December 2009

Books Purchased:

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (present)
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak (present)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (present)
The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford (present)

Books Read:

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay

November 2009

Books Purchased:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Funny Business by Leonard Marcus
Eat, Memory edited by Amanda Hesser
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink edited by David Remnick
The Paris Review Interviews vol. IV edited by Philip Gourevitch
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

Books Read:

Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
Funny Business: Conversations With Writers of Comedy by Leonard S. Marcus

October 2009

Books Purchased:

The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart
Fire by Kristin Cashore
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
Bright-sided by Barbara Ehrenreich

Books Read:

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
Cherries in Winter by Suzan Colon
Making Mischief by Gregory Maguire
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers

September 2009

Books Purchased:

Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Pilgrims by Garrison Keillor
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
For Grace Received by Valeria Parrella
Best American Non-Required Reading 2009 edited by Dave Eggers
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones (present)
Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer (present)
A Spy on the Bus by Margean Gladysz (present)
Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation by Gregory Maguire  (present)

Cooking With Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson (present)
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Books Read:

Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni
I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones 

August 2009

Books Purchased:

Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery

Books Read:

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (re-read)
Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandall
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
Blankets by Craig Thompson
George, Being George edited by Nelson W. Aldrich Jr.

July 2009

Books Purchased:

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Books Read:

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (re-read)
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty (re-read)
Lolita by Vladimir Naboko
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (library)
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume (re-read)

June 2009

Books Purchased:

Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Literary New York by Susan Edmiston and Linda D. Cirino
77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor
American Eve by Paula Uruburu
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Books Read:

The Long-Winded Lady by Maeve Brennan
Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright (library)
Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott (library)
American Eve by Paula Uruburu
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright (library)
Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi (library)

May 2009

Books Purchased:

Alice, Let’s Eat by Calvin Trillin
Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
A Big Storm Knocked it Over by Laurie Colwin
The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Dairies and Letters by Barbara Pym
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
American Food Writing edited by Molly O’Neill
Alone in the Kitchen With an Eggplant edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenburg
Food With the Famous by Jane Grigson
The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2002 edited by Dave Eggers
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
A Mess of Everything by Miss Lasko-Gross

Books Read:

Betsy and the Great World by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace  (re-read)
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenburg
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Lucky by Gabrielle Bell (library)
Escape from “Special” by Miss Lasko-Gross (library)
When I’m Old and Other Stories by Gabrielle Bell  (library)
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (library)
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
A Mess of Everything by Miss Lasko-Gross
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 

April 2009

Books Purchased:

Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
Cecil and Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell
P. G. Wodehouse: In His Own Words by P. G. Wodehouse, Barry Day & Tony Ring
The Luck of the Bodkins by P. G. Wodehouse
Ring for Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
America Eats! by Pat Willard
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
The Long Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker by Maeve Brennan
Beard on Bread by James Beard
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Books Read:

Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Cecil and Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy Was a Junior by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)
Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace (re-read)

Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin (library)

March 2009

Books Purchased:

Comfort me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre le Faye
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Love As Always, Kurt Vonnegut as I Knew Him by Loree Rackstraw
A Little History of the World by E. H. Combrich
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl (library)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernieres (library)
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Love as Always, Kurt Vonnegut as I Kne4w Him by Loree Rackstraw
The Rose Variations by Marisha Chamberlain (library)
French Milk by Lucy Knisley (library)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

February 2009

Books Purchased:

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse
Maus I by Art Spiegelman
The Best American Comics 2006 edited by Harvey Pekar
The Way It Wasn’t by James Laughlin
Sima’s Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Trust Me by John Updike
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Rosie by Anne Lamott
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
This I Believe II edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman

Books Read:

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (library)
Comfort Me With Apples by Ruth Reichl (library)
Sima’s Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

January 2009

Books Purchased:

The Writing Diet by Julia Cameron
Meet Mr. Mulliner by P. G. Wodehouse
Lord Emsworth and Others by P. G. Wodehouse

The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories by Eudora Welty
One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty

Books Read:

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
The Writing Diet by Julia Cameron
The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (library)
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (library)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl (library)
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon