2010/11 Reading List

JANUARY 2010

Breakfast with Buddha – Roland Merullo (Book Group B)
The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
Awakening the Buddha Within – Lama Surya Das
Taking the Leap – Pema Chodron
The Help – Kathryn Stockett (Book Group A)

February

Mozart’s Sister – Nancy Moser (Book Group B)
Small Wonder – Barbara Kingsolver (Book Group B)
Echo Maker – Richard Powers
Abide with Me – Elizabeth Strout (Book Group A)
When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chondron
Unfinished Desires – Gail Goodwin
The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
The Children’s Book – AS Byatt

MARCH 2010

The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
The Zookeeper’s Wife – Diane Ackerman (Book Group B)
Sarah’s Key – Tatianna de Rosnay (Book Group A)
The Gethsemane Encounter: A dialogue on the Spiritual Life of Buddhist and Christian Monasteries
The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver

APRIL 2010

The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Burbey
Nocturnes – Kazuo Isiguro
The White Cascade – Gary Krist (Book Group B)
Interred with their Bones – Jennifer Lee Carrell
A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick
Child 44 – Tom Rob Smith
The Dissappeared – Kim Echlin
A Short History of Women – Kate Walbert

MAY 2010

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Corpse Pose – Diana Killian
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
A Body to Die For – G.A. McKevett
Cezanne’s Quarry – Barbara Corrado Pope
The Light House – PD James
Molokai – Alan Brennert
Sister of my Heart – Chitra Divakaruni
Shadow Tag – Louise Erdrich
This is Where I leave You – Jonathan Tropper
The Book of Fires – Jane Borodale
The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
Secret Daughter – Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann (Book Group B)
DNF You Remind Me of Me – Dan Chaon

JUNE 2010

Changing my Mind – Zadie Smith
The Lace Reader – Brunonia Barry
The Map of True Places – Brunonia Barry
Short Girls – Bich Minh Nguyen
Good to a Fault – Marina Endicott
Tinkers – Paul Harding
The Solitude of Prime Numbers – Paolo Giordano
Lost – Alice Lichtenstein
Riding the Bus with My Sister – Rachel Simon (Book Group A)
Silence – Shusaku Endo
The Madonnas of  Leningrad – Debra Dean
Never Let me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
In Other Rooms Other Wonders – Daniyal Mueenuddin
In the Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien
Loitering with Intent – Muriel Sparks
The Weight of Heaven – Thirty Umrigar

JULY 2010

Swan Thieves – Elizabeth Kostov
Summertime – JM Coetzee
Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively
Divisadero – Michel Ondaatje
What Was Lost – Catheine O’Flynn
Memento Mori – Muriel Sparks
The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer
The Tourist – Olen Steinhauer (Book Group B)
Day for Night – Frederick Reikin
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name – Vendela Vida
Promises to Keep – Jane Green
Her Fearful Symmetry – Audry Niffenegger
Secrets of Eden – Chris Bohjalian
When we Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Beach House – Jane Green
Small Island – Andrea Levy
Second Chance – Jane Green
Washington Square – Henry James
The Nobodies Album – Carolyn Parkhurst
The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
Breakfast with Buddha (reread) – Roland Merullo (Book Group A)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – Aimee Bender
Tomorrow River – Lesley Kagen
The Scent of Rain and Lightening – Nancy Pickard
A Stranger in the Family – Robert Barnard
The School of Essential Ingredients – Erica Bauermeister
One Vacant Chair – Joe Coomer
A Good House – Bonnie Burnard

AUGUST 2010

The Hakawati by Rabih Alamaddine
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
Kartography by Kamila Shamsie
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
The Vanishing of Katherine Linden by Helen Grant
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson
Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch
The Travelers Gift by Andy Andrews
Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Doctor and the Diva by Adreieene McDonnell
Dimanche and Other Stories by Irene Nemirovsky
The Waves by Virginia Woolf

SEPTEMBER 2010

100 Malicious Little Mysteries selected by Isaac Asimov, et. al.
The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Hand that First Held Mind by Maggie O’Farrell
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
In Rough Country by Joyce Carol Oates
The Memory Wall: Stories by Anthony Doerr
Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
Father of the Rain by Lily King
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Wallace
The Other Family by Joanna Trollope
You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin

OCTOBER 2010

• What is Left The Daughter – Howard Norman
• The Language of Trees – Ilie Ruby
• Faithful Place – Tana French
• The Good Daughters – Joyce Maynard
• Last Night In Montreal– Emily St. John Mandel
• DNF – The Piano Teacher – Janice Lee
• The Tricking of Freya – Christina Sunley
• The Singer’s Gun – Emily St. John Mandel
• Old School – Tobias Wolff
• Strength in What Remains – Tracy Kidder
• The Last Song – Andrea Levy
• Room – Emma Donaghue
• Small Room – May Sarton
• Dangerous Neighbors – Beth Kephart

NOVEMBER 2010

• Driftless – David Rhodes
• Different Drummers – Caron and Hatcher
• The Birth of Love – Joanna Kavenna
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – ZZ Packer
• Man in the Woods – Scott Spencer
• Origin – Diana Abu-Jaber
• Day After Night – Anita Diamant
• Great House – Nicole Kraus
• (Reread) Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows – JK Rowling
• (DNF) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
• (DNF) Black Water Rising – Attica Locke

DECEMBER 2010

• Reread: Funerals are Fatal – Agatha Christie
• Reread: Sparkling Cyanide – Agatha Christie
• Crossing – Andrew Xia Fukuda
• All the Living – CE Morgan
• Read This Next – Newmont and Mittelmark
• Finding Nouf – Zoe Ferraris
• Bitter in the Mouth – Monique Truong
• Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
• Reread: What Mrs. Macgillcuddy Saw – Agatha Christie
• Trespass –  Rose Tremain
• The Folded World – Amity Gaige

2011

JANUARY 2011

• Reread: Ordeal of Innocence – Agatha Christie
• Reread: Murder at Hazelmoor – Agatha Christie
• Did not finish: Eurdition – Joyce Crawley
• Hypothermia – Arnaldur Indridason
• Cutting for Stone – Abraham
• The Wrong Blood – Manuel de Lope
• The Report: A Novel – Jessica Francis Kane
• The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
• The Years Best Science Fiction: The Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection edited by Garner Dozois

FEBRUARY 2011

• Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deidre Madden
• The Marriage Artist by Andrew Winer
• Bound to Last edited by Sean Manning
• Istanbul Noir edited by Mustafa Ziyalan and Amy Spangler
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• Purge by Sofi Oksanen
• The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
• The Still Point by Amy Sackville

MARCH 2011

• Water Theatre by Lindsey Clarke
• The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow
• The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
• The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
• Paris Noir edited by Aurelien Masson
• The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
• The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
• The White Garden by Stephanie Brown (to be reviewed in March Bites)
• The Pages: A Novel by Murray Bail
• Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson (DNF)
• Boston Noir edited by Dennis Lehune (to be reviewed in March Bites)
• The Assault by Harry Mulisch
• Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin (to be reviewed in March Bites)
• The History of History by Ida Hattener-Higgins
• The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunsten
• Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns

APRIL 2011

• Plainsong – Kent Haruf (reread)
• Seattle Noir – Edited by Curt Colbert
• A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain – Robert Olen Butler
• The Story of Forgetting – Stefan Merrill Block
• In Free Fall – Julie Zeh
• Triangle – Katherine Weber
• Last Night at the Red Lobster – Stewart O’Nan
• Visitation – Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky
• Paley’s Place Cookbook – Vitaly Paley
• Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford

MAY 2011

• Betrayal by Karin Alvtegen
• Lord Edgeware Dies by Agatha Christie (re-read)
• By the Pricking of my Thumbs by Agatha Christie (re-read)
• Peril at End House by Agatha Christie (re-read)
• Tighter by Adele Griffin
• 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgekinson
• Ransom by David Malouf

JUNE 2011

• Toward Zero by Agatha Christie (re-read)
• The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmusssen
• The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
• True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
• The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
•  If I loved You, I would Tell You This: Stories by Robin Black
• Daughters of the Revolution by Carolyn Cooke
• House of Silence by Linda Gillard
• The Great Lenore by JM Tohline
• The Shuttle by Francis Hodgson Burnett

JULY 2011

• Little Boy Lost by Margharita Laski
• When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
• Hercule Poirot Loses a Client by Agatha Christie (re-read)
• A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
• The Gendarme by Mark Mustain
• The London Train by Jessica Hadly
• Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie (re-read)
• The Old Romantic by Louise Dean
• Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
• Christmas at the Mysteries Bookshop ed. by Otto Penzler
• To be Sung Underwater by Tom Mcneal
• Lyrics Alley by Lelia Abulela (did not finish)

AUGUST 2011

•   A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• The Revenge of the Radio-Active Lady by Elizabeth Stukey-French
• The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
• The Game of Secrets by Dawn Tripp
• A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano
• The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
• Shadow Without a Name by Ignacio Padilla

SEPTEMBER 2011

• Human.4 by Mike Lancaster
• How I live Now by Meg Rosoff
• Memory of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox (did not finish)
• In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

OCTOBER 2011

• Maisie Dobbs by Jacquelyn Winspear
• Birds of a Feather by Jacquelyn Winspear
• Pardonable Lies by Jacquelyn Winspear
• Messenger of Truth by Jacquelyn Winspear
• To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
• To the North – Elizabeth Bowen

November/December 2011

• The Post Office Girl – Stefan Zweig
• In the Garden of the Beasts – Erik Larson
• The Well and the Mine – Gin Phillips
• The Twin – Gerbrand Bakker

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