Friday, January 1, 2010

2010 Pub Reading Challenge

Thanks to Michelle for hosting this challenge again this year.  I enjoyed this one in 2009.
Would you like to sign up (10 book minimum)? If so....Find out more details HERE
  1. Remarkable Creatures; Tracy Chevalier - 4.5/5
  2. Blacklands; Belinda Bauer - 4/5
  3. Secrets of Eden; Chris Bohjalian
  4. Making Rounds With Oscar; David Dosa M.D. - 5/5
  5. Noah's Compass; Anne Tyler - 5/5
  6. Not My Daughter; Barbara Delinsky - 4/5
  7. Making Toast; Roger Rosenblatt - 4.5/5
  8. The Girl Who Chased the Moon; S. Addison Allen - 4/5
  9. Unfinished Desires; Gail Godwin- 4/5
  10. The Solitude of Prime Numbers; Paulo Giordano - 5/5
  11. Letter To My Daughter; George Bishop - 4/5 
  12. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag; A. Bradley - 4.5/5 
  13. The Wife's Tale; Lori Lansens - 5/5 
  14. Wench; Perkins-Valdez - 4.5/5 
  15. Imperfect Birds; Anne Lamott - 3/5 
  16. House Rules; Jodi Picoult (audio) - 5/5 
  17. The Language of Secrets; Dianne Dixon - 2/5 
  18. How Not To Look Fat; Charla Krupp - 5/5 
  19. The Long Song; Andrea Levy - 4/5 
  20. Lost; Alice Lichtenstein - 3/5 
  21. The Forty Rules of Love; E. Shafak - (audio) 4.5/5 
  22. The Season of Second Chances; Diane Meier - 4.5/5 
  23. Bloodroot; Amy Greene (audio) - 4/5 
  24. Winging It; Jenny Gardiner - 4/5 
  25. The Lake Shore Limited; Sue Miller - 3.5/5 
  26. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; Skloot - 4.5/5 
  27. Caught; Harlan Coben - 4/5 (audio) 
  28. How High the Moon; Sandra Kring - 5/5 
  29. Fast, Fresh and Green; Susie Middleton - 4/5
  30. Beatrice and Virgil; Yann Martel - 4.5/5 
  31. One Good Dog; Susan Wilson - 4.5/5 (audio) 
  32. Stuff: Compulsive hoarding and the Meaning of Things; Frost and Stektee - 4/5 
  33. Perfect Reader; Maggie Pouncey - 4/5 
  34. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake; Aimee Bender- 4/5 
  35. Whiter Than Snow; Dallas (audio) 4/5 
  36. The Postmistress; Sarah Blake - 2.5/5 (audio)
  37. The Walk; Richard Paul Evans - 2/5 (audio)
  38. Christian, the Hugging Lion; Richardson, Parnell and Bates - 4/5
  39. Hot House Flower and the 9 Plants of Desire; Berwin (audio) 4/5
  40. Private Life; Jane Smiley - 4/5 
  41. The Murderer's Daughters; Randy Susan White - 4.5/5
  42. Hotel Iris; Yoko Ogawa - 4.5/5
  43. Men and Dogs; Katie Crouch - (audio) 3.5/5 
  44. The Lovers; Vendela Vida - 4.5/5 
  45. Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay; Beverly Jensen - 4/5 
  46. Worst Case; Patterson and Ledwidge - audio 3/5 
  47. Sea Escape; Lynne Griffin - 4/5 
  48. Live To Tell; Lisa Gardner - 4/5 
  49. House on Oyster Creek; Heidi Jon Schmidt - 3.5/5 
  50. Love is the Best Medicine; Dr. Nick Trout - 3.5/5 
  51. Backseat Saints; Joshilyn Jackson - 4.5/5 
  52. My Name is Mary Sutter; Robin Oliveria - 5/5 
  53. Biblioburro: a true story from Columbia; Winter - 5/5 
  54. The Red Thread; Ann Hood - 4.5/5 
  55. Blind Hope; Kim Meeder - 2/5
  56. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet; Mitchell - 4.5/5
  57. The Good Daughters; Joyce Maynard - 5/5 
  58. The Lion; Nelson DeMille (audio) - 4/5 
  59. Such a Pretty Face; Cathy Lamb - 4.5/5
  60. Neighborhood Watch; Cammie mcGovern - 4/5
  61. The Gendarme; Mark Mustian - 4.5/5
  62. The Good Psychologist; Noam Shpancer - 4/5
  63. Fragile; Lisa Unger - 4/5 
  64. I Thought You Were Dead; Pete Nelson - 5/5 
  65. A Secret Kept; deRosnay - 2.5/5
  66. Room; Emma Donoghue - 4.5/5 
  67. Mr. Peanut; Adam Ross - 4/5
  68. You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know; Heather Sellers - 4/5 
  69. Lady Matador's Hotel; Cristina Garcia - 4/5 
  70. Resurrection in May; Lisa Samson - 3/5 
  71. Fall of Giants; Ken Follett - 5/5 
  72. The Heights; Peter Hedges - 2/5 
  73. Girl in Translation; Jean Kwok - 4.5/5 
  74. The Bells; Richard Harvell - 5/5 
  75. Interrupting Chicken; David Ezra Stein - 5/5 
  76. The Healer; Carol Cassella - 4/5 
  77. Santa Fe Edge; Stuart Woods - 2/5 
  78. Moonlight Mile; Dennis LeHane - 3.5/5 
  79. Zoo Story; Thomas French - 4/5 
  80. Monsters Eat Whiny Children; Bruce Eric Kaplan - 4/5 
  81. Freedom; Jonathan Franzen - 4/5 
  82. Strangers at the Feast; Jennifer Vanderbes - 5/5 
  83. Oh No She Didn't; Clinton Kelly - 5/5 
  84. Barefoot Contessa: How Easy Is That? ; Ina Garten - 3.5/5
  85. By Nightfall; Cunningham - 4/5
  86. Llama, Llama Holiday Drama; Dewdney - 4/5 
  87. A Cup of Friendship; Rodriguez - 3.5/5
  88. Last Days of Ptolemy Grey; Mosley - 4.5/5
  89. The Lonely Polygamist; Udall - 4.5/5
  90. Unbroken; Hillenbrand - 5/5

6 comments:

  1. I'm glad you gave a link to click, because at first, I thought it referred to some kind of PUB books, like, I don't know, about beer? who knows! (shows you where my head is so soon after New Year's Eve). However, having followed your link, I now see that PUB doesn't refer to drinking at all! :--)

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  2. Oooooh, I didn't realize this was going on again. I must participate!!

    Enjoy this one!

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  3. Good luck with all your challenges, Diane.

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