I’m a “trailing spouse,” which has afforded me the wonderful opportunity of a lifetime of adventures. I’m a proud wife and mother, avid reader, and I love to travel, which is what this blog is all about – a record of some of our great travel adventures.
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JUNE 2019
The Huntress – Kate Quinn
*Washington Black – Esi Edugyan
The Rosie Result – Graeme Simsion
A Good Kind of Trouble (MG) – Lisa Moore Ramee
*Warlight – Michael Ondaatje
The Death of Murat Idrissi – Tommy Wieringa
MAY 2019
A Woman in Berlin (NF) – anonymous
*Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam (mystery) – Chris Ewan
The Penguin Lessons (NF) – Tom Michell
Sabrina (graphic novel) – Nick Drnaso
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager (YA) – Ben Philippe
*They Both Die At The End (YA) – Adam Silvera
APRIL 2019
Brother – David Chariandy
By Chance Alone – Max Eisen
An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
Homes (NF) – Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
Corridors of the Night (mystery) – Anne Perry
An Old Betrayal (mystery) – Charles Finch
MARCH 2019
Walking Shadows (mystery) – Faye Kellerman
The Winner’s Circle (mystery) – Gail Bowen
Green Hell (mystery) – Ken Bruen
Blood on the Water (mystery) -Anne Perry
Less Than a Treason (mystery) – Dana Stabenow
Elegy For Eddie (mystery) – Jacqueline Winspear
On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
Y is For Yesterday (mystery) – Sue Grafton
FEBRUARY 2019
Rough Treatment (mystery) – John Harvey
*Bear Town – Fredrik Backman
The Long Song – Andrea Levy
*Becoming (NF) – Michelle Obama
Lethal White (mystery) – Robert Galbraith
JANUARY 2019
Careless Love (mystery) – Peter Robinson
*The One-in-a-Million Boy – Monica Wood
The Elephant Whisperer (NF) – Lawrence Anthony
*Daring to Drive (NF) – Manal Al-Sharif
*Kingdom of the Blind (mystery) – Louise Penny
In a House of Lies (mystery) – Ian Rankin
DECEMBER 2018
Women Talking – Miriam Toews
The Girl Who Saved Christmas (YA) – Matt Haig
The Family Fang – Kevin Wilson
Fields Where They Lay (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*How To Stop Time – Matt Haig
*Educated – Tara Westover
Lonely Hearts (mystery) – John Harvey
NOVEMBER 2018
The Rule of Stephens – Timothy Taylor
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (YA) – Mackenzi Lee
Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson
Transcription – Kate Atkinson
OCTOBER 2018
The Home For Unwanted Girls – Joanna Goodman
French Exit – Patrick DeWitt
On the Shores of Darkness There is Light – Cordelia Strube
Son of a Trickster – Eden Robinson
The Perfect Nanny – Leila Slimani
Kens – Raziel Reid
SEPTEMBER 2018
Winter – Marrisa Meyer
Voyager – Diana Gabaldon
Tethered – Amy MacKinnon
We Are All Welcome Here – Elizabeth Berg
The Fiction Class – Susan Breen
Cress – Marissa Meyer
AUGUST 2018
Mackerel Sky – Natalee Caple
Vinegar Hill – A. Manette Ansay
The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
Craving – Esther Gerritsen
JULY 2018
Everybody’s Son – Thrity Umrigar
Umami – Laia Jufresa
Ayesha At Last – Uzma Jalaluddin
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B – Sandra Gulland
JUNE 2018
The Game of Hope (YA) – Sandra Gulland
Perfect – Rachel Joyce
The Bone Polisher (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
The Man With No Time (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
MAY 2018
Incinerator (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
The Fear Artist (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*This Will Be My Undoing (NF) – Morgan Jerkins
Everything But the Squeal (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
America’s First Daughter – Stephanie Dray
Odd Adventures With Your Other Father – Norman Prentiss
APRIL 2018
Truly Devious (YA) – Maureen Johnson
A Stranger in the House – Shari Lapena
*Release (YA) – Patrick Ness
*American War – Omar El Akkad
MARCH MYSTERY MADNESS 2018
Bone Box (mystery) – Faye Kellerman
A Lesson In Secrets (mystery) – Jacqueline Winspear
Crowned and Dangerous (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
Turbo Twenty-Three (mystery) – Janet Evanovich
X (mystery) – Sue Grafton
The Queen of Patpong (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
The Woman in the Window (mystery) – A.J. Finn
A Case of Two Cities (mystery) – Qui Xialong
FEBRUARY 2018
Lottery – Patricia Wood
*The Marrow Thieves (YA) – Cherie Dimaline
Finding Nouf (mystery) – Zoe Ferraris
*American Street (YA) – Ibi Zoboi
Sleeping in the Ground (mystery) – Peter Robinson
It Can’t Happen Here – Sinclair Lewis
The German Girl – Armando Lucas Correa
JANUARY 2018
O Human Star 2 (graphic) – Blue Delliquanti
O Human Star (graphic novel) – Blue Delliquanti
*Commonweath – Ann Patchett
Set Free (mystery) – Anthony Bidulka
*The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen
Eventide – Kent Haruf
What’s Left Behind (mystery) – Gail Bowen
*Plainsong – Kent Haruf
Magpie Murders (mystery) – Anthony Horowitz
DECEMBER 2017
Bellevue Square – Michael Redhill
*Glass Houses (mystery) – Louise Penny
*The Lonely Hearts Hotel – Heather O’Neill
Garden of Lamentations (mystery) – Deborah Crombie
*The Break – Katherena Vermette
*Anne of Green Gable GN (graphic) – Kendra Phipps
*Hillbilly Elegy (NF) – J.D. Vance
*The Noise of Time – Julian Barnes
NOVEMBER 2017
*Breathing Water (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (YA) – Mackenzi Lee
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar – Suzanne Joinson
**I’ll Give You The Sun (YA) – Jandy Nelson
*The Flood Girls – Richard Fifield
OCTOBER 2017
*Turtles All The Way Down (YA) – John Green
*Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda (YA) – Becky Albertalli
*Behind The Beautiful Forevers (NF) – Katherine Boo
**Do Not Say We Have Nothing – Madeleine Thien
SEPTEMBER 2017
*The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov – Paul Russell
*City of Thieves – David Benioff
White Nights – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Winter Queen (mystery) – Boris Akunin
AUGUST 2017
The Secret Wife – Gill Paul
Dreams of My Russian Summers – Andrei Makine
Girls Who Code (MG) – Stacia Deutsch
The Betrayal – Helen Dunmore
Russka – Edward Rutherford
JULY 2017
*The Power – Naomi Alderman
*Secondhand Time (NF) – Svetlana Alexievich
JUNE 2017
Definitely Maybe -Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Fardwor, Russia! – Oleg Kashin
*The Master & Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
MAY 2017
The Vicious Vet (mystery) – M.C. Beaton
*Slade House – David Mitchell
The Quiche of Death (mystery) – M.C. Beaton
*Brat Farrar (mystery) – Josephine Tey
*Red Notice (NF) – Bill Browder
APRIL 2017
*The Fourth Watcher (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*A Nail Through The Heart (mystery) – Tim Hallinan
*King Maybe (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*Street of Eternal Happiness (NF) – Rob Schmitz
*Little Failure (memoir) – Gary Shteyngart
*Company Town – Madeline Ashby
Gorky Park – Martin Cruz Smith
MARCH MYSTERY MADNESS 2017
Herbie’s Game (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
The Mapping of Love & Death (mystery) – Jacqueline Winspear
Small Crimes (mystery) – Dave Zeltserman
The Dollhouse – Fiona Davis
The Four Last Things (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
Skin Deep (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*The Hate U Give (YA) – Angie Thomas
FEBRUARY 2017
*March Book 3 (graphic) – John Lewis
*The Chosen Maiden – Eva Stachniak
The Fame Thief (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
Hunter’s Moon (mystery) – Randy Wayne White
Little Elvises (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*March Book 2 (graphic) – John Lewis
An Expert in Murder (mystery) – Nicola Upson
JANUARY 2017
*How It Went Down (YA) – Kekla Magoon
*Kindred (graphic) – Butler/Duffy/Jennings
*The End of Your Life Book Club (memoir) – Will Schwalbe
*March Book 1 (graphic) – John Lewis
The Speech – Andrew Smith
Roadside Picnic (SF)- Arkady Strugatsky
*One Hundred Nights of Hero (graphic) – Isabel Greenberg
*13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl – Mona Awad
*A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
Fifteen Dogs – Andre Alexis
My Name is Markham – Jodi Taylor
Rather Be The Devil (mystery) – Ian Rankin
2016 READING SUMMARY
94 books read – 47 female authors, 47 male authors,
Categorized:
45 fiction
12 non-fiction
20 mysteries
10 YA (Young Adult)
6 graphic novels
1 science fiction
DECEMBER 2016
*The Wonder – Emma Donoghue
When The Music’s Over (mystery) – Peter Robinson
The Sellout – Paul Beatty
Purgatory (mystery) – Ken Bruen
12 Rose Street (mystery) -Gail Bowen
Malice at the Palace (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
Hearing Secret Harmonies – Anthony Powell
W is for Wasted (mystery) – Sue Grafton
NOVEMBER 2016
The Gifted (mystery) – Gail Bowen
The Theory of Death (mystery) – Faye Kellerman
Temporary Kings – Anthony Powell
The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood
Saint Mazie – Jami Attenberg
Amulet #6 (graphic novel) – Kazu Kibuishi
Books Do Furnish A Room – Anthony Powell
OCTOBER 2016
Amuet #5 (graphic) – Kazu Kibuishi
Breaktime (YA) – Aidan Chambers
Amulet #4 (graphic) – Kazu Kibuishi
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing – Eimear McBride
Kaleidoscope (mystery) – Gail Bowen
Not My Father’s Son (memoir) – Alan Cumming
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (memoir) – Laurie Lee
Everything But The Squeal (NF) – John Barlow
SEPTEMBER 2016
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
*A Monster Calls (YA) – Patrick Ness
Iberia – James Michener
*Between The World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
*A Great Reckoning (mystery) – Louise Penny
Lost For Words – Edward St. Aubyn
AUGUST 2016
Love in the Time of Global Warming (YA) – Francesca Lia Block
*The Nature of the Beast (mystery) – Louise Penny
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim – Jane Christmas
The Military Philosophers – Anthony Powell
The Beautiful Struggle – Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Soldier’s Art – Anthony Powell
The Valley of Bones – Anthony Powell
JULY 2016
*Inside Out & Back Again – Thanhha Lai
*How To Be A Woman – Caitlin Moran
As I Lay Frying – Fay Jacobs
*Landline – Rainbow Rowell
The BFG – Roald Dahl
Advice for Italian Boys – Anne Giardini
On Writing – Stephen King
Misery – Stephen King
JUNE 2016
*Rubyfruit Jungle – Rita Mae Brown
At Last – Edward St. Aubyn
*Mother’s Milk – Edward St. Aubyn
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Kindly Ones – Anthony Powell
Scarlet (YA) – Marissa Meyer
MAY 2106
Pretty Deadly (graphic) – Kelly Deconnick
Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant – Anthony Powell
Cocaine Blues (mystery) – Kerry Greenwood
Binti (SF) – Nnedi Okorafor
Prague – Arthur Phillips
Lies, Damned Lies & History – Jodi Taylor
*Euphoria – Lily King
APRIL 2016
At Lady Molly’s – Anthony Powell
The Burglar in the Closet – Lawrence Block
*The Book of Unknown Americans – Cristina Henriquez
*Cinder (YA) – Marissa Meyer
*The Four Seasons – Laurel Corona
The Acceptance World – Anthony Powell
Burglars Can’t Be Choosers (mystery) – Lawrence Block
MARCH MYSTERY MADNESS 2016
Let’s Kill Uncle – Rohan O’Grady
Reconstructing Amelia – Kimberley McCreight
The Foreigner (mystery) – Francie Lin
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari (mystery) – Dorothy Gilman
Queen of Hearts (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
*Circling The Sun – Paula McLain
Murder 101 (mystery) – Faye Kellerman
Tricky Twenty-Two (mystery) – Janet Evanovich
*West With The Night – Beryl Markham
FEBRUARY 2016
*Birdie – Tracey Lindberg
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Kind Worth Killing – Peter Swanson
*The Turner House – Angela Flournoy
You Have Killed Me (graphic) – Jamie S. Rich
Empty Mansion (NF) – Bill Dedman
The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
A Buyer’s Market – Anthony Powell
*Even Dogs in the Wild (mystery) – Ian Rankin
What Could Possibly Go Wrong – Jodi Taylor
JANUARY 2016
No Time Like The Past – Jodi Taylor
A Trail Through Time – Jodi Taylor
*The Gospel Truth (YA) – Caroline Pignat
Will to Survive (YA) – Eric Walters
Little Robot (MG) – Ben Hatke
A Question of Upbringing – Anthony Powell
The Outside Circle (graphic) – Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
Crusoe’s Daughter – Jane Gardam
Italian Shoes – Henning Mankell
*A God In Ruins – Kate Atkinson
2015 READING SUMMARY
107 books read – 59 female authors, 48 male authors,
Categorized:
43 fiction
9 non-fiction
19 mysteries
13 YA (young adult)
1 poetry
22 graphic novels (mostly YA)
I loved my education in graphic novels this year!
DECEMBER 2015
*Lucky – Kathryn Para
The Red Notebook – Antoine Laurain
A Second Chance – Jodi Taylor
*Outline – Rachel Cusk
A Symphony of Echoes – Jodi Taylor
Undermajordomo Minor – Patrick deWitt
The Jaguar’s Children – John Vaillant
Guy In Real Life (YA) – Steve Brezenoff
NOVEMBER 2015
*Openly Straight (YA) – Bill Konigsberg
*Saint Mazie – Jami Attenberg
Fight For Power (YA) – Eric Walters
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth – Xiaolu Guo
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
*They Left Us Everything (memoir) – Plum Johnson
Dear Life – Alice Munro
*Career of Evil (mystery) – Robert Galbraith
OCTOBER 2015
Us Conductors – Sean Michaels
*Just One Damned Thing After Another – Jodi Taylor
Always Raining Here (YA graphic) – Bell & Hazel
The Girl On The Train – Paula Hawkins
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
SEPTEMBER 2015
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi – Jacqueline Park
SuperMutant Magic Academy (YA graphic) – Jillian Tamaki
Amulet #3 (MG graphic) – Kazu Kibuishi
Amulet #2 (MG graphic) – Kazu Kibuishi
Shadows In Bronze (mystery) – Lindsey Davis
Perfume: Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind
AUGUST 2015
The Edge of the Shadows (YA) – Elizabeth George
Italian Neighbours (non-fiction) – Tim Parks
Florence, A Delicate Case (non-fiction) – David Leavitt
In Real Life (YA graphic) – Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang
*The Silkworm (mystery) – Robert Galbraith
The Silver Pigs (mystery) – Lindsey Davis
Whale Music – Paul Quarrington
*Girl Runner – Carrie Snyder
JULY 2015
*MaddAddam – Margaret Atwood
Etta & Otto & Russell & James – Emma Hooper
Dragonfly In Amber – Diana Gabaldon
*Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore – Robin Sloan
Orr: My Story (memoir) – Bobby Orr
*Fun Home (graphic memoir) – Alison Bechdel
JUNE 2015
Lost Boi – Sassafras Lowrey
*The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone
*Four Seasons in Rome (memoir) – Anthony Doerr
Just One Evil Act (mystery) – Elizabeth George
MAY 2015 – Graphic Novel Focus
*Amulet (MG graphic) – Kazu Kibuishi
The Blue Castle – L.M. Montgomery
Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen – Kate Taylor
A Kiss in the Dark (YA) – Cat Clarke
Princeless 2 (YA graphic) – Jeremy Whitley
The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty
Zeus: King of Gods (YA graphic) – George O’Connor
*Return of Zita the Spacegirl (MG graphic) – Ben Hatke
**Nimona (YA graphic) – Noelle Stevenson
*Spera (YA graphic) – Josh Tierney
Zebrafish (MG graphic) – Fablevision
My Name is Parvana (YA) – Deborah Ellis
The Exile (Outlander graphic novel) – Diana Gabaldon
A Wrinkle in Time (MG/YA graphic) – adapted by Hope Larson
*El Deafo (MG graphic) – Cece Bell
How Should A Person Be? – Sheila Heti
Pinned (YA) – Sharon G. Flake
*Roller Girl (MG/YA graphic) – Victoria Jamieson
Legends of Zita (MG graphic) – Ben Hatke
*Princeless (YA graphic) – Jeremy Whitley
Man – Kim Thuy
*Smile (MG/YA graphic) – Raina Telgemeier
*I Am Malala (YA edition) – Malala Yousafzai w/Patricia McCormick
*Zita the SpaceGirl (MG graphic) – Ben Hatke
Maddy Kettle (MG graphic) – Eric Orchard
**All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
APRIL 2015
*Medicine Walk – Richard Wagamese
*Drama (YA graphic) – Raina Telgemeier
**Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
*A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
**Monkey Beach – Eden Robinson
Execution Poems – George Elliott Clarke
George & Rue – George Elliott Clarke
**Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
MARCH MYSTERY MADNESS 2015
Tattoo (mystery) – Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Bad Things Happen (mystery) – Harry Dolan
The Edge of the Water (YA mystery) – Elizabeth George
Heirs and Graces (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
To Dwell In Darkness (mystery) – Deborah Crombie
A Death in the Small Hours (mystery) – Charles Finch
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (mystery) – Alan Bradley
Top Secret 21 (mystery) – Janet Evanovich
*Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
FEBRUARY 2015
The Raven’s Eye (mystery) – Barry Maitland
**The Inconvenient Indian (NF) – Thomas King
The Beat Goes On (mystery) – Ian Rankin
*Foodville (NF) – Timothy Taylor
*Out of My Mind (MG/YA) – Sharon M. Draper
*Intolerable (memoir) – Kamal Al-Solaylee
**Ru – Kim Thuy
*A Tale For The Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
Ice Hunter (mystery) – Joseph Heywood
JANUARY 2015
*Adult Onset – Ann-Marie MacDonald
Home Free (MG) – Sharon Jennings
*And the Birds Rained Down – Jocelyne Saucier
Abattoir Blues (mystery) – Peter Robinson
Wind, Sand, Stars (memoir) – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
**Looking for Alaska (YA) – John Green
The Janus Stone (mystery) – Elly Griffiths
Ice Run (mystery) – Steve Hamilton
Blood is the Sky (mystery) – Steve Hamilton
Claire’s Head – Catherine Bush
**The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
2014 READING SUMMARY
98 books read – 60 female authors, 38 male authors, categorized:
50 fiction – 31 female authors, 19 male authors
10 non-fiction
24 mysteries
12 YA (young adult)
2 poetry
DECEMBER 2014
*The Rosie Effect – Graeme Simsion
*The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
*Everything Feels Like The Movies (YA) – Raziel Reid
*The Beauty of Humanity Movement – Camilla Gibb
*Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (YA) – Benjamin Saenz
*The Humans – Matt Haig
*How I Discovered Poetry (poetry) – Marilyn Nelson
*Talking About Detective Fiction – P.D. James
*The Girl Who Was Saturday Night – Heather O’Neill
*The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland (MG/YA) – Catherynne Valente
NOVEMBER 2014
**Brown Girl Dreaming (YA) – Jacqueline Woodson
New Orleans Mourning (mystery) – Julie Smith
*Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library (MG) – Chris Grabenstein
*The Lowland – Jhumpa Lahiri
*Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth – Xiaolu Guo
*City of Refuge – Tom Piazza
OCTOBER 2014
*The Back of the Turtle – Thomas King
*Everything Was Goodbye – Gurjinder Basran
*A Long Walk To Water (YA) – Linda Sue Park
*The Skin I’m In (YA) – Sharon G. Flake
The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom
The Secret Paris Cinema Club – Nicolas Barreau
SEPTEMBER 2014
Rio (The Writer & the City series non-fiction) – Ruy Castro
*The Beggar Maid – Alice Munro
A Palm For Mrs. Pollifax (mystery) – Dorothy Gilman
The Hour of The Star – Clarice Lispector
Buried on Sunday (mystery) – Edward O. Phillips
*Map of the Invisible World – Tash Aw
**Ru – Kim Thuy
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
AUGUST 2014
**The Long Way Home (mystery) – Louise Penny
The Diary of ‘Helena Morley’ – translated by Elizabeth Bishop
**Brazilian Journal (memoir) – P.K. Page
A Death in Brazil (non-fiction) – Peter Robb
*Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
*Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – Seth Grahame-Smith
JULY 2014
*Cause Celeb – Helen Fielding
*The Wreckage – Michael Crummey
*26a – Diana Evans
**Black Swan Green – David Mitchell
No Relation – Terry Fallis
JUNE 2014
**Good To A Fault – Marina Endicott
*Grace River – Rebecca Hendry
*Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
*Gentlemen and Players – Joanne Harris
North of Nowhere (mystery) – Steve Hamilton
*The Girl With All The Gifts – M.R. Carey
**Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
*Noah’s Compass – Anne Tyler
Evanly Bodies (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
*Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
MAY 2014
*The Story Box (YA) – Monica Hughes
*Girls Fall Down – Maggie Helwig
Winter of the Wolf Moon (mystery) – Steve Hamilton
*Last Friends – Jane Gardam
A New Kind of Country (memoir) – Dorothy Gilman
*Embers – Sandor Marai
**The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Chelsea Mansions (mystery) – Barry Maitland
APRIL 2014
*Under This Unbroken Sky – Shandi Mitchell
*The Light Between Oceans – M. L. Stedman
I Am The Messenger (YA) – Markus Zusak
*Serena – Ron Rash
*The Shadow Queen – Sandra Gulland
The Widow Clicquot (biography)- Tilar J. Mazzeo
A Burial at Sea (mystery) – Charles Finch
MARCH MYSTERY MADNESS 2014
Blind Justice (mystery) – Anne Perry
*How the Light Gets In (mystery) – Louise Penny
The Beast (mystery) – Faye Kellerman
Takedown Twenty (mystery) – Janet Evanovich
A Small Hill to Die On (mystery) – Elizabeth J. Duncan
**The Final Confession of Mabel Stark – Robert Hough
Evan Blessed (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
Random Violence (mystery) – Jassy Mackenzie
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax (mystery) – Dorothy Gilman
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (mystery) – Dorothy Gilman
The Bone Collector (mystery) – Jeffery Deaver
*Crashed (mystery) – Timothy Hallinan
*The Dinner – Herman Koch
FEBRUARY 2014
*The Rule of 3 (YA) – Eric Walters
*The Winter Palace – Eva Stachniak
*Baking Cakes in Kigali – Gaile Parkin
*The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (mystery) – Dorothy Gilman
*A Long Way Down – Nick Hornby
**The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey
*A Certain Smile – Francoise Sagan
*Children of the Revolution (mystery) – Peter Robinson
**Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (memoir) – Susannah Cahalan
JANUARY 2014
Raylan (mystery) – Elmore Leonard
Once on This Island (MG) – Gloria Whelan
**The Man in The Wooden Hat – Jane Gardam
**Old Filth – Jane Gardam
*Sisters By a River – Barbara Comyns
The Cormorant (fantasy) – Chuck Wendig
The Bone Man (mystery) – Wolf Haas
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age – Kevin Boyle
*The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
2013 READING SUMMARY:
111 books read, comprising:
48 fiction – 25 female authors, 23 male authors
10 non-fiction
41 mysteries
11 YA (young adult)
1 graphic novel
DECEMBER 2013
*Saints of the Shadow Bible (mystery) – Ian Rankin
The Madness Underneath (YA) – Maureen Johnson
Invisibility (YA) – David Levithan & Andrea Cremer
*Stories I Only Tell My Friends (autobiography) – Rob Lowe
*Mad Women: the Other Side of Life on Madison Ave in the 60’s and Beyond (memoir) – Jane Maas
*An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth – Chris Hadfield
**Eleanor & Park (YA) – Rainbow Rowell
*Everything Was Good-Bye – Gurjinder Basran
A Cold Day in Paradise (mystery) – Steve Hamilton
A Killer’s Christmas in Wales (mystery)- Elizabeth J. Duncan
NOVEMBER 2013
*How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed – Slavenka Drakulic
*A Death in Vienna (mystery) – Frank Tallis
Murder in Prague (mystery) – Aviezer Tucker
**The Encyclopedia of Early Earth (graphic novel) – Isabel Greenberg
Vienna Passion – Lilian Faschinger
*The Crooked Maid – Dan Vyleta
OCTOBER 2013
*Allegiant (YA) – Veronica Roth
**Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter
*The Outsiders (YA) – S.E. Hinton
**The Twelve Little Cakes: Memoir of a Prague Childhood – Dominika Dery
*In The Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom – Qanta Ahmed, MD.
Insurgent (YA) – Veronica Roth
A Brush With Death (mystery) – Elizabeth J. Duncan
*The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)
SEPTEMBER 2013
Twelve Clues of Christmas (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
**Thirteen Reasons Why (YA) – Jay Asher
The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
A Sunless Sea (mystery) – Anne Perry
The Sound of Broken Glass (mystery) – Deborah Crombie
The Crossing Places (mystery) – Elly Griffiths
*Revenge of the Spellmans – Lisa Lutz
The Cold Light of Mourning (mystery) – Elizabeth J. Duncan
*The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
***Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising A Fabulous, Gender Creative Son – Lori Duron
Die A Little (mystery) – Megan Abbott
*The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
*We Need New Names – NoViolet Bulawayo
**I Capture The Castle – Dodie Smith
AUGUST 2013
Divergent (YA) – Veronica Roth
Curse of the Spellmans – Lisa Lutz
Evan’s Gate (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
Headstone (mystery) – Ken Bruen
The Devil (mystery) – Ken Bruen
When The Saints Go Marching In (mystery) – Anthony Bidulka
A Door in the River (mystery) – Inger Ash Wolfe
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
*Maya’s Notebook – Isabel Allende
*Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
JULY 2013
*The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
**The Imposter Bride – Nancy Richler
The Blue Blazes (fantasy) – Chuck Wendig
*Where’d You Go, Bernadette – Maria Semple
**And The Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
**The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Dead Ever After – Charlaine Harris
**The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
JUNE 2013
**Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (200th anniversary of its publishing, seemed like good time to read!)
*The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
*A Tangle of Knots (MG) – Lisa Graff
*The Emperor of Paris – C.S. Richardson
***Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain
**The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
*Living Underground – Ruth E. Walker
**Wonder (YA) – R.J. Palacio
*Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
MAY 2013
The Time In Between – David Bergen
The Age of Hope – David Bergen
*Deadlocked – Charlaine Harris
**Loving Frank – Nancy Horan
**State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
Glasgow Kiss (mystery) – Alex Gray
Pitch Black (mystery) – Alex Gray
*Ten Little Indians – Sherman Alexie
APRIL 2013
Among the Mad (mystery) – Jacqueline Winspear
The Narrows (mystery) – Michael Connelly
The Poet (mystery) – Michael Connelly
*The Expats – Chris Pavone
*The Zero – Jess Walter
Sanctuary (mystery) – Ken Bruen
Cross (mystery) – Ken Bruen
*The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson
Evan Only Knows (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
MARCH 2013 – MYSTERY MADNESS MONTH
A Stranger in Mayfair (mystery) – Charles Finch
No Mark Upon Her (mystery) – Deborah Crombie
Priest (mystery) – Ken Bruen
*A Red Herring Without Mustard (mystery) – Alan Bradley
City of Whispers (mystery) – Marcia Muller
*Beautiful Ruins (book club) – Jess Walter
An Incomplete Revenge (mystery) – Jacqueline Winspear
V is for Vengeance (mystery) – Sue Grafton
*Gone Girl (mystery) – Gillian Flynn
Coming Back (mystery) – Marcia Muller
The Fleet Street Murders (mystery) – Charles Finch
Dark Mirror (mystery) – Barry Maitland
FEBRUARY 2013
Standing In Another Man’s Grave (mystery) – Ian Rankin
**Sutton – J.R. Moehringer
*Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea – Barbara Demick
Savannah Blues – Mary Kay Andrews
Watching the Dark (mystery) – Peter Robinson
*Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures – Emma Straub
*Living Underground – Ruth E. Walker
*Freeman – Leonard Pitts Jr.
JANUARY 2013
*419 – Will Ferguson
**Mr. Pip – Lloyd Jones
Until The Night (mystery) – Giles Blunt
The Diviners (YA) – Libba Bray
**The Beautiful Mystery (mystery) – Louise Penny
**The Submission – Amy Waldman
Acceptable Loss (mystery) – Anne Perry
The Sinner’s Grand Tour, a Journey Through the Underbelly of Europe – Tony Perrottet
*The Enchanted April – Elizabeth Von Arnim
DECEMBER 2012
**Every Day (YA) – David Levithan
“Who Could That Be At This Hour?” (MG) – Lemony Snicket
The Taken (mystery) – Inger Ash Wolfe
The Calling (mystery) – Inger Ash Wolfe
*The Blondes – Emily Schultz
The School of Essential Ingredients – Erica Bauermeister
Naughty in Nice (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
Netherland – Joseph O’Neill
NOVEMBER 2012
Notorious Nineteen – Janet Evanovich
Mara, Daughter of the Nile (YA) – Eloise Jarvis McGraw
A Drink Before The War (mystery) – Dennis Lehane
Angel Eyes (mystery) – Loren D. Estleman
Tears of the Giraffe – Alexander McCall Smith
When She Woke – Hillary Jordan
Old City Hall (mystery) – Robert Rotenberg
**A Trick of the Light (mystery) – Louise Penny
The Prisoner of Heaven – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Turn of Mind – Alice LaPlante
Not Before Sundown – Johanna Sinisalo
**The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
OCTOBER 2012
*Beauty Queens (YA) – Libba Bray
Peaches for Monsieur le Cure – Joanne Harris
Runemarks (YA) – Joanne Harris
*Inside – Alix Ohlin
*The Englishman’s Boy – Guy Vanderhaeghe
SEPTEMBER 2012
*1982 – Jian Ghomeshi
*Y – Marjorie Celona
**Some Hope – Edward St. Aubyn
Mockingbird – Chuck Wendig
*Gun Games (mystery) – Faye Kellerman
*Half-Blood Blues – Esi Edugyan
The Edge of Nowhere (YA) – Elizabeth George
The Piano Tuner – Daniel Mason
**The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
AUGUST 2012
Something Beginning With.. – Sarah Salway
Bad News (2nd of Some Hope trilogy) – Edward St. Aubyn
**The Antagonist – Lynn Coady
Bride of New France – Suzanne Desrochers
The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje
Lake on the Mountain (mystery) – Jeffrey Round
Have Mercy On Us All (mystery) – Fred Vargas
*See You At Harry’s (YA) – Jo Knowles
Crime Machine (mystery) – Giles Blunt
The Nesting Dolls (mystery) – Gail Bowen
The City and the Pillar – Gore Vidal
The Impossible Dead (mystery) – Ian Rankin
Before the Poison (mystery) – Peter Robinson
JULY 2012
Dos Equis (mystery) – Anthony Bidulka
*Sex and Stravinsky – Barbara Trapido
*Speak (YA) – Laurie Halse Anderson
Never Mind (1st of Some Hope trilogy) – Edward St. Aubyn
Paper Butterfly (mystery) – Diane Wei Liang
The Magicians – Lev Grossman
*Among Others (YA) – Jo Walton
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
Amuse Bouche (mystery) – Anthony Bidulka
JUNE 2012
Hidden in Paris – Corine Gantz
Utterly Monkey – Nick Laird
Evans to Betsy (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
That Summer in Paris – Morley Callaghan
The Flaneur – Edmund White
The King in the Window (YA) – Adam Gopnik
The Chalk Circle Man (mystery) – Fred Vargas
Love, Again – Doris Lessing
Explosive Eighteen – Janet Evanovich
Paris to the Moon – Adam Gopnik
MAY 2012
Smokin’ Seventeen – Janet Evanovich
Murder in the Marais (mystery) – Cara Black
Telex From Cuba – Rachel Kushner
The Sweet Far Thing (YA) – Libba Bray
Open City – Teju Cole
Rebel Angels (YA) – Libba Bray
A Great and Terrible Beauty (YA) – Libba Bray
*Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare and Co. (memoir) – Jeremy Mercer
Shakespeare and Company (memoir) – Sylvia Beach
Blackbirds – Chuck Wendig
*Bury Your Dead (mystery) – Louise Penny
APRIL 2012
Mistress of the Revolution – Catherine Delors
*Tilt (YA) – Alan Cumyn
*Painter of Silence – Georgina Harding
*Mistress of the Sun – Sandra Gulland
Disappearance at Pere-Lachaise (mystery) – Claude Izner
A Corner in the Marais: Memoir – Alex Karmel
My Name Is Red – Orhan Pamuk
The Midwife’s Tale – Gretchen Moran Laskas
MARCH 2012
Dead Reckoning – Charlaine Harris
Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand
The Forger’s Spell: True Story of Vermeer, Nazis & Greatest Art Hoax of the 20th Century – Edward Dolnick
Edith’s War – Andrew Smith
Dark Light (mystery) – Randy Wayne White
Dead of Night (mystery) – Randy Wayne White
A Brutal Telling (mystery) – Louise Penny
Swing (mystery) – Rupert Holmes
The September Society (mystery) – Charles Finch
A Beautiful Blue Death (mystery) – Charles Finch
Desperate Characters – Paula Fox
FEBRUARY 2012
Royal Blood (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
Mirror, Mirror – Gregory Maguire
I Am Not Sidney Poitier – Percival Everett
Girls of Riyadh – Rajaa Alsanea
**The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – Isabel Wilkerson
Kiss of Death (YA mystery) – Lauren Henderson
Waiting For Snow in Havana (memoir) – Carlos Eire
Believing The Lie (mystery) – Elizabeth George
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman (children’s novel) – Dorothy Sterling
Jumping Off Swings (YA) – Jo Knowles
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Papa: A Personal Memoir – Gregory Hemingway
JANUARY 2012
Travels With Myself and Another, a memoir – Martha Gellhorn
Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
**The Paris Wife – Paula McLain
**The Fault In Our Stars (YA) – John Green
War Horse (YA) – Michael Morpurgo
The Virgin Cure – Ami McKay
Shotgun Gravy (YA novella) – Chuck Wendig
Royal Flush (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
Bad Boy (mystery) – Peter Robinson
DECEMBER 2011
2nd draft of Shadow of Death (YA pirate fantasy, still a work in progress) – Lucas J.W. Johnson
The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
*Let It Snow (3-in-1 connected YA stories) – John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
*Natural Order – Brian Francis
*Shine (YA) – Lauren Myracle
The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna
**The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
NOVEMBER 2011
Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka (memoir) – James Bartleman
The Silver Swan (mystery) – Benjamin Black
Harem (mystery) – Barbara Nadel
The Snake Stone (mystery) – Jason Goodwin
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident (about Galata Bridge in Istanbul) – Geert Mak
Kisses and Lies (YA mystery) – Lauren Henderson
Kiss Me, Kill Me (YA mystery) – Lauren Henderson
*Grace Williams Says It Loud – Emma Henderson
*The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
The Janissary Tree (mystery) – Jason Goodwin
OCTOBER 2011
Belshazzar’s Daughter (mystery) – Barbara Nadel
The Name of the Star (YA) – Maureen Johnson
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, a novel – Jim Fergus
The Camel Bookmobile – Masha Hamilton
*Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart
SEPTEMBER 2011
*The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (YA) – Sherman Alexie (in honour of Banned Books Week)
Cutting For Stone – Abraham Verghese
Cleopatra: A Life – Stacy Schiff
*Letters to Omar – Rachel Wyatt
Evan Can Wait (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
*The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates – Wes Moore
*The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating – Elisabeth Rova Bailey
Messenger of Truth (mystery) – Jacqueline Winspear
Pardonable Lies (mystery) – Jacqueline Winspear
*I Think I Love You – Allison Pearson
AUGUST 2011
Kiss in the Dark (YA mystery) – Lauren Henderson
*The Help – Kathryn Stockett
The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Drinks Before Dinner – a play by E.L. Doctorow
Wishful Drinking – Carrie Fisher
Getting the Picture – Sarah Salway
*Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
A Royal Pain (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
Before I Go To Sleep – S. J. Watson
JULY 2011
*Holding Still For As Long As Possible – Zoe Whittall
**State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
Evan and Elle (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
The Air We Breathe – Andrea Barrett
Gods Behaving Badly – Marie Phillips
Her Royal Spyness (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
*Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
*Boy Meets Boy (YA) – David Levithan
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
JUNE 2011
The Spare Room – Helen Garner
Bossypants – Tina Fey
The Last Little Blue Envelope (YA) – Maureen Johnson
13 Little Blue Envelopes (YA) – Maureen Johnson
*Annabel – Kathleen Winter
Heads You Lose – Lisa Lutz and David Hayward
Sizzling Sixteen – Janet Evanovich
*The Shadow of the Wind (re-read) – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
*Little Bee – Chris Cleave
MAY 2011
*Started Early, Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson
Devilish (YA) – Maureen Johnson
When Red is Black (Shanghai mystery) – Qiu Xiaolong
A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
Cool Water – Dianne Warren
APRIL 2011
Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris
I Feel Bad About My Neck – Nora Ephron
Lost on Planet China – J. Maarten Troost
*Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
*The Lotus Eaters – Tatjana Soli
Sanctuary Line – Jane Urquhart
A Promise of Rain – Donna Milner
Sovereign (mystery) – C.J. Sansom
MARCH 2011
A Rule Against Murder (mystery) – Louise Penny
Miami Blues (mystery) – Charles Willeford
Tampa Burn (mystery) – Randy Wayne White
Sweetheart Deal (mystery) – Claire Matturro
Everglades (mystery) – Randy Wayne White
Twelve Mile Limit (mystery) – Randy Wayne White
The Perfect Fake (mystery) – Barbara Parker
At The Bay (short story, and inspiration for Keefer’s The Ladies’ Lending Library) – Katherine Mansfield
The Ladies’ Lending Library – Janice Kulyk Keefer
The Man From Beijing – Henning Mankell
Fault Lines – Nancy Huston
Leave No Trace – Hannah Nyala
Come, Thou Tortoise – Jessica Grant
FEBRUARY 2011
Motor City Blue (mystery) – Loren D. Estleman
Locked In (mystery) – Marcia Muller
Evanly Choirs (mystery) – Rhys Bowen
The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag – Alan Bradley
Childhood – Andre Alexis
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford
Bone Valley (a mystery) – Claire Matturro
*The Best Laid Plans – Terry Fallis
The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman
JANUARY 2011
*A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
**The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway (a re-read for inaugural Michigan book club)
Secret Daughter – Shilpi Somaya Gowda
**The Lover’s Dictionary – David Levithan
*Sima’s Undergarments for Women – Ilana Stanger-Ross
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
Hangman (mystery) – Faye Kellerman
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
DECEMBER 2010
The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
*The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
The Cruellest Month (mystery) – Louise Penny
The Mistress of Nothing – Kate Pullinger
*Room – Emma Donaghue
Heat Wave – Richard Castle
Along Came a Spider – James Patterson
NOVEMBER 2010
Christine Falls – Benjamin Black
Shark River (mystery) – Randy Wayne White
Ten Thousand Islands (mystery) – Randy Wayne White
To Dance With the White Dog – Terry Kay
My Life of Reading – Pat Conroy
Plum Spooky – Janet Evanovich
The Origin of Species – Nino Ricci
OCTOBER 2010
The Case of the Missing Servant – Tarquin Hall
Dead Cold (mystery) – Louise Penny
*Salaam Brick Lane – Tarquin Hall
Deadly Slipper (mystery) – Michelle Wan
Necessary as Blood (mystery) – Deborah Crombie
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
*The Flying Troutmans – Miriam Toews
SEPTEMBER 2010
*Still Life (mystery) – Louise Penny
About Alice – Calvin Trillin
*Still Alice – Lisa Genova
Spider Trap (mystery) – Barry Maitland
I am Full Moon: Stories of a 9th Daughter – Lily HoyPrice
Bedlam Burning – Geoff Nicholson
AUGUST 2010
Bangkok Haunts (mystery) – John Burdett
Date with a Sheesha (mystery) – Anthony Bidulka
Aqua Alta (mystery) – Donna Leon
**Bellwether – Connie Willis
Death and Judgement (mystery) – Donna Leon
Dressed for Death (mystery)- Donna Leon
Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris
City of Falling Angels – John Berendt
JULY 2010
Across the River and Into the Trees – Ernest Hemingway
This Body of Death (mystery) – Elizabeth George
Death in a Strange Country (mystery) – Donna Leon
Dark Fire (mystery) – C.J. Sansom
JUNE 2010
Death at La Fenice (mystery) – Donna Leon
Poppy Done to Death (mystery) – Charlaine Harris
MAY 2010
**Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Shanghai Girls – Lisa See
APRIL 2010
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
My Little Red Book – Rachel Kauder Nalelouff
MARCH 2010
Nikolski – Nicolas Dickner
Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
The Nexus – Lucas J.W. Johnson (draft)
Spud – John Van de Ruit
*February – Lisa Moore
FEBRUARY 2010
A Touch of Dead – Charlaine Harris
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
JANUARY 2010
The Complaints – Ian Rankin
Last Scene Alive (mystery) – Charlaine Harris
A Fool and Her Honey (mystery) – Charlaine Harris
Dead Over Heals (mystery) – Charlaine Harris
The Julius House (mystery) – Charlaine Harris
U is For Undertow (mystery) – Sue Grafton
*A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
With Your Crooked Heart – Helen Dunmore
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I loved seeing your adventure in Japan last fall! I can’t wait to travel again. Your pictures are amazing. My mother was born in Tokyo (my grandparents were stationed there at the time) and I have always wanted to visit.
Thank you. 🙂 How cool to have that ‘connection’ to Tokyo. I hope you get there someday soon. I can’t wait to travel again, too!