LIZ: On My To-Read List

The following are the books I hope to get through this year. These are just the ones sitting on my bookshelf right now (I know, I think I may have a problem!) I am notorious for judging books by their covers, so chances are that not all of them will make the cut when I begin reading them.

• Nanny Returns by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (the newly released, much-anticipated follow-up to The Nanny Diaries!)
• The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
• I'm Perfect, You're Doomed by Kyria Abrahams
• The Center of Winter by Marya Hornbacher
• Toast by Nigel Slater
• What Happened to Jordan? by Jennifer Toth
• Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman
• The Middle of Everything by Michelle Herman
• Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums
• Meant to Be by Walter Anderson
• Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
• A Barn in New England by Joseph Monninger
• Giving Away Simone by Jan Waldron
• How to Make Love Like A Porn Star by Jenna Jameson
• Returning Frankie's Rocks by Dana Hornig
• Accidental Playboy by Leif Ueland
• The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
• Tales From the Bed by Jennifer Estess
• Swing Low by Miriam Toews
• Going All the Way by Sharon Thompson
• Torch by Cheryl Strayed
• Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen
• The Velveteen Father by Jesse Green
• The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
• Tweaked by Patrick Moore
• Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett (The Patron Saint of Liars is one of my favorite books)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Jewel by Brent Lott
• In the Country of Men by Hasham Matar
• Life on the Outside by Jennifer Gonnerman
• Slackjaw by Jim Knippel
• The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll by Jean Nathan
• The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle
• Lads by Dave Itzkoff
• Levi's Will by W. Dale Cramer
• Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman
• Please Stop Laughing at Me by Jodee Blanco
• Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
• Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto
• The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch (this has been on my to-read list for at least 5 years - maybe I'll finally get to it!)
• The Jewels of Tessa Kent by Judith Krantz
• A Home At the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (I really enjoyed The Hours by Cunningham, hopefully this book will be the same)
• The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
• More Than You KNow by Beth Gutcheon
• Where is the Mango Princess? by Cathy Crimmins
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Thick as Theives by Steve Geng
• Terry by George McGovern
• Thin is the New Happy by Valerie Frankel
• Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
• Little Children by Tom Perrota
• While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
• Delivering Doctor Amelia by Dan Shapiro
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
• Fires in the Bathrooms by Kathleen Cushman
• Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
• The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
• Crazy by Pete Earley
• Please Excuse My Daughter by Julie Klam
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life by Adam Nimoy
• The World Made Straight by Ron Rash
• One Child by Torey Hayden
• Too Close To the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
• Candy Freak by Steve Almond
• Cabin Pressure by Josh Wolk
• The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
• Bound by Sally Gunning
• The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson
• Blue Angel by Francine Prose
• Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
• First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung
• First Person Plural by Cameron West
• The Effects of Light by Miranda Beverly-Whittermore
• Educating Esme by Esme Raji Codell
• The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
• Even Dogs Go Home To Die by Linda St. John
• Burro Genius by Victor Villasenor
• Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne
• Don't Wake Me At Doyles by Maura Murphy
• Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies
• The Good Eater by Ron Saxen
• Inklings by Jeffrey Koterba
• A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
• Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch
• For the Sins of My Father by Albert DeMeo
• The Flock by Joan Frances Casey