2011 books

1. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (re-read)
Helen Fielding

2. Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

3. Miral
Rula Jebreal

4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

5. Totem and Taboo

Sigmund Freud

6. The Blind Side
Michael Lewis

7. Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates

8. The Piano Teacher

Janice Y.K. Lee

9. The Secret Lives of Dresses
Erin Mckean

10. Mrs. Dalloway (re-read)

Virginia Woolf

11. Stuff White People Like

Christian Lander

12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

13. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

14. The Lady Elizabeth

Allison Weir

15. The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

16. The Cheer Leader (re-read)
Jill McCorkle

17. Love Invents Us
Amy Bloom

18. The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway  

19. Never Change
Elizabeth Berg

20. Walking Across Egypt
Clyde Edgerton

21. Buddha’s Brain

Rick Hanson 

22. Away
Amy Bloom

23. Up From the Blue
Susan Henderson

24. Those Who Save Us
Jenna Blum

25. Just as Long as We’re Together (re-read!)
Judy Blume

26. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

27. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford

28. Here’s To You, Rachel Robinson (re-read!)
Judy Blume

29. Little Bee
Chris Cleave

30. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr

31. The Art of Non-Conformity
Chris Guillebeau

32. Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

33. Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

33.5 How Proust Can Change Your Life

Alain de Botton

34. Something Borrowed
Emily Giffin   

35. Something Blue

Emily Giffin

36. Feeling Good
David D. Burns

37.5 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez

38.5 The Mind and the Brain
Jeffrey Schwartz

39.5 The Hidden Brain

Shankar Vedantam

40.5 Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
Mary Pipher

41.5 Watermelon
Marian Keyes  

42.5 The Middle of Everywhere
Mary Pipher

43. Reading Like a Writer
Francine Prose

44. Social Intelligence (re-read) 

Daniel Goleman

45. Too Much Happiness
Alica Munro

46. The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

47. Tales of a Female Nomad

Rita Golden Gelman

48. The Story of Beautiful Girl

Rachel Simon

49. Paris Was Ours
Penelope Rowlands

50. A Year in the Merde
Stephen Clarke