Reading List

Everyday, whenever the girls nap/sleep/rest/play quietly for two seconds, I read.

2013

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Set Loose, No Other Love and Tempt Me by Isabel Morin
Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Come Back to Me by Melissa Foster
Schroder by Amity Gage
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Stranger Here: How Weight Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed With My Head by Jen Larsen
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iverson

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2012

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong
Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Three Stages of Amazement by Carol Edgarian
Mitten Strings for God by Katrina Kenison
What I Thought I Knew by Alice Eve Cohen
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Signs of Life by Natalie Taylor
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillipe Sendker
Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott
The Science of Yoga by William J. Broad
Defending Jacob by William Landay
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
Wild by Cheryl Strayed

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Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
The Widow's War: a Novel by Sally Gunning
How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Incendiary by Chris Cleave
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarity
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrich
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

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2011


Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Helen of Pasadena by Lian Dolan
Love and Anger: The Parental Dilemma by Nancy Samalin
Understanding Girls with ADHD by Patricia O. Quinn, Kathleen G. Nadeau, and Ellen B. Littman
The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein
The Stay at Home Survival Guide by Melissa Stanton
Half a Life by Darin Strauss
The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club by Gil Mcneil
Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect-Life by Faulkner Fox
Half Baked by Alexa Stevenson
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Poser, My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer 
To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife by Caitlin Flanagan
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
Swamplandia! by Karen Russel
Room by Emma Donoghue
Without a Map by Meredith Hall
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Bossypants by Tina Fey
This is Not the Story You Think It Is.... by Laura Munson
Long Drive Home by Will Allison
The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
The Tiger's Wife   by Tea Obrect 
The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg

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You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Anti-Romantic Child by Priscilla Gilman
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Quirky Kids by Perri Klass, MD and Maureen Costello, MD
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Finn
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
The Dirty Life by Kristen Kimball
Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline by Becky Bailey

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