Years Past0

2012:

• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
• Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen. Also read Quindlen’s: How Reading Changed my Life, and Being Perfect. And her novel Every Last One
• Blue Angel by Francine Prose. Also, My New American Life
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• Taft by Ann Patchett
• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
• Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott
• The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
• Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother by Beth Ann Fennelly

2011:

• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• The Girl who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (don’t usually like sci-fi, but came highly recommended) 
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett