75 Books off of GerrysBookshelf in 2016

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1GerrysBookshelf

Jan 3, 2016, 8:12 pm

I have WAY too many lists of books to read!
So I think I will just grab a book and see where my interests take me in 2016.

2drneutron

Jan 3, 2016, 10:19 pm

Welcome back!

3GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Jan 26, 2016, 5:35 pm

January

1. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
2. A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu
3. The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
4. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
5. The Hunt for Vulcan by Thomas Levenson

4GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Feb 27, 2016, 6:42 pm

February

6. King Arthur: Hero and Legend by Richard Barber
7. The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
8. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
9. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
10. Searching for the Oldest Stars by Anna Frebel
11. The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys

5GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Mar 29, 2016, 6:18 pm

March

12. The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
13. Walking the Gobi by Helen Thayer
14. Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
15. Slade House by David Mitchell
16. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
17. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
18. The Leopard by Giuseppi Di Lampedusa
19. Moonstruck: How Lunar Cycles Affect Life by Ernest Naylor

6GerrysBookshelf

Edited: May 22, 2016, 6:16 pm

April

20. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
21. Contact by Carl Sagan
22. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
23. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies
24. Sweetland by Michael Crummey
25. A History of God by Karen Armstrong
26. The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
27. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

7GerrysBookshelf

Edited: May 28, 2016, 5:24 pm

May

27. The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
28. The Whole Cat and Caboodle by Sofie Ryan
29. Mary Cassatt: A Life by Nancy Mowll Matthews
30. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
31. Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
32. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
33. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
34. Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist
35. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

8GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Jul 1, 2016, 8:31 am

June

36. Tinkering With Eden by Kim Todd
37. The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men by William F. Longgood
38. What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
39. Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid by Tim Ecott
40. My Name is Lucy Barton: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout
41. Four Wings and a Prayer by Sue Halpern
42. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

9GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Jul 29, 2016, 3:27 pm

July

43. A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell
44. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
45. Seeds, Sex and Civilization: how the hidden life of plants has shaped our world by Peter Thompson
46. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
47. The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson
48. The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz
49. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

10GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Aug 30, 2016, 5:43 pm

August

50. For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose
51. Barkskins by Annie Proulx
52. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
53. Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
54. The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman
55. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
56. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

11GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Oct 8, 2016, 6:22 pm

September

57. Miss Leavitt's Stars by George Johnson
58. The First Word: the Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally
59. To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
60. Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer
61. All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
62. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
63. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

12GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Oct 30, 2016, 7:11 pm

October

64. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
65. LaRose by Louise Erdrich
66. Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart
67. The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time by Mark Haddon
68. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
69. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
70. Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals by Sharon Levy
71. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

13GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Nov 29, 2016, 5:37 pm

November

72. Eclipse: Voyage to Darkness and Light by David H. Levy
73. Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
74. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
75. Monkey: Folk Novel of China by Wu Ch'eng-en

Woo hoo! Reached 75 and still a month to go!

76. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong

14GerrysBookshelf

Edited: Dec 29, 2016, 11:06 pm

December

77. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
78. The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City by Margaret Creighton
79. The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
80. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
81. Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery