What I read in 2011

Total = 133 books

January (12)

• The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher
• House Rules by Jodi Picoult
• Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (library audio book)
• Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze edited by Mick O’Hare
• Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett
• The Devious Book for Cats by Fluffy and Bonkers
• Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill
• Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (library audio book)
• Araby by Gretta Mulrooney
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Touching Distance by Rebecca Abrams
• Toppling Miss April by Adrienne Dines

February (9)

• Broken Ground by Kai Maristed (library audio book)
• Family Life by Elisabeth Luard
• A Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• Winged Creatures by Ray Freirich (library audio book)
• Dirt in the Well by Linda Lyon
• Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A Heinlein (library audio book)
• The Weird and Wonderful World of Work by Randy Glasbergen (cartoons)
• A Word in Your Ear by Ian Gordon
• The Mesmerist by Barbara Ewing

March (10)

• Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
• Well-Versed Cats by Lance Percival (poetry)
• The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond (library audio book)
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
• Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
• A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron
• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

April (15)

• Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (audio book)
• Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood (audio book)
• Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine
• The Kitty Kama Sutra by Richard Smith
• The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block
• The Collected Stories by Paul Theroux
• Q&A by Vikas Swarup
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (graphic novel)
• Attack of the Theatre People by Marc Acito
• The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
• A Little Twist of Texas by Linda Raven Moore
• Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Shake Girl by the 2008 Stanford University Graphic Novel Project (graphic novel)
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

May (9)

• Spook by Mary Roach
• Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos (library audio book)
• Love as a Foreign Language (Volume 1) by J Torres and Eric Kim (graphic novel)
• Love as a Foreign Language (Volume 2) by J Torres and Eric Kim (graphic novel)
• Love as a Foreign Language (Volume 3) by J Torres and Eric Kim (graphic novel)
• Idiot America by Charles P Pierce
• The Quickening by Michelle Hoover (library audio book)
• The Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish
• The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally

June (10)

• Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary ‘Body Farm’ by Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
• The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis (library audio book)
• Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon
• Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
• Mort by Terry Pratchett
• All Names Have Been Changed by Claire Kilroy
• Lost Names by Richard E Kim
• Half Past Dead by Jane Clifton
• The Emperor’s Codes by Michael Smith
• Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest edited by Jennifer Crusie

July (11)

• Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
• A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews
• Drawing in the Dust by Zoe Klein (library audio book)
• The Meaning of Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinod
• In the Blood by Andrew Motion
• For Us, the Living by Robert A Heinlein (library audio book)
• The Girl Who Proposed by Elizabeth Smither
• Divorced from the Mob by Andrea Giovino (library audio book)
• Doing Without Delia by Michael Booth
• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• Across the Universe by Beth Revis (library audio book)

August (9)

• Big Babies by Michael Bywater
• The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
• The Crossing by Mandy Hager
• What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
• What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge
• What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
• Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club by Robin Ince
• Black Diamond: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey (library audio book)
• The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare

September (6)

• One Flat Coyote on the Centre Line by Karen Goa
• The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb (library audio book)
• Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero by Rick Riodan (borrowed from Nephew #1)
• Eternal Light by Paul J McAuley
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (library audio book)

October (15)

• Learning to Swim by Clare Chambers
• Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
• As Always, Jack by Emma Sweeney
• Hello, Mr Magpie by Penny Faith
• One Hundred Ways to Live with a Cat Addict by Lorenzo Carcaterra
• Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez
• Lessons for a Sunday Father by Claire Calman
• The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
• Escape from Billy’s Bar-B-Que by JoAnne Brasil
• The Bridegroom by Ha Jin
• Breadfruit by Célestine Hitiura Vaite
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (library audio book)
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• From Behind the Veil by Farheen Khan (library audio book)
• The Writing Class by Jincy Willett

November (15)

• Chomsky by John Lyons
• The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser
• The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain
• Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (audio book)
• The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones
• Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson (audio book)
• How I Paid for College by Marc Acito
• Xenophobe’s Guide to the Kiwis by Christine Cole Catley and Simon Nicholson
• Questionable Content Vol. 1 by Jeph Jacques (cartoons, borrowed from discoverylover)
• Questionable Content Vol. 2 by Jeph Jacques (cartoons, borrowed from discoverylover)
• Amazing Rain by Sam Brown (cartoons)
• The Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory
• Join Me by Danny Wallace
• A Passage to India by EM Forster (library audio book)

December (12)

• Finally by Wendy Mass (library audio book)
• Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H Winters
• Land of a Thousand Hills by Rosamond Halsey Carr (library audio book)
• The Chocolate Cat Caper by JoAnna Carl
• Lucy’s Laundrette by Betsy Burke
• Mortal Remains by Kathy Reichs
• Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
• Simon’s Cat 3: Kitten Chaos by Simon Tolfield (cartoons)
• The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson (e-book)
• The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg
• Snuff by Terry Pratchett
• The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim (library audio book)

What I read in 2010 (137 books)
What I read in 2009 (150 books)
What I read in 2008 (154 books)
What I read in 2007 (123 books)
What I read in 2006 (140 books)
What I read in 2005 (168 books)
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