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Books read

[mostly just a list for me; sorry surfers]

Books read in 2011
The Reluctant Widow, Georgette Heyer – A Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer – Beau Crusoe, Carla Kelly – Marrying the Royal Marine, Carla Kelly – The Surgeon’s Lady, Carla Kelly – Marrying the Captain, Carla Kelly – One Good Turn, Carla Kelly – Libby’s London Merchant, Carla Kelly – The Admiral’s Penniless Bride, Carla Kelly – Bleak House, Charles Dickens – Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides – Corunna 1809, Philip Haythornthwaite w/Christa Hook – Unholy Ghosts, Stacia Kane – Stolen Magic, MJ Putney – The Time Weaver, Shana Abe – Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood, Holly Lisle – The Iron King, Julie Kagawa – The Troubled Man, Henning Mankell – A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin – The Gentleman Poet, Kathryn Johnson – Jane and the Damned, Janet Mullany – A Mad, Bad, & Dangerous People? (part), Boyd Hilton – The Spanish Ulcer (part), David Gates – Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold – Sharpe’s Rifles (2), Bernard Cornwell – What Now?, Ann Patchett – The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology, Masaharu Takemura & Sakura -The Comeback Cowboy, Cathy McDavid – The Doctor’s Forever Family, Marie Ferrarella – Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, Seung Sahn and Stephen Mitchell – The Cartoon Guide to Genetics, Larry Gonick and Mark Wheelis – Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, vol. 1 – The Reverse of the Medal, Patrick O’Brian – Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, Maya Jasanoff – The Earl Claims His Wife, Cathy Maxwell – All I Ever Wanted, Kristan Higgins – The Second Duchess, Elizabeth Loupas – The Golden Season, Connie Brockway – The Fire Lord’s Lover, Kathryne Kennedy – Gallows Thief, Bernard Cornwell – Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, Sarah MacLean – The Life and Times of Henry Crabb Robinson, Edith Morley – All Through the Night, Connie Brockway – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell – As You Desire, Connie Brockway – Pawn of Prophecy, David Eddings (Belgariad, bk 1) – The Dangerous Lord, Sabrina Jeffries – Old Filth, Jane Gardam – Freedom, Jonathan Franzen – Nothing was the Same, Kay Redfield Jamison – How to Bake a Perfect Life, Barbara O’Neal – Much Ado about You, Eloisa James – Persuasion (4), Jane Austen – Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth

Books read in 2010
American Short Story Masterpieces (1987), eds Tom Jenks and Raymond Carver – The Bible (assorted versions) – Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose – Making a Literary Life, Carolyn See – Soulless, Gail Carriger – The Iron Duke, Meljean Brook – His Sinful Secret, Emma Wildes – A Duke’s Temptation, Jillian Hunter – He Comes Next, Lerner – Undoing Depression, O’Connor – Candide, Voltaire – The Best Laid Plans, Sarah Mayberry – That Last Night in Texas, Ann Evans – Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell – Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness – Last Night’s Scandal, Loretta Chase – The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness – The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness – Lord Perfect (2), Loretta Chase – Don’t Tempt Me, Loretta Chase – His Lady Mistress, Elizabeth Rolls – So Much for That, Lionel Shriver – The Giver, Lois Lowry – Feed, M.T. Anderson – The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins – Manchester Compendium, Ed Glinert – Passages in the Life of a Radical (3), Samuel Bamford – Peterloo Shadows (2), Joyce Bentley – Peterloo Massacre, Joyce Marlow – The Passage, Justin Cronin – Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem – Bel Canto, Ann Patchett – Imposture, Benjamin Markovits – A Perfect Spy, John LeCarre – In for a Penny, Rose Lerner – Persuasion (3), Jane Austen – Sunshine, Robin McKinley – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Stieg Larsson – As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner – The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson – Death with Interruptions, Jose Saramago – Brave New World, Aldous Huxley – The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver – 1984, George Orwell – In His Majesty’s Service, Naomi Novik – A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin – A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin – A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin – A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin – The Book of Hours, T. Davis Bunn – Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson – The Manticore, Robertson Davies – Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman – American Gods, Neil Gaiman – Before the Frost, Henning Mankell – North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell – Fifth Business, Robertson Davies

Books read in 2009
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie – Treating the Brain: What the Best Doctors Know, Walter G. Bradley – The Pyramid, Henning Mankell – Spectacle of Corruption, David Liss – Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat – Conspiracy of Paper, David Liss – Potent Pleasures, Eloisa James – Midnight Pleasures, Eloisa James – What Happens in London, Julia Quinn – Secrets of a Summer Night, It Happened One Autumn, Devil in Winter, Scandal in Spring, Lisa Kleypas – The Writer’s Journey, Christopher Vogler – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz – Lover Avenged, J.R. Ward – My Wicked Earl, Linda Needham – Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell – Shirley, Charlotte Bronte – Passages in the Life of a Radical, Samuel Bamford – Early Days, Samuel Bamford – Peterloo Massacre 1819, Philip McKeiver – Waterloo to Peterloo, R.J. White – Outcast, Joan Johnston – The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende – A Duke of Her Own, Eloisa James – The Casualties of Peterloo, Michael Bush – Make Me Yours, Betina Krahn – Peterloo Shadows, Joyce Bentley – Hazard, Jo Beverley – The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos – The Devil’s Heiress, Jo Beverley – The Dragon’s Bride, Jo Beverley – The Demon’s Mistress, Jo Beverley – Dangerous Joy, Jo Beverley – Forbidden, Jo Beverley – Christmas Angel, Jo Beverley – An Unwilling Bride, Jo Beverley – An Arranged Marriage, Jo Beverley – Persuasion, Jane Austen – Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras (the Uglies series), Scott Westerfeld – At Last Comes Love, Mary Balogh – This Duchess of Mine, Eloisa James – A Talent for Sin, Lavinia Kent – Tap & Gown, Diana Peterfreund – Firewall, Henning Mankell – One Step Behind, Henning Mankell – Break into Fiction, Mary Buckham and Dianna Love – The Duke of Shadows, Meredith Duran – Side-Tracked, Henning Mankell – A Writer’s Time, Kenneth Atchity – The White Lioness, Henning Mankell – The Dogs of Riga, Henning Mankell – Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners, Josephine Ross & Henrietta Webb – Faceless Killers, Henning Mankell – Rabbit Redux, John Updike – Rabbit, Run, John Updike – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, John LeCarre – First Comes Marriage, Mary Balogh – The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman – Simply Perfect, Mary Balogh – Smiley’s People, John LeCarre – The Honourable Schoolboy, John LeCarre – Deep Brain Stimulation, Jamie Talan – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre – Coraline, Neil Gaiman – Writing for Emotion, Karl Iglesias – The Book Thief, Markus Zusak – Pride and Prejudice (3), Jane Austen – Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan – The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Jonathan Stroud – Watchmen, Moore, Gibbons, Higgins – Lie Down in Darkness, William Styron – Stealing Fire from the Gods, James Bonnet – Plot and Structure, James Scott Bell