Me in Place

(I’ve highlighted the ones I would recommend to you.)

1. The Winter of Her Discontent; Haines, Kathryn Miller; 324; 1/8/09

2. I Was Told There’d Be Cake; 1/11/09

3. Still Life With Chickens; Goldhammer, Catherine; 179; 1/24/09

4. Girl Perfect; Strickland, Jennifer; 194; 2/2/09

5. Nurtured by Love; Suzuki, Shinichi; 107; 2/5/09

6. Outliers; Gladwell, Malcolm; 285; 2/7/09

7. Jaywalking With the Irish; Monagan, David; 240; 2/10/09

8. The Truth About the Irish; Eagerton, Terry; 2/16/09

9. McCarthy’s Bar; McCarthy, Pete; 338; 2/20/09

10. Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home; Sunee, Kim; 370; 2/22/09

11. Super In the City; Uviller, Daphne; 295

12. Eat, Pray, Love; Gilbert, Elizabeth; 2/28/09

13. There’s No Traffic on the Extra Mile; Minor, Rickey; 179; 3/2/09

14. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society; Shaffer, Mary Ann and Barrows, Annie; 278; 3/6/09

15. O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare; Williams, Niall & Breen, Christine; 233; 3/11/09

16. Around the World in Eighty Trades; 3/23/09

17. The Associate; Grisham, John; 3/25/09

18.Death of Riley; Bowen, Rhys;  325; 4/2/09

19. Forgive and Forget; Scanlan, Patricia; 4/5

20. Johnny Tremain; Forbes, Esther; 322; 4/9 (school)

21. For the Love of Mike: Bowen, Rhys;  3234/12/09

22. A Little Bit Wicked; Chenoweth, Kristin; 232; 4/18

23. Girls in Trucks; Crouch, Katie; 241; 4/20

24. In Like Flynn; Bowen, Rhys; 321; 4/22

25. Tuesday NIght at the Blue Moon; Thomas, Debbie Fuller; 366; 4/26

26. Oh Danny Boy; Bowen, Rhys; 323; 4/28

27. A Homemade Life; Wizenberg, Molly; 5/11

28. The Secret Life of Becky Miller; 5/12

29. The Man Who Ate Everything; Steingarten, Jeffrey; 494; 5/14

30. A Skating Life; Hamill, Dorothy; 238; 5/15

31. Just Take My Heart; Clark, Mary Higgins; 322; 5/16

32. Her Royal Spyness Solves Her First Case: Bowen, Rhys; 324; 5/21

33. Same Kind of Different As Me; Hall, Ron & Moore, Denver; 245; 5/28

34. In Dublin’s Fair City; Bowen, Rhys; 282; 6/5

35. East of Eden; Steinbeck, John; 601; 6/11

36. Ender’s Game; Card, Orson Scott; 6/20

37. Prairie Tale; Gilbert, Melissa; 365; 6/27

38. My Life in France; Child, Julia; 333; 6/29

39. Tell Me, Pretty Maiden; Bowen, Rhys; 304; 7/3

40. French Milk; Knisley, Lucy; 195; 7/8

41. The Missionary; Carmichael & Lambert; 376; 7/12

42. How to Raise a Modern-Day Joseph; Weddle, Linda Massey; 220; 7/15

43. Sick Girl; Silverstein, Amy; 297; 7/16

44. June Bug; Fabry, Chris

45. Walk a Mile in My Flip-Flops; Carlson, Melody; 8/8

46. Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Comedy, Tragedy and Fairy Tale; Buechner, Frederick; 97; 8/9

47. A book too embarrassing to admit I read after Buechner; 273; 8/25

48. Alice in Wonderland; Carroll, Lewis; 76; 8/25

49. Master Your Metabolism; Michaels, Jillian; 248; 10/31

49. My Little Red Book; Nalebuff, Rachel Kauder; 198; 9/8

50. The Year of Magical Thinking; Didion, Joan; 227; 9/1

51. The King’s General; DuMaurier, Daphne; 440; 11/20

52. Godric; Buechner, Frederick; 178; 11/24

53. Lincoln: A Photobiography; Freedman, Russell; 144; 11/30

54. Half Broke Horses; Walls, Jeannette; 272; 11/30

55. Twenties Girl; Kinsella, Sophie; 435; 12/8

56. Cake Wrecks; Yates, Jen; 191; 12/9

57. Jesus With Dirty Feet; Everts, Don; 124; 12/14

58. Boo; Gutteridge, Rene; 12/15

59. The Splitting Storm; Gutteridge, Rene; 359; 12/19

60. Storm Gathering; Gutteridge, Rene; 343; 12/20

61. Claire; 12/30

62. Wait! I forgot number 62! It’s Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella. For some inexplicable reason, I love this book and read it every year. I do not ever repeat read books – so yeah, this one is definitely a favorite!

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