Inspired by Debi, I suggested to my "book lunch girls" that we do a "list swap" for 2011. We each recommended five books for each of the other members of the group. Sue took her list as a challenge - and I think she completed the whole thing during 2011. Other group members read just some of their books. Unfortunately, I didn't get very far at all - reading only four of the books during 2011 - but that just means the rest of the books recommended for me will be part of my 2012 reading.
The complete list swap project is here.
From Holly
- Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
- Goose Girl by Shanon Hale
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
(My review is here.)- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
- The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
- Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
- Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Bonus: The Digital Photography Book, Volume 1 by Scott Kelby
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, As Told to Alex Haley
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
- Ida B., and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
- Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
- Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
- I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do); Living in a Small Village in Brittany by Mark Greenside
- The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
- Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages- The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
- The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
- Red River by Lalita Tademy
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher- The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
