Books: A Year in Review
I realized last night, as I looked over my list of books read this year, that apparently I got behind writing about them (that was in February) and I never started again. Whoops!I vow to do better next year. As for now, here is the complete list, for anyone who cares. If you want to know about a particular book, let me know and I’ll post about it. 🙂
My goal for the year was 50 books and I managed 55 (56 if you count that I read one twice). The year’s not over yet, so I may add to this list in the next couple of days.
Some stats:
44 were fiction, 11 Non- Fiction. That’s 12 non-fiction less than last year.
14 were re-reads.
11 were bought in hardcover or paperback. 14 were from the library. 5 were free on the Haunted Kindle. 11 were bought on the Haunted Kindle. 12 were books I already had or were given as gifts. So 22 were paid for, and 33 were free. That’s pretty dang good!
So here they are, with my favorite new reads in bold. (Assume that if it’s a reread I love it.Or had to read it for book club. 🙂 ) :
The House of Lost Souls- F.G. Cottam
Simplicity Parenting – Kim John Payne with Lisa M. Ross
Ilorich- Steven Brust
Persuasion- Jane Austen
The girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
The Wild Things- David Eggers
Steady Days – Jamie C. Martin
#1 Ladies Detective Agency- Alexander McCall Smith (reread for book club)
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
The Humbling- Phillip Roth
Exterminate all the Brutes- Sven Lindqvist
Horns- Joe Hill
Screwtape letters – CS Lewis
Writing Motherhood – Lisa Garrigues
We Never Talk about My Brother – Peter S. Beagle
The Remarkable Soul of Women – Dieter Uchtdorf (reread)
Calm and Compassionate Children – Susan Usha Dermond
Nineteen Seventy-Four – David Peace
Where the God of Love Hangs out- Amy Bloom
Hotel Iris- Yoko Ogawa
Normal People Don’t Live Like This- Dylan Landis
Changeless- Gail Carriger
Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life- by Margaret Kim Peterson
Kneadlessly Simple –Nancy Baggett
Old Testament (reread)
What the world will look like when all the water leaves us – Laura van ven Berg
Hamlet – Shakespeare (reread)
Trinidad Noir – many
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky – Chris Greenhalgh
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L.Frank Baum (reread)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle – Hugh Lofting 7-12-10  (twice)
Becoming Jane Eyre – Sheila Kohler
Treasure of the Golden Cheetah – Suzanne Arruda
Two Gentlemen of Verona- Shakespeare (reread)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl (reread)
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator- Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach- Roald Dahl (reread)
A Girl of the Limberlost- Gene Stratton-Porter
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer – Jonathan L.Howard
Bamberts Book of Missing Stories by Reinhardt Jung
The Witches – Roald Dahl (reread)
Johannes Cabal, Detective by Jonathan L. Howard
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (reread)
A Novel Bookstore – Laurence Cosse
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Growing Grateful Kids – Susie Larson
The Homecoming Party – Carmine Abate
Wigs on the Green- Nancy Mitford
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
Book of Mormon (reread)
The New Testament (reread)
Doctrine and Covenants (reread)
Machine of Death: A collection of stories about people who know how they will die -many
The Crocodile’s Last Embrace- Suzanne Arruda