Booklicious: September 2006

2009 READS
[the books by my bed, on my coffee table, in my bag]

† denotes a re-read | * denotes books in progress | abc denotes no desire to finish

DECEMBER
Eclipse [Stephenie Meyer] 
Breaking Dawn [Stephenie Meyer] 
The Beautiful and Damned [F. Scott Fitzgerald]
The Dante Club [Matthew Pearl]
The Collector [John Fowles]
Shades of Grey: A Novel [Jasper Fforde] 
The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins] 

NOVEMBER
Fingersmith [Sarah Waters] 
The Year of Eating Dangerously [Tom Parker-Bowles]
New Moon [Stephenie Meyer] 
Babyville [Jane Green] 
Twilight [Stephenie Meyer] 
Fathers and Sons/Fathers and Children [Ivan Turgenev]
The Blithedale Romance  [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
 
OCTOBER
†Daddy-Long-Legs [Jean Webster]
†Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [J.K. Rowling]
†Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [J.K. Rowling]
†Laura's Summer Ballet [Linda Blake]
Jamaica Inn [Daphne du Maurier]
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim [David Sedaris]
Every Living Thing [James Herriot]
Animal Husbandry [Laura Zigman]
Mr. Maybe [Jane Green]
The Case of the Missing Books [Ian Sansom]  

ABOUT
[the story of a blog called booklicious]


THE FOUNDER
When EVANGELINE MCMULLEN was 9 years old, she invited her friends to a sleepover. After everyone had arrived, she handed each girl a book and settled herself down for a good read. That's the last slumber party she remembers hosting.

Now all grown up, she still doles out books from her thousands-strong personal library, but she does the bulk of her sharing online instead. Editor by day, book blogger by night, she lives in Chicago with her similarly lit-addicted husband.


THE REVIEWERS
SARAH MILNER has a secret. It's not that she's an unabashed Austen fan. It's not that she ranks her iPhone as one of the five most important things in her life. It's that as a mother, a wife, an employee, and student, she's likely hiding a Superwoman cape in her closet. That she also manages to write for Booklicious implies she's probably also got Hermione's time turner stashed away.

One could argue that MICHAEL NUHN'S isolated rural upbringing was the force behind his early literary bent. But the more likely reason is that as the son of a principal and a librarian, he didn't stand a chance. Wee Michael's path was destined to follow the curve of those school-library stacks, a path that would lead to an English degree, a book-loving wife, and a job as a big-city copywriter. What comes next? Only Dewey knows.

KAREN PARKINSON is a woman of many talents. As a physics-studying undergrad, she made diamonds for superconductors, making your college career look like four years of underwater basket weaving. Then, she spent a year volunteering in Ecuador for Rostro de Cristo, cuddling orphans and eating pigeons. Today, she works in academia in New England, continuing to make people's lives better — and you feel even guiltier. 

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2012 READS
[the books by my bed, on my coffee table, in my bag]

† denotes a re-read | * denotes books in progress | abc denotes no desire to finish


DECEMBER
Bridget Jones's Diary [Helen Fielding]
The Mysterious Affair at Styles [Agatha Christie]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower [Stephen Chbosky]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Stieg Larsson]
Excellent Women [Barbara Pym]
Of Mice and Men [John Steinbeck]
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death [Laurie Notaro]
Push [Sapphire]
Augustus Carp, Esq. [Henry Howarth Bashford]
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 2 [hitRECord]
Smart Women [Judy Blume]

NOVEMBER
Straight Man [Richard Russo]
BUtterfield 8 [John O'Hara]
Look at Me [Jennifer Egan]
David Golder [Irène Némirovsky]

OCTOBER
Revenge [Stephen Fry]
Then Came You [Jennifer Weiner]
Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Bronte [Clare Boylan]
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake [Aimee Bender]
Good in Bed [Jennifer Weiner]
No Way to Treat a First Lady [Christopher Buckley]
The Woman Who Died a Lot [Jasper Fforde]
One of Our Thursdays is Missing [Jasper Fforde]

SEPTEMBER
Practical Magic [Alice Hoffmann]
Wifey [Judy Blume]
The Body in the Library [Agatha Christie]
First Among Sequels [Jasper Fforde]
The Other Side of the Story [Marian Keyes]
Something Rotten [Jasper Fforde]
Sushi for Beginners [Marian Keyes]

AUGUST
The Well of Lost Plots [Jasper Fforde]
Lost in a Good Book [Jasper Fforde]
Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, a Learned Pig [Russell Potter]
The Smithsonian Institution [Gore Vidal]
The Eyre Affair [Jasper Fforde]
The Elegance of the Hedgehog [Muriel Barbery]
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day [Winifred Watson]
The Song of the Quarkbeast [Jasper Fforde]

JULY
The Hobbit [J.R.R. Tolkein]
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand [Helen Simonson]
The Woman Who Wouldn't [Gene Wilder]
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York [Paul Gallico]
Manon Lescaut [Abbe Prevost]
The French Lieutenant's Woman [John Fowles]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [J.K. Rowling]
Nom de Plume [Carmela Ciuraru]


JUNE
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [J.K. Rowling]
I've Got Your Number [Sophie Kinsella]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [J.K. Rowling]
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [J.K. Rowling]
Mockingjay [Suzanne Collins]
Catching Fire [Suzanne Collins]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [J.K. Rowling]
The Hunger Games [Suzanne Collins]
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [J.K. Rowling]
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone [J.K. Rowling]

MAY
Jackie After O [Tina Cassidy]
Arthur & George [Julian Barnes]
Remember Me? [Sophie Kinsella]
Shopaholic and Sister [Sophie Kinsella]
Shopaholic and Baby [Sophie Kinsella]
The Cellist of Sarajevo [Steven Galloway]
Mini Shopaholic [Sophie Kinsella]
The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]

APRIL
The Detective and Mr. Dickens [William J. Palmer]
Cold Comfort Farm [Stella Gibbons]
Shades of Grey [Jasper Fforde]
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim [David Sedaris]
Beatrice and Virgil [Yann Martel]
Fifty Shades Freed [E.L. James]
Fifty Shades Darker [E.L. James] 
Me Talk Pretty One Day [David Sedaris]

MARCH
Passing [Nella Larsen]
Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
Fifty Shades of Grey [E.L. James]
The Warlord of Mars [Edgar Rice Burroughs]
The Gods of Mars [Edgar Rice Burroughs]
A Princess of Mars [Edgar Rice Burroughs]
Birdsong [Sebastian Faulks]

FEBRUARY
Shakespeare: The World as Stage [Bill Bryson]
Moab is my Washpot [Stephen Fry]

JANUARY
The Spoils of Poynton [Henry James]
To Have and to Hold [Jane Green]

2011 READS
2010 READS
2009 READS

2011 READS
[the books by my bed, on my coffee table, in my bag]

† denotes a re-read | * denotes books in progress | abc denotes no desire to finish


DECEMBER
Scoop [Evelyn Waugh]
Animal Farm [George Orwell]
A Garland for Girls [Louisa May Alcott]
Nanny Returns [Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus]
Running in Heels [Anna Maxted]
Basic Black [Cathie Black]
Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]
The Eyre Affair [Jasper Fforde]
The Virgin Suicides [Jeffrey Eugenides]
Monster: Living Off the Big Screen [John Gregory Dunne]
Cold Comfort Farm [Stella Gibbons]

NOVEMBER
The Last Battle [C.S. Lewis]
The Silver Chair [C.S. Lewis]
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [C.S. Lewis]
Prince Caspian [C.S. Lewis]
The Horse and His Boy [C.S. Lewis]
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe [C.S. Lewis]
The Magician's Nephew [C.S. Lewis]
She's Come Undone [Wally Lamb]
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [Junot Diaz]
Sammy's Hill [Kristin Gore]

OCTOBER
Fly Away Home [Jennifer Weiner]
Inventing the Real: The Old Maid and The Real Thing (Two by Two) [Edith Wharton, Henry James]
Frenchman's Creek [Daphne du Maurier]
The Ponder Heart [Eudora Welty]
Best Friends Forever [Jennifer Weiner]
Room [Emma Donoghue]
Being Committed [Anna Maxted]
When You Are Engulfed in Flames [David Sedaris]
Angels [Marian Keyes]

SEPTEMBER
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modern Bestiary [David Sedaris]
Citizen Girl [Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus]
Devil May Care [Sebastian Faulks]
Behaving Like Adults [Anna Maxted]
Naked [David Sedaris]
Little Green Men: A Novel [Christopher Buckley]
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay [Michael Chabon]

AUGUST
Farewell, My Lovely [Raymond Chandler]
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason [Helen Fielding]
Bridget Jones's Diary [Helen Fielding]
The Nanny Diaries [Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus]
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton [Kate Williams]
Water for Elephants [Sara Gruen]
The Corrections [Jonathan Franzen]
Wetlands [Charlotte Roche]
Slammerkin [Emma Donoghue]

JULY
Crome Yellow [Aldous Huxley]
The Old Man and the Sea [Ernest Hemingway]
The Misalliance [Anita Brookner]
My Year of Meats [Ruth L. Ozeki]
The Secret History [Donna Tartt]
Memoirs of a Geisha [Arthur Golden]
A Walk in the Woods [Bill Bryson]
The Case of the Missing Servant [Tarquin Hall]

JUNE
A Study in Scarlet [Arthur Conan Doyle]
Princess Anne [Katherine L. Oldmeadow]
Roman Fever & Other Stories [Edith Wharton] 
Twenties Girl [Sophie Kinsella]
Crooks Tour [Jane Shaw]
Moo [Jane Smiley]
New Chronicles of Rebecca [Kate Douglas Wiggin]
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm [Kate Douglas Wiggin]
The Undomestic Goddess [Sophie Kinsella]
The History of Mr. Polly [H.G. Wells]
Second Chance [Jane Green]
Pnin [Vladimir Nabokov]

MAY
The Notebook [Nicholas Sparks]
Miss Bun the Baker's Daughter [D.E. Stevenson] 
Under the Net [Iris Murdoch] 
The House of the Paladin [Violet Needham] 
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril [Paul Malmont] 
If It Hadn't Been For Frances [P.M. Warner] 
St. Kelvern's Launches Out [Carol Ann Pearce]
The Lace Reader [Brunonia Barry]

APRIL
Claudine and Annie [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette]
Claudine Married [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette]
Claudine in Paris [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette]
Claudine at School [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette]
The Geographer's Library [Jon Fasman]
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society [Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows]
The Piano Tuner [Daniel Mason]

MARCH
One of our Thursdays is Missing [Jasper Fforde]
The Gatecrasher [Madeleine Wickham]
Boomsday [Christopher Buckley]
A Summer of Hummingbirds [Christopher Benfrey]
The Last Dragonslayer [Jasper Fforde]
The Other Woman [Jane Green]
Then We Came to the End [Joshua Ferris]

FEBRUARY
Election [Tom Perrotta]
The Rainbow [D.H. Lawrence]
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter [Carson McCullers]
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile [Gyles Brandreth] 

JANUARY 
Aiding and Abetting [Muriel Spark]
The Wordy Shipmates [Sarah Vowell]
Thumbsucker [Walter Kirn]
†Confessions of a Shopaholic [Sophie Kinsella]
The Soloist [Steve Lopez]
The Late Bloomer's Revolution [Amy Cohen]
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story [Leonie Swann]


2010 READS
2009 READS

2010 READS
[the books by my bed, on my coffee table, in my bag]

† denotes a re-read | * denotes books in progress | abc denotes no desire to finish


DECEMBER
Nymphs of the Valley [Kahlil Gibran]
About Alice [Calvin Trillin]
Me and Orson Welles [Robert Kaplow]
The Devil Wears Prada [Lauren Weisberger]
The Lovely Bones [Alice Sebold]
Seabiscuit [Laura Hillenbrand]
Bachelors [Muriel Spark]

NOVEMBER
The Little Women [Katharine Weber]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [J.K. Rowling]
Superstitious [R.L. Stine]
Brinkley Manor [P.G. Wodehouse]
How to be Good [Nick Hornby]
Charlotte Gray [Sebastian Faulks]
Life Mask [Emma Donoghue] 
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs [Chuck Klosterman]

OCTOBER
The Club Dumas [Arturo Pérez-Reverte]
The Warden [Anthony Trollope]
Assassination Vacation [Sarah Vowell]
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio [Terry Ryan]
The Horse Whisperer [Nicholas Evans]
Goodnight Nobody [Jennifer Weiner]
Wide Sargasso Sea [Jean Rhys]

SEPTEMBER
Him Her Him Again The End of Him [Patricia Marx]
The Glass-Blowers [Daphne du Maurier]
The Chess Machine [Robert Lohr]
Work [Louisa May Alcott]
The Hazards of Good Breeding [Jessica Shattuck]
Little Children [Tom Perrotta]
Mini Shopaholic [Sophie Kinsella]
The Buccaneers [Edith Wharton, completed by Marion Mainwaring]
The Imperfectionists [Tom Rachman]
The Bowl is Already Broken [Mary Kay Zuravleff]

AUGUST
An Old-Fashioned Girl [Louisa May Alcott]
Straight Talking [Jane Green]
The Beach House [Jane Green]
We Were the Mulvaneys [Joyce Carol Oates]
Cotillion [Georgette Heyer]
March [Geraldine Brooks]
Sleeping Arrangements [Madeleine Wickham]
The Shipping News [Annie Proulx]
Fabulously Fashionable [Holly McQueen]

JULY
In the Skin of a Lion [Michael Ondaatje]
I Am Madame X [Gioia Diliberto]
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens [J.M. Barrie]
Peter and Wendy [J.M. Barrie]
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang [Chelsea Handler]
Summer Sisters [Judy Blume] 
What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal [Zoe Heller] 
My French Whore [Gene Wilder]
The Waterworks [E.L. Doctorow]
Farm Fatale [Wendy Holden]
Sleepless Nights [Sarah Bilston]
The Historian [Elizabeth Kostova]
The Ghost Writer [John Harwood]
At Home: A Short History of Private Life [Bill Bryson]

JUNE
Priceless [Robert K. Wittman]
Saturday [Ian McEwan]
Arrowsmith [Sinclair Lewis]
Geisha: A Life [Mineko Iwasaki]
Appleby House [Sylvia Smithi]
Thank You for Smoking [Christopher Buckley]
Size 12 is Not Fat [Meg Cabot]

MAY
Chronicles of Avonlea [L.M. Montgomery]
The City of Falling Angels [John Berendt]
Life of Pi [Yann Martel]
A Very Long Engagement [Sébastien Japrisot]
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason [Helen Fielding]
Empire Falls [Richard Russo]

APRIL
Anne of the Island [L.M. Montgomery]
Anne's House of Dreams [L.M. Montgomery]
The Human Stain [Philip Roth]
Anne of Ingleside [L.M. Montgomery]
Rainbow Valley [L.M. Montgomery]
Rilla of Ingleside [L.M. Montgomery]
†Anne of Green Gables [L.M. Montgomery]
†Anne of Avonlea [L.M. Montgomery]
†Anne of Windy Poplars [L.M. Montgomery]
Aunt Epp's Guide for Life: Miscellaneous Musings of a Victorian Lady [Elspeth Marr, ed. Christopher Rush]

MARCH 
Rose in Bloom [Louisa May Alcott] 
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century [Paula Uruburu]   
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir [Bill Bryson]
Herzog [Saul Bellow] 
A Short History of a Small Place: A Novel [T.R. Pearson] 
Chang and Eng [Darin Strauss] 
The English Patient [Michael Ondaatje]

FEBRUARY  
England, England [Julian Barnes] 
Possession [A.S. Byatt]
Wish Her Safe at Home [Stephen Benatar] 
The Remains of the Day [Kazuo Ishiguro] 
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World [Claire Harman]
Bookends [Jane Green]
The Confessions of Max Tivoli [Andrew Sean Greer] 
Eight Cousins [Louisa May Alcott]      


JANUARY
The Summer Before the Dark [Doris Lessing]
Ravelstein [Saul Bellow]
Brave New World [Aldous Huxley]
The Bridges of Madison County [Robert James Waller]  
Big Fish [Daniel Wallace]
The Flight of the Falcon [Daphne du Maurier] 
Suite Française [Irène Némirovsky]
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil [John Berendt] 
Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel [Helen Fielding]
The Information [Martin Amis] {Sorry, Martin. You lost me at the phrase "his humid bush."

2009 READS

 
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