So many books, so little time. Here’s a running list of books I’ve completed in ’08:
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Betsy’s Wedding (Maud Hart Lovelace)
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The Bitch in the House (Cathi Hanauer, editor)
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (Terry Ryan)
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Imperial Woman (Pearl S. Buck)
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The Man of My Dreams (Curtis Sittenfeld)
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These Happy Golden Years (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
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The First Four Years (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
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Something to Declare (Julia Alvarez)
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P.S. I Love You (Cecilia Ahern)
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A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
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The Palace of Illusions (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni)
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A Wind in the Door (Madeleine L’Engle)
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Madeleine L’Engle)
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The $64 Tomato (William Alexander)
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In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Michael Pollan)
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The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (Gail Tsukiyama)
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Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
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Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons (Lorna Landvik)
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Eat Cake (Jeanne Ray)
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Take the Cannoli (Sarah Vowell)
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Bean Blossom Dreams (Sallyann J Murphy)
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You Are Your Choices (Alexandra Stoddard)
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East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
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Waiting for Birdy (Catherine Newman)
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The Senator’s Wife (Sue Miller)
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Forever in Blue: The 4th Summer of the Sisterhood (Ann Brashares)
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Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant (ed. Jenni Ferrari-Adler)
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Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Belin)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
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The Wednesday Sisters (Meg Waite Clayton)
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Comfort Food (Kate Jacobs)
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Long Time No See (Susan Isaacs)
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Funny in Farsi (Firoozeh Dumas)
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The Year of Living Biblically (A.J. Jacobs)
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I Was Told There’d Be Cake (Sloane Crosley)
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Laughing Without an Accent (Firoozeh Dumas)
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Twilight (Stephanie Meyer)