A Good Book is Awaiting: Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland

I read Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland and savored this novel about art, World War II, and love. If you've read any of Vreeland's other novels, you know she gets into the art world like none other. And her writing is beautiful, to boot!

Lisette's List: A Novel

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Books I've Read 2010 - Present (This list got too long so I'm leaving great books only!)

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Breaking Point by C.J. Box
Dedication by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Line of Fire by Stephen White
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
She Left Me the Gun by Emma Brockes
Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story by Carol Burnett
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye by C.J. Box
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende
Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
I Can't Complain (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman
All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir by Ashley Judd
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
True North by Jill Ker Conway
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson
Astray by Emma Donoghue
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Home Front by Kristin Hannah
The Watchmaker's Daughter: A Memoir by Sonia Taitz
Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns by Margaret Dilloway
Dearie by Bob Spitz
Two-Part Invention by Madeliene L'Engle
The Cottagers by Marshall N. Klimasewiski
Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
The Long Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down by Andrew McCarthy
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Born Under an Assumed Name by Sara Mansfield Taber
My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Sissy Spacek
And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Beautiful Lies by Clare Clark
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
The Painted Bridge by Wendy Williams
Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir by Doron Weber
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
When We Were the Kennedys by Monica Wood
The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
The Girl Giant by Kristen den Hartog
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son by Anne Lamott
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
The New Republic by Lionel Shriver
All That I Am by Anna Funder
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
The Bride's House by Sandra Dallas
Nancy Wake: SOE's Greatest Heroine by Russell Braddon
The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy by Judith L. Pearson
In One Person by John Irving
Slam by Nick Nornby
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Schmidt Steps Back by Louis Begley
The Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Dave Eggers
Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
A Reliable Wife by Charles Goolrick
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Temple of Music by Jonathan Lowy
Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L. Haley
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman
Family Album by Penelopy Lively
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
The Breakdown Lane by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Brambles by Eliza Minot
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes
Betrayal of Trust by J.A. Jance
While I'm Falling by Laura Moriarty
Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg
Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson
City of Thieves by David Benioff
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Second Nature: A Love Story by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George
In the Still of the Night by Ann Rule
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian
Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
The Funnies by J. Robert Lennon
And Furthermore by Judi Dench
The Postcard Killers by James Patterson and Liza Marklund
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
Great House by Nicole Krauss
Rescue by Anita Shreve
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Damaged by Alex Kava
Healer by Carol Cassella
Save as Draft by Cavanaugh Lee
Oxygen by Carol Cassella
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx
I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
Townie by Andre Dubus III
For Love by Sue Miller
The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass
Ape House by Sara Gruen
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Fragile by Lisa Unger
The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Till You Hear From Me by Pearl Cleage
In Harm's Way by Ridley Pearson
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
What I Didn't See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown
This Is Where We Live by Janelle Brown
The House on Salt Hay Road by Carin Clevidence
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Private Life by Jane Smiley
My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Split Image by Robert B. Parker
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
This Time Together, Laughter and Reflection by Carol Burnett
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg
I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy
Solar by Ian McEwan
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Cleaving by Julie Powell
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz
A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoe Heller
Isabel's Bed by Elinor Lipman
Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule
Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan
The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirelli
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Gone by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland

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