Most of them are fiction. Some are non-fiction, a couple are intended for the young adult, some are about raising kids, some are indulgent chick lit reads, some are...well--you get the idea. There are a lot of books that I have left to read. After I read them I generally sell them on ebay so I don't have them anymore if they are marked as read.
If I liked the book, I'll give a better review later.
| Book Title | Author | Read? | Comments | |
| 1776 | ||||
| A Friend of the Family | Done | Good read but it took me a while to read it. | ||
| A Good House | ||||
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Done | Hard to read at times | ||
| A Home at The End of the World | ||||
| A Lotus Grows in the Mud | Goldie Hawn | |||
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | |||
| A Window Across the River | Done | Eh. Wouldn't recommend it. | ||
| Accidental Virgin | Done | very funny | ||
| After You'd Gone | ||||
| Amanda Bright @ Home | ||||
| Amanda's Wedding | Done | Funny.Took me a while to read it though | ||
| Angels & Demons | ||||
| Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons | Done | Great read.Makes you want to start a book club myself | ||
| Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging | Done | Hilarious (laugh out loud) but it's about a teenager | ||
| Any Place I Hang My Hat | Susan Isaacs | |||
| At First Sight | Nicholas Sparks | |||
| Babe in Toyland | Done | Ehh.I didn't care for it | ||
| Baby Proof | Done | Okay. | ||
| Babyville | Done | Okay read | ||
| Backtalk | Aurdy Ricker | |||
| Bee Season | Done | Good Read.A little weird though. | ||
| Best Friends | Martha Moody | |||
| Bite | ||||
| Blue Shoe | Anne Lamott | |||
| Breeding Between The Lines | Alon Ziv | |||
| By The Lake | John McGahern | |||
| Call Waiting | Done | Not as good as 32aa but still a quick and easy read. | ||
| Cats Meow | ||||
| Cocktails For Three | Madeleine Wickham | |||
| Coffee and Kung Fu | Done | I liked it.A little introspective but good. | ||
| Come Together | Done | Cute Story about one couple's relationship through both the female and male perspective | ||
| Confessions of Max Tivoli | ||||
| Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Done | Okay read.Too much technical stuff | ||
| Dating Big Bird | ||||
| Diary of a Mad Bride | Done | very funny | ||
| Diary of an American Au Pair | ||||
| Dirty Girls Social Club | ||||
| Dive From Clausen's Pier | ||||
| Does She or Doesn't She | Done | Stupid | ||
| Dogs of Babel | Carolyn Parkhurst | Done | Good Read.Sad. About a man that discovers things he never knew about his wife after she dies. | |
| Down Came the Rain | Done | Interesting.Somewhat repetative | ||
| English as a Second Language | Megan Crane | |||
| Every Boy's Got One | Done | Really cute and quick read | ||
| Everyman | Philip Roth | |||
| Faithless | Karin Slaughter | |||
| Faking It | ||||
| Fat Chance | Done | Okay | ||
| Finding Cassie Crazy | ||||
| Five Men Who Broke My Heart | Done | Interesting.Makes you think about past relationships | ||
| Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | Done | Easy and quick read.Makes you realize that your life does have a reason | |
| For One More Day | Mitch Albom | Done | Quick and easy read.It seems every mother is taken for granted. | |
| Getting over Jack Wagner | ||||
| Ghosts of Boyfriends Past | ||||
| Gilead | ||||
| Good Girls Don't | ||||
| Good People of New York | done | Okay Read. | ||
| Happiness Sold Separately | Lolly Winston | |||
| Hardly Working | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | ||||
| Hissy Fit | ||||
| Hit Reply | Done | Okay.It got kind of depressing | ||
| House of Sand and Fog | ||||
| Hunger Point | ||||
| I Do But I Don't | Done | Cute but not as good as Pink Slip Party | ||
| I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell | Tucker Max | Done | Funny | |
| If You Could See Me Now | Celia Ahern | |||
| In Full Bloom | ||||
| Isabel's Daughter | ||||
| Julie and Romeo | ||||
| Kite Runner | Done | Excellent book.I was riveted | ||
| Last Year of Being Single | ||||
| Life of Pi | ||||
| Little Altars Everywhere | ||||
| Little Earthquakes | Done | Excellent book for first time mothers.I think we all go through a little bit of everything that the moms went through in this book. | ||
| Little White Lies | Done | This was a great book.She's the sister of Sophie Kinsella.Not as good as Kinsella but good none the less. | ||
| Love, Rosie | ||||
| Male | ||||
| Man Eater | Done | Cute, quick read | ||
| Middlesex | Done | fascinating but a little slow at times | ||
| Mr. Commitment | ||||
| Mrs. Kimble | ||||
| Multiple Choice | ||||
| My Fractured Life | ||||
| My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | |||
| Name & Address Withheld | ||||
| Not So Perfect Man | ||||
| Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination | ||||
| Our Lady of The Forest | David Guterson | |||
| Out of the Blue | Done | Okay | ||
| Perfect Elizabeth | Done | Good read | ||
| Playful Parenting | Lawrence Cohen | |||
| Playing Away | Done | A little slow at times but over all a good read. | ||
| Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities | Alexandra Robbins | |||
| Plot Against America | Done | Good read.Very realistic has some good history lessons | ||
| Positive Discipline - The First 3 Years | ||||
| Prep | Done | Excellent read.I really empathized with the main character | ||
| PS I Love You | Done | Good but the ending was kind of weird. This is actually being made into a movie with Hilary Swank | ||
| Raising a Happy Unspoiled Child | ||||
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | ||||
| Red Tent | ||||
| Rescuing Rose | Done | This was a funny book. I really like Isabel wolf books | ||
| Scenes From a Holiday | ||||
| Seabiscuit | ||||
| Secret Life of Bees | Done | Excellent book.It made me cry.I'm not really sure it's about strong women though. | ||
| She Went All the Way | Done | Sucks | ||
| Shopaholic and Sister | Done | Okay read | ||
| Slave to Fashion | Done | okay read | ||
| Slave to Love | ||||
| Slightly Settled | ||||
| Smart vs Pretty | Done | Okay.Kind of lame | ||
| Smart Women | ||||
| Something Borrowed | Done | Excellent Read.Read very quickly and it was a page turner.Can't wait to read the sequel about Darcy | ||
| South of the Border, West of the Sun | ||||
| Star Craving Mad | ||||
| State of Fear | ||||
| Straight Talking | Done | Good read | ||
| Sushi for Beginners | Done | Cute. | ||
| Tales of a Drama Queen | Done | Cute | ||
| Talking to Addison | Done | Funny. Quick read | ||
| The Answer is Yes | ||||
| The Anxiety of Everyday Objects | ||||
| The Birth Order Book | Kevin Leman | |||
| The Bitch Posse | ||||
| The Bonesetter's Daughter | Done | Another great read by Amy Tan | ||
| The Bookseller of Kabul | ||||
| The Cold Six Thousand | ||||
| The Da Vinci Code | Done | Excellent book.Makes you think about the bible and question why its so male dominated. | ||
| The Devil in the White City | ||||
| The End of Vandalism | Tom Drury | |||
| The Eyre Affair | ||||
| The Historian | ||||
| The Jane Austen Book Club | Karen Joy Fowler | |||
| The Love Wife | ||||
| The Man of My Dreams | Done | Good but not as good as prep | ||
| The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Kim Edwards | Done | Excellent Book about a Dr. that gives a way one of his twin children at birth because she has down's syndrome | |
| The Mermaid Chair | Sue Monk Kidd | Done | Good book.Not as good as Secret Life of Bees but it was good | |
| The Miracles of Santo Fico | ||||
| The Nine Month Plan | Done | Ok | ||
| The Other Boleyn Girl | Done | Very good and an interesting read | ||
| The Other Side of the Story | Done | Just as good as her other books | ||
| The Photograph | ||||
| The Playgroup | ||||
| The Read-Aloud Handbook | ||||
| The Reader | ||||
| The Second Assistant | ||||
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | |||
| The Shadow of The Wind | Carlos Ruiz zafon | |||
| The Sparrow | ||||
| The Tenth Circle | Jodi Picoult | |||
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Done | There were parts in this book where I just couldn't put it down.Other parts where it drags.The best was his final letter. | ||
| The Year of Living Famously | ||||
| These High Green Hills | ||||
| Three Junes | ||||
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | Done | Quick and easy read.Wasn't as good as I thought it would be. | |
| Unconditional Parenting | Alfie Kohn | |||
| Undomestic Goddess | Done | Funny.Similar to her other books.Some parts slightly unbelievable but still laugh out loud | ||
| Vanishing Acts | Jodi Picoult | |||
| Waiting | Ha Jin | Done | Good.Not as good as I thought it would be though.About a doctor that waits a long time to divorce his wife and marry another only to realize that he did the wrong thing | |
| Welcome to the Great Mysterious | ||||
| What About the Love Part | ||||
| White Oleander | ||||
| White Teeth | ||||
| Total Books =144 | Books Read=58 | |||
| Net To Read | 86 |
3 comments:
Great list - I'm going to have to print it out. Dogs of Babel looks good.
I just ordered The Other Boleyn Girl and I'm going to get The Time Traveler's Wife from the library thanks to your recommendations :-)
Have you read "A Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier? I can't say it's written as well as it probably could have been but the concept of it is just so original - unlike anything I've ever read. I read it months ago and I still frequently think about it.
Oh wait it's "The Brief History of the Dead" oops - I was close!
That's quite a list you have (mine's not quite so ambitious!).
During the month of March, I was collecting thoughts and stories from friends and readers, who are also parents, about things they, looking back, wish they would have known about pregnancy, L&D, post-pregnancy, and life with baby during the first year. While it is mostly my own account, I wanted to take into consideration the opinions of other parents. Think of it as an unconventional spin on the What To Expect series.
Have any input? It's only April 1st, and I am sure I could find some room for your thoughts ;-) Just go back to my site and click on the label in my sidebar "my book."
Hope you come back often :-)
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