51.“Made in America” by Bill Bryson  ***  A little dry at times, but overall an interesting look at why Americans speak the way we do.
52.“ A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” by Marina Lewycka ****  Wonderful look at Ukrainian immigrants in England and what happens as your parents get older.
53.“Hot Six” by Janet Evanovich    ****
54.“Seven Up” by Janet Evanovich   ***
55.“Neither Here Nor There” by Bill Bryson  **** great book about traveling through Europe by a very funny author.
56.“A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain” by Robert Butler*** interesting stories about post war Vietnam.
57.“A Season in Hell” by Jack Higgins   *** mystery/action
58.“Dark Justice” by Jack Higgins   *** mystery/action
59.“ ‘A’ is for Alibi” by Sue Grafton   *** mystery 
60.“Congo” by Michael Chrichton           *** suspense thriller
61.“How to be Good” by Nick Hornby   **
62.“Dark Light” by Randy Wayne White   **** great thrillers
63.“Prey” by Michael Chrichton    ***
64.“Key West Connection” by Randy Wayne White  ***
65.“The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama  **** a little thick at times, filled with interesting info. on the way Washington works.
66.“Three to get Deadly” by Janet Evanovich  ***
67.“To the Nines” by Janet Evanovich   ***
68.“Dead of Night” by Randy Wayne White   ***
69.“Naughty Neighbor” by Janet Evanovich  **
70.“The Overlook" by Michael Connelly   **
71.“Blood work”  by Michael Connelly   ***
72.“The Talbot Odyssey” by Nelson Demille  ***
73.“Nightfall” by Nelson Demille   **
74.“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini   **** look at why           
Afghanistan is the way it is today.
75.“Code to Zero” by Ken Follett   ***
76.“Zlata’s Diary” by Zlata Filipovic   **** young girl’s point of view of the Bosnian/Serbian war in the early 1990s
76 ½ “The Clue of the Hissing Serpent” by Franklin Nixon**  Don’t ask…
77.“N is for Noose” by Sue Grafton   ***
78.“R is for Revenge” by Sue Grafton   ** 07/23/08
79.“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling ****  07/26/08
80.“Lost Light” by Michael Connelly   ***      07/29/08
81.“The Constant Gardener” by John Le Carre  **** 08/03/08
82.“The Pardon” by James Grippando   ** 08/04/08
83.“Wild Thoughts from Wild Places” by David Quammen *** 08/17/08 interesting look at how you can find wild things everywhere around you, and maybe why they are there.
84.“The Appeal” by John Grisham    ** 08/20/08
85.“The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri   ****    08/27/08 great story following an Indian family through their ups and downs in America, a look at how deeply our parent’s lives really impact us.
86.“McNally’s Dare” by Lawrence Sanders   ***    09/03/08 another intriguing mystery novel.
87.“McNally’s Luck” by Lawrence Sanders   **      09/05/08
88.“Montana 1948” by Larry Watson   ****   09/06/08
89.“While my Pretty one sleeps” by Mary Higgens Clark *         09/12/08
90.“Conviction” by Richard North Patterson  ***    09/18/08
91.“Dancing at the Rascal Fair” by Ivan Doig  ****  10/03/08  interesting story about trying to create a life in 1900 Montana
92.“The White Masai” by Corinne Hofmann   ***     10/09/08 true story about a CRAZY Swiss woman who travels to Kenya, falls in love with a Masai warrior,and thinks she can live a normal life with him in the bush.
93.“Come Ride with me, Mariah Montana” by Ivan Doig *** 10/18/08 3rd of a series about Montana, good stories
94.“Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown” by Dan Brown *** 10/24/08 prequel to the Davinci Code
95.“Flight of the Old Dog” by Dale Brown  **   10/27/08 high-tech war between USSR and America
96.“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling  **** 11/04/08 as always, good book.
97.“Puerto Vallarta Squeeze” by Robert James Waller     *        11/06/08
98.“Accordion Crimes” by Annie Proulx   * 11/25/08 not one of her best
99.“Mad Cow Nightmare” by Nancy Mean Wright  *         12/01/08
100. “Everything is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer *** 12/08/08 story about Jewish-American man trying to follow his grand-father’s roots to Western-Ukraine, horrors of WWII.
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2 comments:
great list of books, you have been a reading fool.
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Wow, Seth.
I liked seeing that you read some Janet Evanovich books. I have 13 of 14 in her series. I need the newest in paperback.
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