HAPPY BOOKERS Books We've Read

Month/Year Book/Author Rating

12/20 The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery 8* *final rated book 11/20 The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See 8.5 10/20 Peace Like a River, Leif Enger 8.4 9/20 These Is My Words, Nancy Turner 7.9 8/20 A Blessing on the Moon, Joseph Skibell 8.5 7/20 Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand 6.6 6/20 The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt 8.9 5/20 Defending Jacob, William Landay 8.4 4/20 The Pioneers, David McCullough 4.9 3/20 Beneath A Marble Sky, Jon Skors 7.4 02/20 Sold on a Monday, Kristina McMorris 6.3 01/20 Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell 8.0 12/19 Last Christmas in Paris, Hazel Gaynor 7.0 11/19 The Book Thief, Markus Zusak 9.1 10/19 The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan 7.4 9/19 The Girl with Seven Names (Escape from North Korea), 7.6 Hyeonseo Lee 8/19 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, 8.5 John Carreyrou 7/19 Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng 8.3 6/19 Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly 7.6 5/19 Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman 7.9 4/19 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover 8.4 3/19 Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult 7.3 2/19 Don’t let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller 7.3 1/19 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen, Sarah Bird 8.4 12/18 The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson 7.4 11/18 Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate 8.4 10/18 So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. 5.8 9/18 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, JD 8.0 Vance 8/18 A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles 8.1 7/18 The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford 8.4 6/18 The German Girl, Armando Lucas 7.9 5/18 Leaving Time, Jodi Picoult 8.4 4/18 News of the World, Paulette Jiles 8.1 3/18 The Atomic Weight of Love, Elizabeth J. Church 8.1 02/18 The Glassblower, Petra Durst-Benning 7.7 01/18 Hero of the Empire, Candace Millard 8.1 12/17 Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver 7.6 11/17 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond 7.6 10/17 The Boston Girl, Anita Diamant 8.7 09/17 Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King 8.5 08/17 East West Street, On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes 8.6 Against Humanity, Philippe Sands 07/17 Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard 8.9 06/17 Empire of the Summer Moon, SC Gwynne 7.3 05/17 Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi 7.8 04/17 The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer, Arthur Morey 9.0 03/17 Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman 8.4 02/17 We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas 6.9 01/17 Euphoria, Lily King 6.9 12/16 Sister of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 7.6 11/16 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat, Oliver Sacks 7.4 10/16 Being Mortal, Atul Gawande 8.6 9/16 Skyfaring, A Journey With a Pilot, Mark Vanhoenacker 6.0 8/16 Delicious, Ruth Reichl 7.6 7/16 Ladies of the Canyons, Lesley Poling-Kempes 8.0 6/16 The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins 7.1 5/16 The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah 8.8 4/16 Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee 6.2 3/16 The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd 8.3 2/16 The Wright Brothers, David McCullough 8.7 1/16 The Buddha In the Attic, Julie Otsuka 7.3 12/15 Our Lives Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor, Richard Beeman 7.1 11/15 The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan NR 10/15 All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr 8.7 9/15 The Innocent Man, John Grisham 7.5 8/15 The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion, Fannie Flagg 6.8 7/15 The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown 8.9 6/15 The Orphan Train, Cristina Baker Kline 8.9 5/15 Painted Horses, Malcolm Brooks 7.5 4/15 The Invisible Front, Yachi Dreazen 7.5 3/15 The Good Lord Bird, James McBride 5.8 2/15 The Lonely River Village, Norma Libman 8.1 1/15 The Children Act, Ian McEwen 8.1 12/14 Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, Timothy Egan 8.8 11/14 Vintage Munro Alice Munro 7.4 10/14 Five Days at Memorial, Sheri Fink 7.8 9/14 Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout 8.4 8/14 Friendly Fire, A. B. Yehoshua 6.9 7/14 Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini 6.8 6/14 The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri 8.1 5/14 Wild: From Lost to Found in the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed 7.7 4/14 Me Before You, Jojo Moyes 8.2 3/14 The End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe 8.2 2/14 The Husband’s Secret, Liane Moriarty 7.0 1/14 Behind the Beautiful Flowers, Katherine Boo 8.1 12/13 The Round House, Louise Erdrich 8.7 11/13 At Seventy, May Sarton 5.6 10/13 A Week in Winter, Maeve Binchy 6.1 9/13 Factory Girls, Leslie Chang 6.5 8/13 Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson 7.2 7/13 Bailout, Neil Barofsky 6.2 6/13 At Home In Mitford, Jan Karon 5.8 5/13 The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Steadman 8.1 4/13 State of Wonder, Anne Patchett 5.8 3/13 An Unquenchable Thirst, Mary Johnson 7.7 2/13 Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson 7.7 1/13 The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh 6.7 12/12 The River of Doubt, Candice Millard 8.3 11/12 The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea 5.9 10/12 Hellbound on His Trail, Hampton Sides 8.1 9/12 The Rich and the Dead, Mystery Writers of America 5.8 8/12 Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand 8.8 7/12 The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal 7.5 6/12 Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese 8.2 5/12 1984, George Orwell 5.8 4/12 Peace Like A River, Leif Enger 6.9 3/12 The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton 6.6 2/12 The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach 7.8 1/12 Appetite for America, Stephen Fried 7.9 12/11 The Big Short, Michael Lewis 8.4 11/11 The Help, Karen Stockett 7.4 10/11 Mothers and Other Liars, Amy Bourret 5.4 9/11 Sweet Nata, Gloria Zamora 6.8 8/11 My Life in France, Julia Child 6.8 7/11 Pearl of China, Anchee Min 6.9 6/11 Anything Goes, Lucy Moore 5.4 5/11 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee & Walker Evans 5.8 4/11 River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life, William deBuys & Alex Harris 8.2 3/11 The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood 6.8 2/11 The Nineteenth Wife, David Ebershoff 7.5 1/11 Moloka’I, Alan Bernnert 8.2 12/10 When Everything Changed, Gail Collins 8.2 11/10 Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer 4.5 10/10 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson 7.7 9/10 Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson 7.9 8/10 Invisible, Paul Auster 7.7 7/10 The Lost Painting, Jonathan Harr 5.6 6/10 Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen 8 5/10 Say You’re One of Them, Uwem Akpan 7.8 4/10 The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux 6.2 3/10 Years of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks 7.8 2/10 Stones Into Schools, Greg Mortenson 8.8 1/10 Loving Frank, Nancy Horan 7.2 12/09 Netherland, Joseph O’Neill 5.1 11/09 People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks 7.8 10/09 All Over But the Shoutin’, Rick Bragg 8 9/09 Coming of Age, Studs Terkel 8.1 8/09 The World Without Us, Alan Weisman 7 7/09 Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 7.1 6/09 The Whole World Over, Julia Glass 6.7 5/09 The Last Town on Earth, Thomas Mullen 7 4/09 A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini 8.8 3/09 Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus 5.3 2/09 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski 6.9 1/09 Saturday, Ian McEwen 6.1 12/08 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See 9.5 11/08 House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday 6 10/08 Glittering Images, Susan Howatch 5.8 9/08 Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson 7.2 8/08 Out Stealing Horses, Per Peterson 6.2 6/08 The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson 8 5/08 “. . . And Ladies of the Club”, Helen Santmyer N/R 4/08 How Doctors Think, Dr. Jerome E. Groopman 7.5 3/08 Heat, Bill Buford 6.5 2/08 Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides 8.8 1/08 The Zookeeper’s Wife, Diane Ackerman 6.9 12/07 The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord & Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt 7.4 11/07 The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls 8.5 10/7 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 9.1 9/07 The Enemy, Lee Child 6.7 8/07 Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin 8.8 7/07 The Camel Club, David Balducci 7 6/07 Left to Tell, Immaculee Ilibagiza 8 5/07 For One More Day, Mitch Albom 7.5 4/07 The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman N/R 3/07 One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus 8.5 2/07 How the Light Gets In, Maria Joan Hyland 4.5 1/07 Modoc, Ralph Helfer 7.8 12/06 Bless Me, Utima, Rudolfo Anaya 7.7 11/06 White Lightning, Justin Cartwright 6.4 10/06 Sea Glass, Anita Shreve 6.6 9/06 Teacher Man, Frank McCourt 7.1 8/06 The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd 5.9 7/06 The Forest Lover, Susan Vreeland 8 6/06 The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich 5.8 5/06 109 East Palace, Jennet Conant 8.5 4/06 The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks 5.9 3/06 The House at Otowi Bridge, Peggy Bond Church 7.4 2/06 Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire 7 1/06 A Million Little Pieces, James Frey 7.4 12/05 Last of the Curlews, Fred Bosworth 9.3 11/05 Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts 5.8 10/05 The Awakening, Kate Chopin 5.9 9/05 Snow in August, Pete Hammill 6.2 7/05 Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner 7 6/05 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon 7.1 5/05 Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer 6.4 4/05 The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini 9.2 3/05 Krakatoa, Simon Winchester 6.8 2/05 Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende 8.4 1/05 Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck 8.7 12/04 Land of Burning Heat, Judith VanGieson 6.8 11/04 Personal History, Katherine Graham 5.1 10/04 Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf 7.1 9/04 Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich 5.8 7/04 Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4.4 6/04 The Professor and the Madam, Simon Winchester 6.9 5/04 She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb 4.5 4/04 The Tortilla Curtain, T. Coraghessan Boyle 8.8 3/04 The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown 6.9 2/04 The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd 8.8 1/04 The Summons, John Grisham 6 12/03 Wild Swans, Jung Chang 11/03 The Color of Water, James McBride 8.6 10/03 Sister Age, MFK Fisher 9/03 Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks 8/03 Letters from Yellowstone, Diane Smith 6/03 The Soloist, Mark Salzam 8.3 5/03 Three Junes, Julia Glass 4/03 White Doves In Morning, James Lee Burke 3/03 Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwartz 6.4 2/03 The Drowning People, Richard Manson