Deb's 2011 Reading Log

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Better late than never, right?

January

Die Trying - Child (2.5) audio
This Body of Death - George (4)
The Killing Floor - Child (3) audio
The Siege of Krishnapur - Farrell (2.5)
The Lacuna - Kingsolver (4.5)
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Bradley (5) audio
Skeletons on the Zahara - King (4)
Drums of Autumn - Gabaldon (4)

February

Mississippi Jack - Meyer (4.5) audio
To Defy a King - Chadwick (5)
A Place Beyond Courage - Chadwick (5)
Operation Mincemeat - Macintyre (4.5)
Let the Great World Spin - McCann (4.5)
Dark Road to Darjeeling - Raybourne (4)
Murder on Bank Street - Thompson (4)
Same Kind of Different As Me - Hall & Moore (4)
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag - Bradley (5) audio
A Game of Thrones - Martin (4.5)

March

Some Danger Involved - Thomas (4)
Murder on Lexington Avenue - Thompson (3.5)
The Coroner's Lunch - Cotterill (4.5)
The Oracle of Stamboul - Lukas (3.5)
Murder on Waverly Place - Thompson (3)
A Red Herring Without Mustard - Bradley (4) audio
The Lincoln Lawyer - Connelly (3.5)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Haddon (4.5)
The Tenderness of Wolves - Penney (3.5)
The Love Knot - Chadwick (5)

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April

A Murderous Procession - Franklin (4)
Grave Goods - Franklin (4)
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - Mengistu (3.5)
Alice I Have Been - Benjamin (4.5)
Sarah's Key - de Rosnay (3.5)
The Forgotten Garden - Morton (5)
Disco for the Departed - Cotterill (4)
The Kitchen House - Grissom (5)
Thirty-Three Teeth - Cotterill (4)
Shadows and Strongholds - Chadwick (5)

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May

The Demon Parchment - Westerson (4)
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave - Cotterill (4)
The Merry Misogynist - Cotterill (4)
Serpent in the Thorns - Westerson (4)
Veil of Lies - Westerson (4)
Little Bee - Cleave (3)
Heaven Tree Trilogy - Pargeter (5+)
Zeitoun - Eggers (4)
The Invisible Wall - Bernstein (3.5)
Curse of the Pogo Stick - Cotterill (4)
Anarchy and Old Dogs - Cotterill (4.5)

June

Infidel - Ali (4)
Girl Who Played With Fire - Larsson (4.5) audio
Lily Cigar - Murphy (5)
The Limehouse Text - Thomas (4)
Falcons of Montabard - Chadwick (5)
Room - Donoghue (4)
Sweet Like Sugar - Hoffman (3)
My Bonny Light Horseman - Meyer (4) audio
Shields of Pride - Chadwick (4.5)
Girl With Dragon Tattoo - Larsson (4.5) audio
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet - Greene (4)
To Kingdom Come - Thomas (4)
The List - Fletcher (3.5)
Emperor of Lies - Sem-Sandberg (4)

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July

Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Larsson (4.5) audio
In the Plex - Levy (4)
Smokin' Seventeen - Evanovich (2)
The Moonstone - Collins (3)
The Long Night:William Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - Wick (3.5)
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter - Franklin (4.5)
Mr. Timothy - Bayard (3.5)
Treason - Whitford (4.5)
History of a Suicide - Bialosky (3.5)

August

Running Blind - Child (3) audio
The Three Musketeers - Dumas (3)
The Winter Sea - Kearsley (5)
Tripwire - Child (4) audio
The Glass Room - Mawer (3)
Good Eggs - Potts (4)
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas (5+)
Lady of the English - Chadwick (4.5)
Triangle - von Drehle (4)

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September (only 2 books -- but they were both long -- 1000+ pp -- and both excellent)

The Far Pavilions - Kaye (5)
Aztec - Jennings (5)

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October

My Reading Life - Conroy (5)
Pirate King - King (3)
Heads You Lose - Lutz (3)
Madame Tussaud - Moran (4)
Without Fail - Child audio (4)
Lionheart - Penman (4.5)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Simonson (4)
The Dark Enquiry - Raybourn (4)
Unbroken - Hillenbrand (5) audio

November

The Marsh King's Daughter - Chadwick (4.5)
Persuader - Child (4) audio
Explosive Eighteen - Evanovich (2)
in the Garden of Beasts - Larson (3.5)
The Enemy - Child (3.5) audio
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Shriver (4.5)
Troubled Bones - Jeri Westerson (4)
Celia Garth - Bristow (4.5)

December

Jubilee Trail - Bristow (4)
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Schaffer (5) audio
Holy Warrior - Donald (4.5)
Outlaw - Donald (4.5)
O. Henry stories (4.5)
The Glory Cloak - O'Brien (4)