The BOOK-A-WEEK-CHALLENGE began in February 2011. (My 2012 50 books challenge is here and includes “pithy reviews” about each book.)
Listed in order I read . . .
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Skipping a Beat by Sarah Pekkanen
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
The Other Life by Ellen Meister
The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry
The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
Skinny by Diana Spechler
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (second read)
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow (non-fiction)
One Day by David Nicholls (second read)
The First Husband by Laura Dave
The Divorce Party by Laura Dave
The Art of Forgetting by Camille Noe Pagan
Belong to Me by Marisa De Los Santos
Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos (Note: I accidentally read the last two books out of order. Read this one first)
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro (non-fiction)
The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
Devotion by Dani Shapiro (non-fiction)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Sweathearts by Sara Zarr
The Little Bride by Anna Solomon
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Best American Essays series (2008 & 2009) (non-fiction)
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley (non-fiction)
Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell
Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
Another Marvelous Thing by Laurie Colwin
Not That You Asked: Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions by Steve Almond (non-fiction)
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron (non-fiction)
The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories by Steve Almond
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides . . . couldn’t bring myself to finish, but spent a week reading
Best Kept Secret by Amy Hatvany
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