Amanda's votes on the list New Books at the Boston Atheneaeum

Listopia > Amanda's votes on the list New Books at the Boston Atheneaeum - Autumn 2015 (73 Books)

1	The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World by Anthony M. Amore (Goodreads Author) 3.54 avg rating — 1,200 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Dreamhouse: Penny Drue Baird by Penny Drue Baird 2.64 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women by Charles Hallisey (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 150 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi by Hayden Herrera 4.06 avg rating — 236 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World s Greatest Art Heist by Stephen Kurkjian 3.27 avg rating — 1,159 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Sappho by Sappho 4.17 avg rating — 11,453 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader by Linda Nochlin 4.42 avg rating — 137 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	John Singer Sargent: Murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by John Singer Sargent (Artist) 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician by Allen Shawn really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 72 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick 3.84 avg rating — 8,247 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John F. Szwed 3.48 avg rating — 546 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann 4.07 avg rating — 8,430 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life by Sally G. McMillen 4.28 avg rating — 78 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family by Yoshiko Uchida 3.88 avg rating — 844 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Wright Brothers by David McCullough 4.18 avg rating — 98,953 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks 4.03 avg rating — 21,513 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler by Oliver Hilmes 3.97 avg rating — 170 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	American Warlord: A True Story by Johnny Dwyer (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 262 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 5,228 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood 3.94 avg rating — 741 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Senegal Taxi (Camino del Sol) by Juan Felipe Herrera 3.47 avg rating — 89 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 4.10 avg rating — 935,553 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2) by Kate Atkinson 3.95 avg rating — 60,003 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 290,827 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The State We're In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie 3.04 avg rating — 1,047 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4) by Elena Ferrante 4.46 avg rating — 182,482 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 62,660 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Broadchurch (Broadchurch, #1) by Erin Kelly (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 3,253 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2) by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 189,356 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård 4.23 avg rating — 13,449 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera 3.35 avg rating — 22,461 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 11,966 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	God Loves Haiti by Dimitry Elias Léger 3.53 avg rating — 420 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	God Help the Child by Toni Morrison 3.78 avg rating — 32,454 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Woman Who Read too Much by Bahíyyih Nakhjavání 3.43 avg rating — 390 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11) by Louise Penny (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 75,512 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Light, Descending by Octavia Randolph (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 33 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Limassol by Yishai Sarid 3.48 avg rating — 790 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce 3.21 avg rating — 3,727 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	French Concession by Xiao Bai 3.09 avg rating — 192 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic by Cassandra A. Good (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 by Benjamin C. Ray 3.75 avg rating — 59 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten by Kate Brown 3.80 avg rating — 127 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home by Pete Nelson 4.08 avg rating — 84 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler’s Aces by Lyuba Vinogradova 3.74 avg rating — 176 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered by The Grey Friars Research Team 4.26 avg rating — 69 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris by Aimee Boutin 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced by Stephanie Dalley 3.92 avg rating — 242 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide by Eric Bogosian 4.23 avg rating — 1,329 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 2,207 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	American Hysteria: The Untold Story of Mass Political Extremism in the United States by Andrew Burt 4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson 4.04 avg rating — 353 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Love Songs: The Hidden History by Ted Gioia 3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Irish Hand: Scribes and Their Manuscripts From the Earliest Times by Timothy O'Neill 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City by Frank Felsenstein 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Single Digits: In Praise of Small Numbers by Marc Chamberland 3.25 avg rating — 55 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes by Chris Hadfield 4.29 avg rating — 2,232 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field by John Lewis-Stempel (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 2,344 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey by Deborah Cramer (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 221 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age by Robert M. Wachter (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 1,052 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy by Matthew Smith 3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	America's Founding Fruit: The Cranberry in a New Environment by Susan Playfair 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods by Jennifer A. Jordan 3.37 avg rating — 54 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World by Naomi S. Baron 3.65 avg rating — 243 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.40 avg rating — 367,745 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh 3.58 avg rating — 318 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	The Emotional Politics of Racism: How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness by Paula Ioanide (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back by David Krugler (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 58 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger 3.49 avg rating — 394 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game by Paul Midler (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 2,456 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants by Hsiao-Hung Pai (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 116 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End by Sylvie Tissot 3.63 avg rating — 95 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China by Jianying Zha 3.84 avg rating — 186 ratings Amanda added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars