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 +