Notes from Mt. Bookpile

Not a bad start to the year: 100 books read.  I should easily make my goal of 300 - sadly for Mt. Bookpile, most of these were received in 2013.  Still I've read 7 received pre-2013; again, not a bad start.

Biography/Memoir

• The Astor Orphan, Alexandra Aldrich
• Good Riddance, Cynthia Copeland

Children's/Young Adult Fiction

• Dark Companion, Maria Acosta
• Loki's Wolves, K. L. Armstrong
• The Wrap-Up List, Steven Arnston
• Through the Skylight, Ian Baucom
• Dance of Shadows, Yelena Black
• Dualed, Elsie Chapman 
• Al Capone Does My Homework, Gennifer Choldenko   
• The Reluctant Assassin, Eoin Colfer  
• Invisibility, Andrea Cremer and David Levitan 
• Scorch, Gina Damico 
• Notes From Ghost Town, Kate Ellison 
• Heroes of Olympus, Philip Freeman 
• Fearless, Cornelia Funke 
• My Summer of Pink & Green, Lisa Greenwald
• When We  Wake, Karen Healey 
• The Time Fetch, Amy Herrick   
• The Eternity Cure, Julie Kagawa
• The Tragedy Paper, Elizabeth La Ban 
• When Love Comes To Town, Tom Lennon 
• The Incredible Charlotte Sycamore, Kate Maddison 
• Maid of Secrets, Jennifer McGowan 
• Crash, Lisa McMann 
• The Sea of Tranquility, Katja Millay 
• What We Saw At Night, Jacquelyn Mitchard 
• Requiem, Lauren Oliver 
• Dead Is a Killer Tune, Marlene Perez 
• Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, Matthew Quick   
• The Silver Dream, Michael Reaves
• Death, Dickinson, And the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia, Jenny Torres Sanchez
• The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson   
• Riptide, Lindsey Schiebe
• This Is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith 
• Trinkets, Kirsten Smith 
• The History of Us, Leah Stewart 
• Mind Games, Kiersten White 
• Absent, Katie Williams   
• In the Shadow of Blackbirds, Cat Winters 
• The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey

Adult Fiction

• S.E.C.R.E.T., Marie L. Adeline
• Stonemouth, Iain Banks  
• Benedict Hall, Cate Campbell
• & Sons, David Gilbert
• The Little Book, Selden Edwards
• Light-Waking-Nelly's Version, Eva Figes
• Z, Therese Ann Fowler
• All You Could Ask For, Mike Greenberg
• Baker Towers, Jennifer Haigh 
• Benediction, Kent Haruf
• Telling the Bees, Peggy Hesketh
• Flat Water Tuesday, Ron Irwin
• The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen, Syrie James
• Where You Can Find Me, Sheri Joseph
• Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell
• Where the Light Falls, Katherine Keenum
• The Curiosity, Stephen Kiernan
• The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
• The Bookman's Tale, Charlie Lovett
• A Map of Tulsa, Benjamin Lytal
• At Weddings And Wakes, Alice McDermott
• Farewell, Dorothy Parker, Ellen Meister
• The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
• Margaret From Maine, Joseph Monninger
• Nowhere But Home, Liza Palmer
• Finding Camlann, Sean Pidgeon 
• The S-Word, Chelsea Pitcher
• The River of No Return, Bee Ridgway
• The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, Rhonda Riley
• The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout
• The City of Devi, Manil Suri
• The Last Telegram, Liz Trenow
• The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Teddy Wayne
• The Fate of Mercy Alban, Wendy Webb
• The Ashford Affair, Lauren Willig

Horror

• The Demonologist, Andrew Pyper
• The Blood Gospel, James Rollins

Mystery

• Murder At the Lanterne Rouge and Murder Below Montparnasse, Cara Black
• Now You See Me and Dead Scared, S.J. Bolton 
• The Burn Palace, Stephen Dobyns 
• The Book of Killowen, Erin Hart 
• A Cold and Lonely Place, Sara J. Henry.
• The Ice Princess, The Stonecutter and The Stranger, Camilla Läckberg
• Reconstructing Amelia, Kimberley McCreight 
• A Matter of Blood, Sarah Pinborough 

Non-Fiction

• The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts 
• The Gifts of the Jews, Thomas Cahill 
• Banksy, Will Ellsworth-Jones 
• The Finest Education Money Can Buy, Richard L. Gaines
• The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan
• Help, Thanks, Wow, Anne Lamott
• The Holy or the Broken, Alan Light
• Unlearning Liberty, Greg Lukianoff 
• Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz 
• Going Clear, Lawrence Wright 

Speculative Fiction

• The Returned, Jason Mott