In this last year I've read more than 100 books. I know, I can't believe it either. Granted some were re-reads and some were non-fiction because I decided to teach myself to read Latin, but all total, there are 100 books lodged into my brain. Here they are, in no particular order.
The complete (to-date) Southern Vampire Series (Sookie Stackhouse / True Blood)
The complete (to-date) Dark Hunter Series (started with Acheron, whom I heart wholeheartedly)
The complete Twilight series. (A re-read as I still do not get it...)
The complete Shadow Hunter Books. AKA Mortal Instruments. Worth the read if you aren't squicked out by some implied incest that isn't incest. If she writes Simon's book next I'll send her a cookie.
Everything by Jen Lancaster. EVERYTHING. Seriously, if you haven't read her books you're missing out on the cupcake of memoirs. It's really amazing, funny, at times sweet and completely addictive. I have a crush on her. I don't care who knows it. She's from Chicago, she's fat and she's mean and she married an Indiana man. Basically, I've found my adoptive big sister.)
Everything by Laurie Notaro. Her first book The Idiot Girls Action Adventure club was one of the first chick-lit comedy memoirs I read and it spring boarded my current obsession with Jen Lancaster. Laurie and Jen go hand in hand.
Plenty Enough Suck to go around - humor memoir about Hurricane Katrina, which is an oxymoron (and as a Katrina Survivor I SHOULD KNOW) the book isn't funny. I don't recommend it.
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry, // The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenalt. Good solid fiction.
Wings - I have nothing to say about this. It read like REALLY young fiction. 3-5th grade. Cute, but totally pointless.
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. Good until the end where she races to a finish without giving me a clear description. Here's my rule. When I buy a book solely because it has THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER IN HISTORY the book better read with the detail of that cover. Really, I'm planning my wedding around that cover. IT"S THAT PRETTY.
The complete works of Paolo Coehlo. He wrote the Alchemist and his books make me want to be a better, more complete and nicer person. I want to be more metaphysical and his book Brida made me go to the crazy lady who owns a metaphysical bookstore in my town and buy a bunch of stuff on how to be more metaphysically aware. I failed, but his books amaze. (Except the new one, a novel called A Winner Stands Alone. I've renamed it, A book preaches itself right out my window.) However, the Witch of Portabello should be required reading in every school everywhere.
The Lost Symbol. Which lead me to read everything I can on the intention experimentations and the complete works of Dan Brown. Which lead me to reread the book Holy Blood Holy Grail. Now I have to read Margaret George's Mary of Magdala. Just as soon as I finish M.G.'s Helen of Troy, which I started because of the fantastic Acheron.
The first 3 Percy Jackson and the Olympian books. I'll read the last two, I promise, but I can't help be re read Harry Potter in it's entirety. Percy tries to follow the literary footsteps but fails and it's not his fault. Perhaps Rowling did sell her soul for those books. They still hold my heart.
Throw in a few Koontz books here and there, which I polish off in an afternoon. Face and Shadowfires come to mind. It's nothing new, just stuff my mom had laying around.
I read Merrick by Anne Rice and her Jesus book, Out of Egypt. I have Angel Time but my mom is reading that first.
I read Rant, Snuff, Pygmy and Fight club for the nth time.
Finally, I reread Lamb by Christopher Moore around Christmas. I read this book about four times a year and it never fails to delight me.
That's all that comes to mind as of now. I'm sure more will pop up.
If I'm missing out on anything you demand I pick up, please let me know!!!
~E
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