À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for September.

Bought:

  • Evil at Heart, by Chelsea Cain (iphone/kindle)
  • Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins (iphone/kindle)
  • Sweep 10: Seeker, by Cate Tiernan (iphone/kindle)
  • Sweep 11: Origins, by Cate Tiernan (iphone/kindle)

Read:
  • Evil at Heart, by Chelsea Cain (iphone/kindle)
  • Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins (iphone/kindle)
  • A Pair of Blue Eyes, by Thomas Hardy
  • Sweep 1: Book of Shadows, by Cate Tiernan (sarah’s)
  • Sweep 2: The Coven, by Cate Tiernan (sarah’s)
  • Sweep 3: Blood Witch, by Cate Tiernan (sarah’s)
  • Sweep 4: Dark Magick, by Cate Tiernan (sarah’s)
  • Sweep 5: Awakening, by Cate Tiernan (sarah’s)
  • Sweep 6: Spellbound, by Cate Tiernan (sarah’s)
  • Sweep 7: The Calling, by Cate Tiernan (sarah’s)
  • Sweep 8: Changeling, by Cate Tiernan (sarah’s)
  • Sweep 9: Strife, by Cate Tiernan (sarah’s)
  • Sweep 10: Seeker, by Cate Tiernan (library)
  • Sweep 11: Origins, by Cate Tiernan (library)
  • Midnighters 1: The Secret Hour, by Scott Westerfeld (library)

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for August.

Bought:

  • Sea Lord, by Virginia Kantra (iPhone/kindle)
  • My Life in France, by Julia Child
  • Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child, by Noel Riley Fitch
  • Cry Wolf, by Patricia Briggs
  • Hunting Ground, by Patricia Briggs

Read:
  • Sea Fever, by Virginia Kantra (iPhone/kindle)
  • Sea Lord, by Virginia Kantra (iPhone/kindle)
  • Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill
  • Carved in Bone, by Jefferson Bass
  • Cry Wolf, by Patricia Briggs
  • Happy All the Time, by Laurie Colwin
  • Hunting Ground, by Patricia Briggs
  • White Time, by Margo Lanagan (stories)

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for June.

Bought:

  • The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan (for iPhone/Kindle!)
  • 13 Bullets, by David Wellington (for iPhone/Kindle!)
  • Mark of the Demon, by Diana Rowland (iPhone/Kindle)
  • Sea Witch, by Virginia Kantra (iPhone/Kindle)

Read:
  • Gone Tomorrow: A Reacher Novel, by Lee Child (on iPhone/Kindle!)
  • Magic in the Blood, by Devon Monk
  • Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
  • Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn
  • Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi
  • 13 Bullets, by David Wellington (on iPhone/Kindle!)
  • Emerald City, by Jennifer Egan (short stories)

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for May.

Bought:

  • Definitely Dead, by Charlaine Harris
  • All Together Dead, by Charlaine Harris
  • From Dead to Worse, by Charlaine Harris
  • Grimspace, by Ann Aguirre
  • What We Eat When We Are Alone, by Deborah Madison & Patrick McFarlin
  • In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
  • Blue Diablo, by Ann Aguirre
  • Wanderlust, by Ann Aguirre
  • Dead and Gone, by Charlaine Harris (for kindle/iphone!)
  • Gone Tomorrow: A Reacher Novel, by Lee Child (for kindle/iphone!)

Read:
  • Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris
  • The Dart League King, by Keith Lee Morris
  • Definitely Dead, by Charlaine Harris
  • All Together Dead, by Charlaine Harris
  • From Dead to Worse, by Charlaine Harris
  • Grimspace, by Ann Aguirre
  • Wanderlust, by Ann Aguirre
  • Dracula, by Bram Stoker (re-read)
  • All Summer, by Claire Kilroy
  • Dead and Gone, by Charlaine Harris

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for April.

Bought:

  • City of Glass, by Cassandra Clare
  • Elantris, by Brandon Sanderson
  • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
  • The Dart League King, by Keith Lee Morris
  • Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris
  • Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris
  • Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris
  • Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris

Read:
  • Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
  • City of Glass, by Cassandra Clare
  • Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris
  • Elantris, by Brandon Sanderson
  • Tell No One, by Harlan Coben
  • The Three Evanglists, by Fred Vargas
  • Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris
  • Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris
  • Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris
  • Eureka Street, by Robert McLiam Wilson
  • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for March.

Bought:

  • Bone Crossed, by Patricia Briggs
  • Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
  • Maps & Legends, Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands, by Michael Chabon
  • A Homemade Life, by Molly Wizenberg
  • City of Refuge, by Tom Piazza
  • The Lady Elizabeth, by Alison Weir
  • The Forest of Hands and Teeth, by Carrie Ryan
  • Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi
  • The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi

Read:
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (re-read)
  • Antarctica, by Claire Keegan (stories)
  • Bone Crossed, by Patricia Briggs
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larssen
  • A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, by Molly Wizenberg
  • Flesh and Bone, by Jefferson Bass
  • Domestic Violence, by Eavan Boland (poetry)
  • The Forest of Hands and Teeth, by Carrie Ryan
  • City of Refuge, by Tom Piazza
  • Circle of the Dead, by Ingrid Black
  • The Feminists Go Swimming, by Michael Collins
  • The Pianist, by Wladyslaw Szpilman

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for February.

Bought:

  • Rogue Angel: Renaissance, by Alex Archer (trilogy in one volume)
  • Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories, by Lauren Groff
  • L.A. Outlaws, by T. Jefferson Parker*
  • The Devil’s Bones, by Jefferson Bass*
  • Lies of Silence, by Brian Moore^
  • Every Dead Thing, by John Connolly^
  • Sweetheart, by Chelsea Cain^
  • For All We Know, by Ciaran Carson (poetry)^
  • Nocturnes, by John Connolly (stories)^
  • The Three Evanglists, by Fred Vargas^
  • That They May Face the Rising Sun, by John McGahern^
  • Domestic Violence, by Eavan Boland (poetry)^
  • Finding the Gossamer, by Patrick Hicks (poetry)^
  • Eureka Street, by Robert McLiam Wilson^
  • All Summer, by Claire Kilroy^
  • The Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh (play/drama)^
  • The Feminists Go Swimming, by Michael Collins (stories)^
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson^
  • Antarctica, by Claire Keegan (stories)^
  • Dark Hollow, by John Connolly*
  • Carved in Bone, by Jefferson Bass
  • Flesh and Bone, by Jefferson Bass
  • The Killing Kind, by John Connolly

Read:
  • Satan Says, by Sharon Olds (poetry)
  • The Broom of the System, by David Foster Wallace
  • L.A. Outlaws, by T. Jefferson Parker
  • The Devil’s Bones, by Jefferson Bass
  • Lies of Silence, by Brian Moore
  • Every Dead Thing, by John Connolly
  • Sweetheart, by Chelsea Cain
  • Dark Hollow, by John Connolly
  • Delicate Edible Birds, by Lauren Groff (stories)
  • For All We Know, by Ciaran Carson (poetry)

*bought in airports
^bought in Dublin, baby

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for January.

Bought:

  • City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare
  • HeartSick, by Chelsea Cain
  • Tethered, by Amy MacKinnon
  • The One Marvelous Thing, by Rikki DuCornet
  • City of Ashes, by Cassandra Clare
  • Working for the Devil, by Lilith Saintcrow
  • Magic to the Bone, by Devon Monk
  • The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

Read:
  • City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  • Shakespeare Wrote for Money, by Nick Hornby
  • HeartSick, by Chelsea Cain
  • A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (re-read)
  • Mainspring, by Jay Lake
  • Magic to the Bone, by Devon Monk
  • City of Ashes, by Cassandra Clare
  • Tethered, by Amy MacKinnon
  • The Partly Cloudy Patriot, by Sarah Vowell
  • Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang

It was a good month for readin’. When I’m stressed out? I read.

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for December.

Bought:

  • Disquiet, by Julia Leigh
  • Among the Thugs, by Bill Buford
  • Shakespeare Wrote for Money, by Nick Hornby
  • Shadow’s Edge, by Brent Weeks
  • Throne of Jade, by Naomi Novik

Read:
  • The Lover’s Knot, by Clare O’Donohue
  • Deaf Sentence, by David Lodge
  • The Trial, by Kafka
  • Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan
  • A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories about Human Love, by Ben Greenman (stories)
  • A Spy in the Family; An Erotic Comedy, by Alec Waugh
  • Black & White, by Dani Shapiro
  • If the River Was Whiskey, by T. Coraghessan Boyle (stories)
  • Silver Wings for Vicki, by Helen Wells
  • Disquiet, by Julia Leigh
  • The Scarecrow and His Servant, by Philip Pullman