Read 100+ Books

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I am not sure if I can beat my 2010 totals, as it was an exceptional reading year for me, but I hope to reach 200+ books in 2011.




Books Read:

January
13, rue Therese by Elena Mauli Shapiro
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen
Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (audio)
Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn
Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
Indulgence in Death by JD Robb
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
Possession in Death by JD Robb (audio)
Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKean
The Shadowed Mind by Julie Cave
The Topkapi Secret by Terry Kelhawk
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
The Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent
Think of a Number by John Verdon
Tick Tock by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
Virals by Kathy Reichs
Wired by Robin Wasserman (audio)

February
A Billion Reasons Why by Kristin Billerbeck
Change of Heart by Shari Maurer
Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress
His Other Wife by Deborah Bedford
In the Shadow of Evil by Robin Caroll
Infamous by Suzanne Brockman (audio) DNR
Miss Hildreth Wore Brown by Olivia deBelle Byrd
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Sapphique by Catherine Fisher
The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
The Confession by John Grisham
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
The Fall of Giants by Ken Follet (print and audio)
The Landlord’s Black-Eyed Daughter by Mary Ellen Dennis
The Liberation of Alice Love by Abby McDonald
The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig, series, Paris (print and audio)
The Quickening by Michelle Hoover
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner, DNF
The Snowflake by Jamie Carie
The Valcourt Heiress by Catherine Coulter
Worth Dying For by Lee Child

March
A Race to Splendor by Ciji Ware
Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart
Fall For Anything by Courtney Summers
Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
Friendship Bread by Darien Gee
Gideon’s Sword by Preston & Childs
Her Daughter’s Dream by Francine Rivers
I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend by Cora Harrison
In the Heart of the Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Lifted by Wendy Toliver
Marrying Daisy Bellamy by Susan Wiggs
Started Early, Took the Dog by Kate Atkinson
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Such A Pretty Face by Cathy Lamb
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
The Corpse at St. Andrew’s Chapel by Mel Starr
The Irish Princess by Karen Harper
The Long Road Home by Mary Alice Monroe, Vermont
The Properties of Water by Hannah Robert McKinnon
The Queen of New Beginnings by Erica James
The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells
The Sweetness of Salt by Cecilia Galante
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland, DNF

April
Afraid of the Dark by James Grippando
Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum
Anna and the French Kiss by Anna Perkins
Awaken the Highland Warrior by Anita Clenney
Breaking All The Rules by Suzanne Brockman
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Fallen by Lauren Kate (audio)
Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler
In Too Deep by Jayne Ann Krentz
Mine is the Night by Liz Curtis Higgs
Not That Kind of Girl by Siobhan Vivian
Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt
Skipping A Beat by Sarah Pekkanen
So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
Tapestry of Dreams by Roberta Gellis
The Last Good Place of Lily Odilon by Sara Beitia
The Lost Saint by Bree Despain
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
Tonight, I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta (audio)
Toys by James Patterson and Neil McMahon (audio)
Undercover by Beth Kephart

May
A Heart Most Worthy by Siri Mitchell
Beat the Band by Don Calame
Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Cleaning Nabokov’s House by Leslie Daniels
Darkfever by Karen Moning (audio)
I Love My Mother But, by Linda Mintle (NF)
If Wishes Were Horses by Robert Barclay
In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
Love You More by Lisa Gardner
Matched by Ally Condie
Mothers & Daughters by Rae Meadows
Queen of the Summer Stars by Persia Woosley
Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
Soldier by Grace Burrows
Sorta Like A Rock Star by Matthew Quick
The Big Crunch by Peter Hautman
The Complaints by Ian Rankin
The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
The Fine Art of Insincerity by Angela Hunt
The Girl in the Gatehouse by Julie Klassen
The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards (audio)
The Lightkeeper’s Ball by Colleen Coble
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
The Radleys by Matt Haig
These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf (audio)
Treachery in Death by JD Robb,
Vlad, The Last Confession by C.C. Humphries
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Wish You Were Here by Phillipa Ashley

June
Altar of Bones by Philip Carter
An Unlikely Suitor by Nancy Moser
Bent Road by Lori Roy
Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning (audio)
Cover Me by Catherine Mann
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Kohn and David Levithan
Eve by Iris Johansen
Forever by Judy Blume DNR
Indelible by Kristen Heitzlman
Live Wire by Harlan Coban Bolitar
Madam Tussad by Michele Moran
Moon Over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool
Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
Quicksliver by Amanda Quick
Small Acts of Kindness by Gloria Whelen
Smokin’ Seventeen, Janet Evanovich
Songs of Love and  Death – anthology edited by George RR Martin
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris, Humorous (audio)
The Beach Trees by Karen White
The Bedtime Book for Dogs by Bruce Littlefield
The Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamieson
The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
Things We Didn’t Say by Kristina Riggle
Though Waters Roar by Lynn Austin
Three Seconds by Roslund & Hellstrom (audio)

July
A Song for my Mother by Kat Martin
Anne Frank by Jacobson and Colon
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson (audio)
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Deadly Sins by Kylie Brant
Exposure by Theresa Fowler
Faith by Jennifer Haig
House of Daughters by Sarah-Kate Lynch
How to Bake a Perfect Life by Barbara O’Neal
Making Waves by Tawna Fenski
Midnight on Julia Street by CJ Ware
Now You See Her by Joy Fielding (audio)
Now You See Here by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
River’s Song by Melody Carlson
Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein (audio)
The Greatest Love on Earth by Mary Ellen Dennis
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Linen Queen by Patricia Falvey
The Midwife’s Confession by Diane Chamberlain
The Priest’s Graveyard by Ted Dekker (audio)
The Ridge by Michael Koryta
The Terror of Living by Urban Waite
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar

August
Anne Frank, Her life in words and pictures
DreamFever by Karen Marie Moning (audio)
Escape by Barbara Delinsky
Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Lynn Rigaud
Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Lancaster County Christmas by Susan Woods
Prophecy by SJ Parris, (audio)
Quinn by Iris Johansen
Ransome’s Quest by Kaye Dacus
Restless in Carolina by Tamara Leigh
Summer in the South by Cathy Holton
Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
Summer’s Crossing by Julie Kagawa
Tears of Gold by Laurie McBain
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
The Brotherhood by Jerry B. Jenkins
The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn
The Gap Year by Sarah Bird, Penn
The Girl Who Disappeared Twice by Andrea Kane
The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa
The Moment by Douglas Kennedy
The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta
Thick as Thieves by Peter Spiegelman
To The Moon and Back by Jill Mansell
When Passion Rules by Johanna Lindsey
Winter’s Passage by Julie Kagawa
Withered by Lauren DeStefano

September
A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray, DNF
Devious by Lisa Jackson (audio)
Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer
If You Ask Me by Betty White
Livvie’s Song by Sharlene MacLaren
Merciless by Diana Palmer
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Pirate of My Heart by Jamie Carie
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (audio)
The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin (audio)
The Betrayal by Jerry B Jenkins
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
The Ideal Man by Julie Garwood
The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman (audio)
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearlsey
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
The White Devil by Justin Evans
Theodore Boone The Abduction, John Grisham,
Utterly Charming by Kristin Grayson
Watch Me Die by Erica Spindler
White Heat by MJ McGrath

October
A Bride for Tom by Ruth Ann Nordin
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving DNF
Baby It’s Cold Outside by Susan May Warren
Chaos In Death by JD Robb (audio)
Dracula by Bram Stoker DNF
Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
Jane by April Lindner
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson
Letting Go of Worry by Linda Mintle
Love on the Line by Deanna Gist
Plugged by Eoin Coffer
Prince of Ravenscar by Catherine Coulter
Red Glove by Holly Black
Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
Shut Your Eyes Tight by John Verdon
The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen
The Blood Lie by Shirley Vernick
The Kings Speech by Mark Logue
The Wild Rose by Jennifer Connelly

November
A Husband For Margaret by Ruth Ann Nordin
A Lasting Impression by Tamara Alexander
Bonnie by Iris Johansen
Darkness, My Old Friend by Lisa Unger (audio)
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Guinevere, the Legend in Autumn by Persia Woolley
Headhunters by Jo Nesbo
Hot Zone by Catherine Mann
Lethal by Sandra Brown
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (audio)
Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
The Bronze Horseman by Paulina Simmons
The Cut by George Pelecanos
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
The Iron Knight by Julia Kawaga
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Alder-Olsen
The Thief by Meghan Whalen
The Virtuoso by Grace Burrows
When She Awoke by Hilary Jordan
Wild Thing by Robin Kaye
You’re Next by Greg Hurwitz (audio)

December
10th Anniversary by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington
Back of Beyond by CJ Box (audio)
Between Here and Forever by Elizabeth Scott
Christmas Wedding by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo (audio)
Creed’s Honor by Linda Lael Miller, (audio)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Down the Darkest Road by Tami Hoag
Fade to Blue by Julie Carobini
Irish Lady by Jeannette Baker
Iron House by John Hart (audio)
Joy for Beginners, by Erica Bauermeister
Justice by Karen Robards
Liesl and Po by Lauren Oliver
Long Drive Home by Will Allison
My Big Mouth: 10 Songs I Wrote That Almost Got Me Killed by Peter Hannan
Need You Now by James Grippando
New York to Dallas by JD Robb
Pieces of Light by Julie Cave
Shelter by Harlan Coben
Silver Girl by Erin Hilderbrand
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, (audio)
The Glass Case by Kristin Hannah
The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
The Secret Mistress by Mary Balough
The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White
There Are Things I Want You To Know About Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabriellson
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo