My Bookshelf
Books Finished
2015
October 5: Hatchet Series (except Hatchet) by Gary Paulsen
Essential to life are food and shelter; everything else is extraneous.
September 10: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Totally life-changing! I got rid of 75% of my clothes after reading this.
September 5: Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Also can't believe I haven't read this one yet either.
August 27: Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
Can't believe I hadn't read this one.
August 23: Yes Please by Amy Poehler
August 19: rereading Narnia books: Prince Caspian, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis
June 17: George Washington's Secret Six, by Brian Kilmeade
Can't imagine the day-to-day nerves of the Americans in this spy ring.
April 6: A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
We are what we drink.
July 2: I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Political decisions also decide life and death for many innocents.
July 2: Life Below Stairs by Alison Maloney
Reads like a college research paper; would rather read the frequently quoted sources.
July 21: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Couldn't finish. The accounts of what black people in America have suffered and are still suffering at this moment is shocking and disturbing. Racism, violent racism is alive and well in our country.
October 5: Hatchet Series (except Hatchet) by Gary Paulsen
Essential to life are food and shelter; everything else is extraneous.
September 10: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Totally life-changing! I got rid of 75% of my clothes after reading this.
September 5: Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Also can't believe I haven't read this one yet either.
August 27: Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
Can't believe I hadn't read this one.
August 23: Yes Please by Amy Poehler
August 19: rereading Narnia books: Prince Caspian, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis
June 17: George Washington's Secret Six, by Brian Kilmeade
Can't imagine the day-to-day nerves of the Americans in this spy ring.
April 6: A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
We are what we drink.
July 2: I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Political decisions also decide life and death for many innocents.
July 2: Life Below Stairs by Alison Maloney
Reads like a college research paper; would rather read the frequently quoted sources.
July 21: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Couldn't finish. The accounts of what black people in America have suffered and are still suffering at this moment is shocking and disturbing. Racism, violent racism is alive and well in our country.
Books to Read
- Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky
- A History of the World in 6 Glasses, by Tom Standage
- Bonnhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
- Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, by Orson Scott Card
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris
- In the Kingdom of Ice, by Hampden Sides
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- The Whale, by Philip Hoare
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- Games Without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- Different Mirror: A history of Multicultural America
- Christianity: The First 3000 Years
- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- A Confession, by Tolstoy
- In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
- On Immunity, by Eula Biss
- Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
- Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, by Trevor Paglen
- How Music Works, by David Byrne
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann
- All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, by Stephen Kinzer
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared M. Diamond
