Books Read

2012

1. “You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know- A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness” by Heather Sellers

2. “Blueprints for Building Better Girls” by Elissa Schappell

3. 
“The Future of Us” a YA novel by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler

4. “Triangles” a novel by Ellen Hopkins

5. “The Eleventh Plague” a YA novel by Jeff Hirsch

6. “We the Animals” a novel by Justin Torres

7. “The Little Book” a novel by Shelden Edwards

8. “When She Woke” a dystopian novel by Hillary Jordan

9. “Once Upon a Time, There Was You” a novel by Elizabeth Berg

10. “How to Save a Life” a YA novel by Sara Zarr

11. “Stay Awake” stories by Dan Chaon

12. “Clean” a YA novel by Amy Reed

13. “The Hunger Games” a YA novel by Suzanne Collins

14. “Pandemonium” a YA novel by Lauren Oliver

15. “Catching Fire” a YA novel by Suzanne Collis

2011

1. “Breaking Her Fall” a novel by Stephen Goodwin

2. “Touchy Subjects” stories by Emma Donoghue

3. “Bad Marie” a novel by Marcy Dermansky

4. “Peace and Plenty- Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity” by Sarah Ban Breathnach

5. “Corpus Christie” stories by Bret Anthony Johnston

6. “Unless It Moves the Human Heart- The Craft and Art of Writing” by Roger Rosenblatt

7. “The Laws of Evening” stories by Mary Yukari Waters

8. “About Alice” by Calvin Trillin

9. “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” by Amy Chua

10. “More of This World or Maybe Another” stories by Barb Johnson

11. “The Book Thief” a YA novel by Mark Zusak

12. “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin

13. “The Life You’ve Imagined” a novel by Kristina Riggle

14. “No One Would Listen – A True Financial Thriller” by Harry Markoplpos

15. “A Widow’s Story” a memoir by Joyce Carol Oates

16. “Some Girls Are” a YA novel by Courtney Summers

17. “Shadow Tag” a novel by Louise Erdrich

18. “Feathered” a YA novel by Laura Kasischke

19. “Decoded” by Jay-Z

20. “Once Was Lost” a YA novel by Sara Zarr

21. “The Rules of Survival” a YA novel by Nancy Werlin

22.  “Lost and Found- Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money” by Geneen Roth

23.  “Room” a novel by Emma Donoghue

24. “Delerium” a YA novel by Lauren Oliver

25. “Husband and Wife” a novel by Leah Stewart

26.  “The Illumination” a novel by Kevin Brockmeier

27.  “Little Bee” a novel by Chris Cleave

28.  “You Are Free” stories by Danzy Sensa

29.  “Swim Back to Me” stories by Ann Packer

30.  “The Wilding” a novel by Benjamin Percy

31. “Water for Elephants” a novel by Sara Gruen

32. “The Fates Will Find Their Way” a novel by Hannah Pittard

33. “Soft Apocalypse” a novel of the near future by Will McIntosh

34. “Silver Sparrow” a novel by Tayari Jones

35. “If I loved you, I would tell you this” stories by Robin Black

36. “Half a Life” a memoir by Darin Strauss

37. “The Name of the World” a novel by Denis Johnson

38. “Seductress- Women who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love” by Betsy Prioleau

39. “Poser- my life in twetny-three yoga poses” by Claire Dederer

40. “Side Effects” a YA novel by Amy Goldman Koss

41.  “Bound” a novel by Antonya Nelson

42. “After” a YA novel by Amy Efaw

43. “Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth” a novel by Donna M. Gershon

44.  “Twenty Thirty- The Real Story of What Happens to America” a novel by Albert Brooks

45.  “The Journal Keeper” a memoir by Phyllis Theroux

46. “Healer” a novel by Carol Cassella

47. “My Stroke of Insight- A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey” by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

48. “The Architecture of the Novel” by Jane Vandenburgh

49. “I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections” by Nora Ephron

50. “The Emperor’s Children” a novel by Claire Messud

51. “I Knew You’d Be Lovely” stories by Alethea Black

52. “Bill Moyers Journal- the Conversation Continues” by Bill Moyers

53. “Neighborhood Watch” a novel by Cammie McGovern

54. “Where She Went” a YA novel by Gayle Foreman

55. “The Twelfth Insight” a novel by James Redfield

56. “The Uncoupling” a novel by Meg Wolitzer

57. “One Hundred Names for Love- A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing” by Diane Ackerman

58.  “This Beautiful Life” a novel by Helen Schulman

59. “Fiction Ruined My Family” a memoir by Jeanne Darst

60. “The Leftovers” a novel by Tom Perrotta

61. “In Zanesville” a novel by Jo Ann Beard

62. “Paper Covers Rock” a YA novel by Jenny Hubbard

63. “Long Drive Home” a novel by Will Allison

64. “Forgotten” a YA novel by Cat Patrick

65. “Displacement” a YA novel by Thalia Chaltas

66. “Jumping Off Swings” a YA novel by Jo Knowles

67. “Turn- The Journal of an Artist” by Anne Truitt

68. “All These things I’ve Done” a YA novel by Gabrielle Zevin

69.  “History of a Suicide – My Sister’s unfinished Life” a memoir by Jill Bialosky

70. “Turn of Mind” a novel by Alice LaPlante

71. “What Alice Forgot” a novel by Liane Moriarty

72. “State of Wonder” a novel by Ann Patchett

73. “My American Unhappiness” a novel by Dean Bakapolous

74. “The Secret Lives of Wives- Women Share What it Really Takes to Stay Married” by Iris Krasnow

2010

1. “Await Your Reply” a novel by Dan Chaon

2. “Still Alice” a novel by Lisa Genova

3. “I’m So Happy For You” a novel by Lucinda Rosenfeld

4. “Triangle” a novel by Katherine Weber

5. “When Wanderers Cease to Roam” A Traveler’s Journal by Vivian Swift

6. “The Hour I First Believed” a novel by Wally Lamb

7. “Lit” a memoir by Mary Karr

8. “Columbine” nonfiction by Dave Cullen

9. “Ron Carlson Writes a Story” by Ron Carlson

10. “The Year of the Flood” a novel by Margaret Atwood

11. “The Hole We’re In” a novel by Gabrielle Zevin

12. “The Three Weissmanns of Westport” a novel by Cathleen Schein

13. “Where the God of Love Hangs Out” fiction by Amy Bloom

14. “Sum- forty tales from the afterlives” by David Eagleman

15. “Committed- A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage” by Elizabeth Gilbert

16. “The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo” a novel by Darrin Doyle

17. “The Things That Keep Us Here” a novel by Carla Buckley

18. “Model Home” a novel by Eric Puchner

19. “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” a novel by Rebecca Miller

20. “Daddy Needs a Drink- An Irreverent Look at Parenting From a Dad Who Truly Loves His Kids—Even When They’re driving Him Nuts” by Robert Wilder

21. “Manhood for Amateurs- The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son” by Michael Chabon

22. “We Need to talk about Kevin” a novel by Lionel Shriver

23. “Women Food and God- An Unexpected path to Almost Everything” by Geneen Roth

24. “American Short Fiction” literary journal, Spring 2010

25. “This World We live In” a YA novel by Susan Beth Pfeffer

26. “Imperfect Birds” a novel by Anne Lamott

27. “An American Wife” a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld

28. “Mathilda Savitch” a novel by Victor Lodato

29. “Her Fearful Symmetry” a novel by Audrey Niffenegger

30. “Self Storage” a novel by Gayle Brandeis

31. “Too Much Happiness” stories by Alice Munro

32. “Loose Girl- a memoir of promiscuity” by Kerry Cohen

33. “Mentor” a memoir by Tom Grimes

34. “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” a novel by Aimee Bender

35. “Hillbilly Gothic- A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood” by Adrienne Martini

36. “Palm Latitudes” a novel by Kate Braverman

37. “My Hollywood” a novel by Mona Simpson

38. “Elegies for the Brokenhearted” a novel by Christine Hodgen

39. “Thirteen Reasons Why” a YA novel by Jay Asher

40. “The Creative Life” by Julia Cameron

41. “Freedom” a novel by Jonathan Franzen

42. “A Visit from the Goon Squad” a novel by Jennifer Egan

43. “How to Be Alone” essays by Jonathan Franzen

44. “How to Buy a Love of Reading” a novel by Tanya Egan Gibson

45. “Notes from the Edge Times” essays by Daniel Pinchbeck

46. “Vanishing and Other Stories” stories by Deborah Willis

47. “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned” stories by Wells Tower

48. “War Dances” short stories by Sherman Alexie

49. “Matched” YA novel by Ally Condle

50. “The Middle Place” a memoir by Kelly Corrigan

51. “Refresh, Refresh” stories by Benjamin Percy

2009

1. “Goldengrove” a novel by Francine Prose

2. “The Heroines” a novel by Eileen Favorite

3. “The Beautiful Miscellaneous” a novel by Dominic Smith

4. “Best American Short Stories 2008″ edited by Salman Rushdie

5. “Cost” a novel by Roxana Robinson

6. “A Cold Day in Paradise” a novel by Steve Hamilton

7. “The Heretic’s Daughter” a novel by Kathleen Kent

8. “72 Hour Hold” a novel by Bebe Moore Campbell

9. “The Suicide Index- Putting My Father’s Death In Order” a memoir by Joan Wickersham

10. “Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes” short stories by Merrill Feitell

11. “An Abundance of Katherines” a YA novel by John Green

12. “Blue Jasmine” a YA novel by Kashmira Sheth

13. “Looking for Alaska” a YA novel by John Green

14. “A Mercy” a novel by Toni Morrison

15. “The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted and Other Small Acts of Liberation” stories by Elizabeth Berg

16. “The Man of My Dreams” a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld

17. “Now You See Him” a novel by Eli Gottlieb

18. “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury

20. “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” a memoir by Haruki Murakami

21. “No On You Know” a novel by Michelle Richmond

22. “Time of My Life” a novel by Allison Winn Scotch

23. “The Echo Maker” a novel by Richard Powers

24. “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination” a memoir by Elizabeth McCracken

25. “Falling Man” a novel by Don DeLillo

26. “Why I’m Like This” true stories by Cynthia Kaplan

27. “If I Stay” a YA novel by Gayle Forman

28. “Matrimony” a novel by Joshua Henkin

29. “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” a novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

30. “The Wednesday Sisters” a novel by Meg Waite Clayton

31. “Real Life & Liars” a novel by Kristina Riggle

32. “Florida” a novel by Christine Schutt

32. “Next Thing on My List” a novel by Jill Smilinski

33. “Do Not Deny Me” stories by Jean Thompson

34. “The Angel’s Game” a novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafrón

35. “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It” stories by Maile Meloy

36. “Certain Girls” a novel by Jennifer Weiner

37. “The Slippery Year- A Meditation on Happily Ever After” a memoir by Melanie Gideon

38. “Home Safe: a novel by Elizabeth Berg

39. “The Lair’s Club” a memoir by Mary Karr

40. “My Stroke of Insight- a Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey” by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

41. “A Prayer for Owen Meany” a novel by John Irving

42. “Paper Towns” a YA novel by John Green

43. “The Glen Rock Book of the Dead” a memoir by Marion winik

44. “Miles from Nowhere” a YA novel by Nami Mun

45. “Livability” stories by Jon Raymond

46. “Normal People Don’t Live Like This” a novel in stories by Dylan Landis

47. “Waiting To Surface” a novel by Emily Listfield

48. “In a Perfect World” a novel by Laura Kasischke

49. “The Wishing Box” a novel by Dashka Slater

50. “The Glass Castle” a memoir by Jeannette Walls

51. “Blame” a novel by Michelle Huneven

52. “The Bright Forever” a novel by Lee Martin

53. “Going Away Shoes” short stories by Jill McCorkle

54. “Nothing Right” short stories by Antonya Nelson

55. “Bad Mother- A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace” by Ayelet Waldman

56. “April & Oliver” a novel by Tess Callahan

57. “Ask for a Convertible” stories by Danit Brown

58. “The Joy of Funerals” a novel in stories by Alix Strauss

59. “Stop That Girl” stories by Elizabeth McKenzie

60. “Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper” by Sark

61. “29 Gifts” by Cami Walker

2008

1. “You’re Not You” by Michelle Wildgen

2. “Paint It Black” by Janet Fitch

3. “Fairest” by Gail Carson Levine (Mother/Daughter Book Club)

4. “Cell” by Stephen King

5. “Embers” by Sandor Marai

6. “Divisadero” by Michael Ondaatje

7. “Her Last Death” by Susanna Sonnenberg

8. “The Ghost of Cutler Creek” by Cynthia DeFelice (Mother/Daughter Book Club)

9. “Bang Crunch” stories by Neil Smith

10. “Rabbit Punches” stories by Jason Ockert

11. “The Soul Thief” by Charles Baxter

12. “What You Have Left” by Will Allison

13. “The Pesthouse” by Jim Crace

14. “Exit Ghost” by Philip Roth

15. “Candy Girl” by Diablo Cody

16. “The Best Day the Worst day” by Donald Hall

17. “My Lost and Found Life” by Medodie Bowsher

18. “The End of the World As We Know It” by Robert Goolrick

19. “Write is a Verb” by Bill O’Hanlon

20. “The Liar’s Diary” by Patry Francis

21. “No Country for Old Men” by Cormac McCarthy

22. “Wintering- A Novel of Sylvia Plath” by Kate Moses

23. “The Last Chicken in America” a novel in stories by Ellen Litman

24. “Olive Kitteridge” a novel in stories by Elizabeth Strout

25. “The Fiction Class” a novel by Susan Breen

25. “The Book of Dahlia” a novel by Elisa Albert

26. “World Made By Hand” a novel by James Howard Kunstler

27. “Up High in the Trees” a novel by Kiara Brinkman

28. “The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives your Fiction” by Lisa Lenard-Cook

29. “Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave” edited by Ellen Sussman

30. “Ron Carlson Writes a Story” by Ron Carlson (re-read)

31. “So B. It” young adult novel by Sarah Weeks (Mother/Daughter book club)

32. “Unaccustomed Earth” stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

33. “The Untelling” a novel by Tayari Jones

34. “God is Dead” fiction by Ron Currie, Jr.

35. “Red Ant House” stories by Ann Cummins

36. “The Dead and the Gone” Susan Beth Pfeffer

37. “A Peculiar Grace” a novel by Jeffrey Lent

38. “Dancing After Hours” stories by Andre Dubus

39. “Stop that Girl” fiction by Elizabeth McKenzie

40. “Comfort- A Journey Through Grief” a memoir by Ann Hood

41. “Georgia Under Water” stories by Heather Sellers

42. “How the Light Gets In” a novel by M.J. Hyland

43. “The Doctor’s Daughter” a novel by Hilma Wolitzer

44. “Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper” by Sark

45. “The Diamond of Darkhold” a novel by Jeanne duPrau

46. “Ms. Hempel Chronicles” a novel by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

47. “The Abstinence Teacher” a novel by Tom Perotta

48. “Keeping Score” a young adult novel by Linda Sue Park

49. “The Boat” stories by Nam Lee

50. “The Ten Year Nap” a novel by Meg Wolitzer (her mother wrote #43 on my list)

51. “The Cry of the Dove” a novel by Fadia Faqir

52. “The Story of Forgetting” a novel by Stefan Merrill Block

53. “Man in the Dark” a novel by Paul Auster

54. “Not Buying It- My Year Without Shopping” by Judith Levine

55. “Prescription for a Superior Existence” a novel by Josh Emmons

56. “More Than It Hurts You” a novel by Darin Strauss

57. “Breakfast of Champions” a novel by Kurt Vonnegut

58. “Iodine” a novel by Haven kimmel

59. “The Sory of Edgar Sawtelle” a novel by David Wroblewski

60. “The Penderwicks on Gardam Street” a YA novel by Jeanne Birdsall

61. “The Year of Fog” a novel by Michelle Richmond

62. “A Better Angel” stories by Chris Adrian

63. “Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him” a novel by Danielle Ganek

2007

1. “The Principles of Uncertainty” by Maira Kalman

2. “A Student of Living Things” by Susan Richards Shreve

3. “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory

4. “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini

5. “No One Belongs here More Than You” by Miranda July

6. “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

7. “The Big Girls” by Susanna Moore

8. “Reservation Road” by John Burnham Schwartz

9. “On Chesil Beach” by Ian McEwan

10. “The Feast of Love” by Charles Baxter

11. “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov

12. “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen

13. “Ron Carlson Writes a Story” by Ron Carlson

14. “elsewhere” by Gabrielle Zevin

15. “Promise Not to Tell” by Jennifer McMahon

16. “Some Fun” by Antonya Nelson

17. “Beach Music” by Pat Conroy

18. “Practically Perfect in Every Way- My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help and Back” by Jennifer Niesslein

19. “Throw Like a Girl” by Jean Thompson

20. “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” by Marisha Pessl

21. “The Patron Saint of Liars” by Ann Patchett

22. “Rise and Shine” by Anna Quindlen

23. “The Missouri Review” Spring 2007

24. “The Dead Fish Museum” by Charles d’Ambrosio

25. “The Secret of Lost Things” by Sheridan Hay

26. “Reading Like a Writer” by Francine Prose

27. “Making a Change for Good” by Cheri Huber

28. “Fabulous Friendship Festival” by Sark

29. “The Knitting Circle” by Ann Hood

30. “The Ghost at the Table” by Suzanne Berne

31. “She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana” by Haven Kimmel

32. “Skylight Confessions” by Alice Hoffman

33. “Moral Disorder” by Margaret Atwood

34. “Awake in the Dark” by Shira Nayman

35. “Blind Submission” by Debra Ginsberg

36. “This Year You Write Your Novel” by Walter Mosley

37. “Grace Eventually” by Anne Lamott

38. “Happiness Sold Separately” by Lolly Winston

39. “Girls in Peril” by Karen Lee Borden

40. “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult

41. “The Tenth Circle” by Jodi Picoult

42. “A history Lesson for Girls” by Aurelie Sheehan

43. “A Bit on the Side” by William Trevor

44. “Blackbird” by Jennifer Lauck

45. “Happiness” by Will Ferguson

46. “Life As We Knew It” by Susan Beth Pfeffer

47. “Show Me the way” by Jennifer Lauck

48. “Still Waters” by Jennifer Lauck

49. “The Long Haul” by Amanda Stern