It looks like I’m getting to this a whole month earlier than last year! Here’s what I read in 2011, excluding business books, cookbooks, magazines and other research materials. (nf) is non-fiction.
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights—Jessica Kerwin Jenkins (nf)
Curiosa: Celebrity Relics, Historical Fossils & Other Metamorphic Rubbish –Barton Lidice Benes (nf)
The Electric Michelangelo—Sara Hall
Astrid and Veronika—Linda Olsson
A Reliable Wife: a novel –Robert Goolrick
Green Angel –Alice Hoffman
The Red Garden –Alice Hoffman
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle—Barbara Kingsolver (nf)
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul—(nf) Karen Abbott
The Kingdom of Ohio—Matthew Flaming
The River Wife—Jonis Agee
Her Fearful Symmetry—Audrey Niffenegger
Riding Lessons—Sarah Gruen
Ms. Hempel Chronicles—Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
Touch: a novel –Alexi Zentner
The River King—Alice Hoffman
The White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf —Stephanie Barron
Eccentric Glamour—Simon Doonan (nf)
The Weird Sisters—Eleanor Brown
A Very Modest Cottage — Tereasa Suratt (nf)
The Oracle of Stanbul— Michael Davis Lukas
Eat. Pray. Love—Elizabeth Gilbert (nf)
Death Masks—Jim Butcher
Pontoon—Garrison Keillor
A Discovery of Witches—Deborah Harkness
The World Beneath—Cate Kennedy
Birth of a Killer—Darren Shan
The Witch’s Daughter—Paula Brackston
Boneshaker—Cherie Priest
The Help—Kathryn Stockett
The Day the Falls Stood Still—Cathy Marie Buchanan
Correspondence: An adventure in letters—N. John Hall
Dracula the Un-Dead—Dacre Stoker
The Little Stranger—Sarah Waters
Impatient with Desire—Gabrielle Burton
Among the Wonderful—Stacy Carlson
The Time Traveller’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
Bloodroot– Amy Greene
The Gargoyle—Andrew Davidson
Ecstasia—Francesca Lia Block
The Dovekeepers—Alice Hoffman
Speakeasy Dollhouse, vol.1—Cynthia von Buhler (graphic novel based on nf)
The Hangman’s Daughter—Oliver Potzsch
What have YOU been reading? Anything amazing that you would suggest?
Your list is putting me to shame! However, I am taking notes and you have god taste
Thank you! Don’t be shamed, I have always been a fast and voracious reader; also known to have missed entire earthquakes due to Nancy Drew novels. True story.