Books

I love to read. I’ve also started listening to more audiobooks – they’re perfect for long car trips or when I’m knitting.

Here I’ll list books I have read. Here’s my library on Library Thing. And here’s my “Read” shelf on Goodreads.

Off the List:

August 2009

• Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris

July 2009

• What We Eat When We Eat Alone – Deborah Madison
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane – Katherine Howe
• The Sweet Life in Paris – David Lebovitz
• The Strain – Guillermo Del Toro
• Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
• Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
• Dead Witch Walking – Kim Harrison

June 2009

• Under the table : saucy tales from culinary school – Katherine Darling
• Spiced : a pastry chef’s true stories of trials by fire, after-hours exploits, and what really goes on in the kitchen – Dalia Jurgensen
• Shop Class as Soulcraft – Matthew B. Crawford
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• Replay – Ken Grimwood

May 2009

• The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America – Michael Ruhlman
• A Homemade Life – Molly Wizenberg
• The Monsters of Templeton – Lauren Groff
• Milk – Anne Mendelson
• Made for each other: the biology of the human-animal bond – Meg Daley Olmert
• Duplicate Keys – Jane Smiley
• The Song Is You – Arthur Phillips

April 2009

• The Good Beer Guide to New England – Andy Crouch
• Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes – Mark Bittman
• It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita – Heather Armstrong
• This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century – David Bowman
• The Birthday Present – Barbara Vine

March 2009

• The Women – T.C. Boyle
• The Ghost Writer – John Harwood

February 2009

• The Abstinence Teacher – Tom Perrotta
• The Senator’s Wife – Sue Miller
• Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture – Daniel Radosh

January 2009

• The Private Patient – P.D. James

December 2008

• The Host – Stephanie Meyer
• The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventure in Narnia – Laura Miller
• In the Woods – Tana French
• The Night Villa – Carol Goodman
• Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer

November 2008

• Eclipse – Stephenie  Meyer
• New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
• Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
• Free Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again – Stephanie Pearl McPhee

October 2008

• When Will There Be Good News – Kate Atkinson
• Testimony – Anita Shreve

September 2008

• American Wife – Curtis Sittenfeld
• The Lace Reader – Brunonia Barry

August 2008

• Embroideries – Marjane Satrapi
• America America – Ethan Canin
• Bad Bridesmaid : Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums : Tales from the Front Lines – Siri Agrell
• The Option of Urbanism : Investing in a New American Dream – Christopher B. Leinberger
• A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction – Christopher Alexander
• Waiter Rant – The Waiter

July 2008

• Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
• Tell No One – Harlan Coben
• All We Ever Wanted Was Everything – Janelle Brown

June 2008

• The Forgery of Venus – Michael Gruber
• Obedience – Will Lavender
• Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You – Sam Gosling

May 2008

• Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
• Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It – Elizabeth Royte

April 2008

• Atonement – Ian McEwan
• Candy Girl – Diablo Cody
• Gang Leader for a Day – Sudhir Venkatesh
• Parenting, Inc. – Pamela Paul
• The Life Before Her Eyes – Laura Kasischke

March 2008

• The Lighthouse – P.D. James
• Sleepwalk – Adrian Tomine
• Shortcomings – Adrian Tomine

February 2008

• The Friday Night Knitting Club – Kate Jacobs
• In Defense of Food – Michael Pollan
• Run – Ann Patchett
  

January 2008

• Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City – Michael A. Lerner
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan

December 2007

• The Quiet Girl – Peter Høeg
• Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape – James Howard Kunstler

November 2007

• Them – Nathan McCall
• Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think – Brian Wansink

October 2007
I didn’t read (or listen to) a single book – yikes! That’s a low point for me.

September 2007

• Evening – Susan Minot (audiobook)
• Lucky Girls – Nell Freudenberger

August 2007

• New England White – Stephen L. Carter

July 2007

• The Last of Her Kind – Sigrid Nunez
• The Naked Sleeper – Sigrid Nunez
• The Sonnet Lover – Carol Goodman
• Every Secret Thing – Laura Lippman
• Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
• What the Dead Know – Laura Lippman

June 2007

• The Book of Air and Shadows – Michael Gruber
• Lullabies for Little Criminals – Heather O’Neill

May 2007

• Body Surfing – Anita Shreve
• The Mistress’s Daughter – A.M. Homes
• Daughter’s Keeper – Ayelet Waldman

April 2007

• Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home – David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
• Black & White – Dani Shapiro
• The Memphisto Club – Tess Gerritsen
• Vanish – Tess Gerritsen
• Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot’s Guide to the Land of Knitting – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

March 2007

• The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture & Coolness – Steven Levy

February 2007

• Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
• The Man of my Dreams – Curtis Sittenfeld
• Love is a Mix Tape – Rob Sheffield
• One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson

January 2007

• Lost in the Forest – Sue Miller
• Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name – Vendela Vida

December 2006

• The Uses of Enchatment – Heidi Julavits
• The Smiths: songs that saved your life – Simon Goddard
• The Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult

November 2006

• The Emperor’s Children – Claire Messud

October 2006

• The Dante Club – Matthew Pearl – this was actually a book-on-tape listened to on the way to Maine.
• The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand (for Book Club)
• The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory

September 2006

• Heat – Bill Buford
• Bitchfest – Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
• Dress Your Family in Courdory and Denim – David Sedaris
• The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids – Alexandra Robbins

August 2006

• Original Sin – P.D. James
• Shroud for a Nightingale – P.D. James
• Falling in Love with Natassia – Anna Monardo
• A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism – John A. Buehrens and Forrest Church
• The Keep – Jennifer Egan

July 2006

• The Heartless Stone – Tom Zoellner
• Speaking With the Angel – short stories edited by Nick Hornby
• Big Girl Knits – Jillian Moreno & Amy Singer
• I’m Not the New Me – Wendy McClure
• Oblivion – Peter Abrahams
• The Fury of Rachel Monette – Peter Abrahams
• A Perfect Crime – Peter Abrahams

June 2006

• Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
• End of Story – Peter Abrahams

May 2006

• Wicked – Gregory Maguire
• Wrap Style – Pam Allen

April 2006

• Suburban Nation – Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck
• Mapping the Edge – Sarah Dunant
• The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
• The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
• A Wedding in December – Anita Shreve

March 2006

• When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Ghost Orchid – Carol Goodman
• Cover Her Face – P.D. James

February 2006

• A Taste for Death – P.D. James
• Love and Other Impossible Pursuits – Ayelet Waldman
• Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles – Cat Bordhi
• Stitch-n-Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker – Debbie Stoller

January 2006

• Cheaper than Therapy – Annie Modesitt
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• Three Junes -Julia Glass
• Yarn Harlot : The Secret Life of a Knitter – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee