corinne's book list

Read so far:

1. Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America by Margaretta Lovell.
2. The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities by Richard Bushman
3. Culture and Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930 by Katherine Grier
4. On Agate Hill: A Novel by Lee Smith
5. Shell Game by Sarah Shaber
6. To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War by Tera Hunter
7. American Commodities in an Age of Empire by Mona Domosh
8. Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 by Pierre Berton
9. Where Girls Come First by Ilana DeBare
10. A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen
11. Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer is Awakening a Generation by Pete Greig
12. Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs by Lynn Spigel
13. Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace

I expect to really get started on this after I graduate in a few weeks - I can't wait to attack my to-be-read pile!

14. Die Laughing by Carola Dunn
15. Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
16. Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-century New York by M.H. Dunlop
17. The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
18. Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
19. The Women Who Wrote the War by Nancy Caldwell Sorel

20. The Mystery of the Crimson Ghost by Phyllis Whitney
21. Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Emeralds by Kathryn Kenny
22. Modern Housing for America by Gail Radford
23. Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Became an American Icon by Howard E. Covington, Jr.

Trixie Belden! Wow, I haven't thought about that series in ages. I remember walking out of the library with a huge stack of those books. Didn't take long to finish them :-).

Yeah, they're a fun, nostalgic read :)

24. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

25. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
26. Uncatalogued by Julie Kaewert

27. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

28. Death of a Dean by Hazel Holt
29. Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf
30. Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobel
31. Encyclopedia Brown Carries On by Donald J. Sobel
32. Death of the Party by Carolyn G. Hart
33. Dead Days of Summer by Carolyn G. Hart

Oh, I read Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic last year and really enjoyed it. What did you think? I need to read it again and take the lessons to heart more. It is so hard to live in our culture and not be convinced that you need more and more and more stuff.

I really enjoyed it and it definitely has made me think more about what I buy and use. But you're right that it's hard to live a simple, uncluttered lifestyle in today's culture of consumption.

34. Mary Anne and the Haunted Bookstore - Ann M. Martin

35. Greek Lives by Plutarch
36. Drinking the Waters: Creating an American Leisure Class at Nineteenth-Century Mineral Springs by Thomas A. Chambers

37. Edith Wharton: A House Full of Rooms: Architecture, Interiors, Gardens by Theresa Craig

38. The Green Guide to Herb Gardening by Deborah C. Harding

39. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

40. The Aeneid by Virgil
41. Dracula by Bram Stoker

I think I'm going to try for 75, since I'm only 9 books from 50.

42. The Complete Fables by Aesop

43. The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles translated by Paul Roche
44. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

45. Women's Indian Captivity Narratives edited by Kathryn Derounian-Stodola

46. Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin

47. Amelia Earhart's Daughters by Leslie Haynsworth
48. Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened by Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen

49. The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton (reread)

50. Liberty and Freedom by David Hackett Fischer

51. Not a Girl Detective by Susan Kandel

52. Persuasion by Jane Austen

53. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

54. The Old Religion in a New World by Mark Noll

55. Shamus in the Green Room by Susan Kandel

56. Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
57. Watson's Choice by Gladys Mitchell

58. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

59. Secret of Haunted Mesa by Phyllis A. Whitney

60. Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller

61. Victims: A True Story of the Civil War by Phillip Shaw Paludan

62. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

63. Stealing With Style by Emyl Jenkins

64. Unbound by Julie Kaewert

65. Untitled by Julie Kaewert

66. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

67. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
68. Evelina by Fanny Burney

69. The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett

70. The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

71. The Mystery in Arizona by Julie Campbell

72. No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II by Diane Burke Fessler
73. Welcome to Camden Falls by Ann M. Martin
74. Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

75. Trixie Belden and the Mysterious Code by Kathryn Kenny

76. Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Missing Heiress by Kathryn Kenny

77. Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Midnight Marauder by Kathryn Kenny
78. Trixie Belden and the Mystery at Maypenny's by Kathryn Kenny

79. Trixie Belden and the Missing Millionaire by Kathryn Kenny

80. When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy by John Piper

81. Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage by Dorothy Spruill Redford

82. Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz

83. I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by Susan Kandel

84. Rome and Jerusalem by Martin Goodman
85. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant