Books

Books read/listened . . . rated on a scale of 1-5 with 1=low; 5=high

2023

SEPTEMBER

Print: 1. Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish/Dorothy Gillman (3.5);

Audio: 

AUGUST

Print: 1. Endurance-Schakelton's Incredible Voyage/Alfred Lansing (3.5); 2. The Outcast Dead/Elly Griffiths (3.5); 3. He Shall Thunder in the Sky/Elizabeth Peters (3.5); 4. Someone Else's Shoes/JoJo Moyes (4); 5. Lord of the Silent/Elizabeth Peters (3.5); 6. If You Believe/Kristin Hannah (3) 

Audio: 1. Caleb's Crossing/Geraldine Brooks (4) 2. Still Life/Sarah Winman (3.5); 3. The Reading List/Sara Nisha Adams (4); 4. The Deal of a Lifetime/Fredrik Backman (3.5); 5. Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen/Sarah Bryd (4)                                                                                                      Total: 6+5=10 Overall Total: 24+34=58

JULY

Print: 1. The Falcon at the Portal/Elizabeth Peters (3.5) 2. Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha/Dorothy Gillman

Audio: 1. The Librarian Spy/Madeline Martin (3.5) 2. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz/Lucy Adlington (4) 3. The Sound of Gravel/Ruth Wariner  4. Horse/Geraldine Brooks (4)                                                                                            Total: 2+4=6 Overall Total: 18+29=47

JUNE

Print: 1. Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station/Dorothy Gillman (3.5) 2. Strangers in the Night/Pat Rushford (3)

Audio: 1. The Sun Does Shine/Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Harden (4)                                       Total: 2+1=3 Overall Total: 16+25=41

MAY

Print: 1. Mrs. Pollifax on Safari/Dorothy Gillman (3.5) 

Audio: 1. The Indigo Girl/Natasha Boyd (4) 2. Gone Girl/Gillian Flynn, (3) The Laughter/Sonoroa Jha (3) 4. Remarkable Bright Creatures/Shelby Van Pelt (4) 5. State of Terror/Louise Penny (3) 6. All the Lonely People/Mike Gayle (4) 7. Love in the Time of Cholera/Gabriel Garcia Márquez (4)              Total: 1+7=8 Overall Total: 14+24=38    

APRIL

Print: 1. Voyage of a Summer Sun/Robin Cody (4) 2: A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax/Dorothy Gillman (3.5)

Audio: 1. The Wives/Tarryn Fisher (3.5) 2. Reach for the Stars/Kathryn Johnson (3) 3. The Girl in the Mirror/Rose Carlyle (3)  4. The Elephant of Belfast/S.Kirk Walsh (3)                                                                                                                           Total: 2+4=5 Overall Total: 13+17=30

MARCH

Print: 1. A Room Full of Bones/Elly Griffiths (3.5) 2. The Ape Who Guards the Balance/Elizabeth Peters (3.5)

Audio: 1. The Wives/Tarryn Fisher (3.5) 2. Reach for the Stars/Kathryn Johnson (3) 3. The Girl in the Mirror/Rose Carlyle (3) 4. This Tender Land/William Kent Krueger(4.5)                                                                                                                               Total: 2+4=6 Overall Total: 11+13=24

FEBRUARY:

Print: 1. River of the Gods/Candice Millard (3.5) 2. The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax/Dorothy Gillman (3.5) 3. The Hippopotamus Pool/Elizabeth Peters (3.5) 4. The House at Sea's End/Elly Griffiths (3.5) 5. The Stories We Tell/Patti Callahan Henry (3) 6. Mrs. Pollifax on Safari/Dorothy Gillman (3.5) 

Audio: 1. The Nature of Fragile Things/Susan Meissner (4) 2. The Power Couple/Alex Berenson (4.5) 3. Trickster's Queen/Tamera Pierce (3) 4. The House at Sea's End/Elly Griffiths (3.5) 5.The Overnight Guest/Heather Gudenkauf (4)                                                                                                                  Total: 6+5=11 Overall Total: 9+9=18

JANUARY:

Print:  1. The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax/Dorothy Gillman (3.5) 2. The Hippopotamus Pool/Elizabeth Peters (3.5) 3. The Janus Stone/Elly Griffiths (3.5)

Audio: 1. River of the Gods/Candice Millard (3.5) 2. The Lincoln Highway/Armor Towels (3.5) 3. City of Saints and Thieves/Natalie C. Anderson (4) 3. The Overnight Guest/Heather Gudenkauf (4)               Total: 3+4=7

2022

JANUARY:

Print:1. The Golden Thread/Karissa St. Clair (4.75)  2. The Secret History of Home Economics/Danielle Dreilinger (4.5) 3. The Narrow Boat Summer/Anne Youngson (4) 4. When We Were Strangers/Pamela Schoenwaldt (4)

Audio: 1. The Island of Sea Women/Lisa See (4.75) 2. The Beautiful Mystery/Louise Penny (4.5).

Total: 4+2=6

FEBRUARY:

Print:1. The Last Thing He Told Me/Laura Dave (4.5); 2. If You Believe/Kristin Hannah (3); 3. When Lightening Strikes/Kristin Hannah (2)

Audio: 1. Riders of the Purple Sage/Zane Gray (4.7); 2. The Long Way Home/Louise Penny (4.8); 3. The Five Wounds/Kristen Valdez Quade (2) Total: 3+3=6; Overall Total: 7+12=19

MARCH:

Print: 1. Island of the Saints/Andy Andrews 4; 2. When Lightening Strikes/Kristen Hannah 3.5; 3. The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America/Mohammed Al Samawi 3

Audio: 1. A Great Reckoning/Louise Penny 4; 2. Glass Houses/Louise Penny 4                                              Total: 3+2 =5; Overall Total: 10+17=27

APRIL:

Audio: 1. Kingdom of the Blind/Louise Penny 4.5; 2. A Better Man/Louise Penny 4.5; 3. All the Devils Are Here/Louise Penny 4.5; 4. The Madness of Crowds/Louise Penny 4.5; 5. And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer/Fredrik Backman 4                                                                                                Total: 0+5=5; Overall Total: 10+22=32

MAY:

Audio: 1.Britt Marie Was Here/Fredrik Backman 4.5; 2. Crocodile in the Sandbank/Elizabeth Peters; The Curse of the Pharaohs/Elizabeth Peters 3.5; 3. Prayers for Sale/Sandra Dallas 4.0; 4. Becoming Mrs. Lewis/Patti Callahan 4.5; 5.                                                                                                            Total: 0+4=5; Overall Total: 10+26=36

JUNE:

Print: 1. & 2. Dear Miss Kopp and Miss Kopp Investigates both by Amy Stewart. 4/5

Audio: 1. Lion in the Library/Elizabeth Peters. 3.5/5; 2. The Paris Library/Janet Skeslien Charles 4/5 and 3. "The Personal Librarian"/Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher 4.5/5.                             

Total: 2+3=5 Overall Total: 12+29=41

JULY:

Audio: 1. The Deeds of the Disturber/Elizabeth Peters 3.5/5 and The Year of Magical Thinking/Joan Didion 3/5

Total: 0+2=2; Overall Total: 10+28=38

AUGUST:

Print: 1. Color: The Natural History of the Palette/Victoria Finlay 4/5

Total: 1+0=1; Overall Total: 11+28=39

SEPTEMBER:

Print: 1. Where the Forest Meets the Stars/Glendy Vanderah 4/5

Total: 1+0=1; Overall Total: 12+28=40

OCTOBER:

Print: 0

Audio: 1. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax/ Dorothy Gillman 3.5/5; 2. The Sentence/Louise Erdrich 3.5/5; 3. Yellow Wife/Sadeqa Johnson 3.5/5; 4. A Bad Day For Sunshine/Darynda Jones 3.5/5; 5. The Last Camel Died At Noon/Elizabeth Peters 3.5/5 6. A Spindle Splintered/Alex E. Higgins 3/5; 7. First Grave On The Right/Darynda Jones 3/5

Total: 0+7=7; Overall Total: 12+35=47

NOVEMBER:

Print:1. Tinseltown/William J. Mann 3/5; 2. Clementine:The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill/Sonia Purnell 3.5/5; 3. Love in the Present Tense /Catherine Ryan Hyde 3.5/4 

Audio: 1. Cloud Cukoo Land/Anthony Dorr 4/5; 2. Once Upon A Wardrobe/Patti Callahan 4/5; 3. Violeta/Isabel Allende 4/5; 4. The Clock Winder/Anne Tyler 3/5; 5. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe/C.S. Lewis 4/5; 6. Angle of Repose/Wallace Stegner 3/5; 

Total: 3+6=9; Overall Total: 15+41=56

DECEMBER:

Print: 1. The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog/Elizabeth Peters 3.5/5; 2. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax/Dorothy Gillman 3.5/5; The Crossing Places/Elly Griffiths 4/5

Audio: 1. Black Cake/Charmaine Wilkerson 3.5/4; 2. Rules of Civility/Amor Towles 3/5; 3. America's First Daughter/Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoi 3.5/5; 

Total: 3+3=6 Overall Total: 18+44=62