I’ve done the book a week thing before. Twice. And both times I loved it. So I want to do it again. I miss reading. A lot.
I am not sure it will work with the baby, David, work, art, and everything else I am trying to do but I’m going to try. So here is my list for the rest of this year. There are more books here than weeks left but I wanted my list a bit bigger in case my mood changes and I want more choices.
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- The Devil in the White City
- The Black Swan
- The Road
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- The Knitting Circle
- Julie and Julia
- The Book Thief
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Good in Bed
- Twenties Girl
- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- The Shack
- Home Repair?
- Love Walked In
- The Girl with No Shadow
- What I wish I knew when I was 20
- The Last Time They Met
- The Wonder Spot
- The Poisonwood Bible
- The Unaccustomed Earth
- In the Woods
- The wishing year
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- Personal Development for Smart People
- Handle with Care
If you have other books to recommend, please tell me. Especially if they are great reads and hard to put down!!
Am busy with The Book Thief – love the way it’s written. Two excellent reads i’ve recently reviewed on my blog:
Torn Apart (james patterson): http://shaynes-timeout.blogspot.com/2009/07/torn-apart.html
The Help (Kathryn Stockett): http://shaynes-timeout.blogspot.com/2009/09/help.html
What a great list!
I have to put in a plug for your #5 – I LOVED The Guernsey L&PPPS so much! You must read it.
I cannot part with my copy of that book, but there are others I’m ready to release so if you don’t already have copies of Julie & Julia and Poisonwood Bible, I’d be happy to send mine to you.
xoxo
thanks so much for the recommendations Shayne. I think I already have The Help so I will add it to my list!!
Thanks so much Kristen but I do have a copy of all of these 🙂 I really really appreciate the kindness!!!
I have to get it in gear and read more – I miss it too! I’m in the middle of “Belong to Me” by Marisa de los Santos. Really enjoying it, so far. Hope to finish and start another. Thanks for the list, many are sitting on my shelf just waiting to be opened 🙂