2011 Reading.

I have done very well reading this year, even if I haven't done very well blogging.  Fifty books.  Nearly one a week.  Most pretty good, a couple of great, a couple of miserable ones.  At least once classic.  I read some of these on paper, but this year really read a lot as e-books, many out of the library.

Of these, there are only a few I rated five stars -A Discovery of Witches  - which I just loved, Doc - which made me love Doc Holliday, and is the one "best list" book that I really liked  (having made an NPR list of best books of the year),  the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - a great middle school book about growing up across different cultures within the US. 

Another I thought well worth a read include In the Sea There are Crocodiles, about a young boy making his way through Afghanistan, Iran, and other points, on his own after being abandoned for his own safety.  Based on a true story, this one is well worth giving to your teen or preteen just like The Absolutely True Diary of  A Part-Time Indian.  The third preteen-teen book worth reading is The Hunger Games.

I read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time this year.  And Up the Down Staircase for the umpteenth time.  And one true classic, A Tale of Two Cities.  

 Seven were non-fiction - have to increase that number for next year.   Several of these were memoirs - I must like memoirs.  The best of these was The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.  

I read several award winners, book list books, best of books, few of which I liked as much as the critics did.  These included the raved about The Sense of an Ending, ˆThe Tiger's Wife, State of Wonder, and Swamplandia, The Sisters Brothers - none of which really thrilled me.    

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Generally poor crime books - my guilty pleasure:

And the rest: