I rearranged a lot since last time, and I really don't even remember where anything originally was so I'm just starting my list over; there should be no carry-over from previous check-ins. I also have some books counting for shows that may be kind of a stretch so feel free to let me know if some of them won't quite cut it.
Title: Travels with Charley
Author: John Steinbeck
Show Number: A-1
Why are you using this book for this show: book is about a road trip with his poodle
Title: Cabin Pressure
Author: Josh Wolk
Show Number: A-2
Why are you using this book for this show: memoir about returning to camp as a counselor in mid-thirties
Title: Aethelred the Unready: The Ill-Counseled King
Author: Ann Williams
Show Number: A-3
Why are you using this book for this show: biography of Aethelred the Unready
Title: The Alvin Karpis Story
Author: Alvin Karpis
Show Number: A-3
Why are you using this book for this show: memoir
Title: Thomas Cranmer
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch
Show Number: A-3
Why are you using this book for this show: biography of Thomas Cranmer
Title: A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King: Letters of Liselotte vonder Pfalz
Author: Elborg Forster
Show Number: A-3
Why are you using this book for this show: Letters/biography
Title: The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England
Author: Ann Wroe
Show Number: A-3
Why are you using this book for this show: biography of Perkin Warbeck
Title: The Wars of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century
Author: Desmond Seward
Show Number: A-3
Why are you using this book for this show: biography of 5 people
Title: Twenty-Five Years on the Rock
Author: Alvin Karpis
Show Number: A-5
Why are you using this book for this show: Karpis learns the steel guitar in prison, which becomes a major occupation for him for many years. He also discusses teaching the guitar to a young Charles Manson in another prison. It's not exactly the main point of the book but it is discussed.
Title: O, Pioneers!
Author: Willa Cather
Show Number: B-4
Why are you using this book for this show: book is about a family of pioneers
Title: The Sugar Queen
Author: Sarah Addison Allen
Show Number: C-2
Why are you using this book for this show: mother doesn't want daughter to date anyone; daughter inadvertantly contributes to setting up mother
Title: The Boy Next Door
Author: Meg Cabot
Show Number: C-3
Why are you using this book for this show: main character starts her book wondering why she can't find a fella. She has recently ended a thing with an office colleague. Then someone new moves into an elderly neighbor's apartment
Title: The Lost Symbol
Author: Dan Brown
Show Number: D-2
Why are you using this book for this show: It's a Dan Brown book, do I really have to elaborate? Series of clues, follow trail in time..... the usual.
Title: The Shadow of the Wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Show Number: D-2
Why are you using this book for this show: main character pledges to protect a book that others seem set on having and/or destroying
Title: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Author: Jonathan Safron Foer
Show Number: D-2
Why are you using this book for this show: 9-year-old boy on mission to find the meaning of a key found amongst his dead father's things
Title: The White Queen
Author: Philippa Gregory
Show Number: E-3
Why are you using this book for this show: main character starts novel as an indebted widow living with her parents with allegiances to the Lancasters trying to get money for her sons- then marries head of the York clan and becomes queen - then becomes widow hiding in captivity trying to push her daughter to become queen so as to elevate herself again. Safe to say she changes lifestyle a lot.
Title: The Nanny
Author: Melissa Nathan
Show Number: F-1
Why are you using this book for this show: main character is a nanny
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Show Number: F-2
Why are you using this book for this show: book has been tagged finance more than once - the main character is a financial journalist who is going to jail for libel. He wants to prove that the man he wrote the story on is using unethical business practices and is not being honest financially. He signs on to solve another case to get this information which is the focus of most of the book but the ending does include more finance.
Title: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Show Number: G-2
Why are you using this book for this show: most of the book takes place in the arena
Title: The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
Author: A.J. Jacobs
Show Number: H-1
Why are you using this book for this show: author is considered part of the humour genre
Title: Shanghai Girls
Author: Lisa See
Show Number: H-2
Why are you using this book for this show: The 2 sisters beging the novel as portrait models in 1930's Japan. They live a life of partying. The main character has a thing for the artist. Throughout the course of the novel one of them loses their looks and the other tries to break into show business. I know this isn't exactly what was meant for this category but there are some definite parallels.
Title: Cold Comfort Farm
Author: Stella Gibbons
Show Number: I-1
Why are you using this book for this show: Ada Doom disapproves of anyone trying to change or join her family.
Title: Dexter by Design
Author: Jeff Lindsay
Show Number: I-2
Why are you using this book for this show: Dexter is a forensic specialist for the Miami Police Department which fits nicely into his extracurricular activity of finding bad guys and killing them in ritualistic ways to feed his Dark Passenger. In this book, he has yet more suspicion from his workplace which interferes with his real purpose.
Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Show Number: J-1
Why are you using this book for this show: classic horror novel
Title: The Actor and the Housewife
Author: Shannon Hale
Show Number: J-2
Why are you using this book for this show: chick lit novel
Title: Russian Fairy Tales
Author: Aleksandr Afanas'ev, Translated by Norbert Guterman
Show Number: K-2
Why are you using this book for this show: Grimm's for Russian fairy tales
Also, can I put a BONUS towards E-2?
