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Although I have almost 200 books listed for this year on goodreads, I will only list my books here (not the ones I read to our girls.)
1. Love and Marriage by Bill Cosby
2. Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys:: A Fairly Short Book by Dave Barry
3. Time Flies by Bill Cosby (Can you tell I'm into Humor right now?)
4. The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation by Marian Wright Edelman
5. Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food by Jessica Seinfeld (okay, so this is a cookbook, but it's got some good info)
6. The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir by John Grogan
7. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
8. The Edge Of The Crazies by Jamie Harrison
9. The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
10. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Book 1) by Alexander McCall Smith
11. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1) by Lilian Jackson Braun
12. The Cat Who Played Post Office (Cat Who..., #6) by Lilian Jackson Braun
13. Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism by Dave Barry
14. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (Newbery Medal Book) by Kate DiCamillo (ok, I read this one to our girls, but I really wanted to read it too)
15. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (ditto for this one)
16. Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? by Dave Barry
17. Yentyl the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer (I intended to read this to our girls, but they weren't interested)
18. The Cat Who Went into the Closet by Lilian Jackson Braun
19. A Marriage Made in Heaven...or Too Tired for an Affair by Erma Bombeck
20. Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave Barry (yeah, I know, I'm kinda overdoing the Dave Barry thing...but he's so funny!)



















21. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
22. The Kalahari Typing School for Men: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series Book #4 by Alexander McCall Smith
23. Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen
24. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
25. The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
26. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
27. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship--and What We Can Do About It by Tony Wagner
28. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
29. The Cat Who Tailed a Thief (Cat Who..., #19) by Lilian Jackson Braun
30. The Gnostic Mystery by Randy Davila (a Goodreads win)
31. iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind by Gary Small
32. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
33. The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama XIV
34. Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
35. G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
36. I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton
37. 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
38. Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal: Bringing Yesterday's Sane Wisdom Into Today's Insane World by Loretta LaRoche
39. Life is Short, Wear Your Party Pants by Loretta LaRoche
40. Poirot Loses a Client by Agatha Christie



















41. Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen
42. Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth Mystery, Book 2) by M.C. Beaton
43. Shark Man of Kapu Bay (Hawaii Chillers, 1.) by P.J. Neri (My youngest picked this out, but it was far too scary to read to our girls)
44. The Sunday Philosophy Club (Sunday Philosophy Club, #1) by Alexander McCall Smith
45. Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan (a Goodreads win)
46. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
47. Irving's Delight: At last! A cat story for the whole family! by Art Buchwald
48. Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me: A Novel by Karen Karbo
49. The Cat Who Smelled a Rat by Lilian Jackson Braun
50. Death of a Gentle Lady (Hamish Macbeth Mystery Book 24) by M.C. Beaton
51. Interesting Women by Andrea Lee
52. The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
53. Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phllips
54. Come to Grief by Dick Francis
55. Key Lime Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mystery, Book 9) by Joanne Fluke
56. Best Shorts: Favorite Stories for Sharing by Carolyn Shute (I initially borrowed this to read to our girls, but many of the stories were too mature for them -- and no pictures!)
57. The Family Bones by Kimerly Raiser (given to me by the author via this group)
58. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
59. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir by Neil White (a Goodreads win)
60. Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden Mystery, #1) by Charlaine Harris



















61. The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose by Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz
62. The Don't Sweat Guide for Moms: Being More Relaxed and Peaceful so Your Kids Are, Too by Kristine and Richard Carlson
63. Sister Surfer: A Woman's Guide to Surfing with Bliss and Courage by Mary Osborne and Kia Afcari
64. The Secret to Life: Right Under Your Nose: How understanding the Law of Attraction and other universal truths can make your life better by Meijer Bjorn (a Goodreads win)
65. Chart Your Course: Preparing for the Journey by Amanda Akers
66. Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey
67. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
68. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern
69. Rabbit,Run by John Updike
70. The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
71. By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie
72. Cat O'Nine Tales by Jeffrey Archer
73. A Knife to Remember (Jane Jeffry Mystery, Book 5) by Jill Churchill
74. We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth
75. Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon
76. Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon
77. Do Unto Others (Jordan Poteet Mystery, Book 1) by Jeff Abbott
78. Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game by Joseph Parent
79. Degrees of Separation: A Jessie Arnold Mystery by Sue Henry
80. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien



















81. The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve82. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
83. Timeline by Michael Crichton
84. The Route by Gale Sears (a Goodreads win)
85. The Case of the Screaming Woman by Erle Stanley Gardner
86. Down Range: To Iraq and Back by Bridget C. Cantrell and Chuck Dean
87. Dead Cert by Dick Francis
88. Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mystery, Book 1) by M.C. Beaton
89. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (Sunday Philosophy Club, #2) by Alexander McCall Smith
90. Death of a Travelling Man (Hamish Macbeth Mystery, Book 9) by M.C. Beaton
91. Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love, New and Revised by Howard J. Markman, Scott M. Stanley and Susan L. Blumberg
92. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
93. The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed by Andrew Doughty and Harriett Friedman
94. Chaos by James Gleick
95. Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen
96. Orange Crush by Tim Dorsey
97. Death to Go by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
98. The White Mary: A Novel by Kira Salak (a Goodreads win)
99. Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, Second Edition by Patricia T. O'Conner


















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