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 my 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!

Full Disclosure: I work in publishing. I do not rate or review any of the books that my company publishes (though I do read many of them cover-to-cover). Separation of work and blog and all that jazz.

Wonderful! Read it.

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
• The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
• Cherry by Mary Karr
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• 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
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Shopgirl by Steve Martin
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

So-so.

• Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• Muzzled by Michael Smerconish
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Naked by David Sedaris
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
• Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
• Know-It-All by AJ Jacobs
• Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
• 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
• Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
• 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
• Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
• Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
• The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
• Dry by Augusten Burroughs
• How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill
• The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs
• The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
• 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
• Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
• 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
• Rules of the Red Rubber Ball by Kevin Carroll
• 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
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
• 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
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• The Mistress’s Daughter by A.M. Homes
• An Actual Life by Abigail Thomas
• The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
• As Nature Made  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
• Lit by Mary Karr
• Waiting by Debra Ginsberg
• She Got Up Off the Couch by Haven Kimmel
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
• Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
• The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring
• Noonie’s Masterpiece by Lisa Railsback
• Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict by Avis Cardella
• Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook by Darren Barefoot & Julie Szabo
• The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
• I am neurotic (and so are you) by Lianna Kong
• On Our Way to Beautiful by Yolanda Young
• Believe Me by Nina Killham
• Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
• My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster
• Who By Fire by Diana Spechler
• A Cook’s Tour by Anthony Bourdain
• Hot (broke) Messes by Nancy Trejos
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver
• Carrier by Bonnie J. Rough
• Never Tell our Business to Strangers by Jennifer Mascia
• Thanks for Coming by Mara Altman
• Fraud: Essays by David Rakoff
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
• Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
• The Art of Eating In by Cathy Erway
• You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers
• GoD and DoG by Wendy Francisco
• I Feel Bad About My Neck (and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman) by Nora Ephron
• No One Cares What You Had for Lunch by Margaret Mason
• Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman
• I’m Down by Mishna Wolff
• Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain
• The Photograph by Penelope Lively
• A Relative Stranger by Charles Baxter
• The Space Between Trees by Katie Williams
• A Moveable Feast edited by Don George
• Shaken, Not Stirred by Tim Gunn
• The Help by Kathryn Stockette
• Notes from the Underwire by Quinn Cummings
• The Gastronomy of Marriage by Michelle Maisto
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield by David Nadelberg
• The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life by Kim Severson
• The Long Run by Mishka Shubaly
• The Imperfectionist by Tom Rachman
• The Sisters by Nancy Jensen
• Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today by Kate Bingaman-Burt
• Comfort & Joy by India Knight
• Fashion 2.0: Blogging Your Way To The Front Row by Yuli Ziv
• Marcel The Shell With Shoes On by Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp
• The First Husband by Laura Dave
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
• Cakewalk by Kate Moses
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• White Girl Problems by Babe Walker
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Sklott
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
• One Day by David Nicholls
• Smut by Alan Bennett
• The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
• So Big by Edna Ferber
• Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
• The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
• The Baker’s Daughter by Sarah McCoy
• Most Talkative by Andy Cohen>/li>

Don’t. Just don’t.

• 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
• Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs
• 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
• How To Be Your Dog’s Best Friend by The Monks of New Skete
• 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
• Other People’s Dirty by Louise Rafkin
• The Anomalies by Joey Goebel
• Suits Me by Diane Wood
• How to Cook a Tart by Nina Killham
• A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla by Nick Fowler
• The Saturday Wife by Naomi Ragen
• Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Alexandra Stoddard
• The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• How Perfect is That by Sarah Bird
• Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
• What’s That Smell? by Tucker Shaw
• Quiet, Please by Scott Douglas
• How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
• The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek
• sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling
• The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels – A Love Story by Ree Drummond
• Replacement Child by Judy L. Mandel
• Half Empty by David Rakoff
• Remembering Smell by Bonnie Blodgett
• Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
• The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal
• Skipping a Beat by Sarah Pekkanen
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Wnterson
• The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman by Karen Karbo
• Wife in the North by Judity O’Reilly
• Marriage Confidential by Pamela Haag
• Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel by Phil Villarreal
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
• The Odditorium by Melissa Pritchard
• The Darlings by Cristina Alger

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