Books I Read in 2011

1. Ella Minnow Pea - (1/1) - Mark Dunn 224p
2. A Stranger on the Planet - (1/2) - Adam Schwartz 336p
3. The Imperfectionists: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle) - (1/9) - Tom Rachman 304p
4. The Fates Will Find Their Way - (1/15) - Hannah Pittard 256p
5. The Crying of Lot 49 - (1/22) - Thomas Pynhcon 192p
6. The Pearl (Centennial Edition) - (1/29) - John Steinbeck 92p
7. This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel - (2/2) - Jonathan Tropper 352p
8. Unwind - (2/6) - Neal Shusterman 352p
9. The Host: A Novel - (2/20) - Stephenie Meyer 656p
10. Tanglewreck - (2/26) - Jeanette Winterson 414p
11. Flight: A Novel - (2/27) Sherman Alexie 208p
12. Night - (3/2) - Elie Wiesel 120p
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray - (3/13) - Oscar Wilde 178p
14. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - (3/19) - Shirley Jackson 160p
15. Little House in the Big Woods - (3/20) - Laura Ingalls Wilder 256p
16. The Collector - (4/1) - John Fowles 320p
17. The Peach Keeper - (4/3) - Sarah Addison Allen 288p
18. Bossypants - (4/22) - Tina Fey 288p

Audio

1. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen 5/5 stars
2. All Clear - Connie Willis 3/5 stars
3. Dracula - Bram Stoker 4/5 stars
4. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race - Jon Stewart et al 4/5 stars
5. The Contortionist's Handbook - Craig Clevenger 5/5 stars
6. The Oracle of Stamboul: A Novel - Michael David Lukas 3.5/5 stars
7. The Other Life - Ellen Meister 4/5 stars

Books I Read in 2010

1. I Am the Messenger - (1/2) - Markus Zusak 368p
2. The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) - (1/24) - Stephen King 1141p
3. Bite Me: A Love Story - (1/30) - Christopher Moore 320p
4. The Giver - (1/31) - Lois Lowry 208p
5. The Shipping News - (2/13) - Annie Proulx 352p
6. Music for Torching - (2/20) - A.M. Homes 368p
7. From Dead to Worse - (2/27) - Charlaine Harris 302p
8. The End Of Alice - (2/28) - A.M. Homes 272p
9. The Girl Who Chased the Moon - (3/7) - Sarah Addison Allen 288p
10. Illustrado - (3/27) - Miguel Syjuco 320p
11. The Idiot - (4/4) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 656p
12. The Things They Carried - (4/10) - Tim O'Brien 256p
13. The Spellman's Strike Again - (4/11) - Lisa Lutz 400p
14. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - (4/23) - Stieg Larsson 576p
15. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle) - (4/24) - MaryAnn Shaffer 290p
16. Tell All - (4/25) - Chuck Palahniuk 192p
17. Light Boxes - (5/1) - Shane Jones 160p
18. The Nobodies Album - (5/4) - Carolyn Parkhurst 320p
19. A Gate at the Stairs - (5/7) - Lorrie Moore 336p
20. Backseat Saints - (5/8) - Joshilyn Jackson 352p
21. Imperial Bedrooms - (5/9) - Bret Easton Ellis 192p
22. Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole Novels) - (5/16) - Robert Crais 408p
23. Cry to Heaven - (5/30) - Anne Rice 576p
24. The Ark - (6/5) - Boyd Morrison 420p
25. Super Sad True Love Story - (6/6) - Gary Shteyngart - 352p
26. Motherless Brooklyn - (6/26) - Jonathan Lethem 311p
27. My Fair Lazy - (6/27) - Jen Lancaster 384p
28. Jack - (7/3) - A.M. Homes 240p
29. Gathering Blue - (7/4) - Lois Lowry 240p
30. Messenger - (7/5) - Lois Lowry 176p
31. The Safety of Objects - (7/19) - A.M. Homes 176p
32. Adam & Eve: A Novel - (8/3) - Sena Jeter Naslund 352p
33. Dark Life - (8/15) - Kat Fails 304p
34. Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities - (8/24) - Richard Baer 368p
35. Mockingjay - (8/28) - Suzanne Collins 400p
36. C - (9/5) - Tom McCarthy 320p
37. Gone with the Wind - (9/26) - Margaret Mitchell 860p
38. Little Bee - (9/30) - Chris Cleave 304p
39. Room - (10/9) - Emma Donoghue 336p
40. The Discovery of Socket Greeny - (10/16) - Tony Bertauski 282p
41. Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3) - (10/31) - Jim Butcher 378p
42. The Forgotten Garden: A Novel - (11/7) - Kate Morton 560p
43. Number the Stars - (11/12) - Lois Lowry 136p
44. The Diviner's Tale - (12/4) - Bradford Morrow 320p
45. Lolita - (12/10) - Vladimir Nabokov 336p
46. The End of Alice - (12/12)- A.M. Homes 272p(re-read)
47. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel (P.S.) - (12/13) - Vendela Vida 256p
48. Columbine - (12/19) - Dave Cullen 464p
49. Swamplandia! - (12/29) - Karen Russell 336p
50. In the Lake of the Woods - (12/31) - Tim O'Brien 321p

Audio

1. Peter and Max - Bill Willingham 3/5 stars
2. The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale 5/5 stars
3.Horns - Joe Hill 4/5 stars
4. The Help - Kathryn Stockett 5/5 stars
5. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson 1/5 stars
6. When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris 3/5 stars
7. Enna Burning (Books of Bayern) - Shannon Hale 2.5/5 stars
8. Radio Free Albemuth - Philip K. Dick 4/5 stars
9. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman 1/5 stars
10. Hunger Games - Audio - Suzanne Collins 4.5/5 stars
11. Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) - Audio - Suzanne Collins 5/5 stars
12. Paper Towns - John Green 5/5 stars
13. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery 3/5 stars
14. Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel 2/5 stars
15. The Wild Things - Dave Eggers 3/5 stars
16. Life of Pi - Yawn Martel 1/5 stars (click link for my review)
17. The Good Earth (Blackstone Audio Classic Collection) - Pearl S. Buck 5/5 stars
18. Blackout - Connie Willis 4/5 stars
19. I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas - Lewis Black 2/5 stars
20. The Scorch Trials - James Dashner 2/5 stars
21. Alice I Have Been: A Novel - Melanie Benjamin - 5/5 stars

My top 10 reads of 2009

In no particular order

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
The Yiddish Policemans Union - Michael Chabon
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
Cathedral of the Sea - Ildefonso Falcones
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut

Books I Read in 2009

73. Go with Me: A Novel (P.S.) - (12/31) - Castle Freeman Jr. 192p
72. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - (12/30) - Kurt Vonnegut 190p 2009 FAVORITE
71. Snuff - (12/28) - Chuck Palahniuk 208p
70. Altar of Eden - (12/27) - James Rollins 416p
69. Shades of Grey: A Novel - (12/23) - Jasper Fforde 400p
68. Chronic City - (12/12) - Jonathan Lethem 480p
67. The Woods - (12/4) - Harlen Coben 418p
66. Pirate Latitudes - (11/20) - Michael Crichton 320p
65. New World Monkeys - (10/09) - Nancy Mauro 304p
64. The Girl With No Shadow - (9/23) - Joanne Harris 480p
63. I Capture the Castle - (9/7) - Dodie Smith 352p 2009 FAVORITE
62. The Maze Runner - 9/4 - James Dashner 384p
61. Catching Fire - (8/30) - Suzanne Collins 400p
60. The Year of the Flood: A Novel - (8/29) - Margaret Atwood 448p
59. Love Walked In - (7/23) - Marisa de los Santos 320p
58. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West - (7/10) - Cormac McCarthy 352p
57. Tortilla Flat - (7/4) - John Steinbeck 208p
56. Summer of Love - (6/30) - Lisa Mason 384p
55. John the Revelator - (6/26) Peter Murphy 277p
54. L.A. Candy - (6/21) - Lauren Conrad 336p
53. American Adulterer (6/12) - Jed Mercurio 352p
52. Orlando: A Biography - (6/11) - Virginia Woolf 352p
51. All Together Dead - (6/5) - Charlaine Harris 352p
50. Johannes Cabal the Necromancer - (5/30) - Jonathan Howard 304p
49. Glover's Mistake - (5/29) - Nick Laird 256p
48. The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel - (5/27) - Robert Crais 416p
47. The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) - (5/25) - Michael Chabon 432p 2009 FAVORITE
46. The Angel's Game - (5/20) - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 470p
45. Fool Moon - (5/17) - Jim Butcher 352p
44. All That I Have: A Novel - (5/15) - Castle Freeman, Jr. 176p
43. The Shadow of the Wind - (5/10) - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 487p
42. Dexter by Design: A Novel - (5/6) - Jeff Lindsay 304p
41. Thirteen Reasons Why - (5/1) - Jay Asher 320p
40. A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years - 4/27 - Gregory Maguire 336p
39. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) - (4/26) - Naomi Novik 384p
38. Definitely Dead - (4/25) - Charlaine Harris 352p
37. The Book Thief - (4/22) - Marcus Zusak 576p 2009 FAVORITE
36. B Is for Beer - (4/21) - Tom Robbins 128p
35. The Girl Who Played with Fire - (4/12) - Stieg Larsson 569p
34. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - (4/10) - Douglas Adams 224p
33. We - (4/5) - Yevgeny Zamyatin 232p
32. Brave New World - (4/4) - Aldous Huxley 288p
31. Never Let Me Go - (4/2) - Kuzuo Ishiguro 304p 2009 FAVORITE
30. Cathedral of the Sea: A Novel - 3/30 - Ildefonso Falcones 624p 2009 FAVORITE
29. Shogun - 3/28 - James Clavell 1,152 p
28. Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel (P.S.) - (3/15) - Joanne Harris 336p 2009 FAVORITE
27. After Silence - (3/7) - Jonathan Carroll 225p
26. The Metamorphosis - (3/6) - Franz Kafka 76p
25. The Uncommon Reader: A Novella - (3/5) - Alan Bennett 128p
24. The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel - (3/2) - Yoko Ogawa 192p 2009 FAVORITE
23. In the Company of the Courtesan - (3/1) - Sarah Dunant 385p
22. The Hunger Games - (2/27) - Suzanne Collins 384p
21. The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) - (2/21) - Lionel Shriver 544p
20. Blindness - (2/16) - Jose Saramago 352p
19. Storm Front - (2/14) - Jim Butcher 336p
18. Fool: A Novel - (2/14) - Christopher Moore 336p
17. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - (2/7) - Junot Diaz 352p
16. Dead as a Doornail - (2/7) - Charlaine Harris 295p
15. Good Grief: A Novel - (2/4) - Lolly Winston 352p
14. Fortune's Rocks: A Novel - (2/1) - Anita Shreve 453p
13. East of Eden - (1/31) - John Steinbeck 602p 2009 FAVORITE
12. Less Than Zero - (1/24) - Bret Easton Ellis 208p
11. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet: A Novel - (1/23) - Colleen McCullough 352p
10. American Psycho - (1/18) - Bret Easton Ellis 416p 2009 FAVORITE
9. Pride and Prejudice - (1/10) - Jane Austen 314p
8. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - (1/13) - Lynn Truss 240p
7. Dead to the World - (1/11) - Charlaine Harris 292p
6. Slaughterhouse-Five - (1/10) - Kurt Vonnegut 224p
5. Sepulchre - (1/9) - Kate Mosse 592p
4. The Magician's Nephew (Narnia) - (1/6) - C.S. Lewis 208p
3. The Ghost in Love: A Novel - (1/4) - Jonathan Carroll 320p
2. All Encompassing Trip - (1/2) - Nicole Del Sesto 308p
1. A Clockwork Orange - (1/1) - Anthony Burgess 192p

My top 10 reads of 2008

(In no particular order)

Letters Home Sylvia Plath

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey - Chuck Palahnuik

The Origin - Irving Stone

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Windfalls - Jean Hegland

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

My Life So Far - Jane Fonda

The Magus - John Fowles

Books I read in 2008

100. Club Dead - (12/30) - Charlaine Harris 292p
99. The Sugar Queen - (12/28) - Sarah Addison Allen 288p
98. Living Dead in Dallas - (12/27) - Charlaine Harris 291p
97. Dead Until Dark - (12/26) - Charlaine Harris 304p
96. The Magus - (12/25) - John Fowles 672p
95. The Blind Assassin: A Novel - (12/20) - Margaret Atwood 544p
94. Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas (P.S.) - (12/20) - John Baxter 288p
93. The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole Novels) - (12/13) - Robert Crais 368p
92. Cellophane - (12/12) - Marie Arana 384p
91. Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love - (12/8) - Yehuda Koren, Eliat Negev 250p
90. The Bell Jar - (12/4) - Sylvia Plath 288p (yes, again)
89. Letters Home - (12/1) - Sylvia Plath 512p
88. The Book of Lost Things: A Novel - (11/28) - John Connolly 348p
87. When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel - (11/22) - Kate Atkinson 400p
86. The Paris Enigma: A Novel - (11/18) - Pablo De Santis 244p
85. Garden Spells (Bantam Discovery) - (11/15) - Sarah Addison Allen 320p
84. Cosmicomics - (11/11) - Italo Calvino 153p
83. Out: A Novel - (11/2) - Natsuo Karino 400p
82. The Modern Neurosis Handbook: A Guide to Coping - (10/26) - Andrea Sarvady 144p
81. The Catcher in the Rye - (10/24) - JD Salinger 224p
80. The Bell Jar - (10/19) - Sylvia Plath 288p
79. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder Mysteries) - (10/18) - Lawrence Block 354p
78. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - (10/15) - Tom Robbins 386p
77. Curse of the Spellmans: A Novel - (10/11) - Lisa Lutz 416p
76. Coyote Blue - (9/30) - Christopher Moore 320p
75. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - (9/22) - Steig Larsson 480p
74. Amazonia - (9/18) - James Rollins 544p
73. Breaking Dawn - (9/6) - Stepehenie Meyer 768p
72. The Soloist - (9/5) - Mark Saltzman 304p
71. Eclipse - (8/31) - Stephenie Meyer 672p
70. The Last Detective - (8/30) - Robert Crais 352p
69. The Glass Castle - (8/28) - Jeannette Walls 288p
68. My Life As A Fake - (8/23) - Peter Carey 288p
67. Galilee - (8/20) - Clive Barker 656p
66. Confessions of a Recovering Slut - (8/9) - Hollis Gillespie 272p
65. Picasso at the Lapin Agile - (8/8) - Steve Martin 78p
64. Golden Bones - (8/3) - Sichun Siv 336p
63. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany - (7/25) - Bill Buford 336p
62. The Dracula Dossier - (7/19) - James Reese 343p
61. Key Witch - (7/12) - Robert Tacoma 217p
60. New Moon - (7/9) - Stephenie Meyer 565p
59. I Love You, Beth Cooper - (7/6) - Larry Doyle 255p
58. A Girl Named Zippy (7/5) - Haven Kimmel 282p
57. The Virgin Suicides - (6/28) - Jeffrey Eugenides 256p
56. Black Cocktail - (6/25) - Jonathan Carroll 76p
55. House of Leaves - (6/23) - Mark Danielewski 709p
54. The Raw Shark Texts - (6/20) - Steven Hall 448p
53. Such a Pretty Fat - (6/15) - Jen Lancaster 400p
52. The Ice Queen - (6/10) - Alice Hoffman 224p
51. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - (6/8) - Haruki Murakami 416p
50. Twilight - (6/6) - Stephenie Meyer 498p
49. The Stranger - (6/1) - Albert Camus 144p
48. Dead Silver - (6/1) - Neil McMahon 288p
47. Generation X - (5/31) - Douglas Coupland 192p
46. Julian - (5/31) - Gore Vidal 528p
45. Windfalls - (5/25) - Jean Hegland 368p
44. The Art of Racing in the Rain - (5/18) - Garth Stein 336p
43. High Fidelity - (5/18) - Nick Hornby 336p
42. The Ruins - (5/11) - Scott Smith 528p
41. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming - (5/4) - Joshilyn Jackson 320p
40. Voice of Our Shadow - (5/3) - Jonathan Carroll 189p
39. L.A. Requiem - (4/30) - Robert Crais 416p
38. The Thirteenth Tale - (4/28) - Diane Setterfield 432p
37. The Lilac Bus - (4/26) - Maeve Binchy 196p
36. Indigo Slam - (4/20) - Robert Crais 320p
35. The Plague - (4/19) - Albert Camus 320p
34. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit - (4/19) - Jeanette Winterson 176p
33. Sexing the Cherry - (4/15) - Jeanette Winterson 167p
32. Sunset Express - (4/13) - Robert Crais 338p
31. Haunted - (4/12) - Chuck Palahniuk 432p
30. Antony and Cleopatra - (4/9) - Colleen McCullough 551p
29. Filth - (4/5) - Irvine Welsh 392p
28. The Diving Pool - (4/1) - Yoko Ogawa 164p
27. On, Off - (3/31) - Colleen McCullough 432p
26. Ice Hunt - (3/24) - James Rollins 544p
25. Dexter in the Dark - (3/22) - Jeff Lindsay 320p
24. Queenmaker - (3/16) - India Edghill 384p
23. Nefertiti - (3/15) - Michelle Moran 480p
22. Monster, 1959 - (3/9) - David Maine 256p
21. Middlesex - (3/8) - Jeffrey Eugenides 544p
20. No Country for Old Men - (3/2) - Cormac McCarthy 309p
19. Breakfast at Tiffany's - (3/2) - Truman Capote 178p
18. My Life So Far - (2/27) - Jane Fonda 624p
17. I Am Not Myself These Days - (2/20) - Josh Kilmer-Purcell 336p
16. Runemarks - (2/19) - Joanne Harris 544p
15. The Boleyn Inheritance - (2/16) - Philippa Gregory 528p
14. Water for Elephants - (2/9) - Sara Gruen 350p
13. Bright Lights, Big Ass - (2/8) Jen Lancaster 385p
12. Carry Me Down - (2/8) - M.J. Hyland 326p
11. Brown Girl in the Ring - (2/5) - Nalo Hopkinson 256p
10. Sputnik Sweetheart - (2/3) - Haruki Murakami 224p
9. Carter Beats the Devil - (2/2) - Glen David Gold 496p
8. Dearly Devoted Dexter - (1/25) - Jeff Lindsay 304p
7. The Penelopiad - (1/24) - Margaret Atwood 224p
6. The Origin - (1/22) - Irving Stone 774p
5. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels - (1/12) - Jasper Fforde 384p
4. The Amber Spyglass - (1/11) - Philip Pullman 480p
3. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey - (1/7) - Chuck Palahniuk 336p
2. The Glass Harp - (1/5) - Truman Capote 97p
1. The Stolen Child - (1/4) - Kevin Donohue 336p