| Books I Loved |
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| Fiction |
| Adams, Will. The Alexander
Cipher (Archaeological Thriller) |
| Adams, Will. The Exodus
Quest (Archaeological Thriller) |
| Alleyn, Susanne. Cavalier
of the Apocalypse (Historical Mystery Fiction) |
| Anton, Maggie. Rashi’s
Daughters Trilogy (Jewish Historical Fiction) |
| Averill, Thomas Fox. The
Secrets of the Tsil Café |
| Black, Cara. Aimée
Leduc Investigations Series (Mystery Fiction) |
| Bradley, Alan. The Sweetness
at the Bottom of the Pie (Mystery Fiction) |
| Brooks, Geraldine. People
of the Book (Jewish Fiction) |
| Brown, Dan. The Lost
Symbol (Code & Cipher Thriller) |
| Coe, Jonathan. The
Rotter’s Club |
| Collins, Suzanne. The
Hunger Games (YA book) |
| Connelly, Karen. The
Lizard Cage |
| Coyle, Cleo. Coffeehouse
Mystery Series (Mystery Fiction) |
| Craig, Daniel. Murder
at the Universe (Mystery Fiction) |
| Crosby, Ellen. The Wine
Country Mysteries Series (Mystery Fiction) |
| Dominguez, Carlos Maria. The
House of Paper |
| Dunant, Sarah. The
Birth of Venus |
| Elkins, Aaron. Loot
(Thriller) |
| Finch, Charles. The Fleet
Street Murders (Historical Mystery Fiction) |
| Finch, Charles.The September
Society (Historical Mystery Fiction) |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Love
in the Time of Cholera |
| Goodman, Allegra. Kaaterskill
Falls (Jewish Fiction) |
| Gregory, Jill & Karen Tintori. The
Book of Names (Jewish Thriller) |
| Gross, Claudia. Scholarium
(Historical Mystery Fiction) |
| Grossman, Lev. The Codex
(Code & Cipher Thriller) |
| Gulland, Sandra. Mistress
of the Sun (Historical Fiction) |
| Hannah, Kristin. Magic
Hour (Women’s Lives & Relationships) |
| Harris, Jane. The
Observations |
| Hill, Lawrence. The Book
of Negroes (Literary Fiction) |
| Hornby, Nick. About
a Boy |
| Hosseini, Khaled. A
Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Johnson, Jane. The Tenth
Gift (Literary Fiction) |
| Kalogridis, Jeanne. I,
Mona Lisa (Historical Fiction) |
| Keyes, Marian. The Brightest
Star in the Sky (Women’s Lives & Relationships) |
| Keyes, Marian. Sushi
for Beginners |
| King, Peter. Spiced to
Death (Mystery Fiction) |
| Kinsella, Sophie. Can
You Keep a Secret? |
| Kostova, Elizabeth. The
Historian |
| Levin, Daniel. The Last
Ember (Archaeological Thriller) |
| Levy, Andrea. Small
Island |
| Liss, David. The
Coffee Trader |
| Maguire, Gregory. Wicked:
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
| Martín, Esteban & Andrew Carranza. The
Gaudi Key (Code & Cipher Thriller) |
| Mirvis, Tova. The Ladies
Auxiliary (Jewish Fiction) |
| Muir, Kate. Left Bank
(Women’s Lives & Relationships) |
| Newark, Elle. The Book
of Unholy Mischief (Historical Fiction) |
| Park, Jacqueline. The
Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi |
| Peebles, Frances De Pontes. The
Seamstress (Historical Fiction) |
| Ravel, Edeet. Ten Thousand
Lovers (Jewish Fiction) |
| Ruiz Zafón, Carlos. The
Shadow of the Wind |
| Setterfield, Diane. The
Thirteenth Tale |
| Silva, Daniel. Gabriel
Allon Series (Jewish Thriller) |
| Smith, Zadie. White
Teeth |
| Sofer, Barbara. The Thirteenth
Hour (Jewish Thriller) |
| Tallis, Frank. The Liebermann
Papers Series (Mystery Fiction) |
| Thompson, Victoria. Gaslight
Mystery Series (Mystery Fiction) |
| Twining, James. The Geneva
Deception (Archaeological Thriller) |
| Urquhart, Jane. The
Stone Carvers |
| Weiner, Jennifer.Certain
Girls (Women’s Lives & Relationships) |
| Weiner, Jennifer. Good
In Bed (Women’s Lives & Relationships) |
| Wienreb, Karen. The Summer
Kitchen (Women’s Lives & Relationships) |
| Widmer, Eleanor. Up from
Orchard Street (Jewish Fiction) |
| Zusak, Markus. The Book
Thief (YA Historical Fiction) |
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| Non-Fiction |
| Abley, Mark. Spoken
Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages |
| Abu-Jaber, Diana. The
Language of Baklava: a Memoir |
| Ayittey, George B.N. Africa
Unchained: the Blueprint for Africa’s Future |
| Bader, Sara. Strange
Red Cow and Other Curious Classified Ads from the Past |
| Basbanes, Nicholas. Patience
and Fortitude: a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and
book culture |
| Blom, Philipp. Encyclopedie:
The Triumph of Reason in an Unreasonable Age |
| Bortolotti, Dan.
Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders |
| Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen
Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly |
| Bronson, Po & Ashley Merryman. NurtureShock:
New Thinking about Children |
| Bryson, Bill. In
a Sunburned Country |
| Buzbee, Lewis. The
Yellow-Lighted Bookshop |
| Christakis, Nicholas & James H. Fowler. Connected:
The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our
Lives |
| Collingham, Lizzie. Curry
: a tale of cooks and conquerors |
| Collins, Paul. Sixpence
House: Lost in a Town of Books |
| Coloroso, Barbara. Extraordinary
Evil: A Brief History of Genocide |
| Connelly, Karen. Touch
the Dragon: a Thai Journal |
| Dalrymple, Theodore. Our
Culture What’s Left of It: the Mandarins and the Masses |
| Dash, Mike. Tulipomania
|
| Davis, Wade. The
Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel
and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America |
| Furedi, Frank. Therapy
Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age |
| Gilman, Susan Jane. Hypocrite
in a Pouffy White Dress |
| Gladwell, Malcom. Outliers:
The Story of Success |
| Gladwell, Malcom. The
Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference |
| Gopnik, Adam. Through
the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York |
| Grandin, Temple, & Catherine Johnson. Animals
in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour |
| Hall, Peter. Cities
in Civilization |
| Hochschild, Adam. King
Leopold’s Ghost |
| Holmes, Rachel. African
Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus |
| Horwitz, Tony. Baghdad
Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
|
| Jacobs, A.J. The
Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest
Person in the World |
| Kennedy, Michelle. Without
a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Story
|
| King, Ross. Michelangelo
and the Pope’s Ceiling |
| Kurlansky, Mark. Salt:
a World History |
| Lamb, Christina. The
Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan |
| Lewis, Stephen. Race
Against Time |
| Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of
Everything |
| Lightman, Alan. A
Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit |
| Louv, Richard. Last
Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder |
| Mallet, Gina. Last
Chance to Eat: the Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World |
| Manguel, Alberto. A
Reading Diary |
| McNeely, Ian F. & Lisa Wolverton. Reinventing
Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet |
| Moxham, Roy. The
Great Hedge of India |
| Nadeau, Jean-Benoit and Julie Barrow. Sixty
Million Frenchmen Can’t be Wrong |
| Nadeau, Jean-Benoit & Julie Barlow. The
Story of French |
| Paradiz, Valerie. Clever
Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower |
| Preston, Richard. The
Demon in the Freezer: a True Story |
| Rapaille, Clotaire. The
Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the
World Live as They Do |
| Reichl, Ruth. Tender
at the Bone: growing up at the table |
| Reiss, Tom. The
Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
|
| Rifkin, Jeremy. The
European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly
Eclipsing the American Dream |
| Roach, Mary. Stiff:
the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
| Sachs, Jeffrey. The
End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time |
| Salzman, Mark. Iron
& Silk |
| Saul, John Ralston. The
Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World |
| Sax, Leonard. Boys
Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated
Boys and Underachieving Young Men |
| Schlosser, Eric. Fast
Food Nation:the dark side of the all-American meal |
| Steinbach, Alice. Educating
Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman |
| Truss, Lynne. Eats,
Shoots & Leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation |
| Underhill, Paco. Why
We Buy: The Science of Shopping |
| Vanderbilt, Tom. Traffic:
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) |
| Wheen, Francis. How
Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
|
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| Good Audiobooks |
| Berry, Steve. Cotton
Malone Series (Code & Cipher Thriller) |
| Bloom, Amy. Away
(Women’s Lives & Relationships) |
| Collins, Suzanne. The
Underland Chronicles (J book - Fantasy) |
| Dunning, John. Cliff
Janeway Mysteries (Mystery Fiction) |
| Gaiman, Neil. Anansi
Boys (Urban Fantasy) |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat,
Pray, Love (Memoir) |
| Keyes, Marian. Anybody
Out There (Chick Lit) |
| Kinsella, Sophie. Remember
Me? (Chick Lit) |
| Meltzer, Brad. The Book
of Fate (Code & Cipher Thriller) |
| Niffeneggar, Audrey. The
Time Traveler’s Wife (Literary Fiction) |
| O’Neill, Heather. Lullabies
for Little Criminals (Literary Fiction) |
| Picoult, Jodi. My Sister’s
Keeper (Women’s Lives & Relationships) |
| Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen
Minutes (Women’s Lives & Relationships) |
| |
| Livres en français |
| Beauchemin, Yves. Charles
le Téméraire |
| Claudel, Philippe. La
petite fille de Monsieur Linh |
| Khadra, Yasmina. Les
sirènes de Bagdad |
| Khadra, Yasmina. L’attentat
|
| Riou, Jean-Michel. Le
secret de Champollion |
| Suskind, Patrick. Le
parfum: l’histoire d’un meurtrier |
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