Author: Dave Eggers
Steve Jobs ****
Author: Walter Isaacson
The Emperor of All Maladies *****
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Time Traveler’s Wife ****
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
No Impact Man ****
Author: Colin Beavan
The Son of Man ****
Author: Charles W. Johnson
The Help ****
Author: Kathryn Stockett
2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake ***
Authors: William Gibson, Yoko Ono, Barry Eisler, Jake Adelstein, & The quakebook community
Palm Trees on the Hudson: ***
A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating
Author: Elliot Tiber
Jerome and the Seraph (Quantum Cat) **
Author: Robina Williams
Admit One: My Life in Film ***
Author: Emmett James
The Man Who Would Be King ***
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Soul Identity ****
Author: Dennis Batchelder
The Bookseller of Kabul ***
Author: Asne Seierstad & Ingrid Christophersen
To the Is-Land ****
Author: Janet Frame
An Angel at My Table ****
Author: Janet Frame
The Envoy from Mirror City ***
Author: Janet Frame
Writing Life Stories ****
Author: Bill Roorbach
Rainbows End *****
Author: Vernor Vinge
Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy ***
Author: Thomas Beatie
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping ****
Author: Judith Levine
Author: Laura L. Gould
Bel Canto ****
Author: Ann Patchett
Not Wanted on the Voyage ****
Author: Timothy Findley
Wake Up, I'm Fat! ***
Author: Camryn Manheim
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame ***
Author: Michael King
Raleigh's Lost Colony ****
Author: David N. Durant
An American Childhood *****
Author: Annie Dillard
Pleasure: new poems ****
Author: Gary Young
No Other Life ****
Author: Gary Young
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan *****
Author: Lisa See
Porter Gulch Review 2011 ****
Authors: Many
The Funniest Cop Stories Ever **
Authors: Tom Philbin, & Scott Baker
Pompeii: City on Fire **
Author: T.L. Higley
Memoirs of a Snowflake *
Author: Joe Vasicek
The Big 5-OH! *
Author: Sandra D. Bricker
Coffin Humor: A Short Story *
Author: John Brinling
Hilda - Snow White Revisited *
Author: Paul Kater
Antiques Roadkill: A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery **
Author: Barbara Allan
Fat, Forty, Fired **
Author: Nigel Marsh
The Apothecary's Daughter ***
Author: Julie Klassen
Boneshaker **
Author: Cherie Priest
Note:
I don't keep an ongoing list of my reading material. Perhaps I should in the future. I had to go through my list of purchases of hard copy books from Half.com and Amazon to jog my memory. After this, I perused my bookshelves and found a few more. Even though I have about 451 books in my Kindle. It was easy to compile.
It surprises me that I read all those. I have some others, too, which I started then set down somewhere forgetting about them. I didn't put them in the list.
I also read lots of books. The library is usually my source, but I have read at least 1 or 2 books a week. I am reading mysteries mostly now...total escape stuff, but I love the escape.
ReplyDeleteGood list and I really admire your reading the non-fiction books!
Thank you, Ciss. I used to be a heavy fiction reader. But, now I have to be convinced to read non-fiction. I think my brain reversed polarity or something! You might find Soul Identity to be a good read if you like Mysteries. I found the whole concept fascinating, and I know there are more stories by that author which include the main investigator character. I've got my eye open for the same author this year.
ReplyDeleteGreat list - and what an accomplishment! I am working hard at reading more this year - one of my goals for 2012. Your post has inspired me even more! Thanks! : )
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jen. Having the Kindle helped me considerably. I read faster on it, and can take it anywhere with me. Still attached to hard copy books, too. But, looking through the tunnel of my future, I see more Kindle reading, especially since I get so many ebooks for free.
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