Monday, January 2, 2012

Books Read 2011

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins *
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie*
Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag by Karl Tobien*
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
The Cinderella Pact by Sarah Strohmeyer
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
Home: A Memoir of my Early Years by Julie Andrews Edwards
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani*
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

Juliette by Anne Fortier*
Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart*
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Understanding Exposure:How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera by Bryan Peterson*
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain*
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford*
Matched by Ally Condie
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness*
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool***
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Allen Addison*
Crossed by Ally Condie


The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt***

*Recommended Books


I read some really good books this year - I especially loved Moon Over Manifest and The Wednesday Wars.  Really great books!  Some on my list for the coming year -
The Hunger Games Series (I know I haven't jumped on this bandwagon yet)
Flygirl by Sherri Smith
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
Shadow of the Night by Deborah Harkness
Seeking Persephone by Sarah Eden
The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis
Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Of course this list is not set in stone and can change according to my fancy! :)


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