Last year, I thought it would be fun to keep a log of all of the books I’d read. You know what? It was kind of fun, so I’m continuing on with it this year.
Please note: Although I completed all of the books listed, that’s not to say that I necessarily enjoyed them all enough to recommend them. Some were absolutely great, others…not so much. I can’t bring myself to just pan a book publicly; it strikes me as akin to telling the author that their kid is ugly, too. Besides, it’s such a subjective thing. Feel free to drop me a line if there are any you’d like to discuss, though!
OK, here goes:
2006
- 52 Projects (Jeffrey Yamaguchi)
- Queen of Dreams (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni)
- Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (Amy Krause Rosenthal)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
- Bellwether (Connie Willis)
- Stolen Lives: 20 Years in a Desert Jail (Malika Oufkir)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Gregory Maguire)
- The Gate to Women’s Country (Sheir S. Topper)
- Brick Lane (Monica Ali)
- Pink Slip (Rita Ciresi)
- Professionalizing Motherhood (Jill Savage)
- March (Geraldine Brooks)
- The Art of Mending (Elizabeth Berg)
- The Mermaid Chair (Sue Monk Kidd)
- In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction (ed. Lee Gutkind)
- Eaters of the Dead (Michael Crichton)
- Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! (Fannie Flagg)
- La Cucina (Lily Prior)
- The Law of Love (Laura Esquivel)
- Bread Alone (Judith Ryan Hendricks)
- The Baker’s Apprentice (Judith Ryan Hendricks)
- On Rue Tatin (Susan Hermann Loomis)
- Small Changes For a Better Life (Elizabeth George)
2007
- Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes (Shoba Narayan)
- Death by Pad Thai and Other Unforgettable Meals (ed. Douglas Bauer)
- The Know It All (A.J. Jacobs)
- Grace [Eventually] (Anne Lamott)
- The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (Jacques Pepin)
- It’s All Too Much (Peter Walsh)
- Climbing the Mango Trees (Madhur Jaffrey)
- Sister of the Bride (Beverly Cleary)
- The Quality of Life Report (Meghan Daum)
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver)
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Ann Brashares)
- Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Ann Brashares)
- Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
- Saving Fish From Drowning (Amy Tan)
- I’m a Stranger Here Myself (Bill Bryson)
- Lipstick Jihad (Azadeh Moaveni)
- Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell)
- The Giver (Lois Lowry)
- Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
- The Last Chinese Chef (Nicole Mones)
- A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
- The Language of Baklava (Diana Abu-Jaber)
- Finding Your Inner Mama (ed. Eden Steinberg)
- Dream When You’re Feeling Blue (Elizabeth Berg)
- The Year of Pleasures (Elizabeth Berg)
- Beautiful Lies (Lisa Unger)
- U2: At the End of the World (Bill Flanagan)
- Between Friends (ed. Mickey Pearlman)
- A Few Thousand Words About Love (ed. Mickey Pearlman)
- Julie & Julia (Julie Powell)
- Floor Sample (Julia Cameron)
Make it Snappy 