The Book Shelf

You can tell as much about a girl by what she’s reading as you can by what she’s writing…

October 2006

• Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford

• Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs

• Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son by Peter Manseau

• Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes Ed. by Laurel Snyder

• Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres

• Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road by Donald Miller

• The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer

• Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs

• Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings

• All Is Swell: Trust in Thelma’s Way by Robert F. Smith

• Love’s Labors Tossed: Trust and the Final Fling by Robert F. Smith
  

• A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines by Anthony Bourdain

November 2006

• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

• To Draw Closer to God by Henry B Eyring

• My Faith So Far by Patton Dodd

December 2006

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

2007

Reading Goal: 5 books a month/60 for 2007
January 2007

• The Real America by Glenn Beck

• Christmas Jars by Jason Wright

February 2007

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April 2007

• Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

May 2007

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

• 1984 by George Orwell

June 2007

• The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

• The Chosen by Chaim Potok

July 2007

• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

• Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–And Doesn’t by Stephen Prothero

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

August 2007

• Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay