Read
I read. A lot. During lunch, before bed, in the bathtub. I have at least 25 books waiting to be read at all times. I’m a complete book hoarder, so I thought I’d put my reading to good use and weigh in on my current reads. If a book is especially riveting or a complete snooze-fest, I’ll be sure to post a proper review in the Book Worm category. I’m not claiming that these book should be included in the canon, but it’s a start.
Feel free to contact me with any book recommendations or if you have a book you’d like me to read and review on my blog. I never say no to a good book!
Thumbs Up!
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
- Cherry by Mary Karr
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Muzzled by Michael Smerconish
- My Life in France by Julia Child
- Alone In The Kitchen with an Eggplant edited by Jennie Ferrari-Adler
- Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Shopgirl by Steve Martin
- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
- Rules of the Red Rubber Ball by Kevin Carroll
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
One Thumb Up.
- Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
- Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
- Know-It-All by AJ Jacobs
- The Cotton Queen by Pamela Morsi
- Little Children by Tom Perrotta
- You Can Do Better by Stephanie Lehmann
- Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd
- Dark at the Roots by Sarah Thyre
- The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi Picoult
- The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
- Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
- Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
- sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling
- Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
- Stolen Innocence: My story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
- The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
- How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill
- The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs
- I Was Told There’d Be Cake essays by Sloane Crosley
- A Wolf At The Table by Augusten Burroughs
- Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
- How To Be A Geek Goddess by Christina Tynan-Wood
- Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
- If I am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus
- Ant Farm by Simon Rich
- Bad Dogs Have More Fun by John Grogan
- Look Me In The Eye by John Elder Robison
- Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
- Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
- The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
- Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich
- Bitter Is The New Black by Jen Lancaster
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- The New Kings of Nonfiction edited by Ira Glass
- Moose by Stephanie Klein
- Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl by Susan McCorkindale
- London is the Best City in America by Laura Dave
- Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
- Fat Girl by Judith Moore
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl
- It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong
- The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
- Rockabye by Rebecca Wolf
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
- Don’t Call Them Ghosts by Kathleen McConnell
- Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- Pretty in Plaid by Jen Lancaster
- Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain
- The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan
- The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
- The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe
- Hope’s Boy by Andrew Bridge
- Cringe edited by Sarah Brown
- Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies
- The Mistress’s Daughter by A.M. Homes
- An Actual Life by Abigail Thomas
- The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
- As Nature MadeĀ Him – The Boy who was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
- Having It & Eating It by Sabine Durrant
- A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer
- The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
- A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
- A Blessed Event by Jean Reynolds Page
- The Motion of the Ocean by Janna Cawrse Esarey
- I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci
- World of Pies by Karen Stolz
- Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway
- The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by Joshua Braff
- When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton
- Spiced by Dalia Jurgensen
- Riding The Bus With my Sister by Rachel Simon
- Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge
- Blue Plate Special by Michelle D. Kwasney
- Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl by Tracy Quan
- The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
- Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
- Mortified by David Nadelberg
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
- Come Back by Claire Fontaine & Mia Fontaine
Thumbs Down.
- Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
- The Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity by Kathleen Gilles Seidel
- Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him by Danielle Ganek
- We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier by Celia Rivenbark
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion by Izabella St. James
- things I learned about my dad (in therapy) by Heather B. Armstrong
- Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
- My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
- Waiting for Nick by Nora Roberts
- Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson
- The Condition by Jennifer Haigh
- Thin Is the New Happy by Valerie Frankel
- Autobiography of a Fat Bride by Laurie Notaro
- Smashed by Koren Zailckas
- A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
- The Godmother by Carrie Adams
- Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like A Skank by Celia Rivenbark
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Save Karyn: One Shopaholic’s Journey to Debt and Back by Karyn Bosnak
- Not Tonight, Honey by Susan Reinhardt
- My Sister from the Black Lagoon by Laurie Fox
- Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
- Life Sentences by Laura Lippman
- Queen of the Oddballs by Hillary Carlip
- The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits
- The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet
- Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
- Revenge of the Paste Eaters by Cheryl Peck
- I’m not myself these days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
- The Misadventures of Maria O’Mara by Deborah Skelly
- My Kitchen Wars by Betty Harper Fussell
- The Delivery Man by Joe McGinnis Jr.
- Sister Salty, Sister Sweet by Shannon Kring Biro and Natalie Kring

























