Notes from Mt. Bookpile

A better-than-good quarter, with 73 read. You know where to find the reviews.

Biography

• The Memory Palace, Mira Bartok
• Across Many Mountains, Yangzom Brauen 
• The Arrogant Years, Lucette Langado 
• Jane Austen, Catherine Reef 
• Finding Everett Ruess, David Roberts

Children's/Young Adult

• Playground, 50 Cent 
• From Bad to Cursed, Katie Alender 
• The Future of Us, Jay Asher 
• Bronxwood, Coe Booth 
• The Beginning of After, Jennifer Castle 
• Brass Monkeys, Terry Caszatt 
• Vanished Sheela Chari 
• Tempest, Julie Cross 
• Bunheads, Sophie Flack 
• Escape from Zobadak, Brad Gallagher 
• Why We Broke Up, David Handler 
• The Princess Curse, Merrie Haskell 
• The Shattering, Karen Healey 
• The Eleventh Plague, Jeff Hirsch 
• Shut Out, Kody Keplinger 
• Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King 
• Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi 
• The Elephant in the Garden, Michael Morpurgo 
• Lola and the Boy Next Door, Stephanie Perkins 
• The Evolution of Ethan Poe, Robin Reardon 
• Stick, Andrew Smith 
• The Jewel and the Key, Louise Spiegler 
• Just Your Average Princess, Kristina Springer 
• Forever, Maggie Steifvater 
• Melody Burning, Whitley Streiber 
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor 
• Darkness Falls, Cate Tiernan 
• Island's End, Padma Venkatraman 
• Between, Jessica Warman 
• The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman, Meg Wolitzer 
• Saint Louis Armstrong Beach, Brenda Woods 
• The Space Between, Brenna Yovanoff 
• All The Things I've Done, Gabrielle Zevin
• Underdogs, Markus Zusak

Fiction/Literature

• Birds of Paradise, Diana Abu-Jaber 
• A Walk Across the Sun, Corban Addison 
• The Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks
• Among the Wonderful, Stacy Carlson 
• Hello Goodbye, Emily Chenoweth 
• The Secret Daughter, Shilpi Somaya Gowda 
• Alice Bliss, Laura Harrington 
• When She Woke, Hillary Jordan 
• My Name is Mary Sutter, Robin Oliveira 
• The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Potzsch 
• The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, Caroline Preston 
• Falling Together, Marisa de los Santos 
• Conquistadora, Esmerelda Santiago 
• The Summer Garden, Paulina Simons
• Before Ever After, Samantha Sotto

Mystery

• Pray for Silence, Linda Castillo 
• The Burning, Jane Casey 
• The Faces in the Pool , Jonathan Gash 
• Bloodmoney, David Ignatius 
• Among the Missing, Morag Joss 
• The Hand That Trembles, Kjell Eriksson 
• L.A. Mental, Neil McMahon
• Drood, Dan Simmons
• Sanctus, Simon Toyne 
• The Stranger You Seek, Amanda Kyle Williams 

Non-Fiction

• Rescuing Regina, Sister Josephe Marie Flynn 
• 25 Books the Shaped America, Thomas C. Foster 
• Dear Bully 
• Word Hero, Jay Heinrichs 
• Following Atticus, Tom Ryan

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• The Rafters, A.C. Montgomery