2009 Book List

Will be updated throughout the year. Last updated: 6/18/09

Number of English books read so far: 51 (39 non-fiction : 12 fiction)

Number of Chinese books read so far: 2

Number of books abandoned: 12

Non-Fiction:

1. Something for the Pain (One Doctor’s Account of Life and Death in the ER) by Paul Austin.
2. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
3. A Star Is Found: Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Movies by Janet Hirshenson & Jane Jenkins
4. The Traveler by Daren Simkin, Daniel Simkin
5. Two Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats by Patti Davis
6. Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini, Steve J. Martin
7. Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children’s Lives by Michael Ruhlman
8. Sweet Mandarin by Helen Tse
9. Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
10. The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
11. Toast by Nigel Slater
12. Flipping Confidential: The Secrets of Renovating Property for Profit In Any Market by Kirsten Kemp
13. Photographers and Their Images by Fi McGhee
14. Gimme Shelter by Mary Elizabeth Williams
15. How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq by Matthew Alexander
16. A Dance With the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath by Barbara Bentley
17. Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
18. Designed to Sell: Make any home the hottest property on the block by HGTV
19. Home Rules: Transform the Place You Live into a Place You’ll Love by Nate Berkus
20. Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Working Children by David L. Parker
21. Karsh: A Sixty-Year Retrospective by Yousef Karsh
22. The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir by John Grogan
23. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
24. Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People by Ken Watanabe
25. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
26. Apartment Therapy presents real homes, real people, hundreds of real design solutions by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
27. Cent-sible Homemaking by Jean Clark
28. A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg
29. $500 Room Makeovers by Lisa Quinn
30. Columbine by Dave Cullen
31. Forty-four years with the Mayo Clinic, 1908-1952 by Harry J Harwick
32. Do Your Own Home Staging by Tina Parker
33. House Beautiful – The Home Book: Creating a Beautiful Home of Your Own by Carol Spier
34. No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine by Brooks Brown
35. The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
36. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory
37. Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
38. Oil Painting: The Workshop Experience by Ted Goerschner
39. The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl by Shauna Reid

Fiction:

1. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
2. Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
3. Miracle Myx by David Diotalevi
4. All the Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
6. Life on the Refrigerator Door: Notes Between a Mother and a Daughter – A Novel by Alice Kuipers
7. Scarpetta (Scarpetta Book 16) by Patrician Cornwell
8. Testimony by Anita Shreve
9. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
10. The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle
11. Life Sentences: A Novel by Laura Lippman
12. The Myth of You and Me: A Novel by Leah Stewart

Abandoned books:

1. The Killing Circle: A Novel by Andrew Pyper
2. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. The Houses of Time by Jamil Nasir
4. A Cat Named Darwin: Embracing the Bond Between Man and Pet by William Jordan
5. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
6. Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider’s Tale of Greed, Fraud, and Ignorance by Richard Bitner
7. The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison
8. The Shack by William P. Young
9. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
10. The Day After He Left for Iraq: A Story of Love, Family, and Reunion by Melissa Seligman
11. My Happy Life by Lydia Millet
12. Style Rx: Dressing the Body You Have to Create the Body You Want by Bridgette Raes