Books I Read in 2005

 

--The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier (fiction)

--Unstuck by Jane Anne Staw (nonfiction book about writing)

--Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner (fiction)

--Say When by Elizabeth Berg (fiction)

--Blacklist:  A V.I. Warshawski Mystery by Sara Paretsky (fiction)

--In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner (fiction)

--Flirting with Pete by Barbara Delinsky (fiction)

--Kissed by Cat by Shirley Jump (fiction)

--Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (juvenile fiction)

--Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (diary)

--Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (mystery thriller)

--Stop Being Mean to Yourself:  A Story About Finding the True Meaning of Self-Love by Melody Beattie (self-help but more of a travel memoir, fascinating!)

-- Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See (writing nonfiction)

--gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson (fiction)

--The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (fiction)

--The Devil Served Tortellini by Shirley Jump (romantic comedy)

--Jim the Boy by Tony Earley (fiction, a re-read)

--The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich (juvenile fiction)

--The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (sappy romantic fiction)

--Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) by Ann Brashares (juvenile fiction)

--Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner (fiction)

--Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (fiction short stories)

--Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (juvenile fiction—yay!)

--Three to Get Deadly: a Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich (mystery)

--The Bitch Posse by Martha O’Connor (fiction by a momwriter)

--Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan (juvenile fiction)

--Marrying Mozart by Stephanie Cowell (fiction)

--Undead and Unemployed by Mary Janice Davidson (vampire romance)

--Princess Diaries VI:  Princess in Training by Meg Cabot (teen fiction)

--Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year by Esma Raji Codell (nonfiction)

--So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer’s Life  by Jacob Slichter [of Semisonic] (nonfiction)

--Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner (fiction)

--Lost In a Good Book:  a Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Ffiorde (fiction)

--Snap by Alison McGhee (juvenile fiction)

--Shopgirl by Steve Martin (fiction)

--Skipping Christmas by John Grisham (fiction)

--Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myself by Frances Kuffel (nonfiction)

--The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Book 11 by Lemony Snicket (juvenile fiction)

 

Books Read:  38