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"Hold a book in your hand
and you're a pilgrim at the
gates of a new city."
-Anne Michaels, citing a
Hebrew saying in "Fugitive Pieces"
"Where is the Life we have lost in living?"
-T.S. Eliot
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BOOKS READ IN 2022
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1.*All The Light We Cannot See* - Anthony Doerr 1-15-2022
2.*No Time To Spare* - Ursula K. Le Guin 1-28-2022
3.
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BOOKS READ in 2014
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1. *Gone For Good* Harlan Coben 1-7-14
2. *A Game Of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice)* George R,R, Martin 1-22-14
3. *True Evil* Greg Iles 2-4-14
4. *A Painted House* John Grisham 2-20-14
5. *The Next Accident* Lisa Gardner 2-28-14
6. *The Black Ice* Michael Connelly 3-14-14
7. *
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BOOKS READ IN 2010
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1. *Redemption Falls* Joseph O'Connor 1-09-10
2. *Getting Naked Again* Judith Sills 1-13-10
3. *The Message To The Planet* Iris Murdoch ~ currently
4. *The Reliable Wife* Robert Goolrick 1-23-10
5. *Lost In Translation* Nicole Mones 2-12-10
6. *Twelve Times Blessed* Jacquelyn Mitchard 2-21-10
7. *Suite Francaise* Irene Nemirovsky 3-19-10
8. *The Green Mill Murder* Kerry Greenwood 3-25-10
9. *The Shack* Wm Paul Young 3-29-10
10. *Small Graces* Kent Nerburn 4-1-10
11. *Stoner* John Williams 4-4-10
12. *Irish Creme* Andrew Greeley 4-8-10
13. *Son of Hamas* Mohab Hassan Yousef 4-10-10
14. *There's A (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going To Hell* Laurie Notaro 4-19-10
15. *Become A Better You* Joel Osteen ~ currently
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BOOKS READ IN 2009
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1. *The Satanic Verses* Salman Rushdie - never
2. *The Rainbow* D.H. Lawrence 1-17-09
3. *The Color Of Water* James McBride 1-25-09
4. *The Bird Artist* Howard Norman 2-1-09
5. *The Pillars of the Earth* Ken Follett 2-7-09
6. *Grace (Eventually)* Anne Lamott 2-16-09
7. *Shadow of Doubt* Terri Blackstock 2-27-09
8. *10 Years Thinner* Christine Lydon, M.D. 3-8-09
9. *Prodigal Summer* Barbara Kingsolver 3-14-09
10. *Vibrational Healing Through The Chakras* Joy Gardner 3-28-09
11. *A Yellow Raft In Blue Water* Michael Dorris 4-10-09
12. *Blood Relations* Barbara Parker 4-23-09
13. *Happy Alchemy* Robertson Davies 5-12-09
14. *Wherever You Go There You Are* Jon Kabat-Zinn 5-30-09
15. *Peace Is Every Step* Thich Nhat Hanh 6-06-09
16. *A Thread of Grace* Mary Doria Russell 7-25-09
17. *Silence* Thomas Perry 8-2-09
18. *Still Summer* Jacquelyn Mitchard 8-15-09
19. *The Diaries of Adam & Eve* Mark Twain 8-26-09
20. *Outlander* Diana Gabaldon 9-2-09
21. *The Inheritance of Loss* Kiran Desai 9-12-09
22. *The Family Orchard* Nomi Eve 9-19-09
23. *The Colour* Rose Tremain 9-27-09
24. *About Grace* Anthony Doerr 10-4-09
25. *Blackbird House* Alice Hoffman 10-12-09
26. *The Beekeeper's Apprentice* Laurie R. King 10-22-09
27. *Walking After Midnight* Karen Robards 10-30-09
28. *Empire Falls* Richard Russo 11-09-09
29. *The Help* Kathryn Stockett 11-19-09
30. *Olive Kitteridge* Elizabeth Strout 11-30-09
31. *Deadly Decisions* Kathy Reichs 12-05-09
32. *The Stargazey* Martha Grimes 12-12-09
33. *The Brothel in Rosenstrasse* Michael Moorcock 12-19-09
34. *Naked* David Sedaris 12-27-09
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BOOKS READ IN 2008
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1. *The Three-Penny Opera* Bertolt Brecht 1-05-08
2. *The House Of Mirth* Edith Wharton 1-13-08
3. *Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress* Dai Sijie 1-23-08
4. *Losing It* Alan Cumyn 1-26-08
5. *The Echo Maker* Richard Powers 1-31-08
6. *Falling Angels* Tracy Chavalier 2-05-08
7. *Ahab's Wife* Sena Jeter Naslund 2-11-08
8. *Believing God* Beth Moore 2-16-08
9. *Vibrational Healing though the Chakras* Joy Gardner ~ currently
10. *Murder Alfresco* Nadia Gordon 2-17-08
11. *The Four Agreements* Don Miguel Ruiz 2-20-08
12. *The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy* Elizabeth Aston 2-18-08
13. *Bury The Lead* David Rosenfelt 2-23-08
14. *Paradise Bay* James Michael Pratt 2-28-08
15. *More Than You Know* Beth Gutcheon 3-5-08
16. *Arabian Nights* Translated by Husain Haddawy 3-19-08
17. *The Falls* Joyce Carol Oates 3-25-08
18. *The Sea* John Banville 4-12-08
19. *Lighting The Way* Karenna Gore Schiff 4-22-08
20. *The Damascened Blade* Barbara Cleverly 4-30-08
21. *Light In August* William Faulkner 5-7-08
22. *One L* Scott Turow 5-15-08
23. *Because A Fire Was In My Head* Lynn Stegner 5-30-08
24. *Never Let Me Go* Kazuo Ishiguro 6-08-08
25. *What Was Mine* Ann Beattie 6-19-08
26. *The Secret Hangman* Peter Lovesey 7-4-08
27. *The Tipping Point* Malcolm Gladwell 9-6-08
28. *Envy* Sandra Brown 9-14-08
29. *Snow Flower and The Secret Fan* Lisa See 9-21-08
30. *8 Sandpiper Way* Debbie Macomber 9-28-08
31. *Beverly Hills Dead* Stuart Woods 10-2-08
32. *The Hollow* Nora Roberts 10-6-08
33. *No Time For Goodbye* Linwood Barclay 10-10-08
34. *Home* Marianne Robinson 10-28-08
35. *Crows Over A Wheatfield* Paula Sharp 11-9-08
36. *Dead In The Water* Stuart Woods 11-15-08
37. *The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society* 11-29-08
38. *Cold Sassy Tree* Olive Ann Burns 12-5-08
39. *Chocolat* Joanne Harris 12-11-08
40. *The Narrowing Stream* John Mortimer 12-18-08
41. *Compulsion* Jonathan Kellerman 12-26-08
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BOOKS READ IN 2007
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1. *Captian Correlli's Mandolin* Louis de Bernieres 2-12-07
2. *Strange Candy* Laurel K. Hamilton 3-02-07
3. *How To Debt-Proof Your Life* Mary Hunt 7-17-07
4. *The Misanthrope and Tartuffe* Moliere 3-11-07
5. *Hester* Margaret Oliphant 3-24-07
6. *Rants* Dennis Miller 3-31-07
7. *Bush At War* Bob Woodward 4-07-07
8. *Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister* Gregory Maguire 4-15-07
9. *Failure To Zigzag* Jane Vanderburgh 4-21-07
10. *A Rich Full Death* Michael Dibdin 4-28-07
11. *The Accidental Connoisseur* Lawrence Osborne 5-26-07
12. *Aesop's Fables* Arthur Rackham 5-29-07
13. *Ceremony* Leslie Marmon Silko 6-4-07
14. *The Bean Trees* Barbara Kingsolver 6-10-07
15. *Sarah Canary* Karen Ann Fowler 6-19-07
16. *A Virtuous Woman* Kaye Gibbons 6-28-07
17. *South Of The Big Four* Don Kurtz 7-01-07
18. *Resume and Job-Hunting Skills* Maurene J. Hines 7-22-07
19. *The 250 Job Interview Questions* Peter Veruki 7-25-07
20. *Thirteen Moons* Charles Frazier 7-28-07
21. *Nine Horses: Poems* Billy Collins - currently
22. *The Probable Future* Alice Hoffman 8-2-07
23. *The Deadwood Beetle* Mylene Dressler 8-4-07
24. *The Dutchman* Maan Meyers 8-9-07
25. *As The Crow Flies* Jeffrey Archer 8-14-09
26. *Memoirs Of A Geisha* Arthur Golden 8-20-07
27. *Texas Rich* Fern Michaels 8-22-07
28. *Standoff* Sandra Brown 8-24-07
29. *Texas Heat* Fern Michaels 8-28-07
30. *The Mistress of Spices* Chitra B. Divakaruni 9-2-07
31. *Texas Fury* Fern Michaels 9-7-07
32. *Just Checking* Emily Colas 9-15-07
33. *Lost Innocents* Patricia MacDonald 9-24-07
34. *The Alchemist Daughter* Katherine Mcmahon 10-2-07
35. *Sea Glass* Anita Shreve 10-9-07
36. *Bombay Talkie* Ameena Meer 10-16-07
37. *1st To Die* James Patterson 10-24-07
38. *Bullet Park* John Cleever 11-12-07
39. *Blessings* Belva Plain 11-27-07
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BOOKS READ IN 2006
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1. *The Virgin's Knot* Holly Payne 1-02-06
2. *Second Glance* Jodi Picoult 1-08-06
3. *The God of Small Things* Arundhati Roy 1-14-06
4. *Wake Up, Sir!* Jonathan Ames 1-19-06
5. *Lone Star ~ The Search for Amelia Earhart* Randall Brink 1-26-06
6. *Tea* Stacey D'Erasmo 2-04-06
7. *Crabwalk* Gunter Grass 2-11-06
8. *Secrets of the Tsil Cafe* Thomas Fox Averill 2-16-06
9. *Surrender The Pink* Carrie Fisher 2-24-06
10. *True Notebooks* Mark Salzman 2-26-06
11. *The Peppered Moth* Margaret Drabble 3-4-06
12. *All The Day Long* Howard Spring 3-16-06
13. *Whispers and Lies* Joy Fielding 4-2-06
14. *The Dandelion Killer* Wanda Luttrell 4-24-06
15. *The Stories of Eva Luna* Isabel Allende 5-16-06
16. *The Twins* Tessa De Loo 5-29-06
17. *I Am Madame X* Gioia Diliberto 6-8-06
18. *The Five People You Meet In Heaven* Mitch Albom 6-17-06
19. *The Orchid Thief* Susan Orlean 6-30-06
20. *Lucrezia Borgia* John Faunce 7-2-06
21. *Lucy* Ellen Feldman 7-4-06
22. *The Glass Harp* Truman Capote 7-8-06
23. *Watership Down* Richard Adams 7-15-06
24. *A Prayer For Owen Meany* John Irving 7-23-06
25. *The Last Juror* John Grisham 7-30-06 (audio)
26. *The Club Dumas* Arturo Perez-Reverte 8-2-06
27. *Ten Big Ones* Janet Evanovich 8-5-06
28. *The 2004 Best American Short Stories* Various 8-14-06
29. *as hot as it was you ought to thank me* Nanci Kincaid 8-18-06
30. *A Tree Grows In Brooklyn* Betty Smith 8-20-06
31. *Braided Lives* Marge Piercy 9-5-06
32. *the last september* Elizabeth Bowen 9-21-06
33. *Eleven on Top* Janet Evanovich 9-30-06
34. *Deju Dead* Kathy Reichs 10-5-06
35. *Twelve Sharp* Janet Evanovich 10-10-06
36. *The Memory Keeper's Daughter* Kim Edwards 10-15-06
37. *The Rabbit Factory* Marshall Karp 10-20-06
38. *Compelling Evidence* Steve Martini 10-24-06
39. *To Wear The White Cloak* Sharan Newman 10-28-06
40. *The October Country* Ray Bradbury 11-02-06
41. *Brick Lane* Monica Ali 11-17-06
42. *Birding Babylon: A Soldier's Journal From Iraq* Jonathan Trouern-Trend 11-21-06
43. *The Portrait* Iain Pears 11-24-06
44. *Charming Billy* Alice Mcdermott 11-27-06
45. *The Venetian's Wife* Nick Bantock 12-1-06
46. *The Painter* Will Davenport 12-9-06
47. *Mistletoe Mysteries* collected by Charlotte Macleod 12-15-06
48. *A Redbird Christmas* Fannie Flagg 12-22-006
RED = Read GREEN = Read and Released
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BOOKS READ IN 2005
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1 - Trezza Azzopardi *The Hiding Place* 5-15-05
2 - Pearl S. Buck *The Good Earth* 1-9-05
3 - Paulo Coelho *The Alchemist* 4-2-05
4 - Lydia Davis *Break It Down* 1-17-05
5 - Jeffrey Eugenides - *the Virgin Suicides* 7-27-05
6 - Tim Farrington *The Monk Downstairs* 2-12-05
7 - Philippa Gregory *The Other Boleyn Girl* 1-26-05
8 - Ethan Hawke *Ash Wednesday* 10-2-05
9 - Mark Ibmascik *The Big Year* 8-5-05
10 - Kay R. Jamison *An Unquiet Mind* 3-20-05
11 - Sue Monk Kidd *The Secret Life Of Bees* 5-13-05
12 - Jane Langton *Murder At The Gardner* 4-13-05
13 - Ian McEwan *Atonement* 4-9-05
14 - Sharan Newman *Death Comes as Epiphany* 6-26-05
15 - Joseph O'Connor *Star of the Sea* 5-8-05
16 - Ann Patchett *Bel Canto* 6-21-05
17 - Joe Queenan *Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler*3-11-05
18 - Julia Ross *The Seduction* 5-21-05
19 - Carol Shields *The Stone Diaries* 3-21-05
20 - Anne Tyler *Back When We Were Young* 4-10-05
21 - Caroline Upcher *Grace & Favor*1-21-05
22 - Jules Verne *The Mysterious Island* 7-17-05
23 - Minette Walters *The Ice House* 2-20-05
24 - Gao Xingjian - *Soul Mountain* currently
25 - Mako Yoshikawa *One Hundred & One Ways* 1-24-05
26 - *Animal Husbandry* Laura Zigman 5-21-05
27 - *Angela's Ashes* Frank McCourt 1-30-05
28 - *Black Mesa Poems* Jimmy Santiago Baca 3-7-05
29 - *Cheri and The Last of Cheri* Colette 2-6-05
30 - *Devil Wears Prada* Lauren Weisberger 1-15-05
31 - *Even Now* Susan S. Kelly 3-30-05
32 - *Four Major Plays* Henrik Ibsen 6-20-05
33 - *Gilead* - Marilynne Robinson 9-18-05
34 - *Here On Earth* - Alice Hoffman 2-14-05
35 - *It's Not About The Bike* - Lance Armstrong 1-16-05
36 - *Jackie-Ethel-Joan* J. Randy Taraborrelli 5-10-05
37 - *Killer Curves* - Roxanne St. Claire 10-23-05
38 - *Life of Pi* - Yann Martel 7-2-05
39 - *Maharanis* - Lucy Moore 10-1-05
40 - *the Night Before* - Lisa Jackson 6-15-05
41 - *Oyster* - John Biguenet 10-5-05
42 - *Peace Like A River* - Leif Enger 3-25-05
43 - *Quicksand* - Nella Larsen 11-7-05
44 - *Reading Lolita in Tehran* - Azar Nafisi 9-4-05
45 - *Someone Like You* - Cathy Kelly 4-24-05
46 - *The Time Traveler's Wife* Audrey Niffengger 6-12-05
47 - *Under The Tuscan Sun* - Frances Mayes 5-2-05
48 -*The Virgin Blue* - Tracy Chevalier 8-11-05
49 -*Wicked* - Gregory Maguire 10-13-05
50 -*Xenophobe's Guide to Italians* Martin Solly currently
51 -*Year of Wonders* Geraldine Brooks 10-26-05
52 -*Zigzag* - Ellen Wittlinger 11-10-05
53 -*The Red Thread* - Nicholas Jose 2-13-05
54 - *The Ugly Duckling* - Iris Johansen 2-25-05
55 - *The Piano Teacher* - Lynn York 2-26-05
56 - *The Effects of Light* - Miranda Beverly-Whittemore 3-12-05
57 - *The Last Kashmiri Rose* - Barbara Cleverly 3-28-05
58 - *The Birth Of Venus* - Sarah Dunant 4-18-05
59 - *The Lovely Bones* - Alice Sebold4-24-05
60 - Raj Kamal Jha *The Blue Bedspread* 5-9-05
61 - Gary Zukav *The Seat of the Soul* 5-15-05
62 - Elizabeth George *A Place Of Hiding* 5-15-05
63 - Henry James *The Aspern Papers/The Turn of The Screw* 5-31-05
64 - Anthony Doerr *The Shell Collector* 6-1-05
65 - Pat Shipman *To the Heart of the Nile:Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa* 6-12-05
66 - Tamar Myers *The Crepes of Wrath* 6-26-05
67 - Daniel Mason *The Piano Tuner* 7-20-05
68 - Jeanette Winterson *Lighthousekeeping* 7-25-05
69 - C. S. Lewis *Mere Christianity* 8-5-05
70 - Andrea Camilleri *Excursion To Tindari* 8-8-05
70 - Sue Monk Kidd *The Mermaid Chair* 8-13-05
71 - Leslie Pietrzyk *Pears On A Willow Tree* 8-12-05
72 - Jhumpa Lahiri *Interpreter of Maladies*
73 - Jody Shields *The Fig Eater* 8-8-05
74 - Dick Francis *The Edge* 8-21-05
75 - Jennifer Donnelly *A Northern Light* 8-21-05
76 - Susan W. Albert *Thyme of Death* 8-18-05
77 - Lorna Landvik *Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons* 8-27-05
78 - Mark Dunn *Ella Minnow Pea* 9-19-05
79 - Edith Wharton *The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton* 10-22-05
80 - Various *Crime Through Time III* 11-4-05
81 - James Frey *A Million Little Pieces* 11-12-05
82 - Gail Tsukiyama *The Samurai's Garden* 11-17-05
83 - Ngaio Marsh *Tied Up In Tinsel* 11-19-05
84 - Jan Russell *Lady Bird - A Biography of Mrs. Johnson* 11-26-05
85 - Tracy Chevalier *The Lady and the Unicorn* 11-27-05
86 - Anne Perry *A Christmas Visitor* 12-1-05
87 - Michael Mewshaw *Shelter From The Storm* 12-4-05
88 - Donna VanLiere *The Christmas Blessing* 12-11-05
89 - Various *Homespun Christmas* 12-19-05
90 - Julie Salamon *The Christmas Tree* 12-24-05
91 - Penny Vincenzi *No Angel* 12-30-05
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and you're a pilgrim at the
gates of a new city."
-Anne Michaels, citing a
Hebrew saying in "Fugitive Pieces"
"Where is the Life we have lost in living?"
-T.S. Eliot
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BOOKS READ IN 2022
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1.*All The Light We Cannot See* - Anthony Doerr 1-15-2022
2.*No Time To Spare* - Ursula K. Le Guin 1-28-2022
3.
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BOOKS READ in 2014
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. *Gone For Good* Harlan Coben 1-7-14
2. *A Game Of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice)* George R,R, Martin 1-22-14
3. *True Evil* Greg Iles 2-4-14
4. *A Painted House* John Grisham 2-20-14
5. *The Next Accident* Lisa Gardner 2-28-14
6. *The Black Ice* Michael Connelly 3-14-14
7. *
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BOOKS READ IN 2010
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1. *Redemption Falls* Joseph O'Connor 1-09-10
2. *Getting Naked Again* Judith Sills 1-13-10
3. *The Message To The Planet* Iris Murdoch ~ currently
4. *The Reliable Wife* Robert Goolrick 1-23-10
5. *Lost In Translation* Nicole Mones 2-12-10
6. *Twelve Times Blessed* Jacquelyn Mitchard 2-21-10
7. *Suite Francaise* Irene Nemirovsky 3-19-10
8. *The Green Mill Murder* Kerry Greenwood 3-25-10
9. *The Shack* Wm Paul Young 3-29-10
10. *Small Graces* Kent Nerburn 4-1-10
11. *Stoner* John Williams 4-4-10
12. *Irish Creme* Andrew Greeley 4-8-10
13. *Son of Hamas* Mohab Hassan Yousef 4-10-10
14. *There's A (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going To Hell* Laurie Notaro 4-19-10
15. *Become A Better You* Joel Osteen ~ currently
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BOOKS READ IN 2009
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1. *The Satanic Verses* Salman Rushdie - never
2. *The Rainbow* D.H. Lawrence 1-17-09
3. *The Color Of Water* James McBride 1-25-09
4. *The Bird Artist* Howard Norman 2-1-09
5. *The Pillars of the Earth* Ken Follett 2-7-09
6. *Grace (Eventually)* Anne Lamott 2-16-09
7. *Shadow of Doubt* Terri Blackstock 2-27-09
8. *10 Years Thinner* Christine Lydon, M.D. 3-8-09
9. *Prodigal Summer* Barbara Kingsolver 3-14-09
10. *Vibrational Healing Through The Chakras* Joy Gardner 3-28-09
11. *A Yellow Raft In Blue Water* Michael Dorris 4-10-09
12. *Blood Relations* Barbara Parker 4-23-09
13. *Happy Alchemy* Robertson Davies 5-12-09
14. *Wherever You Go There You Are* Jon Kabat-Zinn 5-30-09
15. *Peace Is Every Step* Thich Nhat Hanh 6-06-09
16. *A Thread of Grace* Mary Doria Russell 7-25-09
17. *Silence* Thomas Perry 8-2-09
18. *Still Summer* Jacquelyn Mitchard 8-15-09
19. *The Diaries of Adam & Eve* Mark Twain 8-26-09
20. *Outlander* Diana Gabaldon 9-2-09
21. *The Inheritance of Loss* Kiran Desai 9-12-09
22. *The Family Orchard* Nomi Eve 9-19-09
23. *The Colour* Rose Tremain 9-27-09
24. *About Grace* Anthony Doerr 10-4-09
25. *Blackbird House* Alice Hoffman 10-12-09
26. *The Beekeeper's Apprentice* Laurie R. King 10-22-09
27. *Walking After Midnight* Karen Robards 10-30-09
28. *Empire Falls* Richard Russo 11-09-09
29. *The Help* Kathryn Stockett 11-19-09
30. *Olive Kitteridge* Elizabeth Strout 11-30-09
31. *Deadly Decisions* Kathy Reichs 12-05-09
32. *The Stargazey* Martha Grimes 12-12-09
33. *The Brothel in Rosenstrasse* Michael Moorcock 12-19-09
34. *Naked* David Sedaris 12-27-09
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BOOKS READ IN 2008
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1. *The Three-Penny Opera* Bertolt Brecht 1-05-08
2. *The House Of Mirth* Edith Wharton 1-13-08
3. *Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress* Dai Sijie 1-23-08
4. *Losing It* Alan Cumyn 1-26-08
5. *The Echo Maker* Richard Powers 1-31-08
6. *Falling Angels* Tracy Chavalier 2-05-08
7. *Ahab's Wife* Sena Jeter Naslund 2-11-08
8. *Believing God* Beth Moore 2-16-08
9. *Vibrational Healing though the Chakras* Joy Gardner ~ currently
10. *Murder Alfresco* Nadia Gordon 2-17-08
11. *The Four Agreements* Don Miguel Ruiz 2-20-08
12. *The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy* Elizabeth Aston 2-18-08
13. *Bury The Lead* David Rosenfelt 2-23-08
14. *Paradise Bay* James Michael Pratt 2-28-08
15. *More Than You Know* Beth Gutcheon 3-5-08
16. *Arabian Nights* Translated by Husain Haddawy 3-19-08
17. *The Falls* Joyce Carol Oates 3-25-08
18. *The Sea* John Banville 4-12-08
19. *Lighting The Way* Karenna Gore Schiff 4-22-08
20. *The Damascened Blade* Barbara Cleverly 4-30-08
21. *Light In August* William Faulkner 5-7-08
22. *One L* Scott Turow 5-15-08
23. *Because A Fire Was In My Head* Lynn Stegner 5-30-08
24. *Never Let Me Go* Kazuo Ishiguro 6-08-08
25. *What Was Mine* Ann Beattie 6-19-08
26. *The Secret Hangman* Peter Lovesey 7-4-08
27. *The Tipping Point* Malcolm Gladwell 9-6-08
28. *Envy* Sandra Brown 9-14-08
29. *Snow Flower and The Secret Fan* Lisa See 9-21-08
30. *8 Sandpiper Way* Debbie Macomber 9-28-08
31. *Beverly Hills Dead* Stuart Woods 10-2-08
32. *The Hollow* Nora Roberts 10-6-08
33. *No Time For Goodbye* Linwood Barclay 10-10-08
34. *Home* Marianne Robinson 10-28-08
35. *Crows Over A Wheatfield* Paula Sharp 11-9-08
36. *Dead In The Water* Stuart Woods 11-15-08
37. *The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society* 11-29-08
38. *Cold Sassy Tree* Olive Ann Burns 12-5-08
39. *Chocolat* Joanne Harris 12-11-08
40. *The Narrowing Stream* John Mortimer 12-18-08
41. *Compulsion* Jonathan Kellerman 12-26-08
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BOOKS READ IN 2007
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1. *Captian Correlli's Mandolin* Louis de Bernieres 2-12-07
2. *Strange Candy* Laurel K. Hamilton 3-02-07
3. *How To Debt-Proof Your Life* Mary Hunt 7-17-07
4. *The Misanthrope and Tartuffe* Moliere 3-11-07
5. *Hester* Margaret Oliphant 3-24-07
6. *Rants* Dennis Miller 3-31-07
7. *Bush At War* Bob Woodward 4-07-07
8. *Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister* Gregory Maguire 4-15-07
9. *Failure To Zigzag* Jane Vanderburgh 4-21-07
10. *A Rich Full Death* Michael Dibdin 4-28-07
11. *The Accidental Connoisseur* Lawrence Osborne 5-26-07
12. *Aesop's Fables* Arthur Rackham 5-29-07
13. *Ceremony* Leslie Marmon Silko 6-4-07
14. *The Bean Trees* Barbara Kingsolver 6-10-07
15. *Sarah Canary* Karen Ann Fowler 6-19-07
16. *A Virtuous Woman* Kaye Gibbons 6-28-07
17. *South Of The Big Four* Don Kurtz 7-01-07
18. *Resume and Job-Hunting Skills* Maurene J. Hines 7-22-07
19. *The 250 Job Interview Questions* Peter Veruki 7-25-07
20. *Thirteen Moons* Charles Frazier 7-28-07
21. *Nine Horses: Poems* Billy Collins - currently
22. *The Probable Future* Alice Hoffman 8-2-07
23. *The Deadwood Beetle* Mylene Dressler 8-4-07
24. *The Dutchman* Maan Meyers 8-9-07
25. *As The Crow Flies* Jeffrey Archer 8-14-09
26. *Memoirs Of A Geisha* Arthur Golden 8-20-07
27. *Texas Rich* Fern Michaels 8-22-07
28. *Standoff* Sandra Brown 8-24-07
29. *Texas Heat* Fern Michaels 8-28-07
30. *The Mistress of Spices* Chitra B. Divakaruni 9-2-07
31. *Texas Fury* Fern Michaels 9-7-07
32. *Just Checking* Emily Colas 9-15-07
33. *Lost Innocents* Patricia MacDonald 9-24-07
34. *The Alchemist Daughter* Katherine Mcmahon 10-2-07
35. *Sea Glass* Anita Shreve 10-9-07
36. *Bombay Talkie* Ameena Meer 10-16-07
37. *1st To Die* James Patterson 10-24-07
38. *Bullet Park* John Cleever 11-12-07
39. *Blessings* Belva Plain 11-27-07
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BOOKS READ IN 2006
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1. *The Virgin's Knot* Holly Payne 1-02-06
2. *Second Glance* Jodi Picoult 1-08-06
3. *The God of Small Things* Arundhati Roy 1-14-06
4. *Wake Up, Sir!* Jonathan Ames 1-19-06
5. *Lone Star ~ The Search for Amelia Earhart* Randall Brink 1-26-06
6. *Tea* Stacey D'Erasmo 2-04-06
7. *Crabwalk* Gunter Grass 2-11-06
8. *Secrets of the Tsil Cafe* Thomas Fox Averill 2-16-06
9. *Surrender The Pink* Carrie Fisher 2-24-06
10. *True Notebooks* Mark Salzman 2-26-06
11. *The Peppered Moth* Margaret Drabble 3-4-06
12. *All The Day Long* Howard Spring 3-16-06
13. *Whispers and Lies* Joy Fielding 4-2-06
14. *The Dandelion Killer* Wanda Luttrell 4-24-06
15. *The Stories of Eva Luna* Isabel Allende 5-16-06
16. *The Twins* Tessa De Loo 5-29-06
17. *I Am Madame X* Gioia Diliberto 6-8-06
18. *The Five People You Meet In Heaven* Mitch Albom 6-17-06
19. *The Orchid Thief* Susan Orlean 6-30-06
20. *Lucrezia Borgia* John Faunce 7-2-06
21. *Lucy* Ellen Feldman 7-4-06
22. *The Glass Harp* Truman Capote 7-8-06
23. *Watership Down* Richard Adams 7-15-06
24. *A Prayer For Owen Meany* John Irving 7-23-06
25. *The Last Juror* John Grisham 7-30-06 (audio)
26. *The Club Dumas* Arturo Perez-Reverte 8-2-06
27. *Ten Big Ones* Janet Evanovich 8-5-06
28. *The 2004 Best American Short Stories* Various 8-14-06
29. *as hot as it was you ought to thank me* Nanci Kincaid 8-18-06
30. *A Tree Grows In Brooklyn* Betty Smith 8-20-06
31. *Braided Lives* Marge Piercy 9-5-06
32. *the last september* Elizabeth Bowen 9-21-06
33. *Eleven on Top* Janet Evanovich 9-30-06
34. *Deju Dead* Kathy Reichs 10-5-06
35. *Twelve Sharp* Janet Evanovich 10-10-06
36. *The Memory Keeper's Daughter* Kim Edwards 10-15-06
37. *The Rabbit Factory* Marshall Karp 10-20-06
38. *Compelling Evidence* Steve Martini 10-24-06
39. *To Wear The White Cloak* Sharan Newman 10-28-06
40. *The October Country* Ray Bradbury 11-02-06
41. *Brick Lane* Monica Ali 11-17-06
42. *Birding Babylon: A Soldier's Journal From Iraq* Jonathan Trouern-Trend 11-21-06
43. *The Portrait* Iain Pears 11-24-06
44. *Charming Billy* Alice Mcdermott 11-27-06
45. *The Venetian's Wife* Nick Bantock 12-1-06
46. *The Painter* Will Davenport 12-9-06
47. *Mistletoe Mysteries* collected by Charlotte Macleod 12-15-06
48. *A Redbird Christmas* Fannie Flagg 12-22-006
RED = Read GREEN = Read and Released
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BOOKS READ IN 2005
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1 - Trezza Azzopardi *The Hiding Place* 5-15-05
2 - Pearl S. Buck *The Good Earth* 1-9-05
3 - Paulo Coelho *The Alchemist* 4-2-05
4 - Lydia Davis *Break It Down* 1-17-05
5 - Jeffrey Eugenides - *the Virgin Suicides* 7-27-05
6 - Tim Farrington *The Monk Downstairs* 2-12-05
7 - Philippa Gregory *The Other Boleyn Girl* 1-26-05
8 - Ethan Hawke *Ash Wednesday* 10-2-05
9 - Mark Ibmascik *The Big Year* 8-5-05
10 - Kay R. Jamison *An Unquiet Mind* 3-20-05
11 - Sue Monk Kidd *The Secret Life Of Bees* 5-13-05
12 - Jane Langton *Murder At The Gardner* 4-13-05
13 - Ian McEwan *Atonement* 4-9-05
14 - Sharan Newman *Death Comes as Epiphany* 6-26-05
15 - Joseph O'Connor *Star of the Sea* 5-8-05
16 - Ann Patchett *Bel Canto* 6-21-05
17 - Joe Queenan *Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler*3-11-05
18 - Julia Ross *The Seduction* 5-21-05
19 - Carol Shields *The Stone Diaries* 3-21-05
20 - Anne Tyler *Back When We Were Young* 4-10-05
21 - Caroline Upcher *Grace & Favor*1-21-05
22 - Jules Verne *The Mysterious Island* 7-17-05
23 - Minette Walters *The Ice House* 2-20-05
24 - Gao Xingjian - *Soul Mountain* currently
25 - Mako Yoshikawa *One Hundred & One Ways* 1-24-05
26 - *Animal Husbandry* Laura Zigman 5-21-05
27 - *Angela's Ashes* Frank McCourt 1-30-05
28 - *Black Mesa Poems* Jimmy Santiago Baca 3-7-05
29 - *Cheri and The Last of Cheri* Colette 2-6-05
30 - *Devil Wears Prada* Lauren Weisberger 1-15-05
31 - *Even Now* Susan S. Kelly 3-30-05
32 - *Four Major Plays* Henrik Ibsen 6-20-05
33 - *Gilead* - Marilynne Robinson 9-18-05
34 - *Here On Earth* - Alice Hoffman 2-14-05
35 - *It's Not About The Bike* - Lance Armstrong 1-16-05
36 - *Jackie-Ethel-Joan* J. Randy Taraborrelli 5-10-05
37 - *Killer Curves* - Roxanne St. Claire 10-23-05
38 - *Life of Pi* - Yann Martel 7-2-05
39 - *Maharanis* - Lucy Moore 10-1-05
40 - *the Night Before* - Lisa Jackson 6-15-05
41 - *Oyster* - John Biguenet 10-5-05
42 - *Peace Like A River* - Leif Enger 3-25-05
43 - *Quicksand* - Nella Larsen 11-7-05
44 - *Reading Lolita in Tehran* - Azar Nafisi 9-4-05
45 - *Someone Like You* - Cathy Kelly 4-24-05
46 - *The Time Traveler's Wife* Audrey Niffengger 6-12-05
47 - *Under The Tuscan Sun* - Frances Mayes 5-2-05
48 -*The Virgin Blue* - Tracy Chevalier 8-11-05
49 -*Wicked* - Gregory Maguire 10-13-05
50 -*Xenophobe's Guide to Italians* Martin Solly currently
51 -*Year of Wonders* Geraldine Brooks 10-26-05
52 -*Zigzag* - Ellen Wittlinger 11-10-05
53 -*The Red Thread* - Nicholas Jose 2-13-05
54 - *The Ugly Duckling* - Iris Johansen 2-25-05
55 - *The Piano Teacher* - Lynn York 2-26-05
56 - *The Effects of Light* - Miranda Beverly-Whittemore 3-12-05
57 - *The Last Kashmiri Rose* - Barbara Cleverly 3-28-05
58 - *The Birth Of Venus* - Sarah Dunant 4-18-05
59 - *The Lovely Bones* - Alice Sebold4-24-05
60 - Raj Kamal Jha *The Blue Bedspread* 5-9-05
61 - Gary Zukav *The Seat of the Soul* 5-15-05
62 - Elizabeth George *A Place Of Hiding* 5-15-05
63 - Henry James *The Aspern Papers/The Turn of The Screw* 5-31-05
64 - Anthony Doerr *The Shell Collector* 6-1-05
65 - Pat Shipman *To the Heart of the Nile:Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa* 6-12-05
66 - Tamar Myers *The Crepes of Wrath* 6-26-05
67 - Daniel Mason *The Piano Tuner* 7-20-05
68 - Jeanette Winterson *Lighthousekeeping* 7-25-05
69 - C. S. Lewis *Mere Christianity* 8-5-05
70 - Andrea Camilleri *Excursion To Tindari* 8-8-05
70 - Sue Monk Kidd *The Mermaid Chair* 8-13-05
71 - Leslie Pietrzyk *Pears On A Willow Tree* 8-12-05
72 - Jhumpa Lahiri *Interpreter of Maladies*
73 - Jody Shields *The Fig Eater* 8-8-05
74 - Dick Francis *The Edge* 8-21-05
75 - Jennifer Donnelly *A Northern Light* 8-21-05
76 - Susan W. Albert *Thyme of Death* 8-18-05
77 - Lorna Landvik *Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons* 8-27-05
78 - Mark Dunn *Ella Minnow Pea* 9-19-05
79 - Edith Wharton *The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton* 10-22-05
80 - Various *Crime Through Time III* 11-4-05
81 - James Frey *A Million Little Pieces* 11-12-05
82 - Gail Tsukiyama *The Samurai's Garden* 11-17-05
83 - Ngaio Marsh *Tied Up In Tinsel* 11-19-05
84 - Jan Russell *Lady Bird - A Biography of Mrs. Johnson* 11-26-05
85 - Tracy Chevalier *The Lady and the Unicorn* 11-27-05
86 - Anne Perry *A Christmas Visitor* 12-1-05
87 - Michael Mewshaw *Shelter From The Storm* 12-4-05
88 - Donna VanLiere *The Christmas Blessing* 12-11-05
89 - Various *Homespun Christmas* 12-19-05
90 - Julie Salamon *The Christmas Tree* 12-24-05
91 - Penny Vincenzi *No Angel* 12-30-05
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