To read my review of these books, just click on the title.
The Peach Keeper (by Sarah Addison Allen)
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love(Kristin Kimball)
Joy for Beginners (Erica Bauermeister)
The Morganville Vampire series (Rachel Caine)
The Strange Angels series (Lili St. Crow)
The Mercedes Thompson series (Patricia Briggs)
How Green was my Valley (Richard Llewellyn)
It (Stephen King)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Standing in the Rainbow (Fannie Flagg)
Sunshine (Robin McKinley)
Tam Lin (Pamela Dean)
The Shell Seekers (Rosamunde Pilcher)
The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy)
The Stand (Stephen King)
The Forgotten Garden (Kate Morton)
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
And Ladies of the Club (Helen Hoover Santmyer)
Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey (Joanie Demer & Heather Wheeler)
The Woman in Black (Susan Hill)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley) and don’t forget the other Flavia de Luce books: The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, and I am Half-Sick of Shadows.
Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land (Kurt Timmermeister)
Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family (Catherine Newman)
Educating ESME: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year (Esme Raji Codell)
Columbine (Dave Cullens)
Love in a Time of Homeschooling: a Mother and Daughter’s Uncommon Year (Laurie Brodie)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Seth Grahame-Smith)
The Stand (Stephen King)
Such a Pretty Fat (Jennifer Lancaster)
The Borrower (Rebecca Makkai)
And Then I Became a Mother (Robin Kramer)
The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Alana Chernila)
Bringing up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (Pamela Druckerman)
Hex Hall (Rachel Hawkins)
Still Life (and others in the Inspector Armand Gamache series) (Louise Penny)
The Spellman Files (Lisa Lutz)
Chocolat (Joanne Harris)
One for the Money (Janet Evanovich)
The Quarter-Acre Farm (Spring Warren)
The Kate Daniel Series/ Magic Bites (Ilona Andrews)
On Writing (Stephen King)
Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Maggie O’Farrell)
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children (Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman)
Home Dairy with Ashley English (Ashley English)
Young House Love (Sherry & John Petersik)
I hate the “It”