Kathiep- I think it was the book about Carly Simon and several other female singers. I can’t remember the name but that should be enough to start your search.
Well, if that’s the book you are looking for, I happen to know the title. It’s “Girls Like Us,” by Sheila Weller. Hope that helps!
That is it! And here I am working at the library. Thanks!
Summary beginning 10-13-2007:
Daniel Mendelsohn “The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million” - Holocaust
Howell “Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations”
Diane Setterfield “The Thirteenth Tale” - Gothic tale
Marcus Zusak “The Book Thief”
Temple Grandin “Animals in Translation”
Michael Chabon “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union”
Jeffrey Eugenides “Middlesex”
Nicole Krauss “The History of Love”
Toni Morrison “Beloved”
Jane Smiley “Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Novel”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez “Love In The Time Of Cholera”
Michael Pollan “Botany of Desire”
“Faith of My Fathers” & “Worth the Fighting For” both by John McCain
“The Nine” by Jeffrey Toobin
Kristoffer Garin “Devils on the Deep Blue Sea”
Un-Christian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Chirstianity…and why it matters, by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
Richard K. Morgan: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies
Elizabeth Gilbert “Eat, Pray, Love”
“The Myth of the Rational Voter”
Richard Preston “Wild Trees”
Lorrie Moore’s “Birds of America”
Timothy Ferris “Seeing in the Dark”
Khaled Hosseini “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Sara Gruen “Water for Elephants”
Irene Nemirovsky “Suite Francaise”
Greg Mortinson “Three Cups of Tea”
Stephen White “Kill Me”
Arden second edition “Hamlet”
Rowling “Deathly Hallows”
David Eggers “What is the What” “lost boys” of Sudan
Yann Martel “Life of Pi”
Barbara Kingsolver “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Half of a Yellow Sun”
Nicola Barker “Darkmans”
Philip Roth “Everyman”
Peter Hessler “River Town”
Doris Lessing “The Sweetest Dream”
Cormac McCarthy “The Road”, “No Country for Old Men”
Jenny McCarthy “Louder than Words”
Paul Monette “Borrowed Time”
David Kirby “The House on Boulevard St.” poems
Junot Diaz “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
Janine Walls “The Glass Castle”
Allen Shawn “Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life”
Elyn Saks “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness”
Kate Berridge “Madame Tussaud - A Life in Wax”
Phillip Pullman “His Dark Materials” series
Robert Aronowitz “Unnatural History”
John Krakauer “Into the Wild”
Kiran Desai “The Inheritance of Loss”
Timothy Ferriss “The 4-Hour Workweek”
Michael Gates Gill “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else”
Stephen L. Carter “New England White”
Sena Jeter Naslund “Abundance”
Tracy Kidder “Mountains Beyond Mountains”
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Debra Dean “The Madonnas of Leningrad” Alzheimer’s
Amy Bloom “Away”
Nancy Horan “Loving Frank” Frank Lloyd Wright
Carlos Ruiz Zafon “Shadow of the Wind”
Kingsolver “Poinsonwood Bible”
Betty Smith " A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
“The Great Influenza”
Austen “Pride and Prejudice”
John Scalzi “Old Man’s War”
Rebecca Wells “The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”
Wally Lamb “I Know This Much Is True”
John Irwing “A Prayer for Owen Meanie”
Willa Cather “O Pioneers”, “My Antonia”
Chris Bohjalian “The Buffalo Soldier”
Amy Tan “The Joy Luck Club”
Maxine Swann “Flower Children”
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation, “Anna Karenina”
Sarah Dunant "Birth of Venus, “In the Company of the Courtesan”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Herland and With Her In Ourland”
Michael Krasnow “My life as a male anorexic”
"Ethan of Athos / Lois McMaster Bujold.
“Glory season” / David Brin.
“Maximum light” / Nancy Kress
Rita Gelman Gilman “Tales of a Female Nomad”
Arlene Blum “Annapurna: A Womans Place”
Bryce Courtenay “The Power of One” boxing
Natalie Angier “Woman”
“God Is Not Great”
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Michael Malone “Handling Sin” travel
David Blight “A Slave No More”
“The China Syndrome”
“The Lord of the Rings”
Hermione Lee “Edith Wharton”
Joan Didion “Year of Magical Thinking”
Donna M. Gershten “Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth”
Edward Rutherfurd “Russka”
Jonathon Harr “The Lost Painting”
Jonathan Safran Foer “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
Laurence Bergreen “Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu”
Geraldine Brooks “March”
Ben Mezrich “Rigged”
Michael Pollan “Omnivore’s Dilemma”
Mohsin Hamid “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
William Maxwell “Early Novels and Stories”
Eric Weiner “The Geography of Bliss”
Ariana Franklin “Mistress of the Art of Death” medieval murder mystery
Marilynne Robinson “Gilead”
“Peace Like a River” Leif Enger
Barbara Kingsolver “Prodigal Summer”
Michael Cunningham “The Hours”
Ann Pancake “Strange as this Weather Has Been” mining areas of W. VA.
Clive James “Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts”
“Charlie Wilson’s War”
Mary Doria Russell “A Thread of Grace” Italy surrender WWII
Primo Levi “The Periodic Table” Italian Jew
Ken Follet “The Pillars of the Earth”
“Boys adrift, The five factors driving the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men”
Benjamin Black “Christine Falls” 50’s Irish
Walter Mosley “Fearless Jones” mystery trilogy, Easy Rawlins mystery “Devil in a Blue Dress”
Barry Schwartz “The Paradox of Choice:Why More is Less”
Ann Patchett “Run”, “Bel Canto”
Robert Hughes “Running with Walker” - autism brother
Anne Tyler’s “Digging to America” American assimilation,
Valerie Martin’s “Trespass”
Elizabeth Moon “Speed of the Dark”
Edward P. Jones “The Known World”
John Bayley “A Memoir of Iris Murdoch”
Chris Bohjalian “The Double Bind” (Gatsby)
Lisa See ‘Snow Flower and the Secret Fan’
John Green “An Abundance of Katherines” road trip
Kerry Casey “Fall to Grace”
Jules Verne “Paris in the Twentieth Century” ’s “lost” novel
Don DeLillo “White Noise”
Jennifer Weiner “Certain Girls”
R. Dale Guthrie “The Nature of Paleolithic Art”
Richard Ford “Lay of the Land”
Amitav Ghosh “The Glass Palace”, “The Hungry Tide”, “Circle of Reason”
Anne Michaels “Fugitive Pieces”
Richard North Patterson"Exile"
Jose Saramago “All The Names”
Rohintron Mistry “Family Matters”, “India” 90s Bombay
Ishigoro - The Remains of The Day
Joyce Carol Oates “We Were The Mulvaneys”
Tom Petsinis “The French Mathematician”
Jean Hanff Korelitz “Sabbathday River”
Rumer Godden “The Butterfly Lions”
Hilary Spurling “The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse”
Valerie Martin “Property” plantation life
Carlos Ruiz Zafon “Shadow of the Wind” gothic tale from Barcelona
George Howe Colt “The Big House” Buzzards Bay family
Ishmael Beah “A Long Way Gone: Memoris of a Boy Soldier”
Neal Stephenson “Cryptonomicon”
Wallace Stegner “Crossing to Safety”
Dan Simmons “The Terror”
Ursula LeGuin “Lavinia”
Wilkie Collins “The Woman in White”
Bob Greene “When We Get to Surf City”
Anthony Bourdain “Kitchen Confidential”
Lynn Truss “Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today”
CP Snow’s “Strangers and Brothers” sequence of 11 novels
Anthony Powell’s “A Dance to the Music of Time” in 12 novels
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey and Maturin series of 20 novels
Anita Brookner “In Search of Lost Time”
Edwin O’Connor “The Edge of Sadness” cozy, pleasant read
Martha Southgate T"he Fall of Rome" Latin teacher
Dennis McFarland “Singing Boy”, “School for the Blind”
JR Moehringer “The Tender Bar”
Jean Yves Domalain “Panjamon” adventure
Lucy Maud Montgomery “Anne of Green Gables”
John Boyne “The Boy In The Striped Pajamas”
David McCullough “1776”
John Matteson “Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father”
Alexander Waugh “Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family”
Jean Plaidy “The Plantagenet Saga”
Ivan Doig “The Whistling Season” one room school
Garth Stein “The Art of Racing in the Rain” Dog’s perspective
James Wood ‘How Fiction Works’
Tony Horwitz “A Voyage Long and Strange”
Jon Krakauer “Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith” Morman
Lauren Kessler “Dancing With Rose: Finding Life in the World of Alzheimer’s,”
“The Collected Stories of William Trevor”
William Thackery “Vanity Fair”
Ian McEwan “On Chesil Beach” couple’s wedding night and courtship
Annie Dillard “The Maytrees”
William Thackery “Vanity Fair” Becky Sharp
Randy Pausch “The Last Lecture”
Richard Yates “Revolutionary Road” very dark
Will Lavendar “Obedience” (mystery in a university setting)
T.R. Smith “Child 44” (serial murder in the Soviet Union)
Thomas H. Cook “Red Leaves”
David Wroblewski “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle”
Erik Larson “The Devil in the White City”
Richard Russo “Bridge of Sighs”
Josephine Tey “Daughter of Time”
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
Susan Richards “Chosen by a Horse” memoir
Ernest Hemingway “The Sun Also Rises”
Kate Atkinson “Case Histories” and “One Good Turn”, “When Will There Be Good News?”
Nick Stone “Mr. Clarinet”
Arnaldur Indridason “Jar City”, “Silence of the Grave” Iceland mystery
Elizabeth Kostova “The Historian”
V.S. Naipaul “A Bend in the River”
Ian MacEwan “Enduring Love”
Michael Greenberg “Hurry Down Sunshine”
Annette Gordon-Reed “The Hemingses of Monticello”
Susan Jacoby “The Age of American Unreason”
“The Mysterious Benedict Society” kids
Elyn Saks “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness”
J.M. Coetzee “Waiting for the Barbarians”
Kevin Phillips “Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism”
Mary Wesley “A Part of the Furniture” - May-Dec romance set in WW2 England.
Dee Brown “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”
James McBride “The Color of Water”
Paul Scott “The Raj Quartet” just before the end of British rule in India, The Jewel in the Crown BBC series
Clarence Thomas “My Grandfather’s Son”
William Byers “How Mathematicians Think”
Toni Morrison “Song of Solomon”
Sarah Dessen “Keeping the Moon”
520
Haruki Murakami “What I Talk about When I Talk about Running”, “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World”
Pers Pettersen “Out Stealing Horses”
McCall Smith “The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency”
Ian Sansom “The Book Stops Here”
Anne Fadiman “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”
Krista Tippett “Speaking of Faith”
John Grogan “The Longest Trip Home”
John Matteson “Eden’s Outcasts: the Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father”
Dan Schorr “Staying Tuned: A Life In Journalism”
Gary Paulsen “Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod”
James L. Swanson “Manhunt: The 12-day chase for Abraham Lincoln’s Killer”
Henry Green “Loving” Ireland during WW II
Jenna Blum “Those Who Save Us”
Saul Friedlander “Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939”
David Halberstam “The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War”
Jung Chang “Wild Swans” generations of women in a Chinese family
Paul Watkins “Stand Before Your God” boarding school
Elizabeth Strout “Olive Kitteredge” woman in a New England town
Muriel Barbery “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” concierge in upscale Parisian apartment building
Timothy Egan “The Worst Hard Time” Dust Bowl
Sarah Vowell “The Wordy Shipmates” 1630 voyage with Gov Winthrop
Christopher Lloyd “What on Earth Happened” cosmology and earth science
Eva Ibbotson “Countess Below Stairs”
M.T. Anderson “The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation”
Marcus Luttrell “Lone Survivor” lost heroes of SEAL Team 10
B McIntyre “Agent ZigZag”, “My Life in Secrets” WWII history
Wilkie Collins “The Woman in White”, “The Moonstone”
C.S. Harris “St. Cyr” mysteries
John McPhee “Into the Country” Alaska
Tim Weiner “The Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA”
Laurie R. King “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” Sherlock Holmes
Alessandra Lavagnino “The Librarians of Alexandria: the tale of two sisters” multigenerational story set in Egypt and Italy
Stefan Fatsis “A Few Seconds of Panic” NFL
Robin Hathaway and “Sleight of Hand” mystery
David Handler “The Sweet Golden Parachute” mystery
Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller “Ancient Shore” essays about Naples
Monica Wood “Every Bitter Thing”
Hannah Holmes “The Well-Dressed Ape” about human primates
Mary Roach “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”
A.S. Byatt “Possession”
Margaret Irwin “Proud Servant” 17th century Europe
Joseph O’Neill “Netherland”
George Howe Colt “The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home” Cape Cod
Hillary Jordan “Mudbound” sharecroppers
Kathryn Sockett “The Help”
Elizabeth Gaskell “North and South”
Alan Brennert “Honolulu”
Karleen Koen “Dark Angels”, “Through a Glass, Darkly”, “Now Face to Face.” Restoration England
Mary S. Lovell “Bess of Hardwick, Empire Builder” Tudor England
Jeffrey Zaslow “The Girls From Ames” Female friendships
Edna Ferber “So Big” early Wisconsin
David Benioff “City of Thieves” WWII Leningrad
Andre Aciman “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel” boy’s erotic coming-of-age
Rick Perlstein “Nixonland”
Charles C. Mann “1491” America before Colombus
Kate Summerscale “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher” Victorian murder non-fiction
Marc Norman “What Happens Next” history of screenwriting
Jill Bolte “My Stroke of Insight” neuroanatomy researcher
Stephen Pressfield “Gates of Fire”
Harry Turtledove “Give Me back My Legions!”
James Carroll “American Requiem” 50s memoir
Robert Littell “The Stalin Epigram” historical fiction
Dan Gallery “Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea: The Daring Capture of the U-505”
Selden Edwards “The Little Book” 1897 Vienna to World Wars I and II to 1980’s
Penelope Lively “Consequences” three generations of (mostly) women
Candice Millard. “River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey” Africa
Heather Barbieri “The Lacemakers of Glenmara”
Ian McEwan “Atonement”
Allison Weir “The Lady Elizabeth” historical novel about Queen Elizabeth’s childhood
Russo’s “That Old Cape Magic” funny, well-written
Lorrie Moore’s “Gate at the Top of the Stairs”
Dave Eggers’ “Zeitoun” about Katrina
Nicholas Sparks “A Walk to Remember”
Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”
Stieg Larsson trilogy (“the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl who Played with Fire”, “the Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest”)
Lucinda Franks “My Father’s Secret War” (secret spy activities in WW II)
Colum McCann “Let the Great World Spin”
Jennet Conant “The Irregulars” about Roald Dahl
Erica Eisdorfer “The Wet Nurse’s Tale”
Sheila Weller “Girls Like Us”
^ Wow! Thank you, Treetopleaf!
Great list - I dip into this thread from time to time, every since I read the first suggestion, The Thirteenth Tale, which I really enjoyed. It is so nice to have it all together that I copied and pasted it into another document - the easier to access. Thank you treetopleaf!
Two suggestions:
I just started it but I am totally smitten: Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich (non-fiction).
Also, truly wonderful: Hens Dancing by Raffaella Barker (fiction)
Thanks, treetopleaf! That was very philanthropic of you!
I thought at first this was a list of all the books that Treetopleaf had read this year and wow, was I impressed! Thanks for doing this Ttl. I plan to print it off and use it as a guide.
Wow, treetopleaf that’s great. Thanks! I am going to copy & paste that.
Right now I am reading “New York” by Edward Rutherford, and enjoying it so far.
I just finished Bad Girls Go Everywhere by Jennifer Scanlon. It’s a biography of Helen Gurley Brown, but it’s also a fascinating discussion of how Brown and her Sex and the Single Girl and Cosmopolitan magazine advanced feminism. Very scholarly and very well done.
I just put a hold on Sex and the Single Girl at the library. Written in 1962, according to Scanlon it was the first time anyone told women they should pay attention to themselves and get what they want out of life.
I’m reading a non-fiction book right now and it’s just eye-opening. It’s called, “The Book Whisperer” [Amazon.com:</a> The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child (9780470372272): Donalyn Miller, Jeff Anderson: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Book-Whisperer-Awakening-Inner-Reader/dp/0470372273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262145453&sr=8-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Book-Whisperer-Awakening-Inner-Reader/dp/0470372273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262145453&sr=8-1) and it’s about a method of teaching children to love reading and to become lifelong readers. And oh, yes, they will pass the state mandated tests too. Here’s part of a review, “Donalyn Miller gets it. She understands perfectly why many of our kids don’t like reading any more, and she has the answer. You’d think Congress would be knocking down her door by now. Let’s hope it happens soon.”
TTL, what a great list! I just scanned it, and I have liked EVERYTHING on it that I have also read. And what an eclectic list (honestly, who else has read Ethan of Athos AND Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea). I will be digging into as many as I can find time for. Sigh… obviously, though, you have more reading time than I have managed to find in recent years. Lucky duck.
re: TreetoLeaf’s list. Not just Bujold but also C.S. Harris “St. Cyr” mysteries and the Patrick O’Brian books and a bunch I mean to read. I just finished my third Dresden file book and now I’m on to the Mann Booker prize winner - Wolf Hall. I’m not very far along, but I think I’m going to like it.
The Book Whisperer looks like pretty much what we advocated when I was involved with Reading is Fundamental. Just give kids books they want to read - even if it’s Captain Underpants or joke books.
Whoa… The lists (#964-968) are summary lists of the books mentioned on this thread - it is OUR list! I take on the task of getting library books for both D and H (including book tapes for his commute) and need ideas - and this thread provides many. So thanks to everyone who has provided ideas! I’ve only read a few of the listed books. I did check out a few of them yesterday to peruse.
A few more:
For D, I recently got her going on the Rei Shimura Mysteries by Sujata Massey. I have not read any, but she’s enjoying them.
My husband and I really enjoyed the Maisie Dobbs mysteries by Jacqueline Winspear. Maisie is a post WWI London “psychologist and investigator”.
Just finished my first Stephanie Plum crime novel by Janet Evanovich. Yeah, I know I’m late to the party regarding Evanovich, but I now see what all the fuss was about (saw her interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning years ago). Started with ‘One for the Money’ and now I’ve just begun ‘High Five.’
TTL–for a minute I also thought it was your own list–then it kept going longer and longer and i finally realized it was the list list. Thanks very , very much for doing that; I will also copy it out for future use.