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Jane's List 2005

January
Hunting Unicorns - Bella Pollen (6/10)
Want to Play? - P. J. Tracey (7/10)
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (9/10)
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler (6/10)

February
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (9/10)
The American Boy - Andrew Taylor (8/10)
The Sixth Lamentation - William Broderick (8/10)
Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom (7/10)

March
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Piccoult (8/10)
Noughts and Crosses - Marjorie Blackman (6/10)
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor (7/10)
The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason (7/10)
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo (7/10)

April
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (9/10)
Eve Green - Susan Fletcher (7/10)
These Foolish Things - Deborah Moggach (7/10)
Ursula, Under - Ingrid Hill (7/10)
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (8/10)

May
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd (7/10)
Deception Point - Dan Brown (7/10)
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishigo (8/10)
The Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat (6/10)
Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson (7/10)

June
The Far Pavilions - M M Kaye (9/10)
The Ghost Writer - John Harwood (8/10)
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier (7/10)
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maughan (7/10)

July
Minotaur - Barbara Vine (8/10)
The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis (8/10)
Death & Life of Charlie St Cloud - Ben Sherwood (8/10)
Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling (9/10)
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco (5/10)
Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult (7/10)

August
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (8/10)
Atonement - Ian McEwan (8/10)
Bitten - Kelley Armstrong (6/10)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (10/10)
The Oxford Murders - Guillermo Martinez (7/10)
The Hours - Michael Cunningham (6/10)
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (7/10)
26A - Diana Evans (7/10)

September
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver (9/10)
Swallowing Grandma - Kate Long (6/10)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka(7/10)
The Memory Box - Margaret Forster (7/10)
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova (9/10)
Pompeii - Robert Harris (8/10)

October
Q and A - Vikas Swarup (7/10)
~~True History of the Kelly Gang?~~
Starman - Sara Douglass (8/10)

November
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (8/10)
Wicked - Gregory Maguire (8/10)
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett (7/10)

December
The Christmas Mystery - Jostein Gaarder (6/10)
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jenson (8/10)
The Survivor - James Herbert (5/10)
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (7/10)

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Anne's list (booksalot)

January

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Clarke, Susanna	3
Red Azalea	Min, Anchee	3
Outside Valentine	Ward, Liza	2
Mao's Last Dancer	Li, Cunxin	4.5

February

The Shadow of the Wind	Ruiz Zafon, Carlos	5
Splendid Solution	Kluger, Jeffrey	4
Pompeii	Harris, Robert	2
A Thread of Grace	Russell, Mary Doria	4
I Am Charlotte Simmons	Wolfe, Tom	1
The Little Country	De Lint, Charles	3
Away	Urquhart, Jane	2.5
Conviction	Patterson, Richard North	4.5

March

The Geographer's Library	Fasman, Jon	2
Blood Memory	Iles, Greg	4.5
The Ha-Ha	King, Dave	2
Lost Lake	Margolin, Phillip	4
Antonio's Wife	DeJohn, Jacqueline	3
Tully	Simons, Paullina	2

April

Keeper of Secrets--Day One	Dunson, John	1
Pattern Recognition	Gibson, William	3
The Known World	Jones, Edward P	2
Garnethill	Mina, Denise	3
The Cunning Man	Davies, Robertson	3

May

Dead Man's Bones		Albert, Susan Wittig	3
The Way the Crow Flies		MacDonald, Anne-Marie	5
Therapy	A	Kellerman, Jonathan	2.5
Red Leaves		Simons, Paullina	3.5
Lieberman's Folly		Kaminsky, Stuart	2.5
Killer Takes All		Spindler, Erica	3.5
Waiting for Snow in Havana		Eire, Carlos	3
Rage		Kellerman, Jonathan	2.5

June

The Electric Michelangelo		Hall, Sarah	2
Winter's Tale		Helprin, Mark	3.5
Alone		Gardner, Lisa	3
Countdown		Johansen, Iris	4
Maisie Dobbs		Winspear, Jacqueline	4
To Say Nothing of the Dog		Willis, Connie	2
The Twelfth Card		Deaver, Jeffrey	3.5
The Rosary Girls	A	Montanari, Richard	3
Under the Banner of Heaven		Krakauer, Jon	3.5
Blind Alley		Johansen, Iris	3
As I Lay Dying		Faulkner, William	3
A River Runs Through It		Maclean, Norman	2

July

Never Let Me Go		Ishiguro, Kazuo	4
Birds of a Feather		Winspear, Jacqueline	3.5
The Traveler		Hawks, John Twelve	4
The Sign of the Book		Dunning, John	3
Kisscut		Slaughter, Karen	3
Eventide	A	Haruf, Kent	3.5
Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye		Dubois, Allison	3
Dracula		Stoker, Bram	3.5
The Sound and the Fury		Faulkner, William	2
Cross Bones		Reichs, Kathy	3.5
Souls Raised From the Dead		Betts, Doris	3
Twig (kid lit)	KL	Jones, Elizabeth Orton	4
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan		See, Lisa	4.5
Pippi Longstocking	KL	Lindgren, Astrid	2
Magic Street		Card, Orson Scott	3

August

Last Witness		Hoffman, Julliane	3
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great	KL	Blume, Judy	3
A Very Long Engagement		Japrisot, Sebastien	3.5
The Virtuoso		de Moor, Margriet	3
Booked for Murder		McDermid, Val	2.5
One Thousand White Women		Fergus, Jim	4
Cast of Shadows		Guilfoile, Kevin	4
Straight into Darkness		Kellerman, Faye	3
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian		Lewycka, Marina	2.5

September

Vanishing Acts	A	Picoult, Jodi	2.5
Holy Fools		Harris, Joanne	4
Brick Road		Ali, Monica	2.5
The Widow of the South		Hicke, Robert	4
The Children of Green Knowe	KL	Boston, L M	4
Nickle and Dimed		Ehrenreich, Barbara	3
Sky Burial		Xinran	4.5
Into the Forest		Hegland, Jean	4
Yoke of the Wind		unknown	1

October

Seven Types of Ambiguity		Perlman, Eliot	3.5
Burn Journals		Runyon, Brent	3
Eleven on Top	A	Evanovich, Janet	3
Cat's Eye		Atwood, Margaret	2.5
Half Broken Things		Joss, Morag	3
The Divide		Evans, Nicholas	3
The Bright Forever	A	Lee Martin	3

November

Dreamland		Baker, Kevin	3.5
Garlic and Sapphires	A	Reichl, Ruth	3
The Historian		Kostova, Elizabeth	4
Spies	A	Frayn, Michael	2
The Town that Forgot How to Breathe		Harvey, Kenneth J	3
Ursula Under		Hill, Ingrid	3.5

December

The Bronze Horseman	Simons, Paullina	3.5
Amelia Earhart	Rich, Doris L	2.5
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax	Jensen, Liz	4
The Falls	Oates, Joyce Carol	2.5
The Last Days of Dogtown	Diamant, Anita	3
A Broken Vessel	Ross, Kate	3
Death Dance	Fairstein, Linda	2.5
A Million Little Pieces	Frey, James	3.5
The Bonesetter's Daughter	Tan, Amy	3.5

Anne in Austin

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced--Soren Kierkegaard

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Book Title	Author	Month Read	BB Rating Scale
Amsterdam	Ian McEwan	April	5
Apologizing to Dogs	Joe Coomer	August	5
Atonement	Ian McEwan	November	3
Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God	Joe Coomer	June	3
Big Sur	Jack Keroac	July	2.5
Children of God	Mary Doria Russell	August	5
Easter Island	Jennifer Vanderbes	July	3
Enduring Love	Ian McEwan	March	3.5
Essays in Love	de Botton	July	5
Ha Ha	xx	June	2
I'm Not Scared	Niccolo Armantti	October	3
Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Clarke	January	0
Memory of Running	McLarty	March	1
Million Little Pieces	James Frey	December	3.5
My Sisters Keeper	Jodi Picoult	May	3
Peyton Place	Grace Metalious	October	5
Shadow of the Wind	Zafon	January	4
Shipping News	Annie Proulous	May	1
Small Island	Andrea Levy	March	4
Snobs	Julian Fellows	September	2
Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell	July	5
Thread of Grace	Mary Doria Russell	February	3
Waiting for Snow in Havana	Eire	May	2.5
What a Carve Up	Jonathan Coe	July	5
When We Were Orphans	Ishiguro	April	1.5
Year in Provence	Mayle	September	4

Meg
Currently Reading; The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid and What is the What by Dave Eggers
Just Finished; Magicians Assistant by Ann Patchett and The World According to Garp by Irving

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January 2005 7
The Last Juror by John Grisham
Amagansett by Mark Mills -- 2 out of 5
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier 3 of 5
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman 4 of 5
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson 1.5 of 5
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons 2 of 5
Night Over Water by Ken Follett 2.5 of 5

February 2005 3
Imperial Woman by Pearl Buck (in progress)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 3.5 of 5
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty 3 of 5
Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua (in progress)

March 2005 11
The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth 3.5 of 5 (alternative history)
Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden Life of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks 4 of 5 (non-fiction)
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie 2 of 5 (non-fiction; memoir)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 3.5
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 5 out of 5
A Loving Scoundrel by Johanna Lindsay (Shhh! Don't tell anyone; it's my guilty pleasure)
Bel Canto by Anne Patchett 3 of 5
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus 3 of 5
The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart by Susanne George (non-fiction)
The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman 3 of 5
March by Geraldine Brooks 3 of 5 (historical fiction)
The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte (returned to library unfinished) 0 out of 5

April 11
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2 of 5
A Thread of Grace By Mary Doria Russell 4 of 5 (historical fiction)
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd 3 of 5
Forever by Pete Hamill
Haunted Ground Erin Hart
Lake of Sorrows Erin Hart
The Ha-ha by Dave King 3 of 5
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 3.5 of 5
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips 0 out of 5
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 3.5 of 5
Justice Faye Kellerman
Sanctuary Faye Kellerman

May 18
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman 3.75 of 5
Don't Kiss Them Goodbye by Allison DuBois -- 1 out of 5 (non-fiction)
The River King by Alice Hoffman -- 1 out of 5
Killer Smile by Lisa Scottoline 3 of 5
Serpent's Tooth Faye Kellerman
Hard Truth Nevada Barr -- 4.5 of 5
The Mapmaker's Wife Robert Whitaker (in progress) (non-fiction)
Mercy Jodi Picoult -- 3 -- of 5
Live Bait by P.J. Tracy -- 4 of 5
Dead Run by P.J. Tracy -- 4.5 of 5
Small Island by Andrea Levy -- 4 of 5
R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton -- 2.5 of 5
Unlucky in Law by Perri O'Shaughnessy -- 2.5 of 5
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
The Franklin Affair by Jim Lehrer -- 3 of 5
Suspicion of Rage by Barbara Parker -- 3 of 5
The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walters -- 4.5 out of 5
Acid Row by Minette Walters -- 4 of 5
Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich -- 2 of 5 (why do I keep reading these?)
Blood of the Prodigal by P.L. Gaus

June 9
Broken English by P.L. Gaus
With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George 4.5 of 5
The Innocents by Harlan Coben 2 of 5
Booked to Die by John Dunning
The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning
Sign of the Book by John Dunning
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult 4 of 5
Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes 3 of 5

July 8
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 5 of 5 (almost)
Souls Raised from the Dead by Doris Betts 4.5 of 5
The Year of Pleasures Elizabeth Berg 3 of 5
Blindness Jose Saramago 4.75 of 5
Locked Rooms Laurie R. King 4 of 5
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince J.K. Rowling 3 of 5
We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 5 of 5
Void Moon Michael Connelly barely 1 of 5

August 10
Petty Treason by Madeleine Robins 2 of 5
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See 4 of 5 (historical fiction; cultural)
These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881 - 1901, Arizona Territories by Nancy E. Turner (historical fiction)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 4.5 of 5
Bess: a woman's life in the early 1900s by Carol McManus 2 of 5 (non-fiction)
Walking West by Noelle Sickels 4.5 of 5 (non-fiction)
Sarah's Quilt: Arizona Territories, 1906 by Nancy E. Turner (historical fiction)
Trail of Thread by Nancy Kubalek (non-fiction)
The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas almost 3 of 5 ((historical fiction)
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus (historical fiction)

September 9
Snobs by Julian Fellowes 3 of 5
The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly 2 of 5 (historical fiction)
Cast of Shadows by Kevin Guilfoile 2.75 of 5
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman 2.5 of 5
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle 3 of 5 (non-fiction; memoir)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Red Hat Club by Haywood Smith
The Red Hat Club Rides Again by Haywood Smith
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy

October 7
The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
The Babes in the Wood by Ruth Rendell
The Crocodile Bird by Ruth Rendell
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan 4 of 5
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell

November 7
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson 4 of 5 (non-fiction)
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies Alexander McCall Smith
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (historical fiction)
Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill
The Closers by Michael Connelly
Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris
Ya-Yas in Bloom by Rebecca Wells

December 6
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Every Secret Thing by Larua Lippman
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Karen

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

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