1. The Given Day - Dennis Lehane
2. The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
4. Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
5. Marley and Me - John Grogan
6. Hyper-chondriac - Brian Frazer
7. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
8. A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
9. In the Woods - Tana French
10. Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell
11. Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
12. She's Not There -Jennifer Finney Boylan
13. Little Bee - Chris Cleave
14. A Mighty Heart - Marianne Pearl
15. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
16. Push - Sapphire
17. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
18. Cherry - Mary Karr
19. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
10. White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
21. Salt - Isabel Zuber
22. Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
23. Tommyland - Tommy Lee(don't know what I was thinking-- I'm not even a fan, although I did like him on Rock Star. This book was pretty bad.
24. Handle with Care - Jodi Picoult

Great list Mary. I have Cutting for Stone, White Tiger and Sarah's Key on my list to read this summer.

Lisa wrote: "Great list Mary. I have Cutting for Stone, White Tiger and Sarah's Key on my list to read this summer."

They're all really good. Cutting for Stone was phenomonal! Enjoy!

I tried to get Cutting for Stone from the library today and they're all checked out with holds on them. I may have to break down and purchase it.

25. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
26. The Rotter's Club - Jonathan Coe
27. Welcome to the Departure Lounge - Meg Federico

28. The Book of Lost Things (hated it)

Mary wrote: "29. The Book of Lost Things (hated it)"

Ack! You hated it? Tell me why - I absolutely loved it. I'm very curious to hear the opposite effect it had on you.

Molly wrote: "Mary wrote: "29. The Book of Lost Things (hated it)"

Ack! You hated it? Tell me why - I absolutely loved it. I'm very curious to hear the opposite effect it had on you.
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I guess I'm just not into the whole fantasy/fairy tale thing. I tried though... (I'm actually surprised that I finished it)

Just finished A Reliable Wife #29. Really good.

Mary wrote: "I guess I'm just not into the whole fantasy/fairy tale thing. I tried though... (I'm actually surprised that I finished it)"

I can understand that. I imagine I would have the same reaction if I tried to read a vampire/zombie book. Not my genre at all. I'm not really into fantasy either but I thought it was funny how he presented a fun twisted version of the fairytales I grew up with as a little girl - especially the whole Snow White bit.

30. The Forgotten Garden
31. Heroic Measures

32. The Help - wonderful!
33. Upstate

34. Labor Day by Joyce Maynard

35. The Queen of the Big Time - Adriana Trigiani - first book that I've read of hers and I really didn't like it at all.

36. Crazy Love - Leslie Morgan Steiner

37. American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld

It's almost October. I need to read some shorties!!

38. The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears - Dinaw Mengestu

39. The Last Child - John Hart

40. Netherland - Joseph O'Neil - 10 to go!!

41. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley. Cute and clever but I won't read the next one.

42. The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe

43. The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler