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Books Reviewed in 2011

This is a list of the books read in 2011. Click on the link to read my review.

1. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
3. Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
4. Great House by Nicole Krauss
5. C by Tom McCarthy
6. Room by Emma Donoghue
7. Hating Olivia by Mark SaFranko
8. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
9. The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher
10. The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo
11. Pit Stops by Michelle Sathe
12. The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein
13. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
14. The Other Life by Ellen Meister
15. You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried by Susannah Gora
16. The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
17. Wither by Lauren DeStefano
18. The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton
19. The Swan Thieves  (audio) by Elizabeth Kostova
20. The Raising by Laura Kasischke
21. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
22. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Water M. Miller
23. The Snowman by Joe Nesbø
24. Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
25. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
26. Anthem by Ayn Rand
27. The Wikkeling by Steven Arntson
28. Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
29. The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
30. In Stitches by Anthony Youn, M.D.
31. The Gin & Chowder Club by Nan Rossiter
32. The London Train by Tessa Hadley
33. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
34. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
35. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
36. The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
37. The Absolute Value of Mike by Kathryn Erskine
38. Pearl of China by Anchee Min
39. Duma Key by Stephen King
40. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
41. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
42. Miss Hildreth Wore Brown by Olivia deBelle Byrd
43. The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott
44. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
45. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
46. Model Home by Eric Puchner
47. Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
48. Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami
49. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
50. Caribou Island by David Vann
51. Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen
52. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
53. After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami
54. Annabel by Kathleen Winter
55. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
56. Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
57. Strangers by Anita Brookner
58. The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
59. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
60. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
61. We the Animals by Justin Torres
62. The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma
63. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
64. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
65. The Train of Small Mercies by David Rowell
66. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
67. The Winters in Bloom by Lisa Tucker
68. Cucina Povera by Pamela Sheldon Johns
69. The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
70. The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
71. Sunset Park by Paul Auster
72. The Bungalow by Sarah Jio
73. Thirteen Reasons Why (audio) by Jay Asher
74. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
75. The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy
76. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
77. Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam
78. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
79. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
80. After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Books Reviewed in 2010

This is a list of the books read in 2010. Click on the link to read my review.

2010 Reviews

1. Finn by Jon Clinch
2. The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
3. Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jeckyll
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
6. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (link is to read-along post/s)
8. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
9. What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
10. The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
11. Impatient with Desire by Gabrielle Burton
12. Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
13. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
14. Raven Stole the Moon by Garth Stein
15. If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous
16. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
17. Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
18. The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
19. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees
20. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
21. The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin
22. This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
23. First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
24. Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
25. Trackers by Patrick Carman
26. The Perfect 10 Diet by Dr. Michael Aziz
27. Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
28. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
29. The Passage by Justin Cronin
30. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
31. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
32. Tinkers by Paul Harding
33. Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
34. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
35. The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
36. Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
37. Coming up for Air by George Orwell
38. Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes
39. Invisible by Paul Auster
40. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
41. Fever Dream by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
42. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
43. The Stand by Stephen King (not quite a review, more of a mention)
44. I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
45. Naked in Eden by Robin Easton
46. The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
47. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
48. The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell (aka Joshua Gaylord)
49. Proof: A Play by David Auburn
50. Atonement by Ian McEwan
51. Everything is Going to Be Great by Rachel Shukert
52. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
53. Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
54. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
55. Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
56. Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch
57. Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving