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Liittynyt: Jan 6, 2008

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Betty

About My Library

I like a large range of books - literary fiction, mysteries, some sci-fi, award-winning books. I don’t have room to keep many books so most leave as they are read – to a library sale usually. Of course, if I read some of the many unread books on my shelves, I’d have more room.

Top Books of 2021

Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin
Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht

Top Books of 2020:

The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Top Books of 2019:
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Top Books of 2018:
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kruegr
Black River by S.M. Hulse
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

Top Books of 2017:
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Top Books of 2016:
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
The Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Top Reads of 2015:
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers by Mary Roach
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Top Reads of 2014:
The Seamtress by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
In the Woods by Tana French
Rural Free by Rachel Peden

Top Reads of 2013:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister
Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch

Top Reads of 2012:
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
March by Geraldine Brooks
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey by Holley Bishop

Top Reads of 2011:
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Comfort: A Journey Through Grief by Ann Hood
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
My Life in France by Julia Child

Top Reads of 2010:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl

Top Books of 2009:
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
A Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg

Top Books of 2008:
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach
The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle
The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg
Longitude by Dava Sobel

About Me

My husband and I are both retired and live in a condo community in the small state of Rhode Island. In addition to reading, I also like to make quilts.

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