11 FUN FACTS ABOUT ME AND MY BOOKS

1. I buy those protective covers that one finds on library books and wrap my dust-jackets in them (Not all of them, but a lot). My books look just like library books, only they are nice and clean. (I know I’m abnormal, you don’t need to tell me).

2. I can NOT STAND when people mistreat books. Writing in them, dog-earring pages, laying them face down while OPEN, spills, stains, etc. It all drives me nuts.

3. I prefer hardbacks. I’m snobby like that.

4. I will never do the Kindle, Nook, or Ipad thing. It jut takes something away from the experience. Ok, “NEVER” may be too extreme.

5. I like to simply look at books. Rows of books, stacks of books, pictures of books. Again, yes, I’m abnormal.

6. For the past 6 years, I have had a room in my house dedicated to my books. A library. When we move, I will most likely make my boys share a room so I can turn a bedroom into the library. I know, that’s awful.

7. I have a weird problem and obsession about owning the books I have read. I don’t like to use the library because I like to personally OWN the books I read. I am going to make myself overcome this. It’s ridiculous. (edited to add: It’s been about 2 years since I originally wrote this, and I’m proud to say that I frequent the library ALL THE TIME now. Yay!!)

8. I used to be a librarian. It’s boring. You can’t read, you have to freaking work. No…… you have to try to find work to do because there’s not any. But, what you really want to do is read. It’s all very annoying.

9. I like to read for fun. Stephanie Plum, Edward Cullen, Sookie Stackhouse, the Salvatore brothers, the “Shifter” series by Rachel Vincent…etc. Fun stuff. So sue me.

10. I HIGHLY prefer reading over television. HIGHLY.     Unless Supernatural is on. Then books take a backseat for an hour on Thursday night.

11. If you are one of those people that reads a series out of order, I’m sorry, but I can’t be your friend. You annoy me.

(All the pictures of books on this page are not my creations. I pulled them from the web because I found them to be insanely beautiful and could not help myself.)

For the past 4 years, I have kept a list of all the books I have read. I keep this list as a Word document, but I have decided to keep my list going on the blog too.

This list is not complete. The first list is books that I know I have read, but didn’t track WHEN I read them. After that is the lists of books I have read according to year (started in 2007.) I haven’t read as many books per year as I would like, I’ve been a little busy being mom.

Books I’ve Read

Sanctuary by Nora Roberts
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
Loose Lips by Claire Berlinski
Night Swimming by Robin Schwarz
Most Wanted by Diana Palmer
Someone to Watch over Me by Judith McNaught
All I need Is You  by Johanna Lindsey
Silver Lady by Mary Lyons
Wild Wilds by Janelle Taylor
Dark Captor by Lindsey Armstrong
Opening Act by Ann Patrick
Can’t say Goodbye by Janet Daily
The Harlequin Hero by Dixie McKeone
This Calder Sky by Janet Daily
Midnight Sun by Vella Munn
Beautiful Woman by Anne Ortland
When Night Falls by Cait London
The Wayward Heart by Jill Gregory
Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon
North of Montana by April Smith
Savages by Shirley Conran
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Faking It by Jennifer Crusie
Thief of Souls by Darian North
Dangerous to Know by Barbara Taylor Bradford
The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
High Stakes by Dana Warren Smith
Last Breath by Rachel Lee
No One To Trust by Iris Johansen
Hotshot P.I. by B.J. Daniels
The Countess and the Cowboy by Linda Wisdom
Outlaw by Elizabeth Lowell
Little Miss Innocent by Lori Foster
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Witness by Ginna Gray
When The Wind Blows by James Patterson
Nerd Gone Wild by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Charlie All Night by Jennifer Crusie
Urban Cowboy by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Midnight Fantasies by Vicki Lewis Thompson
The Bounty Hunter by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Fools Gold by Jennifer Scully
Drop Dead Gorgeous by Jennifer Scully
Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evie by Marianne Stillings
The Damsel in This Dress by Marianne Stillings
Old Enough To Know Better by Vicki Lewis Thompson
The Nerd Who Loved Me by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Silent Type by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Whirlwind (Tyler A) by Nancy Martin
Twice Burned by Burford
Bright Hopes (Tyler B) by Warren
Wisconsin Wedding (Tyler C) by Neggers
Texas Temptation by McCauley
The Last True Cowboy by Eagle
Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie
The Husband by Dean Koontz
I’d Tell You I love you, But then I’d have to kill you by Ally Carter
9 Secrets of Women Who Get everything they want by Kate White
Beauty Fades, Dumb is Forever by Judy Sheidlin
Keep Chickens by Kilarski
The body Language of sex, power, and aggression by Julius Fast
What should we then know by Jan Bloom
The Thirty -Nine Steps by John Buchan
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

68 total

2007

Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone by Rowling
The Novelist by Angela Hunt
Double Identity by Margaret Haddix
Spider wick (Book 1) 
One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
Two for the Dough by Evanovich
Three to get Deadly by Evanovich
Four to Score by Evanovich
High Five by Evanovich
Hot Six by Evanovich
Seven Up by Evanovich
The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner
Hard Eight by Evanovich
Visions of Sugar Plums by Evanovich
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
She Said Yes by Misty Bernall
To the Nines by Evanovich
Ten Big Ones by Evanovich
Eleven on Top by Evanovich
Twelve Sharp by Evanovich
Plum Lovin by Evanovich
Cheating at Solitaire by Ally Carter
Stone Water by Barbara Snow Gilbert
Lean Mean Thirteen by Evanovich
Rosie Dunn by Cecelia Ahern
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Rowling
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Oath by Frank Peretti

33 total

2008

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich by Lois Frankel
On My Own Two Feet
Thr3E by Ted Dekker
Redemption by Karen Kingsbury
Remember by Karen Kingsbury
Return By Karen Kingsbury
Rejoice by Karen Kingsbury
Reunion by Karen Kingsbury
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (3 times)
New moon by Stephenie Meyer (3 times)
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer  (3 times)
Stray by Rachel Vincent
Shattered Dream by Irene Spencer
Skin by Ted Dekker
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Rogue by Rachel Vincent
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
Dead To The World by Charlaine Harris
Dead As A Doornail by Charlaine Harris
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
Am I A Normal Parent by Sara Dimerman
Adam by Ted Dekker
From Dead To Worse by Charlaine Harris
Getting Rid Of Bradley by Jennifer Crusie
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland
The Heroines by Eileen Favorite
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Shade by John Olson
The Taking by Dean Koontz
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Killing Fear by Allison Brennan
Playing Dead by Allison Brennan
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Showdown by Ted Dekker
The Vampire Who Loved Me by Teresa Medeiros
Fledgling by Octavia Butler
Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich

44 total

2009

The Shack by William Young
Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
Faefever by Karen Marie Moning
The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
The Year of Disappearances by Susan Hubbard
Comes A Horseman by Robert Liparulo
The Awakening by L.J. Smith (Vampire Diaries)
The Struggle by L.J. Smith (Vampire Diaries)
The Fury by L.J. Smith (Vampire Diaries)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (Again) (4th time)
Dark Reunion by L.J. Smith (Vampire Diaries)
The Return: Nightfall by L.J. Smith (Vampire Diaries)
On Writing by Stephen King
How I Write by Janet Evanovich
The Late, Lamented Molly Marx by Sally Koslow
Marked by P.C. Cast
Betrayed by P.C. Cast
Chosen by P.C. Cast
Untamed by P.C. Cast
Hunted by P.C. Cast
Afraid by Jack Kilborn
The Grays by Whitley Strieber
Kiss by Ted Dekker
Broken Angel by Sigmund Brouwer
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
Pride by Rachel Vincent
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Prey by Rachel Vincent
Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning

32 total

Is that not the most beautiful picture ever??

2010

Hunter’s Moon by Don Hoesel
Tempted by P.C. Cast
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The Return: Shadow Souls by L.J. Smith (Vampire Diaries)
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline
Burned by P.C. Cast
Black by Ted Dekker
Red by Ted Dekker
White by Ted Dekker
Less Than Dead by Tim Downs
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Fallen by Lauren Kate
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
If I Am Missing Or Dead by Janine Latus
Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers 
Leave It To Claire by Tracey Bateman
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Stone Garden by Molly Moynahan
Wicked by Gregory Maguire

30 total

2011

• Room by Emma Donoghue
• My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent
• Boneman’s Daughters by Ted Dekker
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Monster by Frank Peretti
• The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
• The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
• The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong
• Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
• The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Bartlett
• Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
• Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond
• Beastly by Alex Flinn
• Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
• The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
• The Wishing Jar by Penelope Stokes
• Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
• Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
• The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
• Smokin’ Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson
• The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan
• The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
• Uglies by Scott Westerfield
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Pretties by Scott Westerfield
• Tithe by Holly Black
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• Specials by Scott Westerfield
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan
• The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
• The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan

35 total

2012

• Fire by Kristen Cashore
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (re-read)
• Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (reread)
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin
• Real Vampires Have Curves by Gerry Bartlett
• Real Vampires Live Large by Gerry Bartlett