Books I've read since I started blogging. I'm keeping a list of reviews so I can feel like I did something with my life.
2012
Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Los Angeles Diaries by James Brown
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2011
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Winters Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Light Years by Le Anne Schreiber
Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins:
The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Cleopatra, A Life by Stacy Schiff
2010
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Native Son by Richard Wright
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2009
The Courage to Start by John Bingham
No Need for Speed by John Bingham
Marathoning for Mortals by John Bingham
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
Books I teach (and read every year)
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver (favorite book, ever!)
Just a book I love
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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