No Crying in Baseball Book Lists

[Anita]

Please feel free to post your book lists as a response to this post.

If you could use the "add book" link that would be super helpful. Also please number your books.

Remember to please post 30 books from your TBR that you can access readily by April 3.

For example:

1. Black Beauty
2. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Note: If you are new, these lists are for a game we are playing here - PBT Baseball. Unfortunately, the game is underway so we will no longer be able to accept new players.

[Susie]

1. Lie In Wait
2. Neverwhere
3. All Our Yesterdays
4. When Breath Becomes Air
5. Ruby
6. Ender's Game
7. And Then There Were None
8. In the Woods
9. White Dog
10. My Name Is Lucy Barton
11. The Boy in the Suitcase
12. Water Music
13. The Marriage Plot
14. Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
15. The Tsar of Love and Techno
16. The Sound and the Fury
17. Mudbound
18. Rebecca
19. A Darker Shade of Magic
20. The Forgotten Garden
21. The Fishermen
22. The Rosie Effect
23. Legend
24. Soppy: A Love Story
25. The People in the Trees
26. The Humans
27. The Natural Way of Things
28. Fates and Furies
29. The Story of My Teeth
30. The Housekeeper and the Professor

[Olivermagnus]

1. A Fine Balance
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns
3. The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
4. Bittersweet
5. The Boston Girl
6. I Am Your Judge: A Novel
7. Deafening
8. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
9. The Widow
10. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
11. House of Sand and Fog
12. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
13. In Cold Blood
14. Jane Eyre
15. The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
16. The Luminaries
17. Still Alice
18. The Ship of Brides
19. The Lions of Al-Rassan
20. Matterhorn
21. Moloka'i
22. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
23. A Night to Remember
24. Wars of the Roses: Trinity
25. Room
26. Strangers on a Train
27. The Taming of the Queen
28. This is Where I Leave You
29. Pride and Prejudice
30. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

[Kathy]

1. American Rust
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3. Bellefleur
4. The Black Dahlia
5. Black Swan Green
6. Case Histories
7. City of God
8. Cloud Atlas
9. Geek Love
10. Gilead
11. The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible
12. House of Sand and Fog
13. The House of Silk
14. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
15. Little Brother
16. Love in a Cold Climate
17. Mr. Splitfoot
18. Mystic River
19. The Orphan Master's Son
20. Out Stealing Horses
21. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
22. The Quick
23. Ready Player One
24. The Robber Bride
25. Snow Falling on Cedars
26. Thunderstruck
27. True History of the Kelly Gang
28. The Windup Girl
29. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
30. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

[Nicole D.]

1. Maus II : And Here My Troubles Began
2. Money
3. The Sense of an Ending
4. Blackass
5. Delicious Foods
6. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
7. The Prince of Tides
8. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
9. Eventide
10. Catch-22
11. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
12. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
13. Her Privates We
14. Anne of Windy Poplars
15. Revenge
16. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
17. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
18. The Man Who Ate Everything
19. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
20. Old School
21. The Lightkeepers
22. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
23. A Canticle for Lebowitz
24. Things Fall Apart
25. The Childhood of Jesus
26. Harvest
27. Glamorama
28. Patron Saint of Liars
29. The Probable Future
30. Comedy in a Minor Key

[Cora]

1. Brave New Worlds
2. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
3. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
4. Jaws
5. All the President's Men
6. The Girl with Ghost Eyes
7. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
8. The River Sea: The Amazon in History, Myth, and Legend
9. Peony
10. The Three-Body Problem
11. The Moonstone
12. The Water is Wide: A Memoir
13. Bone Swans
14. Columbine
15. Room
16. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
17. Bossypants
18. The Day of the Triffids
19. Alif the Unseen
20. On the Beach
21. The Elephant Whisperer
22. Flowers for Algernon
23. Casino Royale
24. We Live in Water
25. Solaris
26. The Last Picture Show
27. Lagoon
28. Dodger
29. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
30. The Sandcastle Girls

[Jen]

1. The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles bA Doubter's Almanacy Hardy
3. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Winterson
4. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
5. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
6. The Blind Assassin by Atwood
7. Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
8. A Doubter's Almanac by Ethan Canin
9. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Gavriel
10. My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
11. Lolita by Nabokov
12. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
13. Between the World and Me by Coates
14. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Alexievich
15. The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
16. The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
17. Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Prentiss
18. Shylock Is My Name by Jacobson
19. Family Matters by Mistry
20. My Brilliant Friend by Ferrante
21. Room by Emma Donohue
22. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
23. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
24. The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
25. Twelve Years a Slave by Northup
26. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Brown
27. In Cold Blood by Capote
28. Ready Player One by Cline
29. The Martian by Weir
30. The Girls by Emma Cline

[Hahtoolah]

Olivermagnus wrote: "1. A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance is one of my favorite books because I found the portrayal of the characters and culture so moving. This is a novel that has stayed with me years after I read it.

[Kate]

1. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
3. John Adams by David McCullough
4. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
5. Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
6. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
7. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
8. The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
9. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
10. The Trialby Franz Kafka
11. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
12. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
13. The Water Margin by Shi Nai’an
14. The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
15. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
16. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
17. The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm
18. Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupasson
19. Zorro by Isabel Allende
20. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
21. All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell
22. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
23. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
24. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
25. The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
26. Metamorphoses by Ovid
27. Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
28. The Golden Days (vol 1: The Story of the Stone) by Cao Xueqin
29. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
30. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

[Megalion]

1. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
2. The Art of Memoir
3. Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness
4. Captive Paradise: The Story of the United States and Hawaii
5. Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
6. Gratitude
7. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
8. Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
10. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
11.Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
12. God in the Machine: Video Games as Spiritual Pursuit
13. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
14. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
15. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
16. Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
17. The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
18. Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
19. A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High
20. Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
21.If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
22. Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo
23. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
24. The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
25. One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers
26. Almost Famous Women: Stories
27. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
28. Who Wrote the Bible?
29. Empty Hands, Open Arms: The Race to Save Bonobos in the Congo and Make Conservation Go Viral
30. Medea and Other Plays

[Linda C]

1. At the Water's Edge - Sara Gruen
2. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynn Truss
3. Letters from Rifka - Karen Hesse
4. The Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George
5. The Down Home Zombie Blues - Linnea Sinclair
6. The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
7. Ru - Kim Thuy
8. The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen
9. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
10. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
11. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival - Joe Simpson
12. The World Before Us - Aislinn Hunter
13. Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - Velma Wallis
14. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan
15. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
16. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
17. The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
18. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Mary Roach
19. Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
20. One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
21. Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting - Michael Perry
22. The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind - David Guterson
23. To Dance with the White Dog - Terry Kay
24. Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness - Rebecca Shannonhouse
25. The Turning - Tim Winton
26. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
27. America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation - Jim Rasenberger
28. Blink of an Eye - Rexanne Becnel
29. 13 rue Thérèse - Elena Mauli Shapiro
30. An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny - Laura Schroff

[Sabrina]

1. Sarah's Key
2. The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction
3. The Beekeeper's Apprentice
4. The Circle
5. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
6. The Inventor's Secret
7. The Girl on the Train
8. What Alice Forgot
9. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
10. The Breaking Point 1st inning--Home run
11. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
12. Station Eleven
13. The Island
14. The Year of Fog
15. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
16. The Yellow Birds
17. A Separate Peace
18. In the Woods
19. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
20. The Age of Orphans: A Novel
21. The Signature of All Things
22 The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
23. Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
24. Killing Floor
25, Storm Front
26. Map of Bones
27. In Country
28. A Country Such as This
29. The Company You Keep (movie tie-in): A Novel
30. Fields of Fire

[Blueberry]

1. The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
2. Girl, Interrupted
3.The Gap of Time
4.Station Eleven
5. Sister of My Heart
6. The Thirteenth Tale
7. The Historian
8. Lost in Translation
9. The Bean Trees
10. Firefly Lane
11.Lost and Found
12. Olive Kitteridge
13.Love Medicine
14. Pride, Prejudice, and Cheese Grits
15. The Light Between Oceans
16. The Club Dumas
17. Dragon Bones
18. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
19. The Green Glass Sea
20. China Dolls
21. Girl in Hyacinth Blue
22. Dont Let Me Go
23. When I Found You
24. Take Me with You
25. Where We Belong
26. Last Stop Klindenspiel
27.Fatal Affair
28. The Shipping News
29. Gap Creek
30A Place Called Canterbury