A Request

I have had a request to write down a list of some of the books that I was reading before I started this blog. One direct request, and several indirect suggestions. These are books I have read since the beginning of the year, and I will go off several lists that I have kept. I won't list anything that I didn't like at all, although as time goes on I tend to only remember the parts I did like. I will put a * by anything that had strong language and/or intense or inappropriate scenes. (If I can remember.) Basically it is 3 cookies - OK, 4 cookies - liked it a lot, 5 cookies - Loved it! So, here goes!

1. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 4 cookies
2. The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther 4 cookies
3. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 5 cookies
4. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 5 cookies
5. The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas 5 cookies
6. Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody 3 cookies
7. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke 4 cookies
8. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult 4 cookies
9. The Gate House by Nelson DeMille 4 cookies *
10. Expecting Adam by Martha Beck 5 cookies
11. Ten Thousand Charms by Allison Pittman 3 cookies
12. Disquiet by Julia Leigh 3 cookies
13. A Train to Potevka by Mike Ramsdell 4 cookies
14. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 5 cookies plus a glass of milk!
15. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See 3 cookies *
16. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 4 cookies *
17. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman 5 cookies
18. The Prestige by Christopher Priest 3 cookies
19. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver 4 cookies
20. Devil in the White City: Murder, magic and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson 4 cookies
21. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 4 cookies
22. The Queen's Fool by Phillippa Gregory 4 cookies
23. Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah 4 cookies
24. Fatal Fixer-Upper by Jennie Bentley 4 cookies
25. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris 3 cookies
26. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane 3 cookies *
27. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 3 cookies
28. Alive: the story of the Andes survivors by Piers Paul Read 3 cookies *
29. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 5 cookies
30. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 4 cookies *
31. The Sisters Grimm book 1 by Michael Buckley 4 cookies (all of these are great)
32. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 4 cookies
33. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 5 cookies *
34. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 5 cookies
35. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 4 cookies
36. Seventh Son series by Orson Scott Card 5 cookies
37. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger 4 cookies
38. Cold Sassy Tree & Leaving Cold Sassy by Oliva Burns 4 cookies
39. Enchantment by Orson Scott Card 4 cookies
40. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown 4 cookies
41. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 4 cookies
42. Deception Point by Dan Brown 5 cookies
43. Eragon Series by Christopher Paolini 5 cookies
44. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry 5 cookies
45. Peter and the Shadowthieves by Dave Barry 5 cookies
46. Peter and the Secret of Rundoon by Dave Barry 5 cookies
47. Angry Housewives Eating BonBons by Lorna Landvik 3 cookies