An ongoing list of books I've borrowed from my local library.
2020
- Strange Practice (Vivian Shaw)
- The Flatshare (Beth O'Leary)
- A Man Called Ove (Fredrick Backman)
- Working Stiff (Judy Melinek and TJ Mitchell)
2019
- Wildwood Dancing (Juliet Marillier)
- The Financial Diet (Chelsea Fagan)
- Cybele's Secret (Juliet Marillier)
- Redshirts (John Scalzi)
- Faro’s Daughter (Georgette Heyer)
2018
- Trajectory (David L. Van Rooy)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows)
- Cover Him with Darkness (Janine Ashbless) - ebook too
- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
- How to Find Love in a Bookshop (Veronica Henry)
2017
- Work Rules! (Laszlo Bock)
- My Soul to Take (Rachel Vincent)
- Crocodile on the Sandbank (Elizabeth Peters)
- Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
- A Window Opens (Elisabeth Egan)
- The Curse of the Pharaohs (Elizabeth Peters) - ebook
- Akata Witch (Nnedi Okorafor) - ebook
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Marie Kondo)
- We Bought a Zoo (Benjamin Mee)
- Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
- Hex (Thomas Olde Heuvelt)
- Amy and Roger's Epic Detour (Morgan Matson)
- Lives in Ruins (Marilyn Johnson)
- The Cutting Season (Attica Locke)
- A Window Opens (Elisabeth Egan)
- Keturah and Lord Death (Martine Leavitt)
- The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)
- Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Roz Chast)
- You May Also Like (Tom Vanderbilt)
2016
- The Kingdom (Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood) - Audiobook
- All That Remains (Patricia Cornwell) - Audiobook
- Cruel and Unusual (Patricia Cornwell) - Audiobook
- Poseidon's Arrow (Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler) - Audiobook
- The Striker (Clive Cussler and Justin Scott) - Audiobook
- The Jungle (Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul) - Audiobook
- Sorrow's Knot (Erin Bow)
- Heroes Are My Weakness (Susan Elizabeth Phillips)
- The Iron Trial (Holly Black and Cassandra Clare) (ebook)
- The Carpet People (Terry Pratchett) (ebook)
- The Invention of Murder (Judith Flanders)
- The Convenient Marriage (Georgette Heyer) (ebook)
- The Golem and the Jinni (Helene Wecker)
- Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and Relationships (Kayt Sukel)
- The Hero and the Crown (Robin McKinley)
- Friday’s Child (Georgette Heyer) - ebook
- Seven Deadlies (Gigi Levangie)
- Croak (Gina Damico) - Overdrive ebook too
- Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters (Diane Jacobs)
- Landline (Rainbow Rowell)
- Lincoln's Battle with God (Stephen Mansfield)
- Mr. Darcy's Secret (Jane Odiwe)
- Gunn's Golden Rules (Tim Gunn) - ebook
- Mambo in Chinatown (Jean Kwok)
- American on Purpose (Craig Ferguson)
- Equal Rites (Terry Pratchett) - ebook
- The Ninja Librarians: The Accidental Keyhand (Jenn Swann Downey)
- The Winter People (Jennifer McMahon)
- The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (Kate Summerscale)
- Half the Sky (Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn) - ebook
- Meet the Austins (Madeline L'Engle) - ebook
- Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Studs Terkel)
- Alias Hook (Lisa Jensen)
- Girl in Reverse (Barbara Stuber)
- Dust and Shadow (Lyndsay Faye)
- The Art of Civilized Conversation (Margaret Shepherd)
- These Old Shades (Georgette Heyer) - ebook
- Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Avi Steinberg) - ebook
- This House is Haunted (John Boyne)
- The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age (Myra MacPherson)
2015
- The Rabbi's Cat (Joann Sfar)
- Dragon Bound (Thea Harrison)
- One Good Knight (Mercedes Lackey)
- Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? (Henry Alford)
- The Intern's Handbook: A Thriller (Shane Kuhn)
- The Undertaking of Lily Chen (Danica Novgorodoff)
- The House on Tradd Street (Karen White)
- How to be a Woman (Caitlin Moran)
- No Biking in the House without a Helmet (Melissa Fay Greene)
- The Clockwork Scarab (Colleen Gleason)
- Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink (Stephanie Kate Strohm)
- The Caged Graves (Diane K. Salerni)
- The Dragon's Tooth (N.D. Wilson)
- Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household (Kate Hubbard)
- The Night Gardener (Jonathan Auxier)
- Unspoken (Sarah Rees Brennan)
- Hild (Nicola Griffith)
- Time Riders (Alex Scarrow)
- The Poisoner’s Handbook (Deborah Blum)
- Rebel Belle (Rachel Hawkins) - audiobook
- The Butler: A Witness to History (Wil Haygood) - audiobook
- The Winter Witch (Paula Brackston)
- Roosevelt's Beast (Louis Bayard) - Audiobook too (inter-library)
- Deception's Princess (Esther M. Friesner)
- Northanger Abbey (Val McDermid)
- Virgin (Radhika Sanghani)
- Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (John H. McWhorter)
- The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England (Ian Mortimer)
- Edenbrooke (Julianne Donaldson)
- Life After Life (Jill McCorkle) - Audiobook
- The Diviners (Libba Bray) - Audiobook
- Bedlam Detective (Stephen Gallagher
- Polar Shift (Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
- Lizzy and Jane (Katherine Reay)
- The Diviners (Libba Bray) - Audiobook
- Learning to Walk in the Dark (Barbara Brown Taylor) - Audiobook
- Smile at Strangers: And Other Lessons in the Art of Living Fearlessly (Susan Schorn)
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (Jenny Lawson) - Audiobook
- A Renegade History of the United States (Thaddeus Russell) - Audiobook
- My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag (Jolie Kerr)
- Never Better: Stories from Lake Wobegon (Garrison Keillor) - Audiobook
- Zero Hour (Clive Cussler and Graham Brown) - Audiobook
- One Summer: America, 1927 (Bill Bryson) - Audiobook
- A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home (Sue Halpern)
- Spartan Gold (Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood) - Audiobook
- Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie) - Audiobook
- Hiss of Death (Rita Mae Brown) - Audiobook
2014
- Born to Kvetch (Michael Wex)
- Huntress (Malinda Lo)
- Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire (Eric Berkowitz)
- Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes (Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson)
- Eyes Like Stars (Lisa Mantchev)
- Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality (Jacob Tomsky)
- The Color Master (Aimee Bender)
- The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (Faramerz Dabhoiwala)
- Cotillion (Georgette Heyer)
- Unbreakable (Kami Garcia)
- Throne of the Crescent Moon (Saladin Ahmed)
2013
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
- The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Sarah Addison Allen)
- Born on a Blue Day (Daniel Tammet)
- Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York (Richard Zacks)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
- The Future of Us (Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler)
- Eon (Alison Goodman)
- The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
- The Silent Governess (Julie Klassen)
- The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
- The Girl is Murder (Kathryn Miller Haines)
- A Tale of Two Castles (Gail Carson Levine)
- Long Lankin (Lindsey Barraclough)
- Eona (Alison Goodman)
- In a Sunburned Country (Bill Bryson)
- Books: A Living History (Martyn Lyons)
- The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
- Baking Cakes in Kigali (Gaile Parkin)
- What Alice Forgot (Liane Moriarty)
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts (Susan Cain)
- The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (Dan Millman)
- Scars (Cheryl Rainfield)
- The Name of the Star (Maureen Johnson)
- The Devil's Teeth (Susan Casey) - Audiobook
- The Relic (Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child)
- The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (Christoper Healy)
- The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (Stephen L. Carter)
- Garden Spells (Sarah Addison Allen)
- Reliquary (Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child) - Audiobook
- The Humming Room (Ellen Potter)
- Nine Coaches Waiting (Mary Stewart)
- Cabinet of Curiosities (Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child)
- Fangirl (Rainbow Rowell)
- The Girls of Atomic City (Denise Kiernan)
- The Engagements (J. Courtney Sullivan)
- The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
- This Book is Overdue! (Marilyn Johnson)
- Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection (A.J. Jacobs)
2012
- Right Ho, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
- The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
- The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
- Eldest (Christopher Paolini)
- Brisingr (Christopher Paolini)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
- The Serpent's Tale (Ariana Franklin)
- Grave Goods (Ariana Franklin)
- A Murderous Procession (Ariana Franklin)
- Inheritance (Christopher Paolini)
- The Reading Promise (Alice Ozma)
- Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
- The Princess Curse (Merrie Haskell)
- The Seer and the Sword (Victoria Hanley)
- The Sugar Queen (Sarah Addison Allen)
- Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)
- Scarlet (A.C. Gaughen)
- Snowflower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
- Year of Wonders (Geraldine Brooks)
- Anya's Ghost (Vera Brosgol)
- Grave Mercy (Robin LaFevers)
- The Year of Living Biblically (A.J. Jacobs)
- Seraphina (Rachel Hartman)
- A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness)
- The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- The Arrival (Shaun Tan)
- Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Laini Taylor)
- Beauty (Robin McKinley)
- A Jane Austen Education (William Deresiewicz)
- The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Marriage Confidential (Pamela Haag)
- The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Katherine Howe)
2011
- My Name is Memory (Ann Brashares)
- Shiver (Maggie Stiefvater)
- Beastly (Alex Flinn)
- Nightshade (Andrea Cremer) - audiobook
- Ash (Malinda Lo)
- Silver Phoenix (Cindy Pon)
- Picture the Dead (Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown)
- The Good Neighbors, Book One: Kin (Holly Black)
- The Good Neighbors, Book Two: Kith (Holly Black)
- Getting the Girl (Markus Zusak)
- Shadowed Summer (Saundra Mitchell)
- Day for Night (Frederick Reiken)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (Loren D. Estleman)
- Beautiful Creatures (Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl)
- Midnight Pearls (Debbie Viguie)
- Big Red Tequila (Rick Riordan)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
- The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
- The Last King of Texas (Rick Riordan)
- Beautiful Darkness (Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl)
- Gods Behaving Badly (Marie Phillips)
- The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time (Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson)
- Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West (Dorothy Wickenden)
- I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage (Mary-Ann Kirby)
- As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece (Joan Reardon)
- The Happiness Project (Gretchen Rubin)1.
- Naked Heat (Richard Castle)
2010
- What the Dog Saw (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Graceling (Kristin Cashore)
- Fire (Kristin Cashore)
- Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
- The Boxcar Children series (Gertrude Chandler Warner)
- Forever (Judy Blume)
dec 15 2010 ∞
nov 7 2020 +