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Date

Comments

Suggested Reading List

Title

Comment

The Chase

Clive Cussler

Dec-09

The Butcher Bandit - Trains!

Night Probe!

Clive Cussler

Jan-10

North American Treaty - missing!

Central Park in the Dark

Marie Winn

Jan-10

Biodiversity at night in the park.

Slaughter-house-five

Kurt Vonnegut

Jan-10

Firebombing Dresden - Tralfamadore!

Let It Bleed

Ian Rankin

Jan-10

Inspector Rebus

Coal Black Horse

Robert Olmstead

Jan-10

14 year-old boy searching for Dad in Civil War

Deep Six

Clive Cussler

Feb-10

Korean menace - kidnapping the President

Cyclops

Clive Cussler

Feb-10

Blimp mission to recover La Dorada off Cuba

Treasure

Clive Cussler

Feb-10

Finding the lost Alexandria Library - in Texas!

The Nantucket Scrap Basket

William F. Macy

Feb-10

Collection of old ACK stories including the Underground Moon.

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones

Alexander McCall Smith

Mar-10

Put off until another time.

The Merry Misogynist

Colin Cotterill

Mar-10

Serial strangler - Missing eccentric Indian

Dragon

Clive Cussler

Mar-10

Defeating the Japanese Menace

Sahara

Clive Cussler

Mar-10

Ironclad Texas, Kitty Mannock, Sahara

Night-birds on Nantucket

Joan Aiken

Mar-10

Little girl, a pink whale, a big gun!

Breathless

Dean Koontz

Apr-10

Furry white, bright creatures

Flush

Carl Hiaasen

Apr-10

Gambling boat sunk - flushing bad stuff

Inca Gold

Clive Cussler

Apr-10

Relic thieves, treasure hidden near Baja, underground river.

Shock Wave

Clive Cussler

Apr-10

Diamond empire, Tasman Sea, underwater sound waves.

Bird by Bird

Ann Lamott

Apr-10

Writing manual with bird reference

Flood Tide

Clive Cussler

May-10

Chinese illegal immigrants and the Peking Man

Arctic Drift

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

May-10

Ruthenium, also Dirk and Summer, read out of sequence

Split Image

Robert B. Parker

Jun-10

Jesse Stone encounters nympho twins

Atlantis Found

Clive Cussler

Jun-10

9,000 year old civilization, a comet, the 4th Reich

Valhalla Rising

Clive Cussler

Jun-10

Vikings in NA, super oil, Cerberus Oil sinking cruise ships

Treasure of Khan

Clive Cussler

Jun-10

Mongolia, Hawaii, nasty oil people

Dragon Tears

Dean Koontz

Jul-10

Nasty guy who creates golems with his mind.

Odd Hours

Dean Koontz

Jul-10

Clairvoyant and a nuclear plot in CA

The Double Comfort Safari Club

Alexander McCall Smith

Jul-10

Trip to safari country to find missing heir

Black Wind

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

Jul-10

Japanese germ attack WWII and Kang's attempt to exploit the remains.

But I wouldn't want to die there

Nancy Pickard

Jul-10

A murder in NYC

The Good Guy

Dean Koontz

Aug-10

Unwitting guy falls into murder for hire scheme

The House of Thunder

Dean Koontz

Aug-10

Woman trapped in "hospital" with frightening memories.

Tourist Season

Carl Hiaasen

Aug-10

Orange-bowl Queen - taking Florida back

Blood Orchid

Stuart Woods

Aug-10

Holly Barker - Orchid Beach, FL

The Short Forever

Stuart Woods

Aug-10

Stone Barrington and spies in England

The Reivers

William Faulkner

Aug-10

Stealing a car and going to Memphis to race a stolen horse.

Generosity

Richard Powers

Aug-10

A Happiness Gene - from Algeria?

Death at the Alma Mater

G. M. Malliet

Sep-10

A Poirot-type who-dun-it

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

Sep-10

Sweden - an amazing female hero - an old "murder" mystery

Ruling Passion

Reginald Hill

Sep-10

Death in the English Countryside

American Gospel

Jon Meacham

Sep-10

History of Church & State in the USA

The Snoring Bird

Bernd Heinrich

Oct-10

Ichnumen wasps and 100 years of family biological history

The First Tycoon

T. J. Stiles

Oct-10

Cornelius Vanderbilt - Bogged down half-way thru

Nov-10

Read again - still marvelous

The Girl who Played with Fire

Stieg Larsson

Nov-10

The search for Zala, did Lisbeth murder those people?

The Power of Logical Thinking

Marilyn Vos Savant

Nov-10

Especially the Monty Hall dilemma

Open Season

C. J. Box

Nov-10

Joe Pickett - Wyo. Miller's Weasels

The Ice Storm

Rick Moody

Nov-10

1973 - New Canaan, CT - Key parties

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Dec-10

4th of the Hainish Cycle - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainish_Cycle

Crescent Dawn

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

Dec-10

The Bullet, the Dardanelles, a plot to take over Turkey

Savage Run

C. J. Box

Dec-10

Joe Pickett - Stockman's Trust

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

Dec-10

Jumping through time and space searching for their father - IT! Mrs. Whoosis

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

Dec-10

Family life, the caste system, taboo, tragedy

Every Last One

Anna Quindlen

Dec-10

Daughter's boyfriend kills them all, except the Mom, then hangs himself.

The Curse of the Labrador Duck

Glen Chilton

Dec-10

Searching for all 55 specimens of this extinct species

Hypothermia

Arnaldur Indridason

Jan-11

A suicide? Two missing people from long ago

The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's nest

Stieg Larsson

Jan-11

Lisbeth recovers, the trial, exoneration.

Seabiscuit

Laura Hillenbrand

Jan-11

A great horse of the 30s

Birdology

Sy Montgomery

Jan-11

Chickens, etc. good book

Love Songs from a Shallow Grave

Colin Cotterill

Feb-11

Death by epee, almost killed in Kampuchea

A Great Deliverance

Elizabeth George

Feb-11

Insp. Lindley, York, headless body

The Bird

Colin Tudge

Feb-11

Scholarly

The Man from Beijing

Henning Mankell

Mar-11

Mass murder with a sword in northern Sweden

When the Snow Fell

Henning Mankell

Mar-11

Coming of age in Sweden in the 50s

The Spy

Clive Cussler and Justin Scott

Mar-11

Isaac Bell, 1908, Nasty eye-gouging guy

The Bookseller of Kabul

Asne Seierstad

Mar-11

Depressing news on Sharia Law and Afghanistan

The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard

Mar-11

Three sisters from Oz in UK from 1950 to 1980

The Falls

Ian Rankin

Apr-11

Inspector Rebus - tiny coffins

The Nesting Season

Bernd Heinrich

Apr-11

Everything you ever wanted to know about nesting

Red Hook Road

Ayelet Waldman

Apr-11

Tragic wedding deaths and in-laws - Jewish - Episcopalian

Good Things from Nantucket's North Shore

Frances Ruley Karttunen

May-11

Charming family history through food

Three Farmers on their Way to a Bunch

Richard Powers

May-11

An old photo and what happens next

Ulysses and Us

Declan Kiberd

May-11

Much rumination of the meaning of Ulysses to all of us

The Snowman

Jo Nesbo

Jun-11

Serial killer in Norway - Harry Hole police detective

The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo

Jun-11

Dual personalities, big gun, plot to kill PM, Harry meets Rakel

Reasonable Doubt

Philip Friedman

Jun-11

Lawyer defends his daughter in law for killing his son

Tick Tock

James Patterson

Jul-11

Crazed killer fulfilling the desires of his fat mentor, bombs and killings

The Troubled Man

Henning Mankell

Jul-11

Wallender's daugher's in-laws disappear - spies - Kurt's descent into Alzheimer's

In Plain Sight

C. J. Box

Jul-11

Joe Pickett - The family Scarlet

Nemesis

Jo Nesbo

Jul-11

Bank robbery or murder? Harry settles with Rakel.

A Big Little Life

Dean Koontz

Aug-11

Trixie the Golden Retriever

Hold Tight

Harlan Coben

Aug-11

Son's suicide, Pharm parties, serial killer

Mohawk

Richard Russo

Aug-11

Mohawk, NY in the 60s - drinking, gambling, mothers

Sex on the Moon

Ben Mezrich

Aug-11

Stealing moonrocks - going to jail!

I'm Feeling Lucky

Douglas Edwards

Aug-11

Google Emp #59's recollections

Big Bad Wolf

James Patterson

Sep-11

Russian mafia boss kidnapping women for sale

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

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Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante

The Fifth

Tim Green

Mar-05

Vigilante chases sex

Fresh Disasters

Stuart Woods

Sep-11

Intresting - had read it in '07

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

Sep-11

Maine, the Empire Grill, the Whiting Family and the Robies

Explore Sarasota and Vicinity

Kenneth F. Tricebook

Sep-11

What it says

Hot Mahogany

Stuart Woods

Oct-11

Antique Furniture!

Shanghai Girls

Lisa See

Oct-11

1937 - on escape before the Japs - the pretty and not so pretty

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Oct-11

A 'parts' child sues for medical emancipation rather than give a kidney

Leeway Cottage

Beth Gutcheon

Oct-11

Cottage in Maine and it's connection to Denmark in WW II

Crow Planet - Essential Wisdom from the U

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Oct-11

Pay more attention to crows

Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand

Nov-11

Running, B-24s, WW II, POW, Louis Zamporini

In the Garden of Beasts

Erik Larson

Nov-11

Ambassador Dodd in Berlin 1933-1937

Wonder Girl

Don Van Natta Jr.

Nov-11

Bab Zaharias bio

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

Nov-11

Ditched it - too much cutsie diminutives - "wildlings?"

Primary Inversion

Catherine Asaro

Dec-11

Good SF

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Dec-11

Stream of consciousness tale of London society lady's party, society and angst in post WW I.

Murder Unleashed

Rita Mae Brown

Dec-11

Reno, empty houses, murder, lost silver from mining robbery

The Happiness Myth

Jennifer Michael Hecht

Dec-11

Looks at everything we thought might make us happy

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Alexander McCall Smith

Jan-12

Isabel Dalhousie and a heart transplant

The Quantum Rose

Catherine Asaro

Jan-12

More good SF

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Jan-12

Basically a hard-bound comic book. Too juvenile.

Stroke of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph. D.

Jan-12

Fascinating story from a stroke victim

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Jan-12

Very illuminating

Frankenstein, a novel of Lost Souls

Dean Koontz

Feb-12

Volume 4 of the series

The Sunday Philosophy Club

Alexander McCall Smith

Feb-12

Isabel see a man fall from the 'gods' at the theater

Killed at the Whim of a Hat

Colin Cotterill

Feb-12

Jimm Juree, dead abbott, buried VW with bodies

The Ruby Dice

Catherine Asaro

Feb-12

Jabriol and Kelric - in W VA

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

Feb-12

One book one island - Sam Spade and the black bird

That the Night Knows

Dean Koontz

Mar-12

The journal of Alton Turner Blackwood

Diamond Star

Catherine Asaro

Mar-12

Del - a rock star on earth - makes waves

Please Walk Your Horses Up This Hill

Bill Hoadley

Mar-12

A Nantucket Boyhood

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Mar-12

Highway by-pass, England and Earth

Star Island

Carl Hiaasen

Apr-12

Cherry Pye and the paparazzi

11/22/63

Stephen King

Apr-12

Stopping Oswald from shooting Kennedy

Let the Great World Spin

Colum McCann

Apr-12

Tightrope walk between the Twin Towers and what it meant

How It All Began

Penelope Lively

Apr-12

Robbery, recovery, a misplaced text message, romance and turmoil

Little Gray Island

Life Stories from Nantucket

Apr-12

Memoirs

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detectio

Alexander McCall Smith

May-12

Mma. Ramotswe meets Clovis Anderson and solves problems

Operation Napoleon

Arnaldur Indridason

May-12

Glacier, Junker, Hitler??

The Jungle

Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul

May-12

Oregon and the Quantum Computer - crystals

The Leopard

Jo Nesbo

Jun-12

Leopold's apple - Kaja Solness from Homicide is sent to Hong Kong to track down Harry Hole - Two women are found murdered in Oslo – both of them have drowned in their own blood. What mystifies the police, is that the puncture wounds in the victim’s faces have been caused from the inside of their mouths.

Island Practice

Pam Belluck

Jun-12

Dr. Lepore's tales of doctoring on Nantucket

Nantucket - A Natural History

Peter B. Brace

Jun-12

All things natural about Nantucket

Cards on the Table

Agatha Christie

Jun-12

Poirot, murder during a round of bridge

Wind in the Stone

Andre Norton

Jun-12

Not for me

State of Wonder

Ann Patchett

Jul-12

Brazil - fertility drug

77 shadow street

Dean Koontz

Jul-12

The Pendleton in DC - every 38 years

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

Alexander McCall Smith

Jul-12

Little white van returns - Mma. Makutsi gets married

Headhunter

Jo Nesbo

Jul-12

Good

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jul-12

Wonderful - Indian/American stories

Walker Evans - Photographer of America

Thomas Nau

Jul-12

Black & white photographer

Whatever You Do, Don't Run

Peter Allison

Jul-12

Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

State by State

Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey

Jul-12

Charlotte's reference to RI section mentioning Ms. Schoonover

What the Robin Knows

Jon Young

Aug-12

Interesting compendium of behavior related information

Bulfinch's Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch

Aug-12

Interesting review of mythology

2312

Kim Stanley Robinson

Aug-12

Conspiracy with Qubes 300 years in the future.

Resistance

Anita Shreve

Sep-12

WW II pilot downed in Belgium

Chasing Shakespeares

Sarah Smith

Sep-12

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? Finally decided I didn't care.

The Redeemer

Jo Nesbo

Oct-12

Twins hire a killer to kill one of them - but which one?

The Verb 'To Bird'

Peter Cashwell

Oct-12

English teacher's birding experiences

The Time Keeper

Mitch Albom

Nov-12

Too much time - too little time

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams

Nov-12

Not a place - but a point in time.

The Bluebird Effect

Julie Zickefoose

Nov-12

Wonderful - Recommend

The Chemistry of Tears

Peter Carey

Nov-12

Tried to get into it - failed

No Easy Day

Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer

Nov-12

Firsthand account of the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden

Mad River

John Sandford

Dec-12

Virgil Flowers and the Bonnie n' Clyde Wanabees

Life Everlasting

Bernd Heinrich

Dec-12

Green funerals - and how all life uses them, except humans

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

Dec-12

Aimed at teenagers, and Jesus people, warp travel to rescue Daddy

The Signal and the Noise

Nate Silver

Dec-12

Baseball, weather, global warming, Bayesian Inferance Theory - Wonderful

NYPD Red

James Patterson

Jan-13

The elite part of NYPD for the Elite - crazed movie script writer.

Outrage

Arnaldur Indridason

Jan-13

Rape and murder - but who? Erlander is absent?

The Shadow Girls

Henning Mankell

Jan-13

A poet's experiences with refugee women from Africa, etc.

Year Zero

Jeff Long

Jan-13

Pandamic, clones from year zero - Los Alamos

Threat Vector

Tom Clancy

Jan-13

Chinese hackers declare war on USA

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

Feb-13

Started out readable, then really dragged. Wife leaves him, sits in the bottom of a well. Unnecessary erotica.

I could Pee on This

Francesco Marciuliano

Feb-13

Silly cat poems

Nature Wars

Jim Sterba

Feb-13

Too many deer - need sharpshooters

The Golden Child

Penelope Fitzgerald

Feb-13

Difficult read - English Museum. Gave up on it.

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Feb-13

Post apocalyptic world ruled by role playing games and the pursuit of a prize

The Bonesetter's Daughter

Amy Tan

Mar-13

Wonderful tale of Chinese ancestry and thinking

The Red Garden

Alice Hoffman

Mar-13

Blackwell in the Berkshires, many tales of Eels and red soil!

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

Mar-13

Easy and entertaining read about an older man's introspection of his life.

The Age of Miracles

Karen Thomson Walker

Mar-13

Earth slowing down - first fascinating but eventually a bit depressing.

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

Mar-13

Westish College, baseball and Melville.

Great House

Nicole Krauss

Mar-13

Went thru P 150, nothing seemed to happen.

Gold

Chris Cleave

Apr-13

Women's Olympic cycling and life

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

Apr-13

Amazing Amy has disappeared - or has she?

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfuln

Alexandra Fuller

Apr-13

Kenya, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, and Zambia - English colonial life - charming

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Alexandra Fuller

May-13

Growing up in Africa - before the book above.

Russian Winter

Daphne Katotay

May-13

A Russian ballerina and a wonderful pendant

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

May-13

Through P 139 - Getting interesting.

Bad Monkey

Carl Hiaasen

Jun-13

An arm and a big condo next door, and a voodoo mama!

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Jun-13

Virtually unreadable, stream-of consciousness crap. Supposed to be a classic

Snapper

Brian Kimberling

Jun-13

Charming story of an Indiana birder

A Treacherous Paradise

Henning Mankell

Jul-13

Swedish girl in Mozambique circa 1904. Brutal treatment of blacks.

Cruising in your Eighties is Murder

Mike Befeler

Jul-13

A 'Geezer' mystery. Involves Altzheimer's

Gulp

Mary Roach

Jul-13

Wonderful - All about the digestive tract, from nose to butt

Letters to a Young Scientist

Edward O. Wilson

Jul-13

Great advice for entering the profession

Cloud Atlas

Liam Callanan

Jul-13

Japanese baloon bombs and Alaskan shamans

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

Jul-13

15th century Poggio finds "The Nature of Things"

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

Jul-13

Six tales in one, across centuries. Confusing , but worthwhile. See above.

The Woman Who Wouldn't Die

Colin Cotterill

Aug-13

Elaborate scheme to uncover treasure from the Mekong

Slash and Burn

Colin Cotterill

Aug-13

In the mountains, cut off by smoke, gold in those hills?

The Lottery

Shirley Jackson

Aug-13

Choosing who will be stoned to death!

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Aug-13

Wonderful tale of three teen cowboys who run away to Mexico in the late '40s

The Day the World Came to Town

Jim Defede

Sep-13

9-11-01 and Gander Newfoundland

Thunderstruck

Erik Larson

Oct-13

Marconi's invention and how it helped catch a murderer.

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

Oct-13

Back to Nfld. Newspaper Column.

Imperial Dreams

Tim Gallagher

Nov-13

Searching for the Imperial Woodpecker in Mexico

Escape from Camp 14

Blaine Harden

Nov-13

True account of North Korea's labor camps

An Indispensible Man

Bob Ford

Nov-13

Death and drama in the car industry

Enigma of China

Qiu Xiaolong

Nov-13

Couldn't get into it.

Jack Glass

Adam Roberts

Nov-13

FTL Murder Mysteries

Inferno

Dan Brown

Dec-13

A chase through Florence and Venice to stop a plague to fend off overpopulation

The Magician's Accomplice

Michael Genelin

Dec-13

Exciting tale of murder and conspiracy across Europe

Black Skies

Arnaldur Indridason

Jan-14

Still no Erlander? Greed and it's children

Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver

Jan-14

Monarchs move to Tennessee and what does it mean?

Songs, Tales, and Legends of Russia

Murray Davis

Jan-14

Murray's collection of Russian folklore

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

Alexander McCall Smith

Feb-14

Mma. Makutsi has a son - whisper campaigns - who is the heir?

The Lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver

Feb-14

Wonderful tale of the life of a writer, half Mexican, thru a tortuous period for America - 1930 - 1951.

Men from the Sea

K. M. Wallenius

Feb-14

Sea tales from 'Finmark'

Citizens of London

Lynne Olson

Feb-14

Americans who helped London get through WW II

The Blockade Breakers

Helena P. Schrader

Mar-14

1948-49 Berlin Airlift

The Gnostic Gospels

Elaine Pagels

Mar-14

Discussion of the many 'not approved' gospels

A Feathered River Across the Sky

Joel Greenberg

Mar-14

The demise of the Passenger Pigeon - excruciating

The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd

Apr-14

Marvelous - two sisters from Charlotte - slavery - Lucretia Mott

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Barbara Kingsolver

Apr-14

Locovoring - and the evils of big agriculture.

Bird Sense - What It's Like to Be a Bird

Tim Birkhead

Apr-14

Rather scholarly evaluation of all a birds senses, compared to other animals

The Thing with Feathers

Noah Strycker

Apr-14

Very readable piece. Surprising lives of birds and what they reveal about being human

The Homing Instinct

Bernd Heinrich

May-14

Birds, bees, eels, humans - fascinating as always

Rules of Civility

Amor Towles

Jun-14

NY social life in 1938 - 1940 - Interesting read

The Axe Factor

Colin Cotterill

Jul-14

Dismemberment in southern Thailand (Jimm Juree)

Grandad, there's a head on the beach

Colin Cotterill

Jul-14

Rescuing abused Burmese slave fishermen

A Beautiful Blue Death

Charles Finch

Jul-14

Charles Lenox solves a double murder

Death on Blackheath

Anne Perry

Jul-14

Charles and Thomas Pitt - espionage in Victorian England - and bodies!

Cut and Thrust

Stuart Woods

Aug-14

Presidential politics, motherhood, and threats

One Summer - 1927

Bill Bryson

Aug-14

Lindberg, Ruth, and others

Danforth, William

I Dare You

Think Like A Freak

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. D

Aug-14

More of the same

I am Pilgrim

Terry Hayes

Aug-14

Fantastic race to stop a terrorist intent on unleashing a super smallpox virus on the world.

The Leftovers

Tom Perrotta

Aug-14

Religious science teen fiction - stopped reading it.

The Mockingbird Next Door

Marja Mills

Aug-14

Harper Lee uncovered by a Chicago reporter with Lupus

Loitering with Intent

Stuart Woods

Sep-14

Stone Barrington - Key West - finding an heir - Anika comes and goes

Kisser

Stuart Woods

Sep-14

Stone - NY Theater star - Lipstick model.

Lucid Intervals

Stuart Woods

Sep-14

Stone - British Intelligence - Assassins - Herbie Fisher

Super Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. D

Sep-14

Great reading!

Act of War

Brad Thor

Sep-14

Chinese use the Muslims to attack us - not pretty

Live to the Truth

Barbara Ann White

Sep-14

Cyrus Peirce's life story

Skink No Surrender

Carl Hiaasen

Oct-14

Teen - The Governor returns - kidnapping - sea turtels.

Strategic Moves

Stuart Woods

Oct-14

Stone - Financial scandal, CIA, Pablo the arms deal maker

Bel-Air Dead

Stuart Woods

Oct-14

Arrington - Centurion Movie Studio Deal -

American Romantic

Ward Just

Oct-14

Harry James diplomat - from Vietnam in the 60's - life and loves

The Bully Pulpit

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Oct-14

TR and Taft - similar to recent TV series on PBS

Son of Stone

Stuart Woods

Nov-14

Arrington is murdered. Peter Stone makes a movie.

Unnatural Acts

Stuart Woods

Nov-14

Elaine's is closed for good. Herbie Fisher is an attorney

David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell

Nov-14

Underdogs, Misfits and Battling Giants

Dodo - A Brief History

Errol Fuller

Nov-14

More than everything you ever wanted to know about this poor extinct bird

Severe Clear

Stuart Woods

Dec-14

Nuke attack attempt on The Arrington

The Limits of Power

Andrew J. Bacevich

Dec-14

Sad analysis of the mess our country is in.

Reasonable Doubt

Philip Friedman

Dec-14

Father defends daughter-in-law for son's murder!

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Dec-14

Not sure of date - Wonderful story about snails and sick people.

Collateral Damage

Stuart Woods

Jan-15

Jasmine bombs London & NY and is killed. Dino gets married

Unintended Consequences

Stuart Woods

Jan-15

Paris - Amnesia - A new car - nasty Russians - Helga

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café

Alexander McCall Smith

Jan-15

Mma. Makutsi's restaurant, and 'Mrs.' - who is she??

An Event in Autumn

Henning Mankell

Jan-15

Flashback to 2002, bodies found behind house that Kurt wanted to buy

The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien

Jan-15

Bilbo Baggins' adventures with Gandulf

Doing Hard Time

Stuart Woods

Feb-15

More Nasty Russians, son Peter and Hattie - Movies, Teddy Baker and Strategic Services

Standup Guy

Stuart Woods

Feb-15

$5 million in small bills - 'Hank' comes - and goes.

Strange Shores

Arnaldur Indridason

Feb-15

Erlander finds his brother's remains, solves a missing woman's murder.

Birds of America

Lorrie Moore

Feb-15

Short stories - single woman's viewpoints - clever but not for me

Doubt

Jennifer Michael Hecht

Feb-15

Doubt in comparative religions - do deep and dry for me.

Dance of the Reptiles

Carl Hiaasen

Mar-15

Rather depressing series of his columns about the misuse of Florida

The Boys in the Boat

Daniel James Brown

Mar-15

Washington crew and the 1936 Olympics

Carnal Curiosity

Stuart Woods

Apr-15

Jewelry Robberies - watch out when I woman comes on too quickly.

Cut and Thrust

Stuart Woods

Apr-15

See Aug 14!

Paris Match

Stuart Woods

Apr-15

The Russians continue to dog Stone as he opens the Paris Arrington

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

Apr-15

Marvelous tale of a young woman in England 'manning' a Goshawk - with a tie to T. H. White and his life.

The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle

Apr-15

Marvelous fantasy with a lot of meaningful philosophy. Wonderful!

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

May-15

1714 bridge collapse and why five people died! Or not. Brother Junniper

Frank

Barney Frank

May-15

Too much politics and too much gay

The Case of the Missing Servant

Tarquin Hall

May-15

Charming and intricate detective mystery set in India - Read more!

Devil May Care

Sebastian Faulks

May-15

Late 70's, Iran and Paris, a new 00 agent. Writing as Ian Fleming.

Insatiable Appetites

Stuart Woods

Jun-15

Kate elected President, Eduardo dies, Dolce reappears, and hopefully, is gone forever.

Six and a Half Deadly Sins

Colin Cotterill

Jun-15

Clues concealed in woven skirts (sins) lead to heroin ring up north

The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing

Tarquin Hall

Jun-15

Indian God appears to have killed non believer. Laughing Club!

Hot Pursuit

Stuart Woods

Jul-15

New girl, new plane - followed to England - plane blows up - ends too quickly

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Jul-15

Post apocalyptic journey of father and son - depressing and weird

The Case of the Love Commandos

Tarquin Hall

Jul-15

Cross caste marriage, Puri's pocket is picked, Murder and intrigue

Naked Greed

Stuart Woods

Aug-15

Both Stone and Dino are targetted. All the bad guys end up dead.

The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken

Tarquin Hall

Aug-15

Cricket betting fixing and echos of the atrocities after partition when the Brits left.

The Outermost House

Henry Beston

Aug-15

Wonderful year in the dunes of the eastern Cape

The Species Seekers

Richard Conniff

Aug-15

Heroes, Fools & the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

Nightmare in Pink

John D. MacDonald

Aug-15

Travis McGee and Nina, little sister of Mike - big embezzlement

The Book of Joan

Melissa Rivers

Aug-15

Joan Rivers' bio by her daughter

Dial M for Meat Loaf

Ellen Hart

Aug-15

Murder, bigamy, and meat loaf in MN

Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee

Aug-15

Scout returns from NY to find racial tension in Maycomb

Death on a Silver Platter

Ellen Hart

Sep-15

Read 80 pages - decided Ellen is a bit too chatty about personal relationships for me. Perhaps a 'chick' author.

Freedom's Child

Jax Miller

Sep-15

Freedom's wild ride, Third Day Adventists, amazing - great tale

A Cape Cod Notebook

Robert Finch

Oct-15

52 charming natural history essays on Cape Cod

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Chris Hadfield

Oct-15

Ground Control to Major Tom - and more!

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

Oct-15

Escaped Aussie prisoner's life in the Bombay slums and more.

Nightmare in Pink

John D. MacDonald

Nov-15

Read it again!!

Song of the North Wind

Paul A. Johnsgard

Nov-15

Life and biology of the Snow Goose

Tales from Rhapsody Home, Or, What they

John Gould

Nov-15

A bit tedious and predictable.

Red Notice

Bill Browder

Nov-15

Wow - a Stanford MBA tackles the Russian Oligarchy

Pale Gray for Guilt

John D. MacDonald

Dec-15

Tush won't move so is killed - Trav organizes big financial scam to get even - it works

The Turquoise Lament

John D. MacDonald

Dec-15

Saving Pidge from homicidal husband in Pago Pago

The Laughing Policeman

Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

Dec-15

Mass murder on a Stockholm bus - great read!

Cop Killer

Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

Jan-16

Woman's murder, unsolvable until a minor crime and a stolen car blow it open.

Wind

Haruki Murakami

Jan-16

Baseball and The Rat

Pinball

Haruki Murakami

Jan-16

More of The Rat, and The Twins - and an obsession with a particular pinball machine.

A Fatal Winter

G. M. Malliet

Jan-16

So many candidates to be the murderer! Cilla and Randolph did it.

Cockroaches

Jo Nesbo

Jan-16

Norway's Ambassador to Thailand stabbed to death in a brothel

Blood on Snow

Jo Nesbo

Jan-16

Strange story of a hit man - not Harry Hole

The Accidental Tourist

Anne Tyler

Jan-16

Travel writer meets Muriel and forgets Sarah??

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

Alexander McCall Smith

Feb-16

It just didn't seem to move - went to another book.

The Girl in the Spider's Web

David Lagergrantz (Stieg Larss

Feb-16

Huge hack. Lisbeth's sister Camilla surfaces - and kills.

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Feb-16

Amazing! Wonderful! Radio, birds, a diamond, the war.

The Wright Brothers

David Mccullough

Feb-16

Great story of the first flights and beginning of aviation

Killing Reagan

Bill O'Reilly

Feb-16

Fascinating tale - John Hinkley and the Gipper. Well done.

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

Brian Kilmeade

Feb-16

Piracy, war and treachery during the Jefferson administration

Scandalous Behavior

Stuart Woods

Mar-16

Buys house in England. Son threatened by cult leader that he made a film about.

The End Game

Catherine Coulter

Mar-16

Coin Bombs, plot to kill President. Super FBI people.

The Paris Architect

Charles Belfoure

Mar-16

Marvelous tale of 1942/43 Paris and an architect who designs hiding places

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Mar-16

Hair-raising tale of a murderous husband who drives women to drink - and forget

Half-Earth

Edward O. Wilson

Mar-16

The history of biodiversity and its complications. Suggests half our planet should be devoted to base-line preservation of species.

Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari

Mar-16

The iPhone and what it's done to romance in the 21st century

Last Flight Out

Randy Wayne White

Mar-16

Short stories from all over - Randy's experiences.

The Road to Little Dribbling

Bill Bryson

Apr-16

Tracing the 'Bryson Line' Cape Wrath to Bognor Regis

Made in America

Bill Bryson

Apr-16

History of American English development - loaned from Clare Imrie

NYPD Red

James Patterson

Apr-16

Read it again on Kindle

Fool Me Once

Harlan Coben

Apr-16

Turns out Maya actually murdered her husband after all!

Off the Grid

C. J. Box

May-16

Joe again - and terrorism in the Wyoming desert.

Mapheads

Ken Jennings

May-16

Maps - not as illustrated as you'd think. A bit disappointing.

George being George

Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.

May-16

George's life through interviews with scores of people.

Ecological Imperialism

Alfred W. Crosby

Jun-16

The 'Neo-Europes' - how 'we' took over.

Shadow War

Sean McFate

Jun-16

Mercenaries, Ukraine oil, Russia, intrigue - 21st Century.

Edisto

Padgett Powell

Jun-16

Coming of age in Edisto, SC - early 80s.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

Jun-16

Naturalist's wanderings in TN

Longitude

Dava Sobel

Jun-16

John Harrison's clocks!

Sue Grafton

Jun-16

Starts with a stolen painting - squatting neighbors - great read

Valiant Ambition

Nathaniel Philbrick

Jul-16

Details of our Revolutionary War generals - read 1st chapter then decided to read something else.

Private Paris

James Patterson

Jul-16

Private Paris and a fake Muslim conspiracy

SevenEves

Neal Stephenson

Jul-16

Moon blows up - some leave - more come back - some stay. White Sky - Hard Rain

The Man Without a Shadow

Joyce Carol Oates

Jul-16

Elihu Hoopes - amnesiac at age 37 - 70 second recall.

Songbird Journeys

Miyoko Chu

Jul-16

The wonder of migration by a Cornell author

End of Watch

Stephen King

Aug-16

The Mercedes Killer, Bill Hodges, Brady Hartsfield - mind control - suicide

Dishonorable Intentions

Stuart Woods

Aug-16

Another girlfriend with a Russian mafia maniac exhusband. Billy Barnett saves the day - again.

The Last Mile

David Baldacci

Aug-16

Death Row release, then figuring out why. Father not his father.

The Pursuit

Janet Evanovich

Aug-16

Nicolas Fox - Stopping smallpox epidemic, master deception. Paris catacombs.

Here's to Us

Elin Hilderbrand

Aug-16

The late Deacon's 3 wives meet to throw his ashes in the Sound - Hoick's Hollow!!

Foreign Agent

Brad Thor

Aug-16

Chasing a Russian double agent provoking USA against ISIS.

The Gangster

Clive Cussler and Justin Scott

Sep-16

The black hand and the plot to kill TR

Carthage

Joyce Carol Oates

Sep-16

Is she dead or isn't she? Did the vet kill her or not? And will she ever return to Carthage?

The Tapir's Morning Bath

Elizabeth Royte

Sep-16

A Year with the researchers at Barro Colorado Island in Panama - Fascinating!

One Bird at a Time

Bernd Heinrich

Oct-16

Wonderful individual species behavioral studies

Logbook for Grace

Robert Cushman Murphy

Oct-16

1912-13 on the whaleship brig, Daisy, to South Georgia and back to Barbados

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

Oct-16

Vietnam - grunts - death and remembrance - Excellent!!

A Stranger in the Kingdom

Howard Frank Mosher

Oct-16

1952 NE Kingdom VT - Black pastor - Presbyterian split - Murder - great read!

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

Nov-16

Epilepsy, the Hmong people - Merced Cal. Collision of cultures.

The Unfeathered Bird

Katrina van Grouw

Nov-16

Amazing publication. Artistry is fantastic. Great ornithological resource

The Panda's Thumb

Stephen Jay Gould

Nov-16

It has one - plus five fingers. Good read.

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's

Stephen Jay Gould

Nov-16

The title is the best part of this book

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Nov-16

Much better than the movie. Ordered the next one.

Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins

Dec-16

Also wonderful - will save the last one for FL

Plum Wine

Angela Davis-Gardner

Dec-16

1961 Japan - American English teacher and Hiroshima victims.

Smarter Faster Better

Charles Duhigg

Dec-16

Improving decision making and goal setting

White Trash

Nancy Isenberg

Jan-17

True but rather depressing didn't finish it

Bullseye

James Patterson

Jan-17

Det. Michael Bennett protecting the President from the British Assassin

Killing Mister Watson

Peter Matthiesen

Jan-17

Couldn't get into it

The Scam

Janet Evanovich

Jan-17

Fox & O'Hare - Casinos - money laundering - Macao

Midnight Sun

Jo Nesbo

Jan-17

On the run in Finmark - a great tale. Not Harry Hole

Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins

Jan-17

Great climax and finish to this saga.

The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware

Jan-17

Is there a missing woman or not? Murder and intrigue on the high seas.

Shopaholic to the Rescue

Sophie Kinsella

Jan-17

Seemed too stupid to waste time on

Wonderland - how play made the modern

Steven Johnson

Jan-17

Great read - very illuminating.

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Feb-17

Basis for Arrival

Sting

Sandra Brown

Feb-17

Undercover agent, murder for hire - Jordy and Shaw

Before the Fall

Noah Hawley

Feb-17

Plane crash off the Vineyard with two survivors - intrigue!!

Message in a Bottle

Nalo Hopkinson

Feb-17

Future artists are molluscs! Short story. Author is fixated on being black.

The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

Feb-17

Growing up in east Texas - good read

Sphere

Michael Crichton

Mar-17

Huge structure found under Pacific, containing a sphere!

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the

Adam Grant

Mar-17

Case Studies on behavior - a bit trite

The Summer Before the War

Helen Simonson

Mar-17

Sussex, a too-pretty school teacher, romance, and the horrors of the war

The Swans of Fifth Avenue

Melanie Benjamin

Mar-17

A little too chatty for me - Truman Capote

Insidious

Catherine Coulter

Mar-17

Two separate mysteries - a bit confusing - not so great

15th Affair (Women's Murder Club

James Patterson

Apr-17

Lindsay Boxer - Joe is a murderer??

Smooth Operator

Stuart Woods

Apr-17

Teddy Faye - Speaker of the House's daughter kidnapped

Breakdown

Jonathan Kellerman

Apr-17

Alex Delaware - finding Ovid - and a bunch of bodies!

Tom Clancy Duty and Honor

Grant Blackwood

Apr-17

Someone is trying to kill Jack Ryan, Jr.

The Widow

Fiona Barton

Apr-17

Finding a missing two-year-old - England - sex murder

Season of the Monsoon

Paul Mann

Apr-17

Inspector Sanji, tieing old horrible murders to new ones in India

Barracuda Final Bearing

Michael Dimercurio

Apr-17

Future - Japan - Submarine Battles

Razor Girl

Carl Hiaasen

May-17

Bump & shave - Sedimental Journeys - Captain Cock - great stuff!

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

May-17

Charming story of an old man who has decided it's time to die - and fails - for a while.

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

May-17

Spy story from 1903 - discovering German plot to invade England

Red Sorghum

Mo Yan

May-17

Depressing review of WW II in China - did not finish

Death Takes a Gander

Christine Goff

May-17

Sick and dying geese in Colorado are murder clues

Little White Lies

Robert B. Parker (Ace Atkins)

Jun-17

Spenser and M. Brooks Welles - gun-running for God!

Precious and Grace

Alexander McCall Smith

Jun-17

Canadian woman looking for Rosie - and the Fat Cattle Club

Sanibel Flats

Randy Wayne White

Jun-17

Doc Ford moves to Sanibel and gets tangled in murder and Central America.

Heat Islands

Randy Wayne White

Jun-17

Winning tarpon tournament with explosives and then a body appears!

The Genius of Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

Jun-17

Scholarly examination of what bird intelligence MAY be.

The Power

Valerie Sayers

Jun-17

1941, run up to war and Joe Dimaggio's hitting streak

The Man Who Invented Florida

Randy Wayne White

Jul-17

Fountain of Youth in Mango and crazy old Uncle Tuck

Captiva

Randy Wayne White

Jul-17

Dock blows up, netters vs sport fisherman - Tomlinson dies??

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Jul-17

Man wakes up as a noxious insect, and his family contends with it.

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

Jul-17

House arrest in the Hotel Metropol 1922 to 1954 - and more!

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jul-17

From a little planet - appears to a pilot grounded in the Sahara

The Son

Philipp Meyer

Jul-17

Texans, Comanches, oil, Tejanos - 200 years

I Shot the Buddha

Colin Cotterill

Aug-17

Siri, Civilai, & Phosy - spirits - weird. Fake return of Buddha

The Identicals

Elin Hilderbrand

Aug-17

Twins - ACK and MVA - don't get along - etc.

North of Havana

Randy Wayne White

Aug-17

Rescuing Tomlinson - and Dewey - from Cuba!

The Mangrove Coast

Randy Wayne White

Aug-17

Columbia, Panama, bad guy Merlot, Tuck dies, rescuing damsel.

Ten Thousand Islands

Randy Wayne White

Aug-17

Indian relics, evil senate candidate, hurricane Charles

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Aug-17

Big bang to exoplanets - good stuff

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

Aug-17

From the original Martians, to people from earth, gone and back.

Safe from the Sea

Peter Geye

Sep-17

Ship wreck on Lake Superior and a father and son

An Invisible Thread

Laura Schroff and Alex Tresnio

Sep-17

NY Woman links with a 12 year old panhandler and saves him

A Secret Gift

Ted Gup

Sep-17

B Virdot's $5.00 to 150 people in 1933 and what happened

Caesar's Last Breath

Sam Kean

Oct-17

Fascinating - the air around us. Caesar's last breath may well have been a fart!

One More Warbler

Victor Emanuel

Oct-17

Basically Victor's Life Story, includes chapter on my Attu trip

Secondhand Time

Svetlana Alexievich

Oct-17

Interviews with people who are in the new Russia - 1991 - 2012. Amazing!

Into Oblivion

Arnaldur Indridason

Nov-17

Body found in lava pool, dropped from tower in hangar on Keflavik AB

Mozart's Starling

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Nov-17

Raising a starling and comparing it to Mozart's - better than it sounds.

Birding Without Borders

Noah Strycker

Nov-17

6042 species in one year!! Way to go!

Attack on Nantucket

Thad Dupper

Nov-17

Pres 46 on Low Beach Road - wife and kids kidnapped by Al Qaeda and so on.

Shark River

Randy Wayne White

Dec-17

Guava Key, Columbian Cartel, an old comrade - Hal.

Peregrine Spring

Nancy Cowan

Dec-17

Master Falconer's Extraordinary Life with Birds of Prey

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

John le Carre

Dec-17

George Smiley and a search for a Russian Mole in British intelligence

Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

Dec-17

History of mass extinctions on our planet and a look at the future

Rough Weather

Robert B. Parker

Jan-18

The Gray Man appears - many die

Twelve Mile Limit

Randy Wayne White

Jan-18

Human trafficking, Columbia, return to clandestine service

Everglades

Randy Wayne White

Jan-18

Religious sect taking over Everglades, Earthquakes, Doc Ford comes back!

The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis

Jan-18

Elizabeth Harmon - her road to Grand Master! From Terry Kent

The Fall

John Lescroart

Jan-18

SF - teen falls to her death - who done it - legal wrangling

Tampa Burn

Randy Wayne White

Feb-18

Doc's son, Laken, kidnapped by crazy guy who likes to burn people.

Entry Island

Peter May

Feb-18

Simes solves murder, finds love, history.

TransAtlantic

Colum McCann

Mar-18

OBOI - Ireland and America from Frederick Douglas onwards

Dead of Night

Randy Wayne White

Mar-18

Worms, snakes, copepods being let go at Disney. Ford gets back in the Business

The Lewis Man

Peter May

Mar-18

Body in the peat, murder, memory loss, Hebrides. Great!

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

Mar-18

Family saga - Chinese Farmer's links to the soil, wives, children - great read.

The Quantum Spy

David Ignatius

Mar-18

Quantum computers - the key to world domination - spies

Painted Ladies

Robert B. Parker

Apr-18

Guy Spenser is protecting is murdered, and then they try to get Spenser - paintings - holocaust - good.

Sixkill

Robert B. Parker

Apr-18

Girl dead in hotel, murder or note - Sixkill is Cree Indian bodyguard

The Professional

Robert B. Parker

Apr-18

Gary Eisenhower, super lover and blackmailer.

Dark Light

Randy Wayne White

Apr-18

Wreck from 1944 Hurricane, Nazi stuff, How old is Chestra?

I Am Malala

Malala Yousafzai with Christin

Apr-18

Tough Read. More about Muslims than I need.

Impact

Douglas Preston

Apr-18

From Deimos to earth, attack! Island off Maine. Good read!

The Vital Question

Nick Lane

May-18

Very technical discussion of how life 'may' have begun and evolved.

The Bully Pulpit

Doris Kearns Goodwin

May-18

TR and Taft - wonderful (two much) detail.

Outwitting Squirrels

Bill Adler, Jr.

May-18

Interesting read. Feel better about squirrels??

Black Widow

Randy Wayne White

Jun-18

Blackmail, Caribbean Island, a witch?

The Mistletoe Murder

P. D. James

Jun-18

Four short murder mysteries - fun

Adolf Hitler My Part in His Downfall

Spike Milligan

Jun-18

Hugely irreverant and amusing of Spike's war up to landing in Algiers

Dead Silence

Randy Wayne White

Jul-18

Kidnapping, bureal alive - Cuban fanatics. Tomlinson's family!

Night Vision

Randy Wayne White

Jul-18

Wetbacks, abuse, drugs, Ford kills people! Nasty turn I think.

The Meaning of Birds

Simon Barnes

Jul-18

Fantasticly readable ornithological dissertation

The Rooster Bar

John Grisham

Jul-18

Lawyer degree mill dropouts practice anyway, right triumphs in the end!

Yes we (Still) Can

Dan Pfeiffer

Jul-18

Started reading - figured I knew how it would come out

Last of the Giants

Jeff Campbell

Jul-18

Rise and Fall of Earth's most Dominant Species - excellent

Count to Ten

James Patterson

Aug-18

Private' novel - Organ snatching in Delhi.

The Last Juror

John Grisham

Sep-18

See May-05

Atlantis Found

Clive Sussler

Sep-18

See Jun-10!

The Fountain

Rocco Monto, MD

Sep-18

Exercise, eating, and metformin

Birds at My Table

Darryl Jones

Sep-18

Is feeding good? What are its effects?

Blue Gold

Clive Cussler with Paul Kempr

Oct-18

Water - the ultimate resource to control

Hunter's Moon

Randy Wayne White

Nov-18

Dying President's revenge on a Panamanian pyromaniac.

Long Haul

Finn Murphy

Nov-18

Finn's experiences driving moving van - good read!

My Nantucket Boyhood

Francis W. Pease

Nov-18

Live on ACK in the from the war years back

Nantucket After Boyhood

Francis W. Pease

Nov-18

What comes next?

Night Moves

Randy Wayne White

Dec-18

The search for Flight 19, a dog, and a new assassin

Chasing Midnight

Randy Wayne White

Dec-18

Sturgeons, island hostages,

Backlight Blue

Peter May

Dec-18

Enzo McLeod finds he's dying, then someone is trying to kill him. Kidnapping, twins, really moves along.

Relic

Alan Dean Foster

Dec-18

The last human and what happens to him

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie B

Jan-19

Actually quite wonderful - ready for it now.

Bone Deep

Randy Wayne White

Jan-19

Mosaic, Mastodons, and a crazy biker

Past Tense

Catherine Aird

Jan-19

Death, a Funeral, a murder, and then it gets complicated.

A Higher Call

Adam Makos

Jan-19

German Ace escorts a B-17

The Perfect Couple

Elin Hilderbrand

Feb-19

A Wedding - a body! Great read.

Cuckoo's Calling

Robert Galbraith

Feb-19

One-legged Strike and the models

The Monk of Mokha

Dave Eggers

Feb-19

Yemen, coffee - OBOI book

Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

Dr. Bob Rotella with Bob Cullen

Feb-19

You are never going to master it - just enjoy.

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Feb-19

Amazing piece of writing from the late 1300s

And if you Play Golf, You're my Friend

Harvey Penick

Feb-19

Lots of good advice here

Cuba Straits

Randy Wayne White

Mar-19

Baseball, spies, Did Castro not really play BB?

Chancellor Manuscript

Robert Ludlum

Mar-19

Early 70s, Hoover's murder, very confusing

Nature's Bounty

Ellen Harris

Mar-19

Yew Tree Bark - part of the Sparrow Island series

Deep Blue

Randy Wayne White

Apr-19

Mexico, drones, subs, a killer whale - very confusing

Mangrove Lightning

Randy Wayne White

Apr-19

Flashbacks to 1925, Collier, crazies, Hannah is pregnant!

Lethal White

Robert Galbraith

Apr-19

Chiswells, Olympics, murder, Robin leaves Matthew

Science Comics - The Brain

Tory Woollcott

Apr-19

Fascinating graphic tale of how your brain works

The Island of Sea Women

Lisa See

Apr-19

Didn't finish. Korean history - very woman oriented.

Caribbean Rim

Randy Wayne White

May-19

Search for relic gold and ambergris in the Bahamas - a bit weird

The Silkworm

Robert Galbraith

Jun-19

Strike and Robin solve a horendous murder of a controversial author.

Bird Brain Teasers

Patrick Merrell

Jun-19

Cute puzzle book from Genevieve

The War Before the War

Andrew Delbanco

Jun-19

Fugitive slave act and abolishionism

Buried in a Bog

Sheila Connolly

Jun-19

A body found in a bog connects a young American woman with her historic Irish family

Body of Evidence

Patricia Cornwell

Jun-19

Crazed killer on the loose - and after Kay Scarpetta!

The Feather Thief

Kirk Wallace Johnson

Jun-19

Hundreds of irreplaceable bird specimens stolen from the Tring Museum by fly tying enthusiast and still missing.

All That Remains

Patricia Cornwell

Jul-19

Car couples Killer Captured!

Cruel & Unusual

Patricia Cornwell

Jul-19

Was he executed? Or someone else? Murders continue!

The Body Farm

Patricia Cornwell

Jul-19

Confusing murders in TN and NC - Niece Lucy still with us

The Motorcycle Diaries

Che Guevara

Jul-19

24 year old Che travels from Argentina to Venezuela, starting on a Norton motorcycle

From Potter's Field

Patricia Cornwell

Aug-19

They final get Temple Gault!

Cause of Death

Patricia Cornwell

Aug-19

Zionist take over power plant - a bit weird.

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks

Aug-19

Study of people suffering from sleeping sickness treated with L-DOPA

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Aug-19

Finding success through social climbing in the early 19th century

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

Aug-19

Family history Manitoba through Indiana to Sarasota - marvelous

Plato - A Very Short Introduction

Julia Annas

Aug-19

My intro to Plato

Crow

Ted Hughes

Aug-19

Poetry - very allegoric and not satisfying - crow themed

Revenge Served Cold

Bob Ford

Sep-19

Competition ending in death - good friends??

Unnatural Exposure

Patricia Cornwell

Sep-19

Bodies with no limbs and a pox epidemic on an island in the Chesapeake

The Girl who Lived Twice

David Lagergrantz (Stieg Larss

Oct-19

Wild - Mt. Everest. Sherpa - Camilla finally dies.

Career of Evil

Robert Galbraith

Oct-19

Body parts in the mail. Solved. Robin marries!!

Point of Origin

Patricia Cornwell

Oct-19

Benton is murdered. Perhaps they have killed Carrie. Great drama!

Lethal White

Robert Galbraith

Nov-19

Read again after realizing I read out of sequence. Great!

Black Notice

Patricia Cornwell

Nov-19

New serial killer - French Werewolf.

Goethe A Very Short Introduction

Richie Robertson

Nov-19

All I need to know about Goethe

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi

Nov-19

Italian Jewish chemist WW II - by element

The Last Precinct

Patricia Cornwell

Dec-19

Didn't grab me. Too much else to read.

Out on a Limb

Benjamin Kilham

Dec-19

What you learn from raising orphaned Black Bears

A Land Remembered

Patrick D. Smith

Dec-19

Novel - Florida 1858 to 1964

Furious Hours

Casey Cep

Dec-19

Harper Lee and the 'In Cold Blood' book about Reverend Mitchell that she never finished.

The Thirst

Jo Nesbo

Jan-20

Vampirist - Harry Hole solves it.

To the Land of Long Lost Friends

Alexander McCall Smith

Jan-20

Back from the 'dead,' and a silver Mercedes!

On The Plain of Snakes

Paul Theroux

Jan-20

By car along the border both ways then clear to the south and back - in Mexico

Rat Catchers' Olympics

Colin Cotterill

Jan-20

Laos goes to the '80 Olympics in Moscow!

Clock Dance

Anne Tyler

Jan-20

Too girly for me.

Talking to Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell

Jan-20

Who's lying? The 'experts' can't tell

The Boy and His Dog at the End of the Worl

C. A. Fletcher

Feb-20

Disappointing - wonders on and on and then fizzles.

Interference

Sue Burke

Feb-20

50 pages in - who needs another cute language based on some futuristic scene on a far away planet.

Bad Desire

Gary Devon

Feb-20

Lust, murder, and a great finish!

Snow Angels

Fern Michaels

Feb-20

Collection of romantic stories - too Hallmark

Assume the Worst

Carl Hiaasen

Mar-20

Short - advice for graduating seniors

Squirm

Carl Hiaasen

Mar-20

From FL to Montana chasing a rich trophy hunter!

The Purple Swamphen

Penelope Lively

Mar-20

Charming short stories including one about a swamphen back in a Roman garden

Last Bus to Wisdom

Ivan Doig

Mar-20

1951, 11-year-old on a bus adventure MT to WI and back!

Frankissstein

Jeanette Winterson

Mar-20

Fascinating, creating life, preserving intelligence, sexbots!

The Cat Who Went up the Creek

Lilian Jackson Braun

Apr-20

Squirrels, Gold, two murders and a suicide

A Banquet of Consequences

Elizabeth George

Apr-20

Insp. Lindley, with Barbara Havers - very complicated murder by poisoning in toothpaste

Rules of Civility

Amor Towles

Apr-20

2nd read - seemed familiar but I had not put it with the other of Amor's titles

Blow Fly

Patricia Cornwell

Apr-20

Benton not murdered after all - French Werewolf escapes!

Predator

Patricia Cornwell

Apr-20

Confusing multiple personality murderer - exciting but then left you hanging.

The Overstory

Richard Powers

Apr-20

Trees and people's lives - Not good news.

Dare to Lead

Brene Brown

Apr-20

Read first chapter - I am not the target audience

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

Lilian Jackson Braun

May-20

Never trust an artist. Koko joins the group

The Punishment She Deserves

Elizabeth George

May-20

Insp. Lindley and Barbara - not a suicide - and tap dancing - and Isabelle drinking.

Scarpetta

Patricia Cornwell

May-20

Threatened dwarf leads to a crazed detective - almost lost Lucy!

Guns Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond

May-20

DVD - Marvelous

The Falcon Thief

Joshua Hammer

May-20

True story of a compulsive egg thief, selling to Arab Royalty.

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

Lilian Jackson Braun

Jun-20

More murders - Yum Yum joins in.

44 Scotland Street

Alexander McCall Smith

Jun-20

Good read - residents at 44 Scotland St. in Edinburgh

The Scarpetta Factor

Patricia Cornwell

Jun-20

The Werewolf is dead at last - now what?

Collapse

Jared Diamond

Jun-20

Why civilizations fail - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYegWOTFqGI

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer

Jun-20

33 Hrs to read - Went to https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/rise-and-fall-of-the-third-reich/summary

The Cat Who Turned On and Off

Lilian Jackson Braun

Jul-20

Junk Town jealousy and murder. New apartment

Just One Evil Act

Elizabeth George

Jul-20

Barbara's neighbor kidnapped to Lucca Italy, poisoning, murder, somehow she keeps her job.

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jul-20

Very enjoyable

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jul-20

More complicate version with bios. Profound

The Good Times

Russell Baker

Jul-20

From Mom's advice 'Make something of yourself,' to his NY Times Column - to her funeral.

The Cat Who Saw Red

Lilian Jackson Braun

Aug-20

Red pottery, an old girl friend murdered - at the Maus Haus

The Cat Who Played Brahms

Lilian Jackson Braun

Aug-20

Visit to Pick Axe, Fanny Klin

Huang, C. A. & Linch, J.

Mentoring:

The Tao of giving and receiving wisdom

The Cat Who Played Post Office

Lilian Jackson Braun

Aug-20

Jim almost gets run down. Koko solves the crime. Goodwinters are gone.

The Cat Who Read Shakespeare

Lilian Jackson Braun

Aug-20

Mrs. Cobb marries, and then

Mullis, K.

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

The Graduate

Charles Webb

Aug-20

New college graduate trying to find his footing

The King of Madison Avenue

Kenneth Roman

Aug-20

The man who shaped advertising - 'The Man in the Hathaway Shirt.' From semi-humble beginnings in England.

Three Daughters of China - Wild Swans

Jung Chang

Aug-20

Inspiring family story from concubine to one of the first writers to 'escape' to England and freedom.

The Cat Who Went Underground

Lilian Jackson Braun

Sep-20

Mooseville for the summer - and a serial killer!

Ick a Tick

Mary Miles

Sep-20

Very clever picture book about ticks!!

Nantucket Etcetera

Mary Miles

Sep-20

1989 - Various Yesterday's Island articles

Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Suzanne Collins

Sep-20

Follow-on. Coriolanus Snow, mentor to Lucy Gray.

Farewell Summer

Ray Bradbury

Sep-20

Boys to old men - the end of summer.

Admirations

Kenneth Roman

Sep-20

Short bios on various people admired by the author

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weir

H. P. Lovecraft

Sep-20

Weird stuff. Waste of time

Nature's Best Hope

Douglas W. Tallamy

Sep-20

Important - reestablishing nature. https://vnps.org/book-review-natures-best-hope-by-doug-tallamy/

Mr. Clemens & Mark Twain

Justin Kaplan

Sep-20

The latter part of Sam's life.

The Cat Who Had 14 Tales

Lilian Jackson Braun

Oct-20

Not Qwill - Rather charmin

McGrath, C.

A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature from the NY Times

The Cat Who Talked To Ghosts

Lilian Jackson Braun

Oct-20

Iris Cobb dies, and so do oth

Scheibe, K.E.

The Drama in Everday Life

The Bird Way

Jennifer Ackerman

Oct-20

How birds talk, work, play, parent and think! Excellent!

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

Oct-20

Let's put this off for a while

It is Wood It is Stone

Gabriella Burnham

Oct-20

Young woman's move to Sao Paulo and sexual searching

Dante's Inferno

Dante Alighieri

Oct-20

Virgil guides Dante into Hell. followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.

The Moth Snowstorm

Michael McCarthy

Oct-20

Biography and climate change - Mersey River

The Cat Who Lived High

Lilian Jackson Braun

Nov-20

Qwill is dead - but then not.

Sinatra, S.T.

Optimum Health

A Natural Lifesaving Prescription for your Body and Mind

The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal

Lilian Jackson Braun

Nov-20

Murder in the barn

Trilling, L. & Weiseltier, L.

The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent

Dune

Frank Herbert

Nov-20

Desert planet and the House Atreides. Good read

At Swim - two- Birds

Flann O'Brien

Nov-20

Started - a little too Irish

American Dirt

Jeanine Cummins

Nov-20

Hard to put down. Read to the end!

The Life and Times of Oswald Anthony Tup

Paul R. Judy

Nov-20

A lot of great old names in this book, and golf lore as well.

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

Nov-20

Positive attitude and concentration

The Cat Who Came To Breakfast

Lilian Jackson Braun

Dec-20

It's an island - murders happen.

Camino Winds

John Grisham

Dec-20

Murder during hurricane leads to giant nursing home investigation and more murder.

The Cat Who Wasn't There

Lilian Jackson Braun

Jan-21

Death in Scotland - murder?

Tucker, T.

Brainstorm!

The stories of 20 American kid inventors

The Cat Who Said Cheese

Lilian Jackson Braun

Jan-21

Cheese, bees a murder and a mysterious woman!

Return to Wild America

Scott Weidensaul

Jan-21

Follows Peterson and Fisher's 1953 route - excellent - and sobering.

Bright Lights Big City

Jay McInerney

Jan-21

Young man's drug-based experience in literary NYC.

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

Jan-21

The future - trailing the last Arctic Terns south on an apocolyptic fishing boat.

A Bird in the Hand

Anne Cleeves

Jan-21

Twitchers, murder, the Scilleys - England

The Cat Who Smelled a Rat

Lilian Jackson Braun

Feb-21

Old mines, fires, murder, name changes.

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

David Lagergrantz

Feb-21

The suicide of Allen Turing and the poisoned apple

The Crow Trap

Anne Cleeves

Feb-21

First Vera Stanhope novel - many deaths, natural, suicide, crimes??

Leave It As It Is

David Gessner

Feb-21

TR, the Canyon and saving out National Treasures.

The Cat Who Brought down the House

Lilian Jackson Braun

Mar-21

Thelma Thackery returns - and dies

The Cat Who Talked Turkey

Lilian Jackson Braun

Mar-21

Not much happened. Lish and Lush and a museum.

The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom

Mar-21

A House in New Orleans East, lost to Katrina, Black history.

Practical Magic

Alice Hoffman

Mar-21

Wonderful tale. Could hardly put the book down!

Human Croquet

Kate Atkinson

Mar-21

Read 100 pages - didn't care to go farther.

The Cat Who Went Bananas

Lilian Jackson Braun

Apr-21

Home-wrecker comes to Moose County - dies in fire at Hibbard Mansion

A World on the Wing

Scott Weidensaul

Apr-21

Migration, technology, slaughter, today's bird situation.

Squeeze Me

Carl Hiaasen

Apr-21

Pythons, Mockingbird, Mastondon, and Diego!

The Second Worst Restaurant in France

Alexander McCall Smith

Apr-21

Great story - food - lots of twists - living in rural France

Magic Lessons

Alice Hoffman

Apr-21

Prequel - fascinating historical trail - to Salem.

Big Sky

Kate Atkinson

Apr-21

Realized I'd recently read this - Excellent Jackson Brodie.

The Quest

Wilbur Smith

Apr-21

Too structured and fanciful

The Cassandra Complex

Brian Stableford

May-21

Just couldn't get into it - written about 2000 about life in 2041. Weird.

The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell

Lilian Jackson Braun

May-21

As above - increasingly cute cat chatty.

My Italian Bulldozer

Alexander McCall Smith

May-21

Food writer drives bulldozer around northern Italy

Don't Eat Me

Colin Cotterill

May-21

Illicit animal trade and corruption. Phosy almost executed. Posse comes to save him. Geung gets married!

Transcription

Kate Atkinson

May-21

Wonderful! WW 2 spies, counterspies, espionage - who's watching who?

The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers

Lilian Jackson Braun

Jun-21

Last in the series!

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

Jun-21

Fascinating - Sentient robot companion AF. Better than it sounds!

The Cat Who Tailed a Thief

Lilian Jackson Braun

Jul-21

Missing items, false marriag

Herototus

The Persian Wars

The Cat Who Sang For The Birds

Lilian Jackson Braun

Aug-21

Elderly lady dies in suspicio

Homer

Iliad; Odyssey

The Cat Who Saw Stars

Lilian Jackson Braun

Aug-21

Flying saucers - mysterious

Luecretius

On the Nature of Things

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

Aug-21

Wysteria! Baby Turtle, a migration to Arizona

Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Tom Robbins

Aug-21

Short story collection - some amusing.

Hiroshima

John Hersey

Aug-21

Personal accounts - the bomb! Excellent

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Aug-21

Complete genetic control. Soma. Everyone happy. Except the savage.

The Cat Who Robbed a Bank

Lilian Jackson Braun

Sep-21

Visiting collector murdered - Lenny Inchpot's brother did it!

The Second Biggest Nothing

Colin Cotterill

Sep-21

Plot to kill Siri. Civilai dies. The nothing is Laos' Independence Day.

How We Got to Now

Steven Johnson

Sep-21

Six achievements that changed mankind. Excellent

Enigma

Robert Harris

Sep-21

Spying and drama, U-Boats and convoys. Great read!

The Hare with Amber Eyes

Edmund De Waal

Sep-21

From Japan to Vienna through the holocaust and back to Japan again

The Cat Who Blew The Whistle

Lilian Jackson Braun

Oct-21

Runaway train, embezzlement, Polly heart attack

The Darkness Knows

Arnaldur Indridason

Oct-21

Crime 30 years ago, body discovered in a melting glacier!

Who We Are and How We Got Here

David Reich

Nov-21

DNA research on human history

The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

Nov-21

Husband Moth terminally ill with CBD, homeless - they walk the coastal trails of Cornwall

The Cat Who Moved A Mountain

Lilian Jackson Braun

Dec-21

Vacation in the mountains - murder!

Travels with George

Nathaniel Philbrick

Dec-21

Washington's innaugural trip through the colonies

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Dec-21

Virtually unreadable - run-on sentence, about almost nothing. Why is this a classic?

Birds of Paradise

Diana Abu-Jaber

Dec-21

Too much about runaway teen's angst - quit after 50 pages

Suncoast Empire

Frank A. Cassell

Jan-22

Bertha Honore Palmer and history of Sarasota - good

The Wizard and the Prophet

Charles C. Mann

Jan-22

Vogt and Borlaug - two visions of our future. Depressing

The Body - A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson

Feb-22

Everything you want to know about your body - readable!

At Home - A Short History of Private Life

Bill Bryson

Feb-22

Again - more detail than I needed to know - I thought I was getting a short history of nearly everything

The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

Feb-22

Read it again - still entertaining!

This is Happiness

Niall Williams

Feb-22

Electricity arriving in rural Ireland. Life in Faha. Steve's recommendation.

The Last Lion

William Manchester & Paul Rei

Feb-22

Over a thousand pages and wonderful - but I don't have time for it.

Hummingbird Salamander

Jeff Vandermeer

Feb-22

Read over half of it. It was sort of a dystopian rant about endangered species and specimen collection.

Star Island

Carl Hiaasen

Mar-22

Missed that I had read this in '12

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Alexander McCall Smith

Mar-22

Mma Makutsi quits and comes back. Charlie starts taxis service and wrecks car. A hospital mystery is solved.

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

Mar-22

Fascinating - Time stuck at midnight in Mrs. Elm's library

A Season of Birds - Norfolk Diary 1911

Vincent and Lodge

Mar-22

A year of birds in Hickling, Norfolk England

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

Apr-22

Group of Chinese immigrant women and how their lives developed - by a daughter

Started Early, Took My Dog

Kate Atkinson

Apr-22

Search for parents, leads to murders and mayhem!

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

Apr-22

Started it - decided I didn't need to learn another language.

There is nothing for you here

Fiona Hill

Apr-22

Life Story. Compares coal mining failure in England and PA and Trumps complete inability to accomplish anything.

Agent Running in the Field

John le Carre

May-22

London, badminton, spying in the Trump/Putin era

The Devil's Sea

Dirk Cussler

May-22

Meteoric heat resistand substance - tsunami generation - Taiwan to be flooded!

The Dancing Girls

M. M. Chouinard

May-22

Murder thru Worlds of Warcraft. Nice twist.

A Legacy of Spies

John le Carre

Jun-22

Descendants of spies victims bring suit. George Smiley appears at the end

A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching

Rosemary Mosco

Jun-22

Entertaining and quite informative!

The Enormous Radio and other stories

John Cheever

Jun-22

Fascinating

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jun-22

Rags to Riches neighbor on LI in decadent 1922 - Excellent

The Hawk's Way

Sy Montgomery

Jun-22

Learning falconry - excellent

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

Jul-22

Got about halfway thru. Interesting but - too much!

To See Every Bird on Earth

Dan Koeppel

Jul-22

Enjoyed it. A lot seemed familiar. David P's recommendation!

The Chain

Adrian McKinty

Jul-22

Incredible, gripping, kidnapping - murder - forever??

Tourist Town

Steve Sheppard

Jul-22

Mystery woman on Nantucket

Nantucket Nocturne

Steve Sheppard

Jul-22

Sea chest mystery - Merle! - Libby!

That Old Cape Magic

Richard Russo

Jul-22

Read in a bit - decided not to waste more time on it.

Thunderstruck

Erik Larson

Aug-22

Passed to my by David Sharpe - I read a bit and then remembered it. Then finished it - Great Read.

Another Roadside Attraction

Tom Robbins

Aug-22

Weird - nothing about roadside attractions

The Island

Adrian McKinty

Aug-22

Family hostage on a crazy island near the Mornington. Gripping.

Charlotte's Web

E. B. White

Aug-22

Charming tale of Wilbur and Charlotte the spider, who saved his life.

Stuart Little

E. B. White

Aug-22

Two inch tall mouse son, some cats and a brown bird - ended unexpectedly

An Elderly Lady is up to No Good

Helene Tursten

Aug-22

89 year old woman you shouldn't mess with.

the War Nurse

Tracey Enerson Wood

Aug-22

Nurse's experiences in WW I France and the Flu. Very nice.

West with Giraffes

Lynda Rutledge

Sep-22

Semi historical tale of 1938 transporting two giraffes from NYC to the San Diego Zoo in a modified pickup truck!

A Christmas Party

Georgette Heyer

Feb-17

Too many characters that I really didn't care about. Stopped reading

Trace

Patricia Cornwell

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Not in Englewood!

Protect and Defend

Richard North Patterson

Get this

Hearts in Atlantis

Stephen King

02??

Not sure why this didn't get logged

Sarum

Edward Rutherfurd

1994

History of Salisbury

The Oath

John Lescroart

Se 7

Great novel enjoyed it.

Worlds of Exile and Illusion : Rocannon's W

Ursula K. LeGuin

Skip

Steering the Craft : Exercises and Discussio

Ursula K. LeGuin

Skip

The Cat Who Sniffed Glue

Lilian Jackson Braun

xxx

Try this in FL?

Redway, K.

How to be a Rapid Reader

The Cat Who Went Into the Closet

Lilian Jackson Braun

xxx

Baskin, Y.

The Work of Nature

How the diversity of life sustains us

Fukuyama, F.

The End of History and the Last of Man

Milton

Paradise Lost

Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Sophocles

Oedipus the King; Antigone; Ajax; Philoctetes

Swift

Gulliver's Travels

To Ride Pagasus

Anne McCaffrey

Pegasus in Flight

Anne McCaffrey

Early Autumn

Robert B. Parker

A Savage Place

Robert B. Parker

The Widening Gyre

Robert B. Parker

Crimson Joy

Robert B. Parker

Walking Shadow

Robert B. Parker

Thin Air

Robert B. Parker

Worldwar: Striking the Balance

Harry Turtledove

Colonization: Second Contact

Harry Turtledove

Colonization: Aftershocks

Harry Turtledove

Naked in Death

J.D. Robb

Glory in Death

J.D. Robb

Immortal in Death

J.D. Robb

Midnight in Death

J.D. Robb

Silent Night

J.D. Robb

A Place Called Freedom

Ken Follett

On Wings of Eagles

Ken Follett

The Key to Rebecca

Ken Follett

Lie Down with Lions

Ken Follett

Triple

Ken Follett

Eye of the Needle

Ken Follett

Tonto Woman (1998)

Elmore Leonard

Fire in the Hole (2001

Elmore Leonard

Tishomingo Blues (2002

Elmore Leonard

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A Storm of Swords

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A Feast of Crows

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A Dance with Dragons

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