Reading List

This is a growing list of books I’ve completed & reviewed, complete with genre categorization.

fiction | mystery | humor | western | classics | non-fiction | memoir | reference | biography | history

March 2010:

• Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall
• You: on a Diet, by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz

February 2010:

• A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss

January 2010:

• The Mormon Way of Doing Business, by Jeff Benedict
• My Man Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse

December 2009:

• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
• SuperFreakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Steig Larsson

November 2009:

• Belong to Me: A Novel, by Marisa de los Santos
• The Angel’s Game, by Carlos Ruis Zafon
• A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, by Nicholas Drayson
• Her Fearful Symmerty, by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Night Counter: A Novel, by Alia Yunis
• The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Steig Larsson

October 2009:

• Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, by Julie Andrews
• The Magician’s Elephant, by Kate DiCamillo
• Stitches, a Memoir, by David Small
• Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky
• The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, by Diane Ackerman

September 2009:

• The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate DiCamillo
• Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
• Love Walked In, by Marisa de los Santos

August 2009:

• At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, by Alexander McCall Smith
• Portuguese Irregular Verbs, by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Case of the Missing Books, by Ian Samson
• The Sunday Philosophy Club, by Alexander McCall Smith

July 2009:

• The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
• The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
• Going to See the Elephant, by Rodes Fishburne
• The Freedom Writers Diary, by Erin Gruwell

June 2009:

• Up High in the Trees, by Kiara Brinkman
• Washington DC Travel Guides

May 2009:

• Dairy of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney

April 2009:

• Dracula, by Bram Stoker
• The Chosen, by Chaim Potok (partial review)

February 2009:

• So Brave, Young, and Handsome, by Lief Enger
• Interred with their Bones, by Jennifer Lee Carrell
• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak