I’ve changed things on the Book-o-Meter. For starters, the title. As one friend so accurately put it, uh … where’s the meter??? What else is gone? My goofy little ranking system. It just made me go dizzy, which is a short trip for me. What’s left? Just books. Oh, and the highly coveted “Best Read of the Year” award. That stays. Feel free to post a comment.
2008
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson – (winner of Carla’s 2008 Best Read of the Year Award)
- A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner – A Memoir
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The World Below by Sue Miller
2009
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox – (winner of Carla’s 2009 Best Read of the Year Award)
- The Appeal by John Grisham
- Traveling Mercies – Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
- The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
- She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
2010
- Heaven Lake by John Dalton
- When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Homeport by Nora Roberts
- Blindness by José Saramago
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- The Glass of Time by Michael Cox
- One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
- The English Major by Jim Harrison
- A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
Currently Reading: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
