- Dearie, The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- The Lives of Rachel by Joel Gross
In 2011, I read 47 books.
In 2010, I read 39 books.
In 2009, I read 22 books.
I use Goodreads to keep track of my reading, my books, and the books I plan to read. You can check out my personal bookshelf here.
Below is a simple list of the books Grams has read recently in the order I read them. You may also be interested in my book club's blog, The Book Snobs.
What I've read this year, 2012
- Killing Kennedy, The End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Jefferson Allegiance by Bob Mayer
- Our Husband by Stepahnie Bond
- The Girl in the Italian Bakery by Kenneth Tingle
- The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Sarah of the Moon by Randy Mixter
- The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
- 1105 Yakima Street by Debbie Macomber
- The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
- Don't Le Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
- Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James
- Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson
- Heartbroken by Lisa Unger
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- Amelia's Last Secret by Eric Wilson
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
- Just Like You, Only Prettier by Celia Rivenbark
- Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West
- The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson
- A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
- Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz
- Come to the Edge by Christina Haag
- The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Hotel by Arthur Hailey
- The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
- The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
- Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King
- The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
- Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
- Hippie Boy, A Girl's Story by Ingrid Ricks
- Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
- Best Kept Secret by Amy Hatvany
- 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
- Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
- Twas the Night by Sandra Hill, Kate Holmes, & Trish Jensen
- America, America by Ethan Canin
- So This is Christmas by Beverly Barton, Sherryl Woods, & Leanne Banks
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Night Road by Kristin Hannah
- The Lantern by Debrah Lawrenson
- The Father's Child by Mark Adair.
- Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
- Cybill Disobedience by Cybill Shepherd
- Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya-Gowda
- Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
- True Colors by Kristin Hannah
- Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi
- Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
- Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble
- World Without End by Ken Follett
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Life's a Beach by Claire Cook
- The Best Staged Plans by Claire Cook
- Stingray Bit My Nipple: True Stories from Real Travelers by Erik Torkells
- A Short Walk On A Cold Night With A Dead Friend by Jim Haffner
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Bubba and the Dead Woman by C. L. Bevill
- Little Bee by Chris Cleave
- The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen
- Royal Wisdom by Kate Petrella
- House Rules by Jodi Picoult
- 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
- The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
- The Someone Who by Katie Gates
- The Potluck Club by Eva Marie Everson and Linda E. Shepherd
- Confessions of a Southern Fried Yankee by J. C. Dante
- The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morten
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
- The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen
- Sunrise by Jacquelyn Cook
- The Traitor's Wife by Susan Higginbotham
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- Einstein's Shutter by Vincent Yanez
- Raven's Revenge by Gina Black
- Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham
- Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe edited by Sonny Brewer featuring stories from 30 of the finest southern authors
- Slightly Settled by Wendy Markham
- Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
- Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews.
- Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson
- The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory
- The Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Children's Hour by Marcia Willett
- Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra
- The Shipping News by Annie L. Proulx
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
- Three Junes by Julia Glass
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak
- Idyll Banter by Christ Bohjalian
- Super Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
- In A Class By Itself by Sandra Brown
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Ya-Yas In Bloom by Rebecca Wells
- Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
- Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah
- Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
- The Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
- Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
- The Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
- Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
