Friday, July 22, 2011

Books


Independently I have read the following books since about 2008:

The Taming of the Queen - Philippa Gregory
Country: A Novel - Danielle Steel
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters - Atul Gawande
A Perfect Life: A Novel - Danielle Steel
The Interestings: A Novel - Meg Wolitzer
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Stand - Fannie Flagg
The Life List: A Novel - Lori Nelson Spielman
Vision In White: Book One - Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses: Book Two - Nora Roberts
Savor the Moment: Book Three - Nora Roberts
Happy Ever After: Book Four - Nora Roberts      
Orange is the New Black - Piper Kerman
I Shall Be Near to You: A Novel - Erin Lindsay McCabe 
The Rosie Project: A Novel - Graeme Simsion
Summer Secrets - Barbara Freethy
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Secret Keeper: A Novel - William Landay
The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman
 A Change of Heart (Perfect, Indiana: Book Three) - Barbara Longley
The Difference a Day Makes (Perfect, Indiana: Book Two) - Barbara Longley
Far from Perfect (Perfect, Indiana: Book One) - Barbara Longley
Starry Night: a Christmas Novel - Debbie Macomber
The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win 
     World War II - Denise Kiernan
Flight Behavior: A Novel - Barbara Kingsolver
The Arrivals: A Novel - Meg Mitchell Moore
Waiting for Love, The McCarthys of Gansett Island, Book 8 - Marie Force
Longing for Love, The McCarthys of Gansett Island, Book 7 - Marie Force
Season for Love, McCarthys of Gansett Island, Book 6 - Marie Force
Hoping for Love, The McCarthys of Gansett Island, Book 5 - Marie Force
Falling for Love, The McCarthys of Gansett Island, Book 4 - Marie Force
Ready for Love,The McCarthys of Gansett Island, Book 3 - Marie Force
Fool for Love, The McCarthys of Gansett Island, Book 2 - Marie Force
Maid for Love, The McCarthys of Gansett Island, Book 1 - Marie Force
I'll Be Seeing You - Mary Higgins Clark
One Second After - William R. Forstchen
Out of Focus (An Adams Grove Novel) - Nancy Naigle
Sweet Tea and Secrets (An Adams Grove Novel) - Nancy Naigle
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
Holiday Wishes - Nora Roberts
1225 Christmas Tree Lane - Debbie Macomber
1105 Yakima Street - Debbie Macomber
1022 Evergreen Place - Debbie Macomber
The Space Between Us (P.S.) - Thrity Umrigar
I've Got Your Number: A Novel - Sophie Kinsella
Beaten, Seared, and Sauced - Jonathan Dixon
The Queen of the Big Time - Adriana Trigiana
Twenties Girl: A Novel - Sophie Kinsella
Face the Fire: Three Sisters Island Trilogy #3 - Nora Roberts
Heaven and Earth: Three Sisters Island Trilogy #2 - Nora Roberts
Dance Upon the Air: Three Sisters Island Trilogy #1- Nora Roberts
Happy Birthday: A Novel - Danielle Steel
The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair 
     that Changed America - Erik Larson
Love at First Flight - Marie Force
Bossypants - Tina Fey
44 Charles Street: A Novel - Danielle Steel
Passing Through Paradise - Susan Wiggs
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
The Goodbye Quilt - Susan Wiggs
Husband for Hire - Susan Wiggs
Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year 
     Friendship - Jeffrey Zaslow
The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs
A Scattered Life - Karen McQuestion
Beginner's Luck: A Novel - Laura Pedersen

 

These I read while in a Purdue Women's Club book group:

2014
The Language of Flowers

The Light Between Oceans
The Kitchen House
Defending Jacob
The Postmistress

2013
The Forgotten Garden

The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew
The Luncheon of the Boating Party
Gone Girl
Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
The $65 Tomato, How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, 
   Spent a fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis
The Arrivals: A Novel
Flight Behavior
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who 
     Helped Win World War II
The Husband's Secret

2012
Queen of the Big Time

Divided Paths
The Blue Orchard
The Widower's Tale
The House on Sugar Beach
Beaten, Seared, and Sauced
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, 
     and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Space Between Us
Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

2011
Same Kind of Different as Me
Beginner’s Luck: A Novel
Cutting for Stone
A Reliable Wife
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
My Korean Deli
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Sarah’s Key
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

2010 
Founding Mothers
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Wednesday Sisters
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Lady Elizabeth: A Novel
The Help
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
A Prayer for the Dying 

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee 

2009
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Tortilla Curtain
My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Geisha
Stop That Girl
The Glass Castle
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
The Poisonwood Bible
Loving Frank
The Thirteenth Tale
Dewey: The Small Town Cat Who Changed the World

2008 
Crossing to Safety
Night
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Reading Group
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Next Thing on My List
Three Cups of Tea
The Book Thief
Infidel
Plain Truth

2007 
The Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
Snowflower and the Secret Fan
Middelsex: A Novel
Plantation: A Low Country Tale
Atonement
The Devil and Miss Prym
Water for Elephants
Gweilo

2006 
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Lady and the Unicorn
The Chili Queen
The Secret Life of Bees
Life of Pi
The Mermaid Chair
My Sister's Keeper
Marley and Me

2005 
In the River Sweet
Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons
Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America
The Christmas Train