Book Shots: curled up with a good book

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2012

May

• The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani

April

• Wild Thing by Josh Bazell
• Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West
• The Chalk Girl by Carol O’Connell
• The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner

March

• After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
• Hystera by Leora Skolkin-Smith
• Cruising Attitude by Heather Poole
• Eyes Like Leaves by Charles de Lint
• The Gap Year by Sarah Bird

February

• The Garden Intrigue by Lauren Willig
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Defending Jacob by William Landay

January

• The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
• Dreaming of Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly
• Wish Upon A Star by Sarah Morgan
• Gun Games by Faye Kellerman
• Steampunk! edited by Kelly Link
• The Urban Fantasy Anthology edited by Peter S. Beagle and Joe R. Lansdale

2011

December

• Reamde by Neal Stephenson
• Carrie Goes Off the Map by Phillipa Ashley
• Bring Me Home for Christmas by Robyn Carr
• Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe (Guest post)

November

• When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James (A)
• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
• A Regular Guy by Mona Simpson

October

• Hit Man by Lawrence Block (A)
• You Are My Only by Beth Kephart
• In Pursuit of Miss Eliza Cynster by Stephanie Laurens
• The Revisionist by Thomas Mullen
• Every Step You Take by Jock Soto

September

• Devotion: A Memoir by Dani Shapiro
• The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman (A)
• The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton
• Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (A)
• Goodie One Shoes by Roz Siegel

August

• Pirate King by Laurie R. King
• Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski
• Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
• I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson (A)
• Deed to Death by D. B. Henson
• Grace Interrupted by Julie Hyzy
• Money Can’t Buy Love by Connie Briscoe
• What Momma Left Me by Renee Watson
• How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story by Tracy White
• The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock
• Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer

July

• Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
• The Heroine’s Bookshelf by Erin Blakemore (A)
• Learning Curves by Elyse Mady
• 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• Dear Pen Pal by Heather Vogel Fredrick (guest post)
• Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
• Original Sin by Beth McMullen
• Things We Didn’t Say by Kristina Riggle
• The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (A)

June

• The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (guest post)
• The Art of Saying Goodbye by Ellyn Bache
• Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn (A)
• Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
• The Case for the Only Child by Susan Newman
• Every Last One by Anna Quindlen (A)
• The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
• The Last Unicorn (Graphic Novel) by Peter S. Beagle
• The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair