Books Read in 2011

For record-keeping purposes:

• Interview with the Vampire, Ann Rice 
• The Help, Kathryn Stockett 
• Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner 
• Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
• No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
• I Am Not a Serial Killer, Dan Wells
• Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
• Mr. Monster, Dan Wells
• The Distant Hours, Kate Morton
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Shadow of the Hedgemon, Orson Scott Card
• Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horowitz
• Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card
• Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card
• The Winter Sea, Susanna Kearsley
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick
• Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson
• Shakespeare: The World as Stage, Bill Bryson
• What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell
• The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
• Matched, Ally Condie
• Spook, Mary Roach
• Crossed, Ally Condie
• Bossypants, Tina Fey
• Before I Go to Sleep, S.J. Watson
• The House at Riverton, Kate Morton

I love how I look at this list and when I read what and can tell exactly where a book bogged me down for months, which happened multiple times. However, I read some very lovely books last year, and I have a stack on my shelf ready for this year. Yay!