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That’s What She Read

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

September ’14

Blackbird Fly/ Erin Entrada Kelly

Conviction/ Kelly Gilbert

The Honest Truth/ Dan Gemeinhart

Mosquitoland/ David Arnold

We All Looked Up/ Tommy Wallach

August ’14 

The Rules/ Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie (June ’15)

Fear Street: The Confession/ RL Stine

Gone Girl/ Gillian Flynn (again)

Dear Daughter/ Elizabeth Little

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd/ Agatha Christie (again)

5 to 1/ Holly Bodger (May ’15)

Fear Streer: The Perfect Date/ RL Stine

Fear Street: The Stepsister/ RL Stine

July ’14

Denton Little’s Deathdate/ Lance Rubin (April ’15)

Beach House/ RL Stine

Sisterland/ Curtis Sittenfeld

Ship of Brides/ Jojo Moyes (Oct ’14)

My Heart & Other Black Holes/ Jasmine Warga (Feb ’15)

If You Find This/ Matthew Baker (March ’15)

When Reason Breaks/ Cindy L. Rodriguez (Feb ’15)

Annihilation/ Jeff VanderMeer

Murder is Bad Manners/ Robin Stevens (April ’15)

June ’14

Horrorstor/ Grady Hendrix (Sept ’14)

All Fall Down/ Jennifer Weiner

Ketchup Clouds/ Annabel Pitcher

Hideaway/ Dean Koontz

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future/ AS King (Oct ’14)

I Take You/ Eliza Kennedy (May ’15)

May ’14

Far From You/ Tess Sharpe

Belzhar/ Meg Wolitzer (Sept ’14)

The Secret History/ Donna Tartt

The Cuckoo’s Calling/ Robert Galbraith

I’ll Give You the Sun/ Jandy Nelson (Sept ’14)

We Should Hang Out Sometime/ Josh Sundquist (Dec ’14)

April ’14

Open Road Summer/ Emery Lord

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets/ JK Rowling

The Vanishing Coin/ Kate Egan

The Secret Place/ Tana French (Aug ’14)

The Jewel/ Amy Ewing (Sept ’14)

The Perfectionists/ Sara Shepard (Oct ’14)

Point/ Brandy Colbert

Amity/ Micol Ostow (August ’14)

The Heiresses/ Sara Shepard (May ’14)

March ’14

Not That Kind of Girl/ Siobhan Vivian

Everything Leads To You/ Nina LaCour (May ’14)

Since You’ve Been Gone/ Morgan Matson (May ’14)

February ’14

The Truth About Alice/ Jennifer Mathieu (June ’14)

Landline/ Rainbow Rowell (July ’14)

Conversion/ Katherine Howe (July ’14)

The Vactioneers/ Emma Straub (May ’14)

They All Fall Down/ Roxanne St. Claire (October ’14)

Poisoned Apples/ Christine Heppermann (September ’14)

Like No Other/ Una LaMarche (July ’14)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone/ JK Rowling

The Riverman/ Aaron Starmer (March ’14)

Very Bad Things/ Susan McBride

Dept. of Speculation/ Jenny Offill

Absolutely Almost/ Lisa Graff (June ’14)

Althea and Oliver/ Cristina Moracho (October ’14)

The Fever/ Megan Abbot (June ’14)

January ’14

Reconstructing Amelia/ Kimberly McCreight

The Fourteenth Goldfish/ Jenni Holm (August ’14)

The Vanishing Season/ Jodi Lynn Anderson (July ’14)

Now I’ll Tell You Everything/ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Battle of Darcy Lane/ Tara Altebrando (April ’14)

Just Call My Name/ Holly Goldberg Sloan (August ’14)

Me Before You/ Jojo Moyes

Noggin/ John Corey Whaley (April ’14)

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender/ Leslye Walton (March ’14)

Starstruck/ Rachel Shukert

Love Me/ Rachel Shukert (Feb ’14)

Boy in the Striped Pajamas/ John Boyne

The Hit/ Melvin Burgess (Feb ’14)

——Intermission—–

September ’11

Half A Life/ Darin Strauss

Single Girl’s To-Do List/ Lindsey Kelk

All These Things I’ve Done/ Gabrielle Zevin

Never Have I Ever/ Sara Shepard

August ’11

Stay/ Allie Larkin

No Safety in Numbers/ Dayna Lorentz (manuscript)

Girls In White Dresses/ Jennifer Close

Fly Away Home/ Jennifer Weiner

Robopocalypse/ Daniel Wilson

Rules of Civility/ Amor Towles

July ’11

A Visit From The Goon Squad/ Jennifer Egan

Bitterblue/ Kristin Cashore (manuscript)

State of Wonder/ Ann Patchett

The Department of Lost and Found/ Allison Winn Scotch

Then Came You/ Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens/ Libba Bray

Twisted/ Sara Shepard

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children/ Ransom Riggs

June ’11

Unbroken/ Laura Hillenbrand

Sex on the Moon/ Ben Mezrich

Jurassic Park/ Michael Crichton

Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn’t Have)/ Sarah Mlynowski

Almost Identical/ Lin Oliver (Manuscript)

Wicked Jealous/ Robin Palmer (Manuscript)

Girl In A Diamond Collar/ Katherine Longshore (Manuscript)

May ’11

The Paris Wife/ Paula McLain

A Gate at the Stairs/ Lorrie Moore

How To Say Goodbye In Robot/ Natalie Standiford

April ’11

Talking To Girls About Duran Duran/ Rob Sheffield

Rosebush/ Michele Jaffe

Under the Dome/ Stephen King

A Red Herring Without Mustard/ Alan Bradley

The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag/ Alan Bradley

How To Change The World/ Madeline George (Manuscript)

March ’11

Moon Over Manifest/ Clare Vanderpool

The Future of Us/ Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler (Manuscript)

Try Not To Breathe/ Jennifer Hubbard (Manuscript)

The Disenchantments/ Nina LaCour (Manuscript)

Dragonswood/ Janet Lee Carey (Manuscript)

Deadly Cool/ Gemma Halliday

Just Kids/ Patti Smith

The Last Little Blue Envelope/ Maureen Johnson

I Totally Meant To Do That/ Jane Borden

February ’11

Ghosts of Greenwich Village/ Lorna Graham

Secret Lives of Dresses/ Erin McKean

What Alice Forgot/ Liane Moriarty

Happy Ever After/ Nora Roberts

Born Wicked/ Jessica Spotswood (manuscript)

Swamplandia!/ Karen Russell

January ’11

Savor the Moment/ Nora Roberts

Loser/ Queen/ Jodi Lynn Anderson

Great House/ Nicole Krauss

A Tale Dark and Grimm/ Adam Gidwitz

The Catastrophic History of You & Me/ Jess Rothenberg (Manuscript)

December ’10

Anna and the French Kiss/ Stephanie Perkins

Legend/ Marie Lu (manuscript)

The Sky is Everywhere/ Jandy Nelson

The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman/ Meg Wolitzer (manuscript)

Spook/ Mary Roach

Vision in White/ Nora Roberts

The Lying Game/ Sara Shepard

Fall For Anything/ Courtney Summers

Room/ Emma Donoghue

November ’10

Everything Changes/ Jonathan Tropper

Half Broke Horses/Jeannette Walls

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth/ Jeff Kinney

The Mockingbirds/ Daisy Whitney

The A Circuit/ Catherine Hapka & Georgina Bloomberg

The Probability of Miracles/ Wendy Wunder (manuscript)

October ’10

Bright Young Things/ Anna Godbersen

The House at Riverton/Kate Morton

Imaginary Girls/ Nova Ren Suma (manuscript)

Robyn and her Band of Thieves/ Peter Abrahams (manuscript)

The Apothecary/ Maile Meloy (manuscript)

The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows/ Jacqueline West

The Lost Dogs/ Jim Gorant

September ’10

The Book Of Joe/ Jonathan Tropper

Never Let Me Go/Kazuo Ishiguro

What Happened To Goodbye/ Sarah Dessen (manuscript)

The Scorch Trials/ James Dashner

The DUFF (Designated, Ugly Fat Friend)/ Kody Keplinger

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town/ Nick Reding

Across the Universe/ Beth Revis

August ’10

Mockingjay/ Suzanne Collins

This is Where I Leave You/ Jonathan Tropper

Vlad Tod: 8th Grade Bites/ Heather Brewer

Where She Went/ Gayle Foreman

Delerium/ Lauren Oliver

Secrets to Happiness/ Sarah Dunn

The Dreamland Social Club/ Tara Altebrando (manuscript)

Brother/ Sister/ Sean Olin (manuscript)

July ’10

The Eternal Ones/ Kirsten Miller

One Day/ David Nicholls

XVI/ Julia Karr

Matched/ Ally Condie

Between Shades of Gray/ Ruta Sepetys

Only the Good Spy Young/ Ally Carter

June ’10

North of Beautiful/ Justina Chen Headley

Love You Hate You Miss You/ Elizabeth Scott

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake/ Aimee Bender

The Trump Card/ Ivanka Trump

How Did You Get This Number/ Sloane Crosley

Not That Kind Of Girl/ Siobhan Vivian

Pretty Little Liars: Wanted/ Sara Shepard

Mrs. Astor Regrets/ Meryl Gordon

Heart of the Matter/ Emily Giffin

May ’10

Let the Great World Spin/ Colum McCann

The Indifferent Stars Above/ Daniel James Brown

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned/ Wells Tower

Columbine/ Dave Cullen

Stiff/ Mary Roach

Angels/ Marian Keyes

The Magicians/ Lev Grossman

And The Heart Says Whatever/ Emily Gould

April ’10

Will Grayson, Will Grayon/ John Green & David Levithan

The Bronx Is Burning/ Jonathan Mahler

Rework/ Jason Fried and David Hansson

The Body Finder/ Kimberly Derting

The Irresistible Henry House/ Lisa Grunwald

My Horizontal Life/ Chelsea Handler

March ’10

Little Women/ Louisa May Alcott

Cell/ Stephen King

February ’10

All Around The Town/ Mary Higgins Clark

The Summer I Turned Pretty/ Jenny Han

The Bachelorette Party/ Karen McCullah Lutz

Sharp Objects/ Gillian Flynn

Dark Places/ Gillian Flynn

Plum Spooky/ Janet Evanovich

The Group/ Mary McCarthy

January ’10

Waiting For You/ Susane Colasanti

Airhead/ Meg Cabot

Remember Me/ Mary Higgins Clark

Pretty Little Liars: Heartless/ Sara Shepard

Marcelo in the Real World/ Francisco Stork

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief/ Rick Riordan

Impossible/ Nancy Werlin

Blue Bloods: Revelations/ Melissa De La Cruz

Blue Bloods: Masquerade/ Melissa De La Cruz

Blue Bloods/ Melissa De La Cruz

The Girls/ Tucker Shaw

The Six Rules of Maybe/ Deb Caletti

By The Time You Read This I’ll Be Dead/ Julie Anne Peters

Secret Society/ Tom Dolby

Tangled/ Carolyn Mackler

The Help/ Kathryn Stockett

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December ’09

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo/ Stieg Larsson

Some Girls Are/ Courtney Summers

Something, Maybe/ Elizabeth Scott

Lips Touch/ Laini Taylor

Evermore/ Alyson Noel

Take Me There/ Susane Colasanti

Heaven to Betsy/ Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy in Spite of Herself/ Maud Hart Lovelace

November ’09

When It Happens/ Susane Colasanti

Hush, Hush/ Becca Fitzpatrick

I Shudder/ Paul Rudnick

Front and Center/ Catherine Murdock

Fire/ Kristin Cashore

Pretty Little Liars: Killer/ Sara Shepard

October ’09

Girlfriend Material/ Melissa Kantor

Old School/ Tobias Wolff

Luxe: Splendor/ Anna Godbersen

Nation/ Terry Pratchett

Accidental Billionaires/ Ben Mezrich

Alex & Me/ Irene Pepperberg

Wimpy Kid 4: Dog Days/ Jeff Kinney

Mary & O’Neil/ Justin Cronin

Graceling/ Kristin Cashore

Gone/ Michael Grant

September ’09

I’m So Happy For You/ Lucinda Rosenfeld

Don’t Judge A Girl By Her Cover/ Ally Carter

An Off Year/ Claire Zulkey

You Remind Me Of Me/ Dan Chaon

Shutter Island/ Dennis Lehane

Going Too Far/ Jennifer Echols

Time Of My Life/ Allison Winn Scotch

Paper Towns/ John Green

Pretty Little Liars: Wicked/ Sara Shepard

August ’09

And Then There Were None/ Agatha Christie

The Passage/ Justin Cronin (manuscript)

Soul of a Dog/ Jon Katz

Devil In The White City/ Erik Larson (again)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s/ Truman Capote

The Sixty-Eight Rooms/ Marianne Malone (manuscript)

The Last Good Kiss/ James Crumley

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything/ Janelle Brown

July ’09

Split/ Swati Avasthi (manuscript)

The Dead-Tossed Waves/ Carrie Ryan (manuscript)

All Unquiet Things/ Anna Jarzab (manuscript)

Best Friends Forever/ Jennifer Weiner

The Cinderella Society/ Kay Cassidy (manuscript)

Epitaph Road/ David Patneaude (manuscript)

Julie & Julia/ Julie Powell

My Life In France/ Julia Child

After You/ Julie Buxbaum

The Mosts/ Melissa Senate (manuscript)

June ’09

Wake/ Lisa McMann

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh/ Michael Chabon

The Secret/ Rhonda Byrne

Chasing Vermeer/ Blue Balliett

Cracked Up To Be/ Courtney Summers

Gimmie A Call/ Sarah Mlynowski (manuscript, Spring ’10)

Catching Fire/ Suzanne Collins

Sweeping Up Glass/ Carolyn D. Wall

May ’09

Lush Life/ Richard Price

The Song is You/ Arthur Phillips

Oliver Kitteridge/ Elizabeth Strout

After/ Amy Efaw

Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie/ Alan Bradley

If I Stay/ Gayle Forman

April ’09

Girl in the Arena/ Lise Haines

Sloane Sisters/ Anna Carey

March ’09

The Tipping Point/ Malcom Gladwell

Lowboy/ John Wray

February ’09

What I Saw And How I Lied/ Judy Blundell

Canterwood Crest: Take the Reins/ Jessica Burkhart

Along For the Ride/ Sarah Dessen

Wintergirls/ Laurie Halse Anderson

Party/ Tom Leveen (manuscript)

Free Food For Millionaires/ Min Jin Lee

January ’09

Love Walked In/ Marisa de los Santos

Luxe 3: Envy/ Anna Godbersen

Mouse Tales/ David Koenig

Candor/ Pam Bachorz (manuscript, Fall ’09)

Maze Runner/ James Dashner (manuscript, Fall ’09)

Fat Cat/ Robin Brande (manuscript, Fall ’09)

Infected/ Scott Sigler

Contagious/ Scott Sigler

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3/ Jeff Kinney

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December ’08

The Hunger Games/ Suzanne Collins

World War Z/ Max Brooks (again)

November ’08

The Witches of Eastwick/ John Updike

Confederates in the Attic/ Tony Horwitz

September ’08

Let It Snow/ John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson

The Big Splash/ Jack D. Ferraiolo (again)

Generation Dead/ Daniel Waters

Essays of EB White/ EB White

About Alice/ Calvin Trillin

The Partly Cloudy Patriot/ Sarah Vowell

August ’08

Little Brother/ Cory Doctorow

Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet/ Jamie Ford

Lucky/ Rachel Vail

Peeled/ Joan Bauer

Alive and Well in Prague, New York/ Daphne Grab

Ten Cents a Dance/ Christina Fletcher

July ’08

The Patron Saint of Butterflies/ Cecilia Galante

Still Life With Husband/ Lauren Fox

Side Effects/ Amy Goldman Koss

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies/ Mick Cochrane (manuscript)

3 Willows/ Ann Brashares (manuscript)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society/ Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (again)

The Kid/ Dan Savage

Dishwasher/ Pete Jordan

Love the One You’re With/ Emily Giffin

June ’08

Unaccustomed Earth/ Jhumpa Lahiri (audio)

When You Are Engulfed in Flames/ David Sedaris (audio)

Fraud/ David Rakoff

The Big Splash/ Jack D. Ferraiolo

Sorority 101: Zeta or Omega?/ Kate Harmon

Savvy/ Ingrid Law

Paper Towns/ John Green

Bliss/ Lauren Myracle

Pretty Little Liars #4: Unbelievable/ Sara Shepard

May ’08 
Scott Pilgrim Vol. 2/ Bryan Lee O’Malley

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks/ E. Lockhart

The Market/ JM Steele

Beacon Street Girls #1/ Annie Bryant

And Then We Came To the End/ Joshua Ferris

You Are Here/ Rebecca Stead (manuscript)

Forest of Hands and Teeth/ Carrie Ryan (manuscript)

Luxe: Rumors/ Anna Godbersen

April ’08 

Certain Girls/ Jennifer Weiner

Lock & Key/ Sarah Dessen

I Was Told There’d Be Cake/ Sloane Crosley

Boy Proof/ Cecil Castellucci

Rats Saw God/ Rob Thomas

Cheer!/ Kate Torgovnick

The Red Blazer Girls (manuscript)

The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency/ Alexander Mccall Smith

Audrey, Wait!/ Robin Benway

March ’08

Remember Me?/ Sophie Kinsella

Good Dog. Stay/ Anna Quindlen

Highway to Hell (manuscript)/ Rosemary Clement-Moore

The Friday Night Knitting Club/ Kate Jacobs

The Opposite of Love/ Julie Buxbaum

Water For Elephants/ Sara Gruen

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society/Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

How To Be Bad/ E. Lockhart; Sarah Mlynowski; Lauren Myracle

Bratfest at Tiffany’s/ Lisi Harrison

The Glass Castle/ Jeannette Walls  

February ’08

Design Flaws of the Human Condition/ Paul Schmidtberger

Estrella’s Quinceanera/ Malin Alegria

My Most Excellent Year/ Steve Kluger

Assassination Vacation/ Sarah Vowell

Sweethearts/ Sara Zarr

Kiss Me, Kill Me/ Lauren Henderson

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You/ Ally Carter

Suite Scarlett/ Maureen Johnson

The True Meaning of Smekday/ Adam Rex

January ’08

Poseur/ Rachel Maude

Repossessed/ AM Jenkins

Fake Boyfriend/ Kate Brian

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You/ Peter Cameron

The Wednesday Wars/ Gary D. Schmidt

Chiggers/ Hope Larson

Hush/ Donna Jo Napoli

Austenland/ Shannon Hale

Slam/ Nick Hornby

The Abstinence Teacher/ Tom Perrotta

Eat Pray Love/ Elizabeth Gilbert

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