Books post
Post for books I've read, books I should read, reviews, etc.
Books read since October '06: The Lovely Bones, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, The Five Love Languages for Singles, The Case for Faith, Jane Eyre
Books to read: Children of Hurin, Northanger Abbey, and other Austen works (see below)
2007
Books to read again: Phantom of the Opera (started in December '06, picked up again June '07, and got halfway through before dropping it again. I could have finished it in California, but I didn't.)
Jane Eyre: started 4/17/07, finished 4/29/07. Quite possibly Most definitely my FAVORITE BOOK EVER. Now read twice officially, plus countless sections reread countless times.
Started Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens) early August '07. Might take forever to finish, but I like it so far.
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, October '07. Fall break reading :)
2008
Winter break, '07-'08:
-Listened to Rhett Butler's People on the drive to/from CA. Loved it, learned a lot from it (Civil War era history) and it evoked several instances of shock and awwwwwww! from me.
-Attempted Our Mutual Friend again, but daunted by the language and waiting for all the seperate characters to come together in some way. Can't figure out what 2 of them have to do with anything.
-Started Teacher Man by Frank McCourt. It was the alternative to OMF, and much easier to read. Teachers have faced the same struggles for many, many years. Interesting.
Jan. 26, 2008 (date Mansfield Park aired?) - mid-February - Emma. Tough at first, but I really got into it. Bought and watched movie 2/19/08.
Late Feb.- March 18th - Atonement Watched the movie March 19th. Liked the book better than the movie.
Spring break '08 - Northanger Abbey. Finished it in about 4 days. Cute, even though I'd already seen the movie.
March 26th - April 12th: Mansfield Park. I can't believe how the culture was in that time period! I love the book, however. It might be my favorite Austen novel.
Late April - Prince Caspian. Short, easy read, and I liked it.
May/June - Sense and Sensibility again. I missed a lot the first time.
July 8-11 - Les Miserables (abridged). Pretty darn good.
July 8-21 (finished a little after midnight) - Persuasion. Surprisingly good after my lack of interest in it. It made me squee. Now, I must figure out who my favorite Austen man is. I'm so sad I have no Austen books left to read!
Fall '08 (lost track of dates) read Jane Eyre again. 4th time, maybe?
November 28th - December 5. North and South. Reading it online, yay, since I couldn't find the book. See note in movies post. **Bought book 12/5, and read last 12 chapters in a day. Well, I was reading chapters here and there at work. Blasted wonderful internet! Very good book, recommended it to a coworker (Hilary). Ending was too short, as Reena and Michelle said.
Dec 31, 2008: Austenland, by Shannon Hale. Yes, I read it in a matter of hours. It was cute, and fun, though a tiny bit heavy on the similes.
2009
January - started P&P again. I missed a lot the first time around, and I loved it the second time, but stopped reading after a few days. I'll finish it again someday. Finished March 16th. Great book.
February - Reread Jacob Have I Loved for the first time since 7th grade. I had forgotten all of it except for the Jergens lotion and gloves part. The end was familiar when I got to it. Great book.
February 26 - ? Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Amazing.
April - Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo. Very cute. Made me want to go to England really badly.
June - Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler
I also keep opening to random parts of P&P and reading them again.
July-Sept. - 101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen - Patrice Hannon. Appealed to my geeky side since it was quite biographical. Took a few months to finish, but I recommend it to all my fellow Austen fans.
August - The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James. Loved it. Also biographical, well, autobiographical, but written as a narrative with a few additions by the author.
Started Shirley by CB, but it's a little difficult to get into.
Sept. - Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte. Difficult to get into, but strangely addicting. Definite moments of feeling emotional for the characters, and a satisfying (for me) ending that I've read over and over.
Oct. - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Jill lent it to me. It's a series of letters between a writer, her friends, and people on one of the [English] Channel Islands who formed a book club during the German occupation. Lots of WW2 history to go along with the story. I recommend it.
October-November - Villette by Charlotte Bronte. I should have looked for a Penguin Classics version, or at least one that translated all the French passages. Aside from that, it was less difficult to get into than Shirley, but still boring-yet-addictive. I was guessing the ending until the actual end, or the last 100 pages or so. There was a definite "drop the book and squee" moment, and already I've reread most of a chapter.
12/13/09 - 1/3/10: The Professor by Charlotte Bronte.
December drive to/from CA, plus a day: Wives and Daughters (on audiobook) by Elizabeth Gaskell.
2010
Feb. - Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart by Beth Patillo. Slightly predictable, but I think I'll be reading anything else she writes.
??? I know there's something I'm missing here.
August - My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming.
Nov. - after watching the miniseries, I finally read more of Our Mutual Friend. Much easier to understand now that I know what the heck was happening, and who all those people were.
December: 1) Jane, by April Lindner. A modern retelling of Jane Eyre. Good, a few things I would have left out, a few things that made me laugh, a few that made me go NO WAY! It's considered teen fiction, though some things I think are too mature. Or, the story set in a modern world, too unrealistic and misleading. Or, just weirded out by the older man younger woman deal.
2) Firegirl by Tony Abbott. A kid's book, but pretty good.
2011
Feb. - Home by Julie Andrews
March - Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
May - A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William Deresiewicz. Austen analysis + memoir = geekfest for me.
June/July - Great Expectations The first Dickens novel I liked from start to finish. Heck, the first Dickens novel I read cover to cover.
August - The Great Typo Hunt Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson. Took me a while to pick it up again after starting it who knows when. But, grammar nerd I am, I liked it. Once he gets into analysis of grammar mistakes, which sounds slightly misleading, I was hooked.
Sept. 11-27: N&S again.
Sept 30-October 16: Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier. Original receipt I stuck in the book (Borders, sniff!) says I bought it June 2007. Ha ha ha 4 years later I start it :) Great descriptions, some subtleties I enjoyed figuring out, and Civil War history I never learned about. I predicted the type of ending it would have, but didn't entirely expect it.
Oct 14-? Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons - the lesser/unfinished works of Jane Austen.
ACK have not kept up with this.
2012
Jane Austen Made Me Do It (read in 2011?) (short stories by various authors)
Searching For Pemberley - Mary Lydon Simonson
June: Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor - Stephanie Barron
July: Emma and Knightley - Rachel Billington
The Flight of Gemma Hardy - Margot Livesey
The Help - Kathryn Stockett (3 books in 18 days!)
2013
Oh man, have I really not read anything since last summer?? I think I have but forgot to add it to this list.
Feb. 23-March 5 - Blue Like Jazz which I highly recommend.
Have not been keeping records...joined a book club, read a few more on my own:
The Marriage Plot - Jeffery Eugenides
The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
Midnight in Austenland - Shannon Hale
I know there is one I'm forgetting here...
July, 2014 Son by Lois Lowry. Last book in the Giver series. Nicely ties up the other 3 books.
Shoot, how have I not updated this in over 3 years???
Sometime in 2015 or 16 - Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Unoffendable - Brant Hansen
2016??? Need to check my books tag.
~~~~~~~2017~~~~~~~~
One Thousand Gifts - Ann Voskamp. Got about halfway through and quit. Spring?.
Summer-fall:
The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning
A Homemade Life - Molly Wizenberg
The Marriage Bureau - Penrose Halson
Blessed Are the Misfits - Brant Hansen
~~~~~~~~~~2018~~~~~~~~~~
Finally finished The Three Weissmans of Westport - Cathleen Schine (January) fiction
The German Girl - Armando Lucas Correa (Feb?) historical fiction
Annabel Vs the Internet - Annabel Port (March/April) memoir
The Very Worst Missionary - Jamie Wright (read in 2 days, April 12-13) memoir
Bizarre England March/April non-fiction
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan (started, and will try to finish) (march...?) fiction
Unafraid - Benjamin Corey non-fiction
The Atomic City Girls - Janet Beard (historical fiction)
Educated - Tara Westover (memoir)
The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher (memoir)
Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly (historical fiction)
The Radium Girls - Kate Moore (non-fiction)
The Nasty Bits - Anthony Bourdain (memoir)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2019~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Bassoon King - Rainn Wilson (memoir)
The Alice Network - Kate Quinn (historical fiction)
May 30 - on plane to NC - The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris (hist. fic)
Anthony Bourdain Remembered (June)
I think it also counts that I read cookbooks.
Don't Make Me Pull Over! The Informal History of the Family Road Trip - Richard Ratay (non-fiction)
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan (memoir)
Black Klansman - Ron Stallworth (memoir)
Rocket Men - Robert Kurson (October) non-fiction
The Rooster Bar - John Grisham (Nov-Dec) fiction
The Daisy Children - Sofia Grant (Dec) fiction
started The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World - AJ Jacobs (memoir)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2020 (very out of order)~~~~~~~~~~~~~
finished The Know-It-All
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (audiobook; fiction). Different than I expected, but good.
Heartland - Sarah Smarsh (audiobook; memoir)
From Scratch - Tembi Locke (audiobook; memoir)
The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore (memoir)
Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver (fiction)
The Innocents - Michael Crummey (audiobook, fiction; did not finish)
Jane Eyre (audiobook) Charlotte Bronte
Home Work Julie Andrews (memoir)
The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde (fiction)
Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid (audiobook) (fiction)
Born a Crime Trevor Noah (memoir)
The Flight Girls Noelle Salazar (historical fiction)
How To Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi (audiobook)
The Bookshop of Yesterdays Amy Meyerson (fiction)
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Austin Channing Brown (audiobook; memoir)
The Truth About Us Brant Hansen (non-fiction)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2021 (also out of order)~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Evicted Matthew Desmond (non-fiction)
The San Ramon Chronicles (non-fiction)
The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner (fiction)
listened to 4 Jane Austen audiobooks (P&P, Emma, Northanger Abbey, ?)
A Black Women's History of the United States Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross (non-fic)
Our Towns James Fallows and Deborah Fallows (non-fiction)
The Ungrateful Refugee Dina Nayer (memoir)
Nomadland Jessica Bruder (non-fiction)
Shockaholic and Wishful Drinking Carrie Fisher (memoir)
Hyperbole and a Half Allie Brosh (humor/memoir)
Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview
The Martian Andy Weir (fiction)
Between Two Kingdoms Suleika Jahoud (memoir)
Janesville: An American Story Amy Goldstein (non-fiction)
Trejo Danny Trejo (memoir)
She Come By it Natural Sarah Smarsh (biography of Dolly Parton)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2022~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(trying to stay in order)
January
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality Michael J Fox (memoir)
How the Word is Passed Clint Smith (non-fiction)
February
Broken Music Sting (memoir)
The World's Strongest Librarian - Josh Hanagarne (memoir)
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald (fiction)
March
(finished Broken Wheel)
High Achiever - Tiffany Jenkins (memoir)
The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey (fiction)
Sitting Pretty - Rebekah Taussig (memoir)
(April?) The Child in Time - Ian McEwan (fiction) (started in 2018)
April
Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey (memoir)
Riding the Elephant - Craig Ferguson (memoir)
The Wife Upstairs - Rachel Hawkins (fiction)
In the Weeds - Tom Vitale (memoir)
May
(finished) In the Weeds
The Woman They Could Not Silence - Kate Moore (non-fiction)
The Other Bennet Sister - Janice Hadlow (fiction)
June
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy - Eric Metaxas (biography)
July - same. Bonhoeffer was a challenge to get through
August
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City - Andrea Elliott (non-fiction)
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (fiction)
September
finished Project Hail Mary
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (fiction)
Easy Crafts For The Insane - Kimberly Williams Brown (memoir)
October
No Cure for Being Human - Kate Bowler (memoir)
The Storyteller - Dave Grohl (memoir)
Still Just a Geek - Wil Wheaton (memoir, shocker I know, hahaha)
November
finished SJAG
Home Is Where The Eggs Are - Molly Yeh (cookbook)
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - Rhoda Janzen (memoir)
December
The Greatest Beer Run Ever - John Donohue (memoir)
The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan (memoir)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~2023~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jane Eyre (reread; fiction)
American Baby - Gabrielle Glaser (non-fiction)
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe (non-fiction)
Mill Town - Kerri Arsenault (memoir/non-fiction)
You're Doing Great - Tom Papa (humor)
Waiter Rant - Steve Dublanica (memoir/humor)
Corrections in Ink - Keri Blakinger (memoir)
The Hospital - Brian Alexander (non-fiction)
The World's Worst Assistant - Sona Movsesian (humor/memoir)
Blind Man's Bluff - James Tate Hill (memoir)
Desperate: An epic battle for clean water and justice in Appalachia - Kris Maher (non-fiction)
Eat a Peach - David Chang (memoir)
Solutions and Other Problems - Allie Brosh (humor)
Me - Elton John (memoir)
Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins - Katarina Bivald (fiction)
Wind at My Back - Misty Copeland (memoir)
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (fiction)
Code Girls - Liza Mundy (history)
Home Made - Liz Hauck (memoir)
Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain (memoir)
The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan (fiction)
All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (fiction)
Now I Am Known - Peter Mutabazi (memoir)
Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust - Loretta Lynn (memoir)
The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede (history/non-fiction)
The Deeper the Roots - Michael Tubbs (memoir)
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde (fiction)
Artemis - Andy Weir (fiction)
Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance (memoir)
~~~~~~~~2024~~~~~~~~~~
(Jan)finished Hillbilly Elegy
Who Gets Believed? - Dina Nayeri (psychology/politics)
Uprooted - Grace Olmstead (memoir/NF)
(Feb)Wild - Cheryl Strayed (memoir)
Half-Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls (novel)
Maid: Hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive - Stephanie Land (memoir)
Class - Stephanie Land (memoir)
(Mar)After the Party - Cressida Connolly (historical fiction)
Off the Clock - Emily Guendelsberger (memoir)
Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly (biography)
The Ballerina Mindset - Megan Fairchild (memoir/self-help)
(Apr)I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sánchez (fiction)
Humans of New York - Brandon Stanton
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner (memoir)
Better, Not Bitter - Yusef Salaam (memoir)
(May) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon (mystery)
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge (non-fiction)
Unprocessed - Megan Kimble (memoir/non-fiction)
(June) Dopesick - Beth Macy (non-fiction)
Frontier Follies - Ree Drummond (aka Pioneer Woman)
Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy - Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi
(July) Africatown - Nick Tabor (non-fiction)
Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin (psychology)
(Aug) A Bookshop in Berlin - Francoise Frenkel (memoir)
Seeing Ghosts - Kat Chow (memoir)
(Sept) Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe - Keith O'Brien (history)
Number One Chinese Restaurant - Lillian Li (fiction)
Blood Orange Night - Melissa Bond (memoir)
Rememberings - Sinead O'Connor (memoir) (audiobook)
(October) The Great Pretenders - Susannah Cahalan (non-fiction)
Wonder Drug - Jennifer Vanderbes (non-fiction)
Don't Think, Dear - Alice Robb (memoir/history)
Life is Hard, God is Good, Let's Dance - Brant Hansen (Christianity)
The Woman in Me - Britney Spears (memoir) (audiobook)
Books read since October '06: The Lovely Bones, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, The Five Love Languages for Singles, The Case for Faith, Jane Eyre
Books to read: Children of Hurin, Northanger Abbey, and other Austen works (see below)
2007
Books to read again: Phantom of the Opera (started in December '06, picked up again June '07, and got halfway through before dropping it again. I could have finished it in California, but I didn't.)
Jane Eyre: started 4/17/07, finished 4/29/07. Quite possibly Most definitely my FAVORITE BOOK EVER. Now read twice officially, plus countless sections reread countless times.
Started Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens) early August '07. Might take forever to finish, but I like it so far.
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, October '07. Fall break reading :)
2008
Winter break, '07-'08:
-Listened to Rhett Butler's People on the drive to/from CA. Loved it, learned a lot from it (Civil War era history) and it evoked several instances of shock and awwwwwww! from me.
-Attempted Our Mutual Friend again, but daunted by the language and waiting for all the seperate characters to come together in some way. Can't figure out what 2 of them have to do with anything.
-Started Teacher Man by Frank McCourt. It was the alternative to OMF, and much easier to read. Teachers have faced the same struggles for many, many years. Interesting.
Jan. 26, 2008 (date Mansfield Park aired?) - mid-February - Emma. Tough at first, but I really got into it. Bought and watched movie 2/19/08.
Late Feb.- March 18th - Atonement Watched the movie March 19th. Liked the book better than the movie.
Spring break '08 - Northanger Abbey. Finished it in about 4 days. Cute, even though I'd already seen the movie.
March 26th - April 12th: Mansfield Park. I can't believe how the culture was in that time period! I love the book, however. It might be my favorite Austen novel.
Late April - Prince Caspian. Short, easy read, and I liked it.
May/June - Sense and Sensibility again. I missed a lot the first time.
July 8-11 - Les Miserables (abridged). Pretty darn good.
July 8-21 (finished a little after midnight) - Persuasion. Surprisingly good after my lack of interest in it. It made me squee. Now, I must figure out who my favorite Austen man is. I'm so sad I have no Austen books left to read!
Fall '08 (lost track of dates) read Jane Eyre again. 4th time, maybe?
November 28th - December 5. North and South. Reading it online, yay, since I couldn't find the book. See note in movies post. **Bought book 12/5, and read last 12 chapters in a day. Well, I was reading chapters here and there at work. Blasted wonderful internet! Very good book, recommended it to a coworker (Hilary). Ending was too short, as Reena and Michelle said.
Dec 31, 2008: Austenland, by Shannon Hale. Yes, I read it in a matter of hours. It was cute, and fun, though a tiny bit heavy on the similes.
2009
January - started P&P again. I missed a lot the first time around, and I loved it the second time, but stopped reading after a few days. I'll finish it again someday. Finished March 16th. Great book.
February - Reread Jacob Have I Loved for the first time since 7th grade. I had forgotten all of it except for the Jergens lotion and gloves part. The end was familiar when I got to it. Great book.
February 26 - ? Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Amazing.
April - Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo. Very cute. Made me want to go to England really badly.
June - Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler
I also keep opening to random parts of P&P and reading them again.
July-Sept. - 101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen - Patrice Hannon. Appealed to my geeky side since it was quite biographical. Took a few months to finish, but I recommend it to all my fellow Austen fans.
August - The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James. Loved it. Also biographical, well, autobiographical, but written as a narrative with a few additions by the author.
Started Shirley by CB, but it's a little difficult to get into.
Sept. - Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte. Difficult to get into, but strangely addicting. Definite moments of feeling emotional for the characters, and a satisfying (for me) ending that I've read over and over.
Oct. - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Jill lent it to me. It's a series of letters between a writer, her friends, and people on one of the [English] Channel Islands who formed a book club during the German occupation. Lots of WW2 history to go along with the story. I recommend it.
October-November - Villette by Charlotte Bronte. I should have looked for a Penguin Classics version, or at least one that translated all the French passages. Aside from that, it was less difficult to get into than Shirley, but still boring-yet-addictive. I was guessing the ending until the actual end, or the last 100 pages or so. There was a definite "drop the book and squee" moment, and already I've reread most of a chapter.
12/13/09 - 1/3/10: The Professor by Charlotte Bronte.
December drive to/from CA, plus a day: Wives and Daughters (on audiobook) by Elizabeth Gaskell.
2010
Feb. - Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart by Beth Patillo. Slightly predictable, but I think I'll be reading anything else she writes.
??? I know there's something I'm missing here.
August - My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming.
Nov. - after watching the miniseries, I finally read more of Our Mutual Friend. Much easier to understand now that I know what the heck was happening, and who all those people were.
December: 1) Jane, by April Lindner. A modern retelling of Jane Eyre. Good, a few things I would have left out, a few things that made me laugh, a few that made me go NO WAY! It's considered teen fiction, though some things I think are too mature. Or, the story set in a modern world, too unrealistic and misleading. Or, just weirded out by the older man younger woman deal.
2) Firegirl by Tony Abbott. A kid's book, but pretty good.
2011
Feb. - Home by Julie Andrews
March - Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
May - A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William Deresiewicz. Austen analysis + memoir = geekfest for me.
June/July - Great Expectations The first Dickens novel I liked from start to finish. Heck, the first Dickens novel I read cover to cover.
August - The Great Typo Hunt Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson. Took me a while to pick it up again after starting it who knows when. But, grammar nerd I am, I liked it. Once he gets into analysis of grammar mistakes, which sounds slightly misleading, I was hooked.
Sept. 11-27: N&S again.
Sept 30-October 16: Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier. Original receipt I stuck in the book (Borders, sniff!) says I bought it June 2007. Ha ha ha 4 years later I start it :) Great descriptions, some subtleties I enjoyed figuring out, and Civil War history I never learned about. I predicted the type of ending it would have, but didn't entirely expect it.
Oct 14-? Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons - the lesser/unfinished works of Jane Austen.
ACK have not kept up with this.
2012
Jane Austen Made Me Do It (read in 2011?) (short stories by various authors)
Searching For Pemberley - Mary Lydon Simonson
June: Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor - Stephanie Barron
July: Emma and Knightley - Rachel Billington
The Flight of Gemma Hardy - Margot Livesey
The Help - Kathryn Stockett (3 books in 18 days!)
2013
Oh man, have I really not read anything since last summer?? I think I have but forgot to add it to this list.
Feb. 23-March 5 - Blue Like Jazz which I highly recommend.
Have not been keeping records...joined a book club, read a few more on my own:
The Marriage Plot - Jeffery Eugenides
The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
Midnight in Austenland - Shannon Hale
I know there is one I'm forgetting here...
July, 2014 Son by Lois Lowry. Last book in the Giver series. Nicely ties up the other 3 books.
Shoot, how have I not updated this in over 3 years???
Sometime in 2015 or 16 - Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Unoffendable - Brant Hansen
2016??? Need to check my books tag.
~~~~~~~2017~~~~~~~~
One Thousand Gifts - Ann Voskamp. Got about halfway through and quit. Spring?.
Summer-fall:
The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning
A Homemade Life - Molly Wizenberg
The Marriage Bureau - Penrose Halson
Blessed Are the Misfits - Brant Hansen
~~~~~~~~~~2018~~~~~~~~~~
Finally finished The Three Weissmans of Westport - Cathleen Schine (January) fiction
The German Girl - Armando Lucas Correa (Feb?) historical fiction
Annabel Vs the Internet - Annabel Port (March/April) memoir
The Very Worst Missionary - Jamie Wright (read in 2 days, April 12-13) memoir
Bizarre England March/April non-fiction
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan (started, and will try to finish) (march...?) fiction
Unafraid - Benjamin Corey non-fiction
The Atomic City Girls - Janet Beard (historical fiction)
Educated - Tara Westover (memoir)
The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher (memoir)
Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly (historical fiction)
The Radium Girls - Kate Moore (non-fiction)
The Nasty Bits - Anthony Bourdain (memoir)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2019~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Bassoon King - Rainn Wilson (memoir)
The Alice Network - Kate Quinn (historical fiction)
May 30 - on plane to NC - The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris (hist. fic)
Anthony Bourdain Remembered (June)
I think it also counts that I read cookbooks.
Don't Make Me Pull Over! The Informal History of the Family Road Trip - Richard Ratay (non-fiction)
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan (memoir)
Black Klansman - Ron Stallworth (memoir)
Rocket Men - Robert Kurson (October) non-fiction
The Rooster Bar - John Grisham (Nov-Dec) fiction
The Daisy Children - Sofia Grant (Dec) fiction
started The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World - AJ Jacobs (memoir)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2020 (very out of order)~~~~~~~~~~~~~
finished The Know-It-All
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (audiobook; fiction). Different than I expected, but good.
Heartland - Sarah Smarsh (audiobook; memoir)
From Scratch - Tembi Locke (audiobook; memoir)
The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore (memoir)
Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver (fiction)
The Innocents - Michael Crummey (audiobook, fiction; did not finish)
Jane Eyre (audiobook) Charlotte Bronte
Home Work Julie Andrews (memoir)
The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde (fiction)
Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid (audiobook) (fiction)
Born a Crime Trevor Noah (memoir)
The Flight Girls Noelle Salazar (historical fiction)
How To Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi (audiobook)
The Bookshop of Yesterdays Amy Meyerson (fiction)
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Austin Channing Brown (audiobook; memoir)
The Truth About Us Brant Hansen (non-fiction)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2021 (also out of order)~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Evicted Matthew Desmond (non-fiction)
The San Ramon Chronicles (non-fiction)
The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner (fiction)
listened to 4 Jane Austen audiobooks (P&P, Emma, Northanger Abbey, ?)
A Black Women's History of the United States Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross (non-fic)
Our Towns James Fallows and Deborah Fallows (non-fiction)
The Ungrateful Refugee Dina Nayer (memoir)
Nomadland Jessica Bruder (non-fiction)
Shockaholic and Wishful Drinking Carrie Fisher (memoir)
Hyperbole and a Half Allie Brosh (humor/memoir)
Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview
The Martian Andy Weir (fiction)
Between Two Kingdoms Suleika Jahoud (memoir)
Janesville: An American Story Amy Goldstein (non-fiction)
Trejo Danny Trejo (memoir)
She Come By it Natural Sarah Smarsh (biography of Dolly Parton)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2022~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(trying to stay in order)
January
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality Michael J Fox (memoir)
How the Word is Passed Clint Smith (non-fiction)
February
Broken Music Sting (memoir)
The World's Strongest Librarian - Josh Hanagarne (memoir)
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald (fiction)
March
(finished Broken Wheel)
High Achiever - Tiffany Jenkins (memoir)
The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey (fiction)
Sitting Pretty - Rebekah Taussig (memoir)
(April?) The Child in Time - Ian McEwan (fiction) (started in 2018)
April
Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey (memoir)
Riding the Elephant - Craig Ferguson (memoir)
The Wife Upstairs - Rachel Hawkins (fiction)
In the Weeds - Tom Vitale (memoir)
May
(finished) In the Weeds
The Woman They Could Not Silence - Kate Moore (non-fiction)
The Other Bennet Sister - Janice Hadlow (fiction)
June
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy - Eric Metaxas (biography)
July - same. Bonhoeffer was a challenge to get through
August
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City - Andrea Elliott (non-fiction)
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (fiction)
September
finished Project Hail Mary
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (fiction)
Easy Crafts For The Insane - Kimberly Williams Brown (memoir)
October
No Cure for Being Human - Kate Bowler (memoir)
The Storyteller - Dave Grohl (memoir)
Still Just a Geek - Wil Wheaton (memoir, shocker I know, hahaha)
November
finished SJAG
Home Is Where The Eggs Are - Molly Yeh (cookbook)
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - Rhoda Janzen (memoir)
December
The Greatest Beer Run Ever - John Donohue (memoir)
The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan (memoir)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~2023~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jane Eyre (reread; fiction)
American Baby - Gabrielle Glaser (non-fiction)
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe (non-fiction)
Mill Town - Kerri Arsenault (memoir/non-fiction)
You're Doing Great - Tom Papa (humor)
Waiter Rant - Steve Dublanica (memoir/humor)
Corrections in Ink - Keri Blakinger (memoir)
The Hospital - Brian Alexander (non-fiction)
The World's Worst Assistant - Sona Movsesian (humor/memoir)
Blind Man's Bluff - James Tate Hill (memoir)
Desperate: An epic battle for clean water and justice in Appalachia - Kris Maher (non-fiction)
Eat a Peach - David Chang (memoir)
Solutions and Other Problems - Allie Brosh (humor)
Me - Elton John (memoir)
Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins - Katarina Bivald (fiction)
Wind at My Back - Misty Copeland (memoir)
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (fiction)
Code Girls - Liza Mundy (history)
Home Made - Liz Hauck (memoir)
Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain (memoir)
The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan (fiction)
All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (fiction)
Now I Am Known - Peter Mutabazi (memoir)
Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust - Loretta Lynn (memoir)
The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede (history/non-fiction)
The Deeper the Roots - Michael Tubbs (memoir)
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde (fiction)
Artemis - Andy Weir (fiction)
Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance (memoir)
~~~~~~~~2024~~~~~~~~~~
(Jan)finished Hillbilly Elegy
Who Gets Believed? - Dina Nayeri (psychology/politics)
Uprooted - Grace Olmstead (memoir/NF)
(Feb)Wild - Cheryl Strayed (memoir)
Half-Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls (novel)
Maid: Hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive - Stephanie Land (memoir)
Class - Stephanie Land (memoir)
(Mar)After the Party - Cressida Connolly (historical fiction)
Off the Clock - Emily Guendelsberger (memoir)
Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly (biography)
The Ballerina Mindset - Megan Fairchild (memoir/self-help)
(Apr)I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sánchez (fiction)
Humans of New York - Brandon Stanton
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner (memoir)
Better, Not Bitter - Yusef Salaam (memoir)
(May) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon (mystery)
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge (non-fiction)
Unprocessed - Megan Kimble (memoir/non-fiction)
(June) Dopesick - Beth Macy (non-fiction)
Frontier Follies - Ree Drummond (aka Pioneer Woman)
Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy - Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi
(July) Africatown - Nick Tabor (non-fiction)
Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin (psychology)
(Aug) A Bookshop in Berlin - Francoise Frenkel (memoir)
Seeing Ghosts - Kat Chow (memoir)
(Sept) Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe - Keith O'Brien (history)
Number One Chinese Restaurant - Lillian Li (fiction)
Blood Orange Night - Melissa Bond (memoir)
Rememberings - Sinead O'Connor (memoir) (audiobook)
(October) The Great Pretenders - Susannah Cahalan (non-fiction)
Wonder Drug - Jennifer Vanderbes (non-fiction)
Don't Think, Dear - Alice Robb (memoir/history)
Life is Hard, God is Good, Let's Dance - Brant Hansen (Christianity)
The Woman in Me - Britney Spears (memoir) (audiobook)