / Robert Girardi
Vaporetto 13 / Robert Girardi
The Birth of Venus / Sarah Dunant
**Sacred Hearts / Sarah Dunant
In the Company of the Courtesan / Sarah Dunant
Mapping the Edge / Sarah Dunant
***Sarah's Key / Tatiana de Rosnay
A Secret Kept / Tatiana de Rosnay
Less Than Zero / Bret Easton Ellis
Imperial Bedrooms / Bret Easton Ellis
**The Good Life / Jay McInerney
The Swan Thieves / Elizabeth Kostova
Meet Me in Venice / Elizabeth Adler
**A Year in the Merde / Stephen Clarke
***Against Nature / Joris-Karl Huysmans
Waking the Witch / Kelley Armstrong
Spellbound / Kelley Armstrong
***Selected Poems / Saint-John Perse
Watch Me Die / Erica Spindler
City of Masks / Daniel Hecht
Phantom Evil / Heather Graham
Heart of Evil / Heather Graham
Feet on the Street: Rambles around New Orleans / Ray Blount
**One Dead in Attic / Chris Rose
***The Last Werewolf / Glen Duncan
**Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans / Dan Baum
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences / Lawrence Weschler
**The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story / Julia Reed
Letters from New Orleans / Rob Walker
New Orleans Confidential / O'Neil Denoux
The End of Everything / Meg Abbott
Academic:
Munch:In His Own Words
Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol, and Expression / Jeffery Howe
**Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream / Sue Prideaux
**Fin de Siecle Vienna / Carl Schorske
Reproducing the French Race / Elisa Camiscioli
Survival in Auschwitz / Primo Levi
Dark Continent / Mark Mazower
Sixty Million Frenchman Can't Be Wrong / Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow
Keys: Their History and Collection / Eric Monk
**The Painting of Modern Life / TJ Clark
**The Factory of Facts / Luc Sante
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters / Louis Begley
International Relations: The Path Not Taken / Thomas Schoenbaum
What's Wrong with the United Nations / Thomas Weiss
Rites of Spring / Modris Eksteins
Europe Reborn / Harold James
The Railway Journey / Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Bouvard and Pecuchet / Gustave Flaubert
The World's Religions / Huston Smith
more as i think of them.... this list is really long....
the list of books (incl not yet released and on my dpl waitlist) i want to read:
winter / keven newsome
desiree / annemarie salinko
radiant days / elizabeth hand
available dark / elizabeth hand
isla and the happily ever after / stephanie perkins
dearly, departed / lia habel
tales of passion, tales of woe / sandra gulland
the last great dance on earth / sandra gulland
a cottage by the sea / ciji ware
island of the swans / ciji ware
77 shadow street / dean koontz
an unspeakable mission / judith campbell
the house i loved / tatiana de rosnay
the house at sea's end / emily griffiths
quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking / susan cain
the world that made new orleans: spanish silver to congo sq / ned sublette
hoodoo money / sharon cupp pennington
frenchman, desire, good children / john churchill chase
the fall / guilermo del toro
the strain / guilermo del toro
dracula in love: the private diary of mina harker / karen essex
leonardo's swans / karen essex
stealing athena / karen essex
if i didn't star it, it was good but didn't leave a lasting impression one way or the other.
if it was really bad, i left a comment saying so, or i just gave up and didn't list it at all
Child/YA/Teen Fic:
***Anna and the French Kiss / Stephanie Perkins
**Lola and the Boy Next Door / Stephanie Perkins
**If I Stay / Gayle Forman
**Where She Went / Gayle Forman
***Revolution / Jennifer Donnelly
**13 Little Blue Envelopes / Maureen Johnson
**The Last Little Blue Envelope / Maureen Johnson
**The Name of the Star / Maureen Johnson
**Illyria / Elizabeth Hand
**Ruined / Paula Morris
***Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow / Dedra Johnson
*Walk of the Spirits / Richie Tankersley Cusick
*Shadow Mirror / Richie Tankersley Cusick
*The House Next Door / Richie Tankersley Cusick
Darker Still / Leanna Renee Hieber (boring Wilde rip-off)
**The Invention of Hugo Cabret / Brian Selznick
Sweep I, II, III / Cate Tiernan (gave up)
Adult Fic & Non-Fic:
Ten Thousand Saints / Eleanor Henderson
**Choke Hold / Christa Faust
**The Physic Book of Deliverance Dane / Katherine Howe
**The Rose Garden / Susanna Kearsley
**The Winter Sea / Susanna Kearsley
**The Help / Kathryn Stockett
**Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen
***Control Freak / Christa Faust (again, again)
**Sepulchre / Kate Mosse
Labyrinth / Kate Mosse
**Naamah's Curse / Jacqueline Carey
**Naamah's Blessing / Jacqueline Carey
**The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B / Sandra Gulland
***Mistress of the Sun / Sandra Gulland
The Sticks / Andy Deane
**Madeleine's Ghost / Robert Girardi
The Pirate's Daughter / Robert Girardi
Vaporetto 13 / Robert Girardi
The Birth of Venus / Sarah Dunant
**Sacred Hearts / Sarah Dunant
In the Company of the Courtesan / Sarah Dunant
Mapping the Edge / Sarah Dunant
***Sarah's Key / Tatiana de Rosnay
A Secret Kept / Tatiana de Rosnay
Less Than Zero / Bret Easton Ellis
Imperial Bedrooms / Bret Easton Ellis
**The Good Life / Jay McInerney
The Swan Thieves / Elizabeth Kostova
Meet Me in Venice / Elizabeth Adler
**A Year in the Merde / Stephen Clarke
***Against Nature / Joris-Karl Huysmans
Waking the Witch / Kelley Armstrong
Spellbound / Kelley Armstrong
***Selected Poems / Saint-John Perse
Watch Me Die / Erica Spindler
City of Masks / Daniel Hecht
Phantom Evil / Heather Graham
Heart of Evil / Heather Graham
Feet on the Street: Rambles around New Orleans / Ray Blount
**One Dead in Attic / Chris Rose
***The Last Werewolf / Glen Duncan
**Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans / Dan Baum
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences / Lawrence Weschler
**The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story / Julia Reed
Letters from New Orleans / Rob Walker
New Orleans Confidential / O'Neil Denoux
The End of Everything / Meg Abbott
Academic:
Munch:In His Own Words
Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol, and Expression / Jeffery Howe
**Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream / Sue Prideaux
**Fin de Siecle Vienna / Carl Schorske
Reproducing the French Race / Elisa Camiscioli
Survival in Auschwitz / Primo Levi
Dark Continent / Mark Mazower
Sixty Million Frenchman Can't Be Wrong / Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow
Keys: Their History and Collection / Eric Monk
**The Painting of Modern Life / TJ Clark
**The Factory of Facts / Luc Sante
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters / Louis Begley
International Relations: The Path Not Taken / Thomas Schoenbaum
What's Wrong with the United Nations / Thomas Weiss
Rites of Spring / Modris Eksteins
Europe Reborn / Harold James
The Railway Journey / Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Bouvard and Pecuchet / Gustave Flaubert
The World's Religions / Huston Smith
more as i think of them.... this list is really long....
the list of books (incl not yet released and on my dpl waitlist) i want to read:
winter / keven newsome
desiree / annemarie salinko
radiant days / elizabeth hand
available dark / elizabeth hand
isla and the happily ever after / stephanie perkins
dearly, departed / lia habel
tales of passion, tales of woe / sandra gulland
the last great dance on earth / sandra gulland
a cottage by the sea / ciji ware
island of the swans / ciji ware
77 shadow street / dean koontz
an unspeakable mission / judith campbell
the house i loved / tatiana de rosnay
the house at sea's end / emily griffiths
quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking / susan cain
the world that made new orleans: spanish silver to congo sq / ned sublette
hoodoo money / sharon cupp pennington
frenchman, desire, good children / john churchill chase
the fall / guilermo del toro
the strain / guilermo del toro
dracula in love: the private diary of mina harker / karen essex
leonardo's swans / karen essex
stealing athena / karen essex