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Amy's Choices
Thursday, October 30, 2008

8 Book Around the World Books

1. We Just Want to Live Here - Amal Rifa’i and Odelia Ainbinder (Israel/Palestine)
2. The Kommandant’s Girl - Pam Jenoff (Poland)
   
3. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
4. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan)
5. A Thousand Veils - D. J. Murphy
6. The Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer(Iran)
7. The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway(Sarajevo)
8. The Book Thief - Makus Zusak(Germany)

8 World War II Books

1. The Kommandant’s Girl – Pam Jenoff
2. Dream When You’re Feeling Blue – Elizabeth Berg
3. Resistance - Owen Sheers
4. The Nazi Officer’s Wife -Edith Hahn Beer
   
5. Dear Enemy - Jack Cavanaugh
6. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
7. The Diplomat’s Wife - Pam Jenoff
8. Clouds Over Mountains - Matt Joseph

8 Urban Fantasy Novels

1. Moon Called – Patricia Briggs
2. Ill Wind - Rachel Caine
   
3. Chill Factor – Rachel Caine
4. Heat Stroke – Rachel Caine
5. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
   
6. Any Given Doomsday - Lori Handeland
7. Kitty Takes a Holiday – Carrie Vaughn
8. The Taste of Night – Vicki Pettersson

8 Suspense/Thrillers

1. Speak No Evil – Allison Brennan
2. The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly
3. Wolf in the Shadows - Marcia Muller
   
4. A Place of Execution - Val McDermid
   
5. Red Sea - E.A. Benedek
6. Flowers for Emily - T.L. Vance
7. Divine Justice - David Baldacci
8. The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen

8 Young Adult Titles

1. Eclipse-Stephenie Meyer
2. Unwind - Neal Shusterman
   
3. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
   
4. Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
5. The Dead and the Gone - Susan Beth Pfeffer
6. The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
   
7. Gone- Michael Grant
8. The Floor of the Sky - Pamela Carter Joern
   

8 ARCs

1. The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
2. Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah
3. Songs for the Missing - Stewart O’Nan
4. Testimony - Anita Shreve
5. The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton
6. Have You Found Her? - Janice Erlbaum
7. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
8. The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry

8 Non-Fiction

1. Have You Found Her? - Janice Erlbaum
2. The Devil Came on Horseback - Brian Steidle
3. When Answers Aren’t Enough - Matt Rogers
4. The Working Poor: Invisible in America - David K. Shipler
5. Mayada, Daughter of Iraq - Jean Sasson
6. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
7. The Millionaire Next Door - Stanley and Danko
8. Scratch Beginnings - Adam Shepard
   

8 Historical Fiction

1. People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
2. The Winter Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
3. The Heretic’s Daugher - Kathleen Kent
4. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Schaffer and Barrows
6. The Bone Garden - Tess Gerrisen
   
7. The Queen's Fool - Phillipa Gregory
   
8. The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
   

Posted by Amy at 10/30/2008 08:00:00 AM 2 comments  

Labels: Amy, ARCs, Around the World, Historical fiction, Non-fiction, Suspense/Thrillers, Urban Fantasy, World War II, Young Adult

Kristina's List
Thursday, October 4, 2007

Ok, it's done!!! Now I can't wait to get started!!


1. 1st in a series
-Rolling Thunder - Mark Mynheir
-Boo - Rene Gutteridge
-The Dark Hills Divide - Patrick Carman
-At Home in Mitford - Jan Karon
-Storm Front - Jim Butcher DONE
-Magyk - Angie Sage DONE
-Man With a Load of Mischief - Martha Grimes
-Black - Ted Dekker

2. Christian Fiction
-Sweet Treats - Wanda Brunstetter
-A Ship Possessed - Alton Gansky
-My Life as a Doormat - Rene Gutteridge DONE
-Heaven’s Wager - Ted Dekker
-Tilly - Frank Peretti DONE
-Premonition - Randy Ingermanson
-Redemption - Karen Kingsbury
-Thorn in my Heart - Liz Curtis Higgs

3. 8 Books from 8 Different States
-One For the Money - Janet Evanovich (NJ)
- Since You've Been Gone - Carlene Thompson (WV)
-Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler (CA)
-Second Glance - Jodi Picoult (VT)
-Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg (MO)
-Boo - Rene Gutteridge (IN)
-Widow of the South - Robert Hicks (TN)
-Haunted - Heather Graham (VA)

4. Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
-Man With a Load of Mischief - Martha Grimes
-I is for Innocent - Sue Grafton
-Shadow Man - Cody McFadyen
-The Virgin of the Small Plains - Nancy Pickard
-Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark
-The Lucifer Messiah - Frank Cavallo
-Stitches in Time - Barbara Michaels
-Monk - Matthew Lewis

5. Young Adult
-Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer DONE
-Coraline - Neil Gaiman DONE
-Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff DONE
-The Book of Story Beginnings - Kristin Kladstrup DONE
-The Prophet of Yonwood - Jeanne DuPrau DONE
-Magyk - Angie Sage DONE
-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling DONE
-Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher DONE

6. Hardbacks on my floor beside my shelf (LOL I said there was an overflow!)
-Post Secret - Frank Warren DONE
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll DONE
-Undercover - Beth Kephart
-The Vanishing - Bentley Little
-Mary Modern - Camille De Angelis
-The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick DONE
-The Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill DONE
-The Dark Hills Divide - Patrick Carman

7. Newbery Award Winners
-Voyages of Dr. Doolittle - Hugh Lofting
-Tales from Silver Lands - Charles Finger
-The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Coatsworth DONE
-The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pene DuBois
-Invincible Louisa - Cornelia Meigs
-It's Like This Cat - Emily Neville DONE
-Bridge to Terebithia - Katherine Paterson
-The Giver - Lois Lowry DONE

8. Biographies/Memoirs
-In His Light - Danielle Steel
-A Paper Life - Tatum O'Neal
-Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox
-We Are Their Heaven - Allison DuBois
-Mosaic - Amy Grant DONE
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Posted by Anonymous at 10/04/2007 11:26:00 AM 2 comments  

Labels: biography/memoir, christian fiction, First-in-a-series, Kristina, newbery, states, Suspense/Thrillers, TBR stacks, Young Adult