Some Books I’ve Read

2009

• The Island of Sheep by John Buchan
• Inventing Niagara by Ginger Strand
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Leon’s Story by Leon Walter Tillage
• No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting by Anne L. MacDonald
• Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas
• City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago by Robert G. Spinney
• Through a Glass, Deadly by Sarah Atwell
• They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades by Barbara Holland
• A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester
• Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
• Deep in the Heart of Trouble by Deeanne Gist
• America’s Hidden History by Kenneth C. Davis
• The War That Made America by Fred Anderson
• Or Give Me Death by Ann Rinaldi
• By Permission of Heaven by Adrian Tinniswood
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
• Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton
• Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer
• Erie Canal by Peter Lourie
• Nory Ryan’s Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
• The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo
• So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane
• A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
• The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
• What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
• No Word from Winifred by Amanda Cross
• Maggie’s Door by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
• Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
• Sarah Simpson’s Rules for Living by Rebecca Rupp
• The 100-Year-Old Secret by Tracy Barrett
• Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
• Secret of the Sirens by Julia Golding
• The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
• An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
• American Made by Nick Taylor
• Dragon of the Lost Sea by Laurence Yep
• The Apostate’s Tale by Margaret Frazer
• Thai Die by Monica Ferris
• The Snowbirds by Annie Jones
• Murder Is Binding by Lorna Barrett
• Trouble in the Brasses by Alisa Craig
• Knit Fast, Die Young by Mary Kruger
• Hard Truth by Nevada Barr
• Bookmarked for Death by Lorna Barrett
• The Edge by Dick Francis
• Who Was King Tut? by Roberta Edwards
• Who Was Louis Armstrong? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
• Who Was Queen Elizabeth? by June Eding
• Valley of the Lost by Vicki Delany
• A History of Britain, Volume 1 by Simon Schama
• A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• Second Wind by Dick Francis
• Rat Race by Dick Francis
• Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
• Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone
• Legend in Green Velvet by Elizabeth Peters
• Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
• Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn
• Table for One by Camerin Courtney
• The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
• Murder on Bank Street by Victoria Thompson
• Scene of the Grime by Suzanne Price
• Murder on Waverley Place by Victoria Thompson
• Westminster Abby by Micol Ostow
• Murder at the Gardner by Jane Langton
• A Torrid Piece of Murder by C.F. Roe
• When Irish Guys Are Smiling by Suzanne Supplee
• They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
• Pardon My French by Cathy Hapka
• Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan
• Twenty Pageants Later by Caroline B. Cooney
• Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy by Dan Gutman
• Things Hoped For by Andrew Clements
• The Quiet Rebels by Margaret Bacon
• Winter in June by Kathryn Miller Haines
• Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce
• Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan
• Graves in Academe by Susan Kenney
• Death in the Country by Christine Green
• Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin
• The Dawn of Canadian History by Stephen Leacock
• The English Breakfast Murder by Laura Childs
• The Young Unicorns by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Cold Light of Morning by Elizabeth J. Duncan
• Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
• Hooray for the Holidays! by Madonna
• Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Duchess of Death by Richard Hack
• The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
• Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Water Street by Patricia Reilly Giff
• The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
• The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
• The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
• Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
• The Lady of Milkweed Manor by Julie Klassen
• The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
• The Jewel of Gresham Green by Lawana Blackwell
• The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager
• The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
• The True Gift by Patricia MacLachlan
• Blackwork by Monica Ferris
• A Killer Stitch by Maggie Sefton
• Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn
• In Search of Robinson Crusoe by Tim Severin
• Sink Trap by Christy Evans
• The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
• The Story of Classical Music by Darren Henley
• The Vintage Caper by Peter Mayle
• Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett
• Yuletide in Ireland and Wales by Ginny Aiken and Tamela Hancock Murray
• Winter of Secrets by Vicki Delany
• Decked with Folly by Kate Kingsbury
• Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas by Pauline Chen
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The House of Mondavi by Julia Flynn Siler
• A Catered Christmas by Isis Crawford
• The Baker Street Letters by Michael Robertson

What Happened to 2010?

2011

• The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope
• Love Finds a Home by Kathryn Springer
• A Place to Call Home by Kathryn Springer
• Terrier by Tamora Pierce
• Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter by Blaize Clement
• Jane and the Ghosts of Netley by Stephanie Barron
• Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
• A Stitch Before Dying by Anne Canadeo
• Nixon and Mao by Margaret MacMillan
• The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
• Winter of Discontent by Jeanne M. Dams
• Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon by Nancy Atherton
• American Lightning by Howard Blum
• Greenmantle by John Buchan
• What Happened to Their Kids? by Malcolm Forbes
• The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg
• A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
• Mairelon the Magician by Patricia Wrede
• The Magician’s Ward by Patricia Wrede
• Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
• Die Laughing by Carola Dunn
• Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
• Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• A Mourning Wedding by Carola Dunn
• The Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn
• A Deadly Cliche by Ellery Adams
• Fade to White by Wendy Clinch
• Atlantic by Simon Winchester
• Deitrich Bonhoeffer by Elizabeth Raum
• The Black Ship by Carola Dunn
• The September Society by Charles Finch
• David by Charles Swindoll
• Bridesmaids Revisited by Dorothy Cannell
• Simon Said by Sarah R. Shaber
• A Pizza to Die For by Chris Cavender
• Anthem for Doomed Youth by Carola Dunn
• A Distinction of Blood by Hannah March
• Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey
• The Wedding Shawl by Sally Goldenbaum
• White Nights by Ann Cleeves
• Pier 21 by Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic
• A Dark and Stormy Night by Jeanne M. Dams
• Hide in Plain Sight by Marta Perry
• The Christmas Rescue by Laura Scott
• Sabotage by Kit Wilkinson
• Rescuing the Heiress by Valerie Hansen
• A Christmas to Die For by Marta Perry
• Buried Sins by Marta Perry
• Chapter and Hearse by Lorna Barrett
• The Chinese Alchemist by Lyn Hamilton
• The Prodigal Comes Home by Kathryn Springer
• Mrs. Polifax and the Second Thief by Dorothy Gilman
• Maid of Murder by Amanda Flower
• Moving Violation by Melanie Jackson
• Suspicion of Guilt by Tracey V. Bateman
• The Pumpkin Thief by Melanie Jackson
• Hero in Her Heart by Marta Perry
• The Moai Murders by Lyn Hamilton
• Death in Wessex by Audrey Peterson
• Murder on Sisters’ Row by Victoria Thompson
• Through the Fire by Sharon Mignerey
• Always in Her Heart by Marta Perry
• Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

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