Favorite Books - 2001 - 2009

Top Fiction Picks 2009

1. Cutting for Stone; Abraham Verghese
1. The Help; Kathryn Stockett
2. Little Bee; Chris Cleave
3. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County; Tiffany Baker
4. The Weight of Heaven; Thrity Umrigar
5. That Old Cape Magic; Richard Russo
6. Still Alice; Lisa Genova
7. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt; Beth Hoffman
8. Half Broke Horses; Jeanette Walls
9. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie; Alan Bradley
10.The Book of Bright Ideas; Sandra Kring

Top Non Fiction Picks 2009

1. Christian the Lion; Bourke and Rendall
2. The Time of My Life; Patrick Swayze and Lisa Neimi
3. The House on Sugar Beach; Helene Cooper
4. Have a Little Faith; Mitch Albom
5. The Four Agreements; Don Miguel Ruiz

Top 10 Book Picks for 2008

Top 10 (FICTION) of 2008

1. Tomato Girl; Jane Pupek
2. The Art of Racing in the Rain; Garth Stein (audio)
3. Molokai; Richard Brennert
4. Every Last Cuckoo; Kate Maloy
5. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle; David Wroblewski
6. Purple Hibiscus; Adichie (audio)
7. Testimony; Shreve
8. Skeletons at the Feast; Bohjalian
9. Unaccustomed Earth; Lahari (audio)
10. The Commoner; Schwartz (audio)

Top 10 (NON FICTION) of 2008

1. Chosen By a Horse; Richards
2. Alex and Me; Pepperberg (audio)
3. The Last Lecture; Pausch
4. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid; Bryson (audio)
5. Dreams of My Father; Obama
6. Predictably Irrational; Arieley
7. Forward From Here: Leaving Middle Age & other Adventures; Lindberg 
8. Do Dead People Watch You Shower; Bertoldi
9. Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World; Myron
10. The Numerati; Baker

  Favorite Books of 2007

187 Books Read 

Top 10 fiction and non fiction

FICTION

1. Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name; Vida
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns; Hussini
3. The Double Bind; Chris Bohjalian
4. Summers at Blue Lake; Althouse
5. The Book Thief; Zusak
6. Night Fall; Nelson DeMille
7. Gold Coast; Nelson DeMille
8. The Loop; Joe Coomer
9. The Rest of Her Life; Moriarty
10. Promise Not To Tell; Jennifer McMahon

NON FICTION

1. Eat, Pray, Love; Gilbert
2. Here If You Need Me; Braestrup
3. Feline Mystique; Simons
4. Good Dog Stay; Quindlen
5. Wall Street Guide To Identity Theft
6. Memoirs of a Misfit; Peck
7. Karma 101; Mack
8. The Little Guide To Your Well Read Life; Leveen
9. Big Pappi; David Ortiz
10. Rescuing Sprite; Levin

Favorite Books of 2006

187 Books Read

TOP  10 FICTION

1. Water For Elephants; Sarah Gruen
2. The Crimes of Jordan Wise; Pronzini
3. The Things They Carried; O'Brien
4. The Road; Comac McCarthy
5. Cage of Stars; Mitchard
6. The Thirteenth Tale; Setterfield
7. The Analyst; Jon Katzenbach
8. Wild Fire; Nelson DeMille
9. Slay Ride; Grabenstein
10. Book of Lost Things; Connolly

TOP 10 NON FICTION

1. Wisdom of Our Fathers; Tim Russert
2. The Great Hurricane; Burns
3. How Reading Changed My Life; Quindlen
4. The Blessing of the Animals; Gonzalez
5. In Cold Blood; Capote
6. Freakonomics; Leavitt
7. From Baghdad With Love; Kopelmann
8. I Feel Bad About My Neck; Ephron
9. Found Dogs; Lufkin
10. Three Weeks With My Brother; Nicholas Sparks

Favorite Books of 2005

190 Books Read 

Top 10 Favorites

Top 10 FICTION

1. Snow Flower & the Secret Fan; Lisa See
2. Kite Runner; Husinni
3. Bright Forever; Lee Martin
4. Myth of You & Me; Stewart
5. Half Broken Things; Morag Joss
6. Red Leaves; Thomas Cook
7. My Sister's Keeper; Jodi Picoult
8. Writing on the Wall; Schwartz
9. Rapture of Canaan; Reynolds
10. Follow Your Heart; Tamaro

Top 10 Non Fiction

1. The Glass Castle; Wall
2. Autobiography of a Face; Grealey
3. A Paper Life; Tatum O'Neil
4. Marley & Me; Grogan
5. The Feline Mystique; Simons
6. Making a Good Brain Great; Amen
7. The Rescue Artist; Dolnick
8. A Year of Magical Thinking; Didon
9. Never Have Your Dog Stuff; Alan Alda
10. Down Came the Rain; Brooke Shields

Favorite Books of 2004 

 READ 134 BOOKS

Top 10 favorites were:

1. Middlesex; Jeffrey Eugendies
2. Between Two Rivers; Daniel Rinaldi
3. An Inconvenient Wife; Megan Chance
4. Sudden Sea; Scotti
5. An Almost Perfect Murder; Kirshbaum
6. The Christmas Shoes; Donna Van Liere
7. Joy Comes in the Morning; Rosen
8. Island Walkers; Bemrose
9. The Usual Rules; Joyce Maynard
10. A Redbird Christmas; Fannie Flagg

Favorite Books of 2003

Read 118 Books

Top 10 favorites

1. Life of Pi; Martel
2. Crow Lake; Maryann Lawson
3. Second Glance; Jodi Picoult
4. All He Ever Wanted; Anita Shreve
5. Learning Joy From Dogs Without Collars; Lauralee Summer
6. Old School; Tobias Wolff
7. Lake of Dead Language; Carol Goodman
8. Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night; Mark Haddon
9. Beachcomber; Karen Robards
10. The Center of Everything; Laura Moriarty

Favorite Books of 2002

Read 87 books

Top 10 favorites

1. The Lovely Bones; Alice Sebold
2. Eden Close; Anita Shreve
3. Blindness; Jose Saramago
4. Tuesdays With Morrie; Mitch Albom
5. Whispers & Lies; Joy Fielding
6. Snow Island; Susan Towler
7. Gold Coast; Nelson DeMille
8. Salem Fall; Jodi Picoult
9. All the Names; Jose Saramago
10. Chasing the Dime; Michael Connelly

Favorite Books of 2001

Read 66 Books 

Top 10 favorites:

1. The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle); Amy Tan
2. Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel; Anita Shreve
3. Resistance: A Novel; Anita Shreve
4. The Inn at Lake Devine; Eleanor Lipman
5. The Bluest Eye (Vintage International); Toni Morrison
6. The Law of Similars; Chris Bohjalian
7. I Know This Much Is True: A Novel (P.S.); Wally Lamb
8. Good Harbor: A Novel;Anita Diamant
9. L.A. Dead (Stone Barrington Novels); Stuart Woods
10. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir; Frank McCourt