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Charity's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.
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NOVEMBER66. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
67. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
68. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Mattias Ripa
69. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
70. Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani
71. Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
72. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
73. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
74. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory
75. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks*
75 books goal met; still counting...
NOVEMBER66. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
67. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
68. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Mattias Ripa
69. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
70. Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani
71. Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
72. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
73. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
74. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory
NOVEMBER66. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
67. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
68. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Mattias Ripa
69. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
70. Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani
71. Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
72. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
73. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
NOVEMBER66. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
67. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
68. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Mattias Ripa
69. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
70. Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani
71. Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
72. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
NOVEMBER66. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
67. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
68. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Mattias Ripa
69. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
70. Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani
71. Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
NOVEMBER66. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
67. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
68. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Mattias Ripa
69. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
70. Salaam, Paris by Kavita Daswani
NOVEMBER66. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
67. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
68. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Mattias Ripa
69. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Anjali Singh
NOVEMBER66. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
67. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
68. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Translated by Mattias Ripa
NOVEMBER66. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
67. Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
OCTOBER60. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
61. True Love (and Other Lies) by Whitney Gaskell
62. The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte; Translated by Sonia Soto*
63. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
64. Good Luck by Whitney Gaskell
65. Magic and the Modern Girl by Mindy Klasky
No, but I own several books by him because, like you, I've heard such great things about him. I think I'll at least read the Rabbit Angstrom books and see if those can sway me.
Unfortunately, I can't say I was a fan.
OCTOBER60. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
61. True Love (and Other Lies) by Whitney Gaskell
62. The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte; Translated by Sonia Soto*
63. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
OCTOBER60. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
61. True Love (and Other Lies) by Whitney Gaskell
62. The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte; Translated by Sonia Soto*
Living Room Bookcase #1
Living Room Bookcase #2
Living Room Side Table
Family Room Bookshelves
Dining Room Bookcase #1
Dining Room Bookcase #2
Master Bedroom Bookcase
Books in a Cubby
Oldest Son's Shelves
Youngest Son's Shelves
OCTOBER60. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
61. True Love (and Other Lies) by Whitney Gaskell
BOOKS OF 2009
JANUARY
1. The Ruins by Scott Smith
2. Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish by Tom Shachtman
3. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham*
4. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
5. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley*
7. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky*
8. Misery by Stephen King
9. Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl
FEBRUARY
10. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn; Translated by Ralph Parker*
11. Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form by John Steinbeck
12. Dead Babies by Martin Amis*
13. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster*
MARCH
14. In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
15. The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
16. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
17. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
18. The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
19. The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen*
20. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce*
21. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
22. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain*
23. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen*
24. Emma by Jane Austen*
25. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
26. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
APRIL
27. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens*
28. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; Translated by William Weaver*
29. This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff
30. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller*
31. Watership Down by Richard Adams
32. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
33. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut*
34. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham*
35. The Secret People by John Wyndham
MAY
36. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
37. March by Geraldine Brooks
JUNE
38. Life of Pi by Yann Martel*
39. Q & A by Vikas Swarup
40. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
41. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
42. The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy
JULY
43. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster*
44. Mandala: A Novel of India by Pearl S. Buck
AUGUST
45. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth*
46. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
47. Testing Kate by Whitney Gaskell
48. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
SEPTEMBER
49. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
50. sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling
51. Mommywood by Tori Spelling
52. She, Myself & I by Whitney Gaskell
53. Pushing 30 by Whitney Gaskell
54. Mommy Tracked by Whitney Gaskell
55. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis*
56. Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
57. Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
58. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis*
59. Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins
OCTOBER
60. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
yeah i was being tactical by putting in cat 1, less competition!I should have figured as much. :-) That book has been sitting on my shelf for far too long. I really need to give it a read. I did see the newest film adaptation and enjoyed it. I'll have to watch it again once I finish reading the book.
Cat. 1: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vanity Fair is also a movie.
