Notes from Mt. Bookpile

Not quite as good as last quarter, but 97 books isn't bad. I've even revised my annual goal from 300 to 365! Reviews in the usual place.

Biography/Memoir

• Simone De Beauvoir, Deirdre Bair
• Baby's In Black, Arne Bellstorf
• His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg, Louise Borden
• George Bellows, Robert Burleigh
• Chuck Close, Chuck Close
• Abraham Lincoln And Frederick Douglass, Russell Freedman
• Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?, Rhoda Janzen
• The Amazing Harry Kellar, Gail G. Jarrow
• The President's Stuck In The Bathtub, Susan Katz
• Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff
• Mark Twain, Michael Shelden
• Last Airlift, Marsha Forchuck Skrypuch
• Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey
• Regine's Book, Regine Stokke
  
• First Girl Scout, Ginger Wadsworth

Childrens/Young Adult

• Fake Mustache and Darth Paper Strikes Back, Tom Angleberger
• Goddess Interrupted, Aimee Carter
• The Land Of Stories, Chris Colfer
• Messy, Heather Cocks
• The Girl In The Clockwork Collar, Kady Cross
• Ugly To Start With, John Michael Cummings
• A Mutiny In Time, James Dashner
• Waves, Sharon Dogar
• Nursery Rhyme Comics, Chris Duffy
• Monstrous Beauty, Elizabeth Fama
• The Immortal Rules, Julie Kagawa
• A Midsummer's Nightmare, Kody Keplinger
• The Lions Of Little Rock, Kristin Levine
• When You Wish Upon A Rat, Maureen McCarthy
• Katerina's Wish, Jeannie Mobley
• Wonder, R. J. Palacio
• My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece, Annabel Pitchner
• Spellcaster, Cara Lynn Shultz
• Drama, Raina Telgemeier
• Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein
• The Watcher in the Shadows, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction/Literature

• Complicity, Iain Banks
• Getaway, Lisa Brackmann
• Read Between The Lies, Lori Bryant-Woolridge
• A Land More Kind Than Home, Wiley Cash
• The Bird Saviors, William J. Cobb
• Canada, Richard Ford
• The Lighthouse Road, Peter Geye
• Leaves From The Valley, Caroline Harvey
• The Knitting Circle, Ann Hood
• The Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones
• That's Not A Feeling, Dan Josefson
• Losing Mr. North, Elaine Kagan
• The Bridge, Karen Kingsbury
• The Secrets Of Mary Bowser, Lois Leveen
• The House At Riverton, Kate Morton
• Up Jumps the Devil, Michael Poore 
• Objects Of My Affection, Jill Smolinski
• Laura Lamont's Life In Pictures, Emma Straub
• The Shoemaker's Wife, Adriana Trigiani
• The Personal History Of Rachel Dupree, Ann Weisgarber

Horror

• Charlotte Markham And The House Of Darkling, Michael Boccacino 
• Talulla Rising, Glen Duncan 
• Beneath The Shadows, Sara Foster 
• Niceville, Carsten Stroud

Mystery

• Evil Intent, Kate Charles 
• Widow's Might, Sandra Brennan 
• The Body In The Library and The Crooked House, Agatha Christie 
• The Search, Shelley Shepard Gray 
• Gone, Mo Hayder 
• Phantom, Jo Nesbo
• Monkey Wrench, Terri Thayer

Non-Fiction

• Turn Right At Machu Picchu, Mark Adams
• Religion For Atheists, Alain de Botton 
• Summit Series '72, Richard Brignall
• Words Set Me Free, Lesa Cline-Ransome 
• Cowboys, David Harrison
• Titanic, Deborah Hopkinson
• George, Frank Keating 
• Sable Island, Wendy Kitts
• No Shelter Here, Rob Laidlaw
• The Fairy Ring, Or, Elsie And Frances Fool The World, Mary Losure
• The Polar Bear Scientists, Peter Lourie
• Black Gold, Albert Marrin
• Emily Included, Kathleen McDonnell
• Sacred Stories, Marilyn McFarlane
• Temple Grandin, Sy Montgomery 
• Invincible Microbe, Jim Murphy
• The Book of Blood, HP Newquist 
• A Hidden Wholeness, Parker J. Palmer 
• The Horse And The Plains Indians, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
• City Critters, Nicholas Read
• The Mighty Mars Rovers, Elizabeth Rusch
• Buried Alive!, Elaine Scott
• Soul Searching, Sarah Stillman
• Shannen And The Dream For A School, Janet Wilson

Science Fiction/Fantasy

• A Discovery Of Witches and Shadow Of Night, Deborah Harkness 
• The Children Of Hurin, J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Key, Simon Toyne