Reading in the Basement

Keeping track of all my books with selected mini-reviews.

2009

One Fifth Avenue

Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.)

The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Marley Movie Tie-in Edition: A Dog Like No Other

Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story

The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir

The Twilight Saga Collection

Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, No 2)

The Middle Place

Life Sentences: A Novel

The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship

The Knitting Circle: A Novel

I Was Told There’d Be Cake

Dune Road: A Novel

Commencement (Vintage Contemporaries)

Shanghai Girls: A Novel

Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine: A Novel

Best Friends Forever: A Novel

Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

Summer House: A Novel

The Wonder Spot

Trouble

Shining Through

It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita

The Help

That Old Cape Magic: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

Comfort Food

Twenties Girl: A Novel

What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir

The Family Man

A Happy Marriage: A Novel

Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader’s Circle)

Sarah’s Key

True Colors

A Reliable Wife

The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious – and Perplexing – City

The English American: A Novel

2010

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery

Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life

A Friend of the Family

Olive Kitteridge

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader’s Circle)

The Tenth Circle: A Novel

Love Monkey : A Novel

Nanny Returns: A Novel

This Is Where I Leave You

Her Fearful Symmetry

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The Imperfectionists: A Novel

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist’s Journey Through the Hell of Divorce

When You Reach Me

Rockabye: From Wild to Child

Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)

Little Bee: A Novel

Balancing Acts: A Novel

Heart of the Matter

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel

Oryx and Crake

The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood

Fly Away Home: A Novel

Half Baked: The Story of My Nerves, My Newborn, and How We Both Learned to Breathe

You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know

Kitchen Chinese: A Novel About Food, Family, and Finding Yourself