Past Years’ Books

From 2010:

Goal: 75 (FAIL!)

1. Death on the Nile

2. 12 Days on the Road (Sex Pistols)

3. Floor Sample

4. Le Divorce

5. The Bourne Identity

6. Tales of the City

7. Never Let Me Go

8. Blankets

9. Don’t Hassel The Hoff

10. The Bible (A Biography)

11. Cemetery Dance

12. PUSH

13. Strangers In Paradise (complete collection, actually 6 books)

14. The Lace Reader

15.  The Te of Piglet

16: Auntie Mame

17. Witches Abroad

18. Carry On, Jeeves

19. Tao of Pooh

20. Unbelievable

21. Thornyhold

22. The Little Stranger

23. The Valley of the Dolls

24. Her Fearful Symmetry

25. Not Becoming My Mother

26. Inkheart

27. The Thorn Birds

28. Gluten-Free Girl

29. Essential Dykes To Watch Out For

30. More Tales of the City

31. I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can

32. The Secret Garden

33. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

34. Free For All

35. Cryptozoology A-Z

36. Garden Spells

37. Water for Elephants

38. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

39. A Good and Happy Child

40. Hound of the Baskervilles

41. Don’t Look Now

42. Fragile Things

43. Dracula In Love

44. Tamsin

45. Slaughterhouse Five

46. Fahrenheit 451

47. The Weed That Strings The Hangman’s Bag

48. Rose Cottage

49. The Passage

50. The Girl Who Played with Fire

51. The Help

52. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest

53. Fever Dream

54. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

55. Gunn’s Golden Rules

56. Bright-Sided

Books Read But Not Reviewed, Which Took Up A Lot Of Reading Time:

* Various bird/garden books

* Small-house books (2-3?)

* House-buying books (2, both by Nolo Press and highly recommended)

* Apartment Therapy, the 8-Step Home Cure

* Backyard Chickens

*

From 2009:

Goal for the year: 75 (WIN!)

1. In The Woods
2. The Land of Laughs
3. The Grotesque
4. Hotel Transylvania
5. The Woman In Black
6. Weetzie Bat
7. Swish: My Quest To Become The Gayest Person Ever
8. Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
9. The Graveyard Book
10. Memory and Dream
11. Dreams Underfoot
12. The Onion Girl
13. Widdershins
14. The Wood Wife
15. The Ghost Writer
16. About Alice
17. The Seance
18. Anansi Boys
19. Waiter Rant
20. Tightwad Gazette I
21. Tightwad Gazette II
22. Tightwad Gazette III
23. The Enchanted April
24. A Wizard of Earthsea
25. Heroin Diaries
26. The Stepford Wives
27. Thomas the Rhymer
28. Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
29. Birdman
30. Mother Night
31. The Jane Austen Book Club
32. Sharp Objects
33. Swallowing Darkness
34. The Hard Facts About Grimm’s Fairy Tales (partial)
35. When You Are Engulfed In Flames (partial)
36. Wesley The Owl
37. The Fox Woman
38. Danse Macabre
39. Murder on the Orient Express
40. The Rescuers
41. Danny, Champion of the World
42. The Book of Lost Things

43. The Witches

44. Busted

45. The Wind In The Willows

46. The Golden Name Day

47. Dark Places

48. Heart-Shaped Box

49. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

50. The Hip Chicks Guide To Macrobiotics (read, not reviewed)

51. Free-Range Kids (read, not reviewed)

52. 80-10-10 (read, not reviewed)

53. Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

54. Madapple

55. Spook

56. The Godfather

57. The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes

58. By The Pricking Of My Thumbs…

60. The Thirteenth Tale

61. Rosemary’s Baby

62. The Shadow of the Wind

63. Skellig

64. Called Out Of Darkness

65. The Dollhouse Murders

66. Comfort Me With Apples

67. Sandman: The Dolls House

68. Garlic and Sapphires

69. Let The Right One In

70. Jade Green

71. Wait ‘Till Helen Comes (read, not reviewed)

72. Sandman: The Dream Country (read, not reviewed)

73. Angel of Darkness

74. Sandman: Season of Mists

75. Fingersmith

76. Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight

77. Hell House

78. Wintergirls

79. The Queen of Heaven Trilogy, Book 1 (unpublished manuscript by Jane Kindred)

80. The Queen of Heaven Trilogy, Book 2 (unpublished manuscript by Jane Kindred)

81. The Housekeeper and the Professor (read, not reviewed)

From 2008:

Goal: 75 (WIN!)

1. Twilight
2. New Moon
3. Eclipse
4. A Stroke Of Midnight
5. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
6. Once
7. High Fidelity
8. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
9. The Lamp From The Warlock’s Tomb
10. The House With A Clock In Its Walls
11. The Figure In The Shadows
12. The Eyes Of The Killer Robot
13. Haunted
14. About A Boy
15. ‘Salem’s Lot
16. Little Women
17. On Stranger Tides
18. American Blooomsbury
19. Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
20. Close Range (including Brokeback Mountain)
21. Haunted, Tales of the Grotesque
22. Tim Gunn’s A Guide To Quality, Taste, And Style
23. The Face In The Frost
24. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
25. The Amateur Marriage
26. The Curse of the Blue Figurine
27. Morality for Beautiful Girls
28. The Relic
29. Reliquary
30. Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
31. The Turn of the Screw
32. Will Storr vs. The Supernatural
33. The Once and Future King
34. Storm Front
35. Ghost Hunting
36. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
37. The Year 1000
38. Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim
39. The Time Traveler’s Wife
40. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
41. Pledged: The Secret Life Of Sororities
42. Good Omens
43. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
44. Neverwhere
45. Stardust
46. American Gods
47. 7-Day Detox Miracle
48. Outlander
49. Julie & Julia
50. In Defense Of Food
51. Appetite For Life
52. My Life In France
53. The Magician’s Assistant
54. Still Life With Crows
55. Brimstone
56. Dance of Death
57. Breaking Dawn
58. Book of the Dead
59. Wheel of Darkness
60. Lost Boy Lost Girl
61. 3 Big Questions For A Frantic Family
62. Ghost Story
63. The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt
64. Summer of Fear
65. The Midnight Club
66. The Witching Hour
67. I Know What You Did Last Summer
68. Bury Me Deep
69. The Blue Girl
70. The Terror
71. My Stroke of Insight
72. Truth and Beauty
73. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
74. The Dog Who Rescued Cats
75. Heart In The Right Place
76. Cabinet of Curiosities