2011 Reading

Instead of joining online reading challenges in 2011, my book club girls decided to something different this year, inspired by a blog idea discovered by alisonwonderland. We’re doing our own list swap reading challenge!  The idea is for each of us to generate a book list of five books for each member of the club that we think that person would enjoy reading.  That means each of us will have 30 books recommended to us by people who know what we like to read.  It was actually very fun to come up with the lists for other gals as I looked through their goodreads lists and thought about books I had read that they might enjoy.  It was also interesting to see the book lists they came up with for me.  Quite an eclectic list I’m excited to start on next year, and all but six are in my personal library or my local library.  The entire swap list is on our book club blog but here’s my list:

For Sue from Alison

• Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford, by J. Belinda Yandell
• Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
• The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
• Beauty, by Robin McKinley
• The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo

For Sue from Karen

• Faro’s Daughter, by Georgette Heyer
• Charles & Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith, by Deborah Heiligman
• Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons
• Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, by James L. Swanson
• The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

For Sue from Holly

• The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
• The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
• Persuasion, by Jane Austen
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert O’Brien
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach

For Sue from Leslie

• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, by Terry Ryan
• The Magic of Ordinary Days, by Ann Howard Creel
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
• East, by Edith Pattou

For Sue from Natalie

• Each Little Bird that Sings, by Deborah Wiles
• The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Magic of Ordinary Days, by Ann Howard Creel
• Emma, by Jane Austen
• Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis

For Sue from Linda

• A Walk in the Woods – Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, by Bill Bryson
• Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
• The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
• Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
• The Blessing Way, by Tony Hillerman