My little book blog/love poem to pretty words: http://it-bears-repeating.blogspot.com/
My 2010 read-thus-far list: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10773/discussions/173791/2010-List#2972050
Top Reads of 9/1/08 - 9/1/09
1. The Brothers K by David James Duncan
2. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
4. The White Monkey by John Galsworthy
5. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
6. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
7. Two Guys Read Jane Austen by Steve Chandler, Terrence Hill
8. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Honorable Mentions:
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style by Christie Matheson
My goal this year was to expand my horizons. I read lots of mystery (8-10, depending on classifications) and a bit of non-fiction too. I even read some memoirs which I don’t usually like. I loved the two of the “Two Guys Read” series I read.
Here are all the books, in the order I read them:
1. Death in Holy Orders by PD James
2. The Shack by William P. Young
3. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
4. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
5. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
6. re-read Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
7. Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd...pretty good. I liked it.
8. re-read: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer - I actually liked it even more the second time around!
9. Celtic Benediction: Morning and Night Prayer by P. Newell
10: re-read: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
11. Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir
12. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
13. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
14. Wings of the Dove by Henry James
15. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
16. Two Guys Read Jane Austen by Steve Chandler, Terrence Hill
17. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
19. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
20. Two Guys Read the Obituaries by Terrence N. Hill, Steve Chandler
21. Dan Brown's DaVinci Code
22. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
23. God help me....the adult Sunday school class I lead made me re-read and lead a discussion of Wm. P. Young's The Shack. I didn't like it the first time and I REALLY don't like it now. What I will say in its favor is this: it makes for great discussion. The writing is really awful, IMO, but the theology is thought-provoking.
24. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
25. Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
26. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
27. Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style by Christie Matheson
28. Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
29. Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation by Carol Howard Merritt
30. Emma by Jane Austen
31. The Brothers K by David James Duncan
32. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
33. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
34. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
35. The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
36. The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
37. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
38. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray Mysteries, No. 1) by P. D. James
39. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie - Enjoyed it a lot but it wasn't a classic, IMO.
40. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
41. The White Monkey by John Galsworthy (part of the Forsyte Chronicles)
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