Books Read in 2011

I had a lot more time to read this year because of our trip to Houston for T's surgery. I wouldn't mind if he never had to do that again! Part way through, I quit making comments. Oh well...

1. Essays 1: First Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson (love Emerson!)
2. Stuck in the Middle (Sister to Sister) by Virginia Smith (Christian fiction: so-so)
3. Deeper Water by Robert Whitlow (Christian mystery: okay)
4. Hide in Plain Sight by Marta Perry (Christian mystery, based in Amish country: I really liked it)
5. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (for the 50th time, still love it!)
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (brilliant!)
7. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (magic!)
8. Drums of War by Edith Morris Hemingway (great for lit circles)
9. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
10. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (love these stories)
11. Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (sweetly old-fashioned)
12. Emma by Jane Austen (what can I say? A-u-s-t-e-n!)
13. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (incredible)
14. Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo (not well written, but faith-building)
15. Fools Rush In by Janice Thompson (Christian Romance… cheesy!)
16. Invisible by Lorena McCourtney (old lady mystery, like Murder She Wrote)
17. The Apothecary’s Daughter by Julie Klassen (old England novel, beginning and end were good)
18. Fated to be Free by Jean Ingelow
19. Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (great book, quite disturbing)
20. The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne (like Sherlock Holmes, good read)
21. The Heart of Rachael by Kathleen Thompson Norris
22. A City Schoolgirl by May Baldwin
23. Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (love her style!)
24. I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson (fabulous!)
25. Evergreen: A Christmas Tale by Richard Taylor
26. “Hard Creek Bridge” a short story by Isaac Sweeney
27. Dandy Detects: A Victorian San Francisco Story by M. Louisa Locke
28. A Chance in Time by Ruth Ann Nordin
29. Summons From A Stranger by Debra Diaz
30. A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett
31. The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
32. Teddy’s Button by Amy LeFeuvre
33. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
34. The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux
35. The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
36. The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi
37. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collings
38. April Morning by Howard Fast
39. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
40. Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
41. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
42. Ragman and other cries of faith by Walter Wangerin Jr
43. The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Patterson
44. Cast Two Shadows by Ann Rinaldi
45. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
46. In My Hands, Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Cut Opdyke
47. Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
48. The Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Southworth
49. Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
50. The Chess Master’s Violin by Jennifer Willows
51. The Man from Brodney’s by George Barr McCutcheon
52. Capitola’s Peril by Emma Dorothy Southworth
53. Duty Free by Moni Mohsin
54. Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
55. Not Pretty, but Precious by John William De Forest et al
56. South Wind by Norman Douglass
57. The Radiation Sonnets by Jane Yolen