Books

Read for 2012

* Goal is to read 30 with at least 15 of them being borrowed or already owned.*

January: Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lesson’s for Making it Work by Tim Gunn (Borrowed); MWF seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche (new)
February: Bossypants by Tina Fey (new); The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (new); Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (new); Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (new)
March: Divergent by Veronica Roth (new)
April: Matched by Ally Condie (new); In the Water They Can’t See You Cry by Amanda Beard (new)
May: Insurgent by Veronica Roth (new)

Read in 2011

January: Remember Me? Sophie Kinsella; Sugar & Spice Lauren Conrad; Nanny Returns Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus; Pack Up the Moon Anna McPartlin; started Mansfield Park Jane Austen (still working on it)
February: Knit the Season Kate Jacobs; Post Grad Emily Cassel; Mansfield Park Jane Austen (still working on it)
March: The Choice Nicholas Sparks (only one book done this month; hoping for 3 in April)
April: Ansel Adams in the National Parks Ansel Adams; Twilight Stephanie Meyers (I think this was the 4th or 5th time reading Twilight, and yet the cloudy, rainy weather put me in the mood for it.)
May: My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme; Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin; Carrots ‘N’ Cake Tina Haupert; Ranger Confidential by Andrea Lankford
June: Mr. Darcy’s Dream by Elizabeth Aston
July: The Help by Kathryn Stockett; Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
August: The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, & Amanda Pressner
September: The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost: A memoir of 3 continents, 2 friends, & 1 unexpected adventure by Rachel Friedman; The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks; New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (re-reading series prior to the new movie!)
October: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer; Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
November: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
December: A Wish for Christmas by Thomas Kinkade & Katherine Spencer

Some of my favorite books

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series – Ann Brashares
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Harry Potter series (especially Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) – J.K. Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseni
The City of Falling Angels – John Berendt
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
Cry, The Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas – Michka Assayas
Ansel Adams in the National Parks – Ansel Adams, Andrea Stillman, Richard Woodward
The Devil Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger
The Lost Girls – Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, Amanda Pressner