Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Books of 2011
- Martin and Osa ~ Kelly Enright
- Opportunities: Jamie Leith in Dairien ~ Ian Hall
- The Bean Trees ~ Barbara Kingsolver
- Shanghai Girls ~ Lisa See
- The Poisonwood Bible ~ Barbara Kingsolver
- Water For Elephants ~ Sara Gruen
- Shoot the Moon ~ Billie Letts
- Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man ~ Fannie Flagg
- The 8th Confession ~ James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
- The Kitchen God's Wife ~ Amy Tan
- The World Below ~ Sue Miller
- 10th Anniversary ~ James Patterson w/ Maxine Paetro
- The Miracle of Mercy Land ~ River Jordan
- Intrepreter of Maladies ~ Jhumpa Lahiri
- Shepherd's Abiding ~ Jan Karon
- Vampire Academy ~ Richelle Mead
- The Christmas Cookie Club ~ Ann Pearlman
- Private ~ James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames ~ David Sedaris
- Black & White ~ Dani Shapiro
- Pawley's Island ~ Dorthea Benton Frank
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe ~ Fannie Flagg
- The Book of Lost Things ~ John Connolly
- Don't Blink ~ James Patterson & Howard Roughan
- Light From Heaven ~ Jan Karon
- Consider the Lobster (and other essays) ~ David Foster Wallace
- Once in a Promised Land ~ Laila Halaby (book club)
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan ~ Lisa See
- Stuart a life backwards ~ Alexander Masters
- In This Mountain ~ Jan Karon
- Worst Case ~ James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
- The Art of Racing in the Rain ~ Garth Stein
- Unaccustomed Earth ~ Jhumpa Lahiri
- Lost and Found ~ Carolyn Parkhurst
- A Common Life ~ Jan Karon
- The Reader ~ Bernhard Schlink
- Blindness ~ José Saramago
- A New Song ~ Jan Karon
- We Need to Talk About Kevin~ Lionel Shriver (book club)
- Out to Canaan ~ Jan Karon
- The Girl Who Played With Fire ~ Stieg Larsson
- A Thousand Splendid Suns ~~ Khaled Hosseini (read it again for book club)
- These High Green Hills ~~ Jan Karon
- Life if Pi ~~ Yann Martel
- Moloka'i ~~ Alan Brennert
- The Story of My Life An Afghan girl on the other side of the sky ~~ Farah Ahmedi w/ Tamim Ansary
- A Light in the Window ~~ Jan Karon
- I Alex Cross ~~James Patterson
- Alex Cross's Trial ~~ James Patterson & Richard Dilallo
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ~~Douglas Adams
- The Four Agreements ~ Don Miguel ( sadly I did not finish this book. It was too weird for my taste)
- Chocolat ~ Joanne Harris
- At Home in Mitford ~~ Jan Karon
- A Wrinkle in Time ~~ Madeleine L'Engle
Books of 2010
- the curious incident of the dog in the night-time ~~ mark haddon
- A Three Dog Life ~~Abigail Thomas
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia ~~Elizabeth Gilbert
- Stones from the River~~ Ursula Hegi
- True Colors ~~Kristin Hannah
- Map of Bones ~~ James Rollins
- A Thousand Splendid Suns ~~ Khaled Hosseini
- Making Money ~ Terry Pratchett
- The 9th Judgement ~ James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
- The Time Traveler's Wife ~ Audrey Niffenrgger
- The Book Thief ~ Markus Zusak
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress~~Dai Sijie
- Wicked. The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ~~Gregory Maguire
- Big Trouble ~~ Dave Barry
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid ~~ Bill Bryson
- Secret Life of Bees ~ Sue Kidd
- The Lovely Bones ~ Alice Siebold
- Heart and Soul ~Maeve Binchey
- Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books,Not Bombs , in Afghanistan and Pakistan ~Greg Mortensen
- Still Alice ~ Lisa Genova
- Twilight ~ Stephenie Meyer
- The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain ~ Andrew M. Greeley
Books of 2009
- American Shaolin. Flying Kicks,Buddhist Monks and the Legend of Iron Crotch. An Odessey in the New China~Matthew Polly
- Merle's Door~Lessons From A Free Thinking Dog~Ted Kerasote
- Against Medical Advice~James Patterson and Hal Friedman
- The Things They Carried~~Tim O'Brien
- Three Cups of Tea~~ Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo~~Stieg Larsson
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat~~Oliver Sacks
- Hey Mister, Your Alligator's Loose!~Gary K. Clarke
- The Last Oracle~James Rollins
- My Sister's Keeper ~ Jodi Picoult
- Cross Country ~~ James Patterson
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian~~ Sherman Alexie
- To Kill A Mockingbird~~Harper Lee
- The Echo Maker~~Richard Powers
- Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough
- Light of the Moon...Luanne Rice
- Double Cross...James Patterson
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again... David Foster Wallace
- Nickel and Dimed.on not getting by in America....Barbara Ehrenreich
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