2011 Reading List - Part 2

Are these the only novels I read this year? Life must be getting too serious. Did discover some new (to me) authors, though. Alan Bradley and Suzanne Collins are best-sellers, and I can see why; I will have to wait (or sneak into Barnes and Noble and camp out) for their most recent volumes. My friend SC introduced me to the delightful mystery writer Catherine Aird. I read Jeanne Birdsall’s second book with a young friend and had to track down the other two as it was so much fun. 

If you got a Nook or Kindle for Christmas this year (or just want to read them on a laptop) why not download and enjoy some free, classic escapes like Christie, Wodehouse, and Doyle?

2011 Reading: Fiction

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, by Alan Bradley

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins

The Penderwicks, by Jeanne Birdsall

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, by Jeanne Birdsall

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, by Jeanne Birdsall

Past Tense, by Catherine Aird

The Complete Steel, by Catherine Aird

Some Die Eloquent, by Catherine Aird

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, by Alexander McCall Smith

The Charming Quirks of Others, by Alexander McCall Smith

La's Orchestra Saves the World, by Alexander McCall Smith

All Seated on the Ground, by Connie Willis
A Christmas Homecoming, by Anne Perry
Rosalie's Career, by Faith Baldwin
The Attenbury Emeralds, by Jill Paton Walsh

Paper Butterfly: A Mei Wang Mystery, by Diane Wei Liang

Paper Roses, by Amanda Cabot

All for One: A Novel, by Melody Carlson

Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie

Murder at the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie

My Man Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle