Reader in the Wilderness: A Confession

Friday, October 15, 2010

A Confession

My third post today--must be a personal record!

I confess I made a book-related purchase that was quite impulsive. Ken was partially responsible because he always condones gadget-related purchases. The creature arrived at the post office today.

I bought the new second-generation Kindle. It cost $139, as I bought the Wi-Fi Kindle, so I can download books from home, instead of via a cellphone "Whispernet" network. Because of our mountains, cellphone reception is a lost cause here in the Adirondacks.

Stay tuned!

2 comments:

KatrinaOctober 16, 2010 at 3:52 PM
Judith,
I'll be interested to know how you get on with this gadget. I don't know if I would like to read a book that way. I'm a bit of a Luddite!
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HeatherOctober 17, 2010 at 1:31 PM
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Books Read in 2022

Silverview by John Le Carre (2021)
The Woman Before Wallis by Bryn Turnbull (2018)
The Butler by Danielle Steel (2021) audio
Castle Shade by Laurie R. King (2021)
Horsewoman by James Patterson and Michael Lupica (2022)
An Act of Love by Nancy Thayer (1998) audio *****
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain (2022)
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas (2022)
Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II by Mala Kacenberg (2022)
Custody by Nancy Thayer (1997) audio
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry (2021)
A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris (2022)
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis (2022)
Invisible by Danielle Steel (2022) audio
Last September by Nina de Gramont (2015) NYPL
April in Spain by John Banville 2021
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys YA (2022)
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki (2022)
Three Women at the Water's Edge by Nancy Thayer (1997) audio
The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf (2022)
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso (2022)
The Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards (#3 Lake District Mysteries) 2007
Groundskeeping by Lee Cole, 2022
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant (2021) *****
The Invisible Kingdom: A Memoir by Meghan O'Rourke (2022)
Silverhill by Phyllis Whitney, 1967
A Lesson in Secrets, #8 Maisie Dobbs novel, by Jacqueline Winspear (2011)
The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (2022)
Little Black Lies by Sandra Block (2015)
Nine Lives by Peter Swanson (2022) *****
Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist (2022)
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik (2022)
A Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (2022)
The Resting Place by Camilla Sten (2022) SWE
Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch (2022) audio
The Therapist by Helene Flood (2021) NOR NYPL
Family Reunion by Nancy Thayer (2021) audio
The Great Passion by James Runcie (2022)
The Heirs by Susan Rieger (2017) NYPL
High Stakes by Danielle Steel (2022) audio
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James (2022)
Aftermath: Life in the Fall-Out of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jahner U.S. 2022 (trans. German)
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton (2022)
Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gillham (2022)
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica (2017) NYPL
Something to Hide by Elizabeth George (2022) *****
The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jonasson (2021) Iceland
The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel (2022)
The Book Lovers by Emily Henry (2022) audio
The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher (2021)
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk (2022) CAN
The Blind by A.F. Brady (2017)
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami (2022) trans. Japanese
Mrs. England by Stacey Halls (2022)
The Tsarina's Daughter by Ellen Alpsten (2022)
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (2022)
The Boys by Ron and Clint Howard (audio) 2021 *****
The Midcoast by Adam White (2022)
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles (2022)
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (2022)
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur (2017)
Ashton Hall by Lauren Belfer (2022)
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (2007)
The House across the Lake by Riley Sager (2022)
Outside by Ragnar Jonasson (2022)
The Serpent Pool, #4 Lake Dist. Mysteries, by Martin Edwards (2011)
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (1969)
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming by David Wallace-Wells (2019)
The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman (2022)
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark (2022)
The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley (2022)
Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life by Anne Chisholm (1999)
Writers and Lovers by Lily King (2020)
A History of Present Illness by Anna DeForest (2022)
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes (2022)
After Lives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2022)
The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda (2022)
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (2022)
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford (2022)
The Rising Tide by Anne Cleeves (Vera Stanhope) (2022)
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2022)
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (2022)
An Indiscreet Princess by Georgie Blalock (2022)
We Spread by Iain Reid (2022) CAN
Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War between the Windsors (2022) audio
The American Adventuress by C.W. Gortner (2022)
The House in the Orchard by Elizabeth Brooks (2022)
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro (2022)
The Family Game by Catherine Steadman (2022)
The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick (2022) NYPL
The Apartment by Danielle Steel (2016) audio
The Secret Guests by Benjamin Black (2019)
The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan (2022)
The Affair by Danielle Steel (2021) audio
Death on a Winter Stroll by Francine Mathews (2022)
Left on Tenth: A Memoir by Delia Ephron (2022) audio
An Island Christmas by Nancy Thayer (2014) audio
Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday (2021)
Playing under the Piano: A Memoir by Hugh Bonneville (2022) audio
The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks (2022)
The Hanging Wood, #5 Lake Dist. Mysteries, by Martin Edwards (2011)
The Whittiers by Danielle Steel (2022) audio
Winterland by Rae Meadows (2022)
God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen (2022)
Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham (1939)

Books Read in 2021

A Short History Of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe (2019) GER
Pine Island Home by Polly Horvath (2020) CAN Children's
The Survivors by Jane Harper AUS (2021)
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (1987)
The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen (2021)
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez (2020)
The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves (Vera Stanhope #1)
Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand (2011) audio *****
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves (2020)
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler (2021)
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (2015) NYPL
A Dangerous Inheritance: Tudor Rivals and the Story of the Secret Tower by Alison Weir (2012) NYPL
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003) NYPL
Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel #6 by Jacqueline Winspear
Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry (2016) NYPL
I, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott (2017)
The Windsor Knot by S.J. Bennett (2021) audio
Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews (2021)
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (2020)
The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat (2020) NYPL
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble (1987)
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston (2019) audio
Dark Horses by Susan Mihalic (2021)
Black Amber by Phyllis Whitney (1964) Istanbul
Dark Horses by Cecily von Ziegesar (2016) YA NYPL
Belonging by Nancy Thayer (1995) audio *****
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse (2021)
Passing On by Penelope Lively (U.S. pub. 1990)
The Rumour by Elin Hilderbrand (2015) audio
Somebody at the Door by Raymond Postgate (1942)
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust by James Comey (2021) audio
Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati (1998)
The Truth We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris (2019) audio
Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton (2002)
The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly (2021)
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman (2006) NYPL
The Girls of Summer by Nancy Thayer (2020) audio
Feather on the Moon by Phyllis Whitney (1988) Brit. Columbia
The Numbers Game by Danielle Steel (2019) audio
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams (2021)
Madam by Phoebe Wynne (2021)
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis (2020)
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2021)
Something Unbelievable by Maria Kuznetsova (2021)
Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand (2021) audio
The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine (2021)
The Disappearing Act by Catherine Steadman (2021)
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides (2021)
Lost and Found by Danielle Steel (2019)
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoquin (2021) audio
Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy by Dani Shapiro (1998)
The Boy Who Fell from the Sky by Ken Dornstein (2006)
The Audacity of Sara Grayson by Joani Elliot (2021)
Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard (2021)
The Unkindness of Ravens by M.E. Hilliard (2021)
The Coffin Trail (Lake District Mystery #1) by Martin Edwards (2004)
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins (2021) Retired it at 72 %
The Reading List by Sara Nishi Adams (2021)
The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves (2021)
Everlasting by Nancy Thayer (1991) audio
Snow by John Banville (2020)
A Darker Reality by Anne Perry (2021)
A Solitude of Wolves by Anne Henderson (2020)
Bewilderment by Richard Powers (2021)
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (2021)
Always, in December by Emily Stone (2021)
Forever Young: A Memoir by Hayley Mills (2021) audio
Mapping Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs #7 (2010)
Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves (#2 Vera Stanhope) 2005
Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge (2021) NYPL
A Season for Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss (2021)
Going There by Katie Couric (2021) audio
Once upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan (2021)
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (2021) *****
Another Little Christmas Murder by Lorna Nicholl Morgan (1947) UK
The Cipher Garden by Martin Edwards, #2 Lake District Mystery
The Therapist by B.A. Paris (2021)

Books Read in 2020

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict (2020)
All That Glitters by Danielle Steel (2020) audio
Wine Girl:The Trials and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier by Victoria James (2020) NYPL
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré (2020) The Master's Last Book
A Nantucket Christmas by Nancy Thayer (2014) NYPL
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett (2020)
A Christmas Resolution by Anne Perry (2020) NYPL
Troubles in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand (2020) audio
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M. M. Blume (2020) NYT Notable Book 2020
An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs #5) by Jacqueline Winspear (2008)
The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott
Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford (2020) A NYT Notable Book *****
Secrets from the Past by Lara Prescott (2019)
The Turncoat by Siegfried Lenz (Germany) U.S. Edition 2016
Hid from Our Eyes by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2020)
Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell (2020) audio *****
One More for Christmas by Sarah Morgan (2020) NYPL
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld (2020) ****
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (2007) audio
Battle of Brothers: William and Harry by Robert Lacey (2020) audio
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2008) NYPL
Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson (2020)
Greenwood by Michael Christie (2019) CAN
We Soldiers by Alexander Starritt (2020)
Daddy's Girls by Danielle Steel (2019) audio
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Garcia-Moreno (2020)
Monogamy by Sue Miller (2020)
28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand (audio)
The Darkest Evening: A Vera Stanhope Mystery by Anne Cleeves (2020)
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (2020) NYPL
500 Miles from You by Jenny Colgan (2020)
Royal by Danielle Steel (2020) audio
The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand (2017) audio *****
The Last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen (2020)
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan (2017)
The Lost and Found Bookshop By Susan Wiggs (2020) NYPL
The Right Time by Danielle Steel (2016) audio
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Annette Wiener (2020)
By the Book by Amanda Sellet (2020) YA
Wives by Tarryn Fisher (2019)
Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle (1965); orig. pub. 1951
A Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime Germany (2018) NYPL
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman (2018)
Longbourn by Jo Baker (2016) NYPL
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton (2016)
The German House by Annette Hess, trans. GER. (2018) NYPL
Surfside Sisters by Nancy Thayer (2019) NYPL
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (2019) NYPL
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (2019)
The Dry by Jane Harper (2016) NYPL AUS
And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer (2016) NYPL
The Small Rain by Madeleine L'Engle (1945) debut novel
And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle, (revised ed. 1983; orig. pub. 1949)
Death in the Off-Season by Francine Mathews (Nantucket) 2016 NYPL
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (2020) NYPL
Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North by Katherine Keith (2019) audio
They Went Left by Monica Hesse (2020)
Heat Wave by Nancy Thayer (2011) A Nantucket Novel NYPL
The Lost Family: How DNA Is Upending Who We Are by Libby Copeland (2020)
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan (2015)
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas (May 2020) ARC
Beheld by TaraShea Nesbit (2020) NYPL
What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand (2019)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (1999)
44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel (2011) audio
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (2019)
Bleaker House by Nell Stevens (2017)
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen (2019) audio
Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight (2015)
Falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard (1999)
Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman (2019)
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict (Jan. 2020)
The Tenant by Katrine Engberg DAN (U.S. Pub. Jan. 2020)
Christmas Bells by Jennifer Chiaverini (2013) audio
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk POL (U.S. pub. 2019)

Books Read in 2019

Home Work: My Years in Hollywood by Julie Andrews (2019)
The Christmas Sisters by Sarah Morgan (2018)
Let it Snow by Nancy Thayer (2019)
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman (1964)
The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen (2019) ****1/2
Spirit of the Season by Fern Michaels (2019)
P is for Peril by Sue Grafton (2002)
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (2019)
Beauchamp Hall by Danielle Steel (2018) audio
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (2019) audio
Dreaming Darkly by Caitlin Kittredge (2018) YA
The Other Mrs. Miller by Allison Dickson (2019)
The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess (2019)
The Only Story by Julian Barnes (2018)
The Winter of the World (Vol. 2, The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett (2012)
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (first U.S. pub 1986)
A Vineyard Summer by Jean Stone (2019)
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble (2016) TBR
The Semester of Our Discontent by Cynthia Kuhn (2016) academic mystery
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (1826) BCC
The Royal Nanny by Karen Harper (2016)
Inheritance: Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro (2019) audio *****
Headmistress of Rosemere by Sally E. Ladd (2014)
Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George (1990) Lynley/Havers #3
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott (1874)
The Sapphire Widow by Dinah Jeffries (2018)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905) CC Spin-May, BCC
The Last by Hanna Jameson (2019)
Avalon by Anya Seton (1965)
Winterwood by Dorothy Eden (1967)
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym (1953)
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: A Memoir by Michael Caine (2018) audio
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (2010)
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya (1954) BCC, CC
The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth (1932) EuroC
Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2013)
The Stranger Diaries by Elli Griffiths (2019) *****
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1860) BCC, TBR *****
The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib (2019)
My Daughter, Nicola by Ruth M. Arthur (1965)
The London Train by Tessa Hadley (2011) TBR
The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson (2018)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart (2018) audio
Columbella by Phyllis Whitney (1966)
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (2019)
Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand (2018)
Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (186-) BCC, EuroC
A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carré (1968) TBR, EuroC
In Dog We Trust by Beth Kendrick (Jan 2019)
The Liar's Room by Simon Lelic (Jan 2019)
A Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear--Maisie Dobbs #4 (2007)
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (2018) audio
With You Always by Rena Olsen (2018)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (The 1818 edition) BCC, TBR
O is for Outcast by Sue Grafton (1999) TBR
The Years Between (A Play) by Daphne Du Maurier (1945) BCC

Books Read in 2018

Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas Mystery (1950) by Gladys Mitchell
In Search of Mary Shelley (bio) by Fiona Sampson (2018)
A Vineyard Christmas by Jean Stone (2018) ****1/2
Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony (2018) Retired it after 100 pages.
A Higher Loyalty by James Comey (2018) ****1/2 (audio)
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing up Bernstein by Jamie Bernstein (2018) audio
A Christmas Return by Anne Perry (2017) ****
Christmas on the Island by Jenny Colgan (2018) *****
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse (2011)
The Bestseller by Olivia Goldsmith (1996)
Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber (2018)
A Child in Time by Ian McEwan (1987)
The Body in the Birches by Katherine Hall Page (2015)
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George (1989)
Old in Art School: A Memoir by Nell Irvin Painter (2018) ***** audio
The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian (2018)
Unstoppable by Maria Sharapova (2017) audio
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena (2016)
Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich (2018) audio
An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena (2018)
The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine (2018)
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
Recovering: A Journal by May Sarton (1980)
Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life by Sally Bedell Smith (2017 audio)
Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman (2002)
Force of Nature by Jane Harper (2018)
Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978)
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs Series #3)
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (U.S. 1990)
Spindrift by Phyllis Whitney (1975)
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee (2017) audio
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (1989) audio by Irvin Yalom
How It All Began by Penelope Lively (2011) ****
Snow-Blind by Ragnar Jonasson
This House is Haunted by John Boyne (2011)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018) audio *****
Nevertheless by Alec Baldwin (2017) audio
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (1952)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (2017)
Stormbird by Conn Iggulden
Penny: The Story of a Free-Soul Bassett Hound by Hal Borland (1972)
Diana's Altar by Barbara Cleverly (2015)
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (2017) retired it at 50% read
Runaway by Peter May (2015)
The Body in the Casket by Katherine Hall Page (2017)
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (2018)
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (2018) *****
Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand (2017)

Books Read in 2017

Christmas at the Little Beach Bakery by Jenny Colgan (2017)
The Seven Days of Us by Frances Hornack (2017)
A Winter's Tale by Trisha Ashley (2008)
Matters of the Heart by Danielle Steel (audio) ****
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love (2017) audio
Weekend with Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly (2011)
Royal Christmas Princess by Scarlet Wilson (2015)
Death in the Air (Great London Smog) by Kate Dawson Winkler (2017)
American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin (2013)
Christmas in London by Anita Hughes (2017)
But Seriously by John McEnroe (2017)
Folly by Stella Cameron (2016)
Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (2016)
N is for Noose by Sue Grafton (1995)
The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve (2017)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961) Classics Club
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) Classics Club
The Ghost by Danielle Steel (audio) *****
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (2004)
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (1988)
A Misalliance by Anita Brookner (1986)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)
Devices and Desires by P.D. James (1989)
Caught in the Revolution--Petrograd 1917 by Helen Rappaport (2017)
The Forbidden Garden by Ellen Herrick (2017)
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski (trans. from German by Anthea Bell) 2015
The Widow's House by Carol Goodman (2017)
Born to Run: A Memoir by Bruce Springsteen (2016) audio
Chemistry by Wieke Wang (2017)
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Gene into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder (2017)
Uncovered by Leah Lax (audio)
Missing, Presumed by Sheila Steiner UK (2016)
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes (2016)
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (1977) CClub
In the Wake by Per Petterson (NO) U.S. Pub. 2006
The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon Appelfeld (IL) U.S. Pub. 2017
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport (2014)
Days without End by Sebastian Barry (U.S. pub. 2017)
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (2010)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (2016)
The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (2016)
Under the Influence by Joyce Maynard (2016)
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (2016)

Books Read in 2016

Victoria by Daisy Goodwin (2016)
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (2016)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817-1818) Classics Club
Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand (2016)
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (2000)
Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page
The Middle of Somewhere by Sonja Yoerg (2015)
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (2016) Read 100 pages and had to retire
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier (1938) CC
The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell (2016)
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1913) CC
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst (2011)
Kitchen Chinese by Ann Mah (2010)
Cold by John Smolens (2001) Upper Michigan Peninsula Fiction
When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman (1995) super-chunkster
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli (FRA) U.S. Pub. 2016
Paperweight by Meg Haston (2015) YA *****
The Rocks by Peter Nichols (2015)
They May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Schine (2016)
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975) Classics Club
One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2011)
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff (2007)
The Black Tower by P.D. James (1975)
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (2016)
Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand (2015)
Fiercombe Manor by Kate Riordan (2014)
Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart (1976)
The Lewis Man by Peter May, Vol. 2 of The Lewis Trilogy
L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton (1995)
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (2016)
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (1996, 2007)
Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand (2014)
The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb (2014)
Original Sin by P.D. James (1995) *****
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (2016)
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (2015)
Winds of Skilak by Bonnie Rose Ward (2013)
All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage (2016)
Girl at War by Sara Novic (2015)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (1963) Classics Club
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (2015)
A Free Life by Ha Jin (2008)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998)
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins (1879)
The Past by Tessa Hadley (2016)
Girl through Glass by Sari Nelson (2016)
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (2015)
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks (U.S. pub. 2016)
The Storm by Margriet de Moor (translated fr. Dutch) 2010
Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant by Dyan Cannon (2011)
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill (2015)
K is for Killer by Sue Grafton (1994)
Madonnas in Leningrad by Debra Dean (2006)
J is for Judgment by Sue Grafton (1993)

Books Read in 2015

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (2010)
The Mistletoe Inn by Nicholas Paul Evans (2015)
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (2013)
Reykjavik Nights by Arnaldur Indridason (U.S. pub. 2015)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1849) Classics Club
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp (1992)
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen (2007)
I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton (1992)
Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean up His House and His Act by Barry Yourgrav (2015)
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Classics Club)
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe (2011)
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2008)
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume (2015)
Second Life by S.J. Watson (2015)
In Wilderness by Diane Thomas (2015)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (1828)
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson (2014)
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (2003)
The Vacationers by Emma Straub (2014)
The House on the Cliff by Charlotte Williams (2013)
All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon (2014)
Forgotten Girls by Sara Blaedel (2014) Danish
The Amber Keeper by Freda Lightfoot (2014)
Black House by Peter May *****(1st book of the Lewis Trilogy)
Plague Land by S.D. Sykes (2015)
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (1975)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyle (2006) YA
A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper (2009) YA, supposedly
Love Life by Rob Lowe (2014) audio
The Siege Winter by Arianna Franklin and Norman (2015)
H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton (1991)
A Faraway Island by Annika Thor (SWE) Children's
A Troublesome Inheritance: Race, Genes, and Human History by Nicholas Wade (2014) audio
Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography by Fred Shruers (2014) audio
Groundswell by Katie Lee (2011)
You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2014)
G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton (1989)
E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton (1988)
D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton (1987)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (2015)
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

Books Read in 2014

The Children Act by Ian McEwan (2014)
The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin (2014)
Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan (2013)
Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas by Stephanie Barron (2014)
A New York Christmas by Anne Perry (2014)
In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen (2014)
Young Light by Ralf Rothmann GLM (UK pub 2010)
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014)
Fly Away Home by Christine Nöstlinger (U.S. pub. 1975) Austrian for GLM IV
An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell (U.S. pub. 2014)
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (1847)
The Secret Place by Tana French (2014)
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)
A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger *****(2014)
Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman (2013)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2012)
Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty by Diane Keaton (2013)
The Arsonist by Sue Miller (2014)
All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2006) Nero Wolfe and Gumshoe Awards 2007
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington (2014)
C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton (1986)
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian (2014)
Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore (2014)
Alena by Rachel Pastan (2014)
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch (NE) 2014
Fear by Gabriel Chevallier (FR-WWI)
Casebook by Mona Simpson (2014)
The Train to Warsaw by Gwen Edelman (2014)
Forever by Judy Blume (1975) YA
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo YA (2003)
Looking for Alaska by John Green YA (2005)
The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb (2013)
Only Brave Tomorrows by Winifred Bruce Luhrmann (1989) YA
The Lie by Helen Dunmore (U.S. pub 2014)
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (2006) debut
The Wind is Not a River by Brian Payton (2014)
To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (2005)
Motherland by Maria Hummel (2014)
Red Wolf by Liza Marklund
B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (1985)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1807-09)
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (2012)
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (2013)
The Bat by Jo Nesbo (1997 original pub. date)
Always Watching by Chevy Stevens (2013)

Books Read in 2013 (From January to November)

The Last Final Day by Carrie Brown (2013)
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker (2013)
A Final Reckoning by Susan Moody (2013)
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (1990)
The Traitor by Gudrun Pausewang (U.S. pub 2011)
Demian by Hermann Hesse (1919)
Mesmerized by Alissa Walser (UK pub. 2012)
Broken Harbor by Tana French (2012)
Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)
The Good House by Anne Leary (2013
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2012)
The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore (2012)
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano (2011)
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (2010) audio
Indiscretion by Charles Dubow (2013)
The Dinner by Herman Koch (U.S. pub. 2013)
Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton (2012) audio
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg (U.S. pub 2009)
The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Söderberg (U.S. pub. 2013)
A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee (2013)
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson (U.S. pub. 2013) had to bid adieu
Carole King: A Natural Woman by Carole King ((2012) audio
The Garner Files by James Garner (2011) audio
The Healer by Antti Toumainen (2013)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (1999)
Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter (U.S. pub 1970)
Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith (2012) audio
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1961)
Winter in Wartime by Jan Terlouw (U.S. pub. 1976)
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (2013)
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner ***** (1984)
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2005)
The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore***** (2012)
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison (2013)
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz (2013)
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (2013)
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (1982)
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams (2013)
Brenner and God by Wolf Haas (U.S. pub Melville House 2012)
The Winter Palace by Eve Stachniak (2011)
The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen (2013)
Anatomy of a Night by Anna Kim (U.S. pub 2013)
The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year by Michael Stein (2009)
Starry Night by Debbie Macomber (2013)

Books Read in 2012

Sisters by Rosamund Lupton (2011)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (1993)
Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi
The Story of a Life by Aahron Appelfeld
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse (1979--US)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012)
Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton (2012)
Expats by Chris Pavone (2012)
Wild by Cheryl Strayed (2012)
Desert Wives by Betty Webb (2002)
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff (1994)
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948)
Sunset Park by Paul Auster (2010)
War Diary by Ingeborg Bachmann (2011)
The Leopard by Jo Nesbo (2011 US)
Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006)
A Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2003)
Crutches by Peter Hartling (1987) German LC
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesy (2012)
An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer (2012)
The Obamas by Jodi Kantor (2012)

Books Read in 2011

Deadmistress by Carole Schmurack
Call Me Princess by Sara Blaedel (2011)
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson (2010)
War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century by Ben Shephard (2001)
Unseen: A Mystery by Mari Jungsvedt (2006--US)
Reading My Father by Alexandra Styron (2011)
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (2011--US)
Alice in Bed by Cathleen Schine (1983)
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (2011) (1949)
The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller (2011)
Drinking the Rain: A Memoir by Alix Kates Shulman (1995)
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (2011)
The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) (1988)
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck (2010)
Flambards by K.M. Peyton (1967)
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (2011)
Settlement by Christoph Hein (2008)
In My Brother's Shadow by Uwe Timm (2003)
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson (2011)
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass (2006)
Talking Detective Fiction by P.D. James (2006)
Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek (2006)
My Soul to Take: A Novel of Iceland by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (2009)
What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman (2010)
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese (1998)
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2003)
Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel (1999)
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (2010)
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink (2011)
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure (2011)
The Writing Circle by Corinne Demas (2010)
Cold Day for a Murder by Dana Stabenow (1991)
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson (2011)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James (1977)
The Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey (2011)
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Saenz YA (2009)
Reading Jackie by William Kuhn (2010) audio
Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
Russian Winter by Diane Kalotay (2010)
Life by Keith Richards (2010) audio
High on Arrival by MacKenzie Phillips (2009) audio
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (2009)
The Great Hurricane of 1938 by Cherie Burns (2005) audio
Great House by Nicole Krauss (2009)
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman (2010) dismissed
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink (2008)

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