The books I read in 2011 – in reverse chronological order. The date is the date I finished reading, according to my goodreads account! I started with an initial goal to read 55 books in 2011 and reset it to be 70! I accomplished it, thanks to audiobooks and Ferragosto. 🙂
* = book club books (Fillmore Central Friends)
** = audiobooks
Other bookie highlights of 2011 –
- Re-reading the Harry Potter books via audio before the final movie release (and attending the midnight showing of the final movie!)
- Meeting Kamala Nair, local author now in NYC, writer of “The Girl in the Garden,” and winning a doorprize at the library!
- Seeing a lot of movies based on books (Sarah’s Key, One Day, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Jane Eyre, Harry Potter #8 … to name a few). They’re making a new version of Anna Karenina so I will see that and will probably catch up with a few classic versions first.
| 1 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | (12/30/11) |
| 2 | The Paris Wife | Paula McLain | (12/27/11) |
| 3 | I Feel Bad About my Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman** | Nora Ephraon | (12/13/11) |
| 4 | Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness | Dominique Browning | (12/12/11) |
| 5 | The Book Thief* | Markus Zusak | (12/11/11) |
| 6 | The Uncoupling ** | Meg Wolitzer | (12/6/11) |
| 7 | What a Woman Must Do | Faith Sullivan | (11/16/11) |
| 8 | Bossypants** | Tina Fey | (11/12/11) |
| 9 | Gift from the Sea | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | (11/10/11) |
| 10 | A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life | Donald Miller | (11/10/11) |
| 11 | The Wisdom of My Grandmothers | Adriana Trigiani | (11/2011) |
| 12 | Vaclav and Lena: A Novel ** | Haley Tanner | (11/2011) |
| 13 | A Vintage Affair: A Novel | Isabel Wolff | (10/22/11) |
| 14 | Then Came You | Jennifer Weiner | (10/17/11) |
| 15 | My Life in France** | Julia Child | (10/13/11) |
| 16 | Loving Frank * | Nancy Horan | (10/11/11) |
| 17 | Ella Minnow Pea | Mark Dunn | (10/4/11) |
| 18 | Summer and the City (The Carrie Diaries #2) | Candace Bushnell | (9/29/11) |
| 19 | Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People ** | Amy Sedaris | (9/28/11) |
| 20 | Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes | Elizabeth Bard | (9/22/11) |
| 21 | The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake ** | Aimee Bender | (9/20/11) |
| 22 | Attachments | Rainbow Rowell | (9/7/11) |
| 23 | The Lover’s Dictionary | David Levithan | (9/7/11) |
| 24 | Rich Again | Anna Maxted | (9/3/11) |
| 25 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret ** | Brian Selznick | (8/29/11) |
| 26 | The Piano Teacher | Janice Y.K. Lee | (8/28/11) |
| 27 | Anybody Out There? (Walsh Family #4) ** | Marian Keyes | (8/24/11) |
| 28 | The Happiness Project | Gretchen Rubin | (8/17/11) |
| 29 | Wedding Season | Katie Fforde | (8/16/11) |
| 30 | Wild Designs | Katie Fforde | (8/14/11) |
| 31 | The Housekeeper and the Professor | Yoko Ogawa | (8/7/11) |
| 32 | The Art of French Kissing | Kristin Harmel | (8/4/11) |
| 33 | Love Letters | Katie Fforde | (7/31/11) |
| 34 | The Girl Who Fell From the Sky | Heidi W. Durrow | (7/30/11) |
| 35 | House Rules | Jodi Picoult | (7/27/11) |
| 36 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | (7/23/11) |
| 37 | A Visit from the Good Squad ** | Jennifer Egan | (7/19/11) |
| 38 | The Girl in the Garden | Kamala Nair | (7/16/11) |
| 39 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (#7) ** | J.K. Rowling | (7/12/11) |
| 40 | Olive Kitteridge * | Elizbeth Strout | (7/9/11) |
| 41 | Second Thyme Around | Katie Fforde | (7/2011) |
| 42 | Highland Fling | Katie Fforde | (6/28/11) |
| 43 | Stately Pursuits | Katie Fforde | (6/23/11) |
| 44 | Minding Frankie | Maeve Binchy | (6/16/11) |
| 45 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (#6) ** | J.K. Rowling | 6/16/2011 |
| 46 | The Carrie Diaries(#1) | Candace Bushnell | (6/11/11) |
| 47 | Sweet Revenge (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #14) ** | Diane Mott Davidson | (6/9/11) |
| 48 | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford | (5/31/11) |
| 49 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoneix (#5) ** | J.K. Rowling | (5/25/11) |
| 50 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (#4) ** | J.K. Rowling | (5/4/11) |
| 51 | Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand ** | Helen Simonson | (5/2/11) |
| 52 | The Hundred-Foot Journey: A Novel | Richard Morais | (4/19/11) |
| 53 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (#3) ** | J.K. Rowling | (4/13/11) |
| 54 | Saving CeeCee Honeycutt * | Beth Hoffman | (4/9/11) |
| 55 | Heart and Soul | Maeve Binchy | (4/2/11) |
| 56 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (#2) ** | J.K. Rowling | (4/2011) |
| 57 | Jane Eyre ** | Charlotte Bronte | (3/24/11) |
| 58 | Mockingbird | Kathryn Erskine | (3/24/11) |
| 59 | Juliet, Naked | Nick Hornby | (3/20/11) |
| 60 | Plain Truth * | Jodi Picoult | (3/9/11) |
| 61 | Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story ** | Sue Monk Kidd | (3/4/11) |
| 62 | One Day | David Nicholls | (2/27/11) |
| 63 | Brava, Valentine: A Novel ** | Adriana Trigiani | (2/22/11) |
| 64 | Faking It (Dempsey’s #2) | Jennifer Crusie | (2/15/11) |
| 65 | Every Last One ** | Anna Quindlen | (2/9/11) |
| 66 | The Summer We Read Gatsby: A Novel | Danielle Ganek | (2/6/11) |
| 67 | The Position | Meg Wolitzer | (2/2/11) |
| 68 | The Magicians ** | Lev Grossman | (1/29/11) |
| 69 | The Virgin of Small Plains | Nancy Pickard | (1/16/11) |
| 70 | Her Fearful Symmetry ** | Audrey Niffenegger | (1/13/11) |
| 71 | Sarah’s Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | (1/8/11) |
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