Thursday, January 10, 2013

My (hopeful) reading List for Twenty-thirteen

I keep writing down book titles that I want to read and then, in my disorganized state, I can't find where I put the list(s) – until I find one or more of them at a later date. While it IS nice to stumble upon my own handwriting, which I am often accused of it looking "too perfect", I have decided that I will just go HERE on this blog and I will start my list (and likely add to this post as the year goes on.)

BOOK CLUB READS 2013:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society •DONE•
The Jane Austen Marriage Manual •DONE•
The Bad Girl
The Fault in our Stars •DONE•

BOOKS I WANT TO READ:
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein •DONE•January 16
Parenting with Love and Logic
Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood •DONE•January 13
Happier at Home - Gretchen Rubin
The Reason for God - Timothy Keller
Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Todd Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe
The Anti-Romantic Child - Priscilla Gilman

HEARD ABOUT THEM IN THE NEWSPAPER/INTERNET... some of them "classics":
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
any title  by author Kurt Vonnegut
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
The Instructions - Adam Levin
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
Pride & Prejudice, Emma - Jane Austen
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Yellow Birds: A Novel - Kevin Powers

MAYBE CONSIDER...
Lincoln's Last Days - Bill O'Reilley/Dwight Zimmerman
Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilley/Martin Dugard
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Elin Hildebrand (any title)
Jodi Piccoult - Plain Truth OR Between the Lines
The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D - Nichole Bernier
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
Hector and the Search for Happiness - Francois Lelord
The Glass Castle
The Book Thief
The Kite Runner
Harry Potter books
Twilight series
Sarah Palin
Spoken from the Heart - Laura Bush
Me talk pretty one day
Water for Elephants
Mockinbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Sisterland - Curtis Sittenfeld - DONE
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter - DONE
The Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit
A Field Guide for Getting List - Rebecca Solnit
Where'd you go, Bernadette - Maria Semple  - DONE

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