As many of you know, I have had numerous travels lately with long hours in airports. Then of course hand surgery laid me up for awhile (I am beginning to type again), which lead to numerous library requests (and instant Kindle downloads). Each book in this list has something to recommend itself and some will be reviewed in additional blog entries. NB many are the latest in series and need to be read in order. I especially enjoyed and highly recommend those marked with *.
2011 Book List
Non Fiction
James Buchan Frozen Desire: meaning of money
Andre Dubus III Townie: A Memoir
*Andrew Greig. The Loch of the Green Corrie
Simon Loxley The Secret History of Letters
Edward Hoagland Sex and the River Styx
Adam Nicolson Seamanship : a voyage along the wild coasts of the British Isles
*Adam Nicolson.God's secretaries: the making of the King James Bible
Adam Nicolson Sea Room: an island life in the Hebrides
Jane and Michael Stern 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: and Best Places to Eat Them
Susan Allen Toth. England for all Seasons
Fiction-Mysteries
Gerald Elias Danse Macabre
Susan Fraser King Queen Hereafter
Elly Griffiths The Janus stone
Martha Grimes Fadeaway child
Deborah Harkness A Discovery of Witches
*Brigid Pasulka A long, long time ago and essentially true
*Charles Todd A Lonely Death
*Jill Paton Walsh Attenbury Emeralds
*C.J. Sansom Heartstone
Andrew Taylor The Anatomy of Ghosts
Literature
*Lauren Belfer A Fierce Radiance
Eleanor Brown Weird Sisters
Steve Martin An Object of Desire
Biography
Amy Krouse Rosenthal Encyclopedia Of An Ordinary Life
*A.A. Gill The Angry Island: hunting the English
A.A. Gill Previous Convictions: assignments from here and there; AA Gill is Away
Romance
Jayne Ann Krentz Arcane In Too Deep
Childrens
Gregory Maguire Three Rotten Eggs (2002)
Science Fiction
Karen Marie Moning Shadowfever
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