2011

98 books read so far
5 audio courses

The number in parenthesis is the rating given to the book. I use the GoodReads system.
1 - didn't like it
2 - it was ok
3 - liked it
4 - really liked it
5 - it was amazing

January

1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (5)
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (4)
3. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (4)
4. The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work Ed by Marie Arana (4)
5. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (5)
6. Never Let Me Go (3)
7. The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi Burrow (4)
8. the book shop by Penelope Fitzgerald (2)
9. A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle (4)

February

1. A Reading Diary by Alberto Manguel (4)
2. Leave My Alone, I'm Reading by Maureen Corrigan (3)
3. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen (4)
4. Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing by David Morrell (4)
5. The Diary of Anais Nin Vol. I Edited by Gunther Stuhlmann (4)
6. Faithful Place by Tana French (3)
7. Emma by Jane Austen (4)
8. How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen (4)
9. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis (4)
10. Booked To Die By John Dunning (3)
11. Audiocourse: The Art of Reading (5) by Professor Timothy Spurgeon

March

1. The Book That Changed My Life edited by Roxanne Coady (3)
2. The Well Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer (4)
3. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (3)
4. The Hearing by John Lescroart (3)
5. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (4)
6. The Lost Years of Merlin (#1) by T.A Barron (3)
7. The Seven Songs of Merlin (#2) by T.A. Barron (3)
8. Villette by Charlotte Bronte (4)

April

1. So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson (3)
2. The Fires of Merlin (#3) by T.A. Barron (3)
3. A Passion for Books ed by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan (3)
4. The Mirror of Merlin (#4) by T.A. Barron (3)
5. The Wings of Merlin (#5) by T.A. Barron (3)
6. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella (4)
7. The Hours by Michael Cunningham (5)
8. Painting Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis (4)
9. Writing About Your Life by William Zinsser (4)

May

1. Cocktails for Three by Madeline Wickham (3)
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (2)
3. Audiocourse: Classics of British Literature (5)
4. On Suicide: Great Writers on The Ultimate Question ed by John Miller (4)
5. A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates (4)
6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (3)
7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (4)
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (5)

June

1. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (3)
2. The Catcher In the Rye by J. D. Salinger (5)
3. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (3)
4. How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler (3)
5. The Memoir Club by Laura Kalpakian (2)
6. Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child (3)
7. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (5)

July

1. Mentor: A Memoir by Tom Grimes (3)
2. Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction ed by Will Blythe (3)
3. Making A Literary Life by Carolyn See (2)
4. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (5)
5. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (2)
6. Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire series #1) by George R.R. Martin (4)
7. Clash of Kings (#2) by George R.R. Martin (4)
8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (5)

August

1. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo (3)
2. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (Kurt Wallender #1) (4)
3. The Suicide Club by Gayle Wilson (2)
4. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (3)
5. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett (3)
6. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron (5)
7. A Storm of Swords (#3) by George R.R. Martin (4)
8. The Dogs of Riga (#2) by Henning Mankell (2)

September - see this post 

1. Reading My Father: A Memoir by Alexandra Styron (5)
2. My Reading Life by Pat Conroy (4)
3. History of a Suicide by Jill Bialosky (4)
4. My Life in France by Julia Child (4)
5. The Soul of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman (3)
6. Audiocourse: Foundations of Western Civilization II by Prof. Robert Bucholz (5)
7. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett (4)
8. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (4)

October - see this post 

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (4)
2. The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella (3)
3. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (5)
4. their eyes were watching god by Zora Neale Hurston (5)
5. The Writing Circle by Corinne Demas (2)
6. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (4)
7. Jane Austen by Carol Shields (3)
8. His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina by Danielle Steel (3)

November  - see this post

1. The Art of Fiction by John Gardner (3)
2. Blue Nights by Joan Didion (3)
3. My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid (3)
4. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (3)
5. Anne of Green Gables (#1) by L.M. Montgomery (5)
6. Persuasion by Jane Austen (5)
7. Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange (4)
8. Audiocourse: The English Novel by Professor Timothy Spurgin (5)

December  - see this post

1. Anne of Avonlea (#2) by L. M. Montgomery (4)
2. Anne of the Island (#3) by L. M. Montgomery (4)
3. Possession by A.S. Byatt (5)
4. Anne's House of Dreams (#5) by L.M. Montgomery (4)
5. Anne of Windy Poplars (#4) by L.M. Montgomery (4)
6. The Shack by Wm. Paul Young (3)
7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (4)
8. Audiocourse: Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies by Professor Harold Bloom (3)
9. Day After Night by Anita Diamant (2)
10. Anne of Ingleside (#6) by L.M. Montgomery (3)
11. Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl (5)