I've always imagined that paradise will be a library.
I've been meaning to keep track of the books I read for a long time and this year I finally started a list of all the books I've read. I'll try to keep updating it periodically; I'm pretty curious to see how many books I read in a year.
1. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
2. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
3. The Gypsy Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
4. Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman
5. The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton
6. Wonderful Tonight - Pattie Boyd
7. Forever Princess - Meg Cabot
8. Mike's Election Guide 2008 - Michael Moore
9. Little Altars Everywhere - Rebecca Wells
10. Ya-Yas in Bloom - Rebecca Wells
11. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
12. The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
13. The Drowning Season - Alice Hoffman
14. At Risk - Alice Hoffman
15. Arabian Jazz - Diana Abu-Jaber
16. Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult
17. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
18. Blue Diary - Alice Hoffman
19. Sarah's Quilt - Nancy E. Turner
20. The Star Garden - Nancy E. Turner
21. My Booky Wook - Russell Brand
22. 3 Willows - Ann Brashares
23. Mercy - Jodi Picoult
24. Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
25. Here On Earth - Alice Hoffman
26. The River King - Alice Hoffman
27. Somebody to Love? - Grace Slick
28. Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan
29. Crescent - Diana Abu-Jaber
30. The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
31. The Tea Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
32. Illumination Night - Alice Hoffman
33. Come Back to Afghanistan - Said Hyder Akbar
34. The Other Side of War - Zainab Salbi
35. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
36. The Story Sisters - Alice Hoffman
37. Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things - Margaret Moser and Bill Crawford
38. Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
39. Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah
40. Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult
41. Best Friends Forever - Jennifer Weiner
42. Plum Spooky - Janet Evanovich
43. Almost Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
44. Intensely Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
45. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
46. Censoring an Iranian Love Story - Shahriar Mandanipour
47. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
48. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder - Rebecca Wells
49. Keeping the Moon - Sarah Dessen
50. Prairie Tale - Melissa Gilbert
51. Ten Things I Hate About Me - Randa Abdel-Fattah
52. Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara? The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books - Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy
53. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
54. Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
55. Angel Landing - Alice Hoffman
56. Bring Me That Horizon: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean - Michael Singer
57. Still Alice - Lisa Genova
58. Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
59. The Red Leather Diary - Lily Koppel
60. Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen
61. Local Girls - Alice Hoffman
62. Rapture of the Deep - L.A. Meyer
63. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
64. Finger Lickin' Fifteen - Janet Evanovich
65. The Survivors Club - Ben Sherwood
66. Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi
I know a lot of you, like me, are always looking for good book recommendations. So this year I thought I'd try a little something different and put an asterisk next to the books I highly recommend.
1. Second Glance - Jodi Picoult*
2. Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
3. Does My Head Look Big in This? - Randa Abdel-Fattah
4. The Probable Future - Alice Hoffman*
5. Going Bovine - Libba Bray
6. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
7. Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult
8. Red Glass - Laura Resau*
9. Nothing's Sacred - Lewis Black
10. If I Stay - Gayle Forman*
11. The Widow of the South - Robert Hicks
12. Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby*
13. Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen
14. Along For the Ride - Sarah Dessen*
15. America (The Book) - The Daily Show
16. Tell Me Lies - Patrick Cooper
17. The Wild Girls - Pat Murphy
18. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger*
19. South of Broad - Pat Conroy
20. White Horses - Alice Hoffman
21. Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella*
22. Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult
23. The Everafter - Amy Huntley
24. Open: An Autobiography - Andre Agassi
25. Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier*
26. Second Nature - Alice Hoffman
27. Me of Little Faith - Lewis Black
28. Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala
29. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi*
30. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
31. Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? - Louise Rennison
32. The Family - Ed Sanders
33. Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult
34. An Inconvenient Wife - Megan Chance*
35. Tales From the Madman Underground - John Barnes
36. Turtle Moon - Alice Hoffman
37. Chicken With Plums - Marjane Satrapi
38. Manson in His Own Words - As Told to Nuel Emmons
39. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
40. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult*
41. Paper Quake - Kathryn Reiss*
42. Towelhead - Alicia Erian
43. Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman
44. The Manson Women - Clara Livsey, M.D.
45. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett*
46. The Day the Falls Stood Still - Cathy Marie Buchanan*
47. The Mercy of Thin Air - Ronlyn Domingue*
48. Oh My Stars - Lorena Landvik*
49. Strength in What Remains - Tracy Kidder
50. Hippie - Barry Miles
51. Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner*
52. On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Kaye Gibbons
53. The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella*
54. Paint It Black - Janet Fitch
55. Fortune's Daughter - Alice Hoffman
56. The Ladies' Lending Library - Janice Kulyk Keefer
57. A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick*
58. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - Helen Fielding*
59. Summer Sisters - Judy Blume*
60. This Body - Laurel Doud*
61. The Wake of the Lorelei Lee - L.A. Meyer*
62. An A-Z of Franz Ferdinand - Helen Chase
63. True Colors - Kristin Hannah*
64. Between Sisters - Kristin Hannah*
65. Girls in Trouble - Caroline Leavitt
66. Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
67. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
68. Lipstick Jihad - Azadeh Moaveni
69. House Rules - Jodi Picoult*
70. Fly Away Home - Jennifer Weiner*
71. Aftershocks - William Lavender
72. Distant Shores - Kristin Hannah
73. My Name is Memory - Ann Brashares
74. Summer Island - Kristin Hannah
1. Earth (The Book) - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
2. Atonement - Ian McEwan
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See*
1. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
2. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
3. The Gypsy Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
4. Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman
5. The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton
6. Wonderful Tonight - Pattie Boyd
7. Forever Princess - Meg Cabot
8. Mike's Election Guide 2008 - Michael Moore
9. Little Altars Everywhere - Rebecca Wells
10. Ya-Yas in Bloom - Rebecca Wells
11. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
12. The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
13. The Drowning Season - Alice Hoffman
14. At Risk - Alice Hoffman
15. Arabian Jazz - Diana Abu-Jaber
16. Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult
17. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
18. Blue Diary - Alice Hoffman
19. Sarah's Quilt - Nancy E. Turner
20. The Star Garden - Nancy E. Turner
21. My Booky Wook - Russell Brand
22. 3 Willows - Ann Brashares
23. Mercy - Jodi Picoult
24. Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
25. Here On Earth - Alice Hoffman
26. The River King - Alice Hoffman
27. Somebody to Love? - Grace Slick
28. Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan
29. Crescent - Diana Abu-Jaber
30. The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
31. The Tea Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
32. Illumination Night - Alice Hoffman
33. Come Back to Afghanistan - Said Hyder Akbar
34. The Other Side of War - Zainab Salbi
35. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
36. The Story Sisters - Alice Hoffman
37. Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things - Margaret Moser and Bill Crawford
38. Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
39. Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah
40. Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult
41. Best Friends Forever - Jennifer Weiner
42. Plum Spooky - Janet Evanovich
43. Almost Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
44. Intensely Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
45. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
46. Censoring an Iranian Love Story - Shahriar Mandanipour
47. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
48. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder - Rebecca Wells
49. Keeping the Moon - Sarah Dessen
50. Prairie Tale - Melissa Gilbert
51. Ten Things I Hate About Me - Randa Abdel-Fattah
52. Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara? The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books - Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy
53. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
54. Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
55. Angel Landing - Alice Hoffman
56. Bring Me That Horizon: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean - Michael Singer
57. Still Alice - Lisa Genova
58. Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
59. The Red Leather Diary - Lily Koppel
60. Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen
61. Local Girls - Alice Hoffman
62. Rapture of the Deep - L.A. Meyer
63. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
64. Finger Lickin' Fifteen - Janet Evanovich
65. The Survivors Club - Ben Sherwood
66. Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi
I know a lot of you, like me, are always looking for good book recommendations. So this year I thought I'd try a little something different and put an asterisk next to the books I highly recommend.
1. Second Glance - Jodi Picoult*
2. Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
3. Does My Head Look Big in This? - Randa Abdel-Fattah
4. The Probable Future - Alice Hoffman*
5. Going Bovine - Libba Bray
6. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
7. Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult
8. Red Glass - Laura Resau*
9. Nothing's Sacred - Lewis Black
10. If I Stay - Gayle Forman*
11. The Widow of the South - Robert Hicks
12. Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby*
13. Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen
14. Along For the Ride - Sarah Dessen*
15. America (The Book) - The Daily Show
16. Tell Me Lies - Patrick Cooper
17. The Wild Girls - Pat Murphy
18. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger*
19. South of Broad - Pat Conroy
20. White Horses - Alice Hoffman
21. Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella*
22. Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult
23. The Everafter - Amy Huntley
24. Open: An Autobiography - Andre Agassi
25. Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier*
26. Second Nature - Alice Hoffman
27. Me of Little Faith - Lewis Black
28. Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala
29. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi*
30. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
31. Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? - Louise Rennison
32. The Family - Ed Sanders
33. Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult
34. An Inconvenient Wife - Megan Chance*
35. Tales From the Madman Underground - John Barnes
36. Turtle Moon - Alice Hoffman
37. Chicken With Plums - Marjane Satrapi
38. Manson in His Own Words - As Told to Nuel Emmons
39. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
40. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult*
41. Paper Quake - Kathryn Reiss*
42. Towelhead - Alicia Erian
43. Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman
44. The Manson Women - Clara Livsey, M.D.
45. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett*
46. The Day the Falls Stood Still - Cathy Marie Buchanan*
47. The Mercy of Thin Air - Ronlyn Domingue*
48. Oh My Stars - Lorena Landvik*
49. Strength in What Remains - Tracy Kidder
50. Hippie - Barry Miles
51. Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner*
52. On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Kaye Gibbons
53. The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella*
54. Paint It Black - Janet Fitch
55. Fortune's Daughter - Alice Hoffman
56. The Ladies' Lending Library - Janice Kulyk Keefer
57. A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick*
58. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - Helen Fielding*
59. Summer Sisters - Judy Blume*
60. This Body - Laurel Doud*
61. The Wake of the Lorelei Lee - L.A. Meyer*
62. An A-Z of Franz Ferdinand - Helen Chase
63. True Colors - Kristin Hannah*
64. Between Sisters - Kristin Hannah*
65. Girls in Trouble - Caroline Leavitt
66. Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
67. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
68. Lipstick Jihad - Azadeh Moaveni
69. House Rules - Jodi Picoult*
70. Fly Away Home - Jennifer Weiner*
71. Aftershocks - William Lavender
72. Distant Shores - Kristin Hannah
73. My Name is Memory - Ann Brashares
74. Summer Island - Kristin Hannah
1. Earth (The Book) - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
2. Atonement - Ian McEwan
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See*