Since I've had so much time on my hands recently, I've had a lot of time to spend with my books. I generally prefer to read science fiction and mysteries, but I've been trying to mix it up a bit.
Going forward, I may start doing reviews on the books I read, but in the meantime, if anyone is curious about any of the books on the list below, let me know and I can give you a rundown.
Without further ado, here is a list of the books I have read in the last 7 and a half months or so (in no particular order). And if anyone has any recommendations, send them my way!
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (didn't like this at first, but ended up really liking it!)
- Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card (loved, sequel to Ender's Game although it was good enough on it's own)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark (book club - loved)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tijuania Striats by Kem Numm (book club - one of the few books I didn't like, which is unfortunate because I've read some of his other books and really liked them.)
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (book club - didn't really like it much as I was reading it, but looking back I liked it)
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (loved the whole series, 1st two movies are great too!)
- The Girl With Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
- Big Machine by Victor LaValle (book club - this was just weird)
- A Wind at the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
- A Touch Of Dead by Charlaine Harris (short stories around the Sookie Stackhouse novels)
- Dead And Gone by Charlaine Harris (I've read all of the Sookie Stackhouse books (what True Blood is based on), as close to chick lit as I get)
- Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
- The Shack by William P. Young (this was an accident, from what my mom told me, I thought it was a murder mystery. I didn't realize it was a Christian book until I already bought/started reading it, so I figured I should finish it. That being said, I didn't like it.)
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (the movie wasn't bad, but the book was better)
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy (read the entire book in one sitting, on a flight from NY to CA)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (reread it for about the 10th time)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (book club)
- Xenocide by Orson Scott Card (3rd book in the Ender series, currently reading)
