What I've Been Reading Lately

1997

The usual fiction and mysteries (with a little nonfiction thrown in):

• Diana Atkinson - Highways and Dancehalls
• Linda Barnes - Cold Case
• Nevada Barr - Endangered Species
• Ann Benson - The Plague Tales
• Elizabeth Berg - Pull of the Moon, Joy School
• Martha Bergland - Idle Curiosity
• Suzanne Berne - A Crime in the Neighborhood
• Chris Bohjalian - Midwives
• Mark Brown - Emergency: True Stories from the Nation's ERs
• James Lee Burke - Cimarron Rose
• Patricia Cornwell - From Potter's Field, Cause of Death, Hornet's Nest
• Sandra Dallas - The Diary of Mattie Spencer
• Barbara D'Amato - Hard Women, Hard Bargain, Hard Christmas
• Elizabeth Dewberry - Many Things Have Happened Since He Died
• Tony Fennelly - 1-900-DEAD
• Lucy Ferriss - The Misconceiver
• Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
• Diane Glancy - The Only Piece of Furniture in the House
• Jim Grimsley - Dream Boy, Winter Birds
• Sue Grafton - "M" is for Malice
• Linda Grant - Blind Trust
• Charlaine Harris - Shakespeare's Landlord, Shakespeare's Champion
• Carl Hiaasen, et al - Naked Came the Manatee
• Catherine Hiller - Skin
• J. A. Jance - Dead to Rights, Skeleton Canyon
• Bernard Lefkowitz - Our Guys: the Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
• Margaret Maron - Shooting at Loons, Up Jumps the Devil, Killer Market
• Lia Matera - Star Witness
• Elizabeth McCracken - The Giant's House
• Susan Moloney - A Dry Spell
• Michael Nava - The Death of Friends
• Carol O'Connell - Stone Angel
• A.J. Orde (AKA Sheri Tepper) - Death and the Dogwalker
• Sara Paretsky - Windy City Blues
• Marjorie Reynolds - The Starlite Drive-In
• Sapphire - Push
• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat
• Robert Skinner - Skin Deep, Blood Red
• Lee Smith - The Christmas Letters
• Minette Walters - The Dark Room, The Echo
• Lois Ann Yamanaka - Wild Meat and Bully Burgers

Some children's, juvenile, and young adult books:

• Eve Bunting Smoky Night
• Janell Cannon - Stellaluna (An all-around lovely book)
• Trish Cooke & Helen Oxenbury - So Much
• Marguerite W. Davol - How Snake Got His Hiss
• Alexandra Day - River Parade (Day has been a favorite of mine since I first discovered her "Carl" books)
• Kady MacDonald Denton - Would They Love a Lion (Great for reading aloud)
• Susan Field - The Sun, the Moon and the Silver Baboon
• Kristine Franklin - Iguana Beach
• Ann Grifalconi - Kinda Blue
• David Kirk - Miss Spider's Tea Party, Miss Spider's Wedding (Georgeous illustrations)
• E. L. Konigsburg - The View from Saturday
• Jonathan London - Fireflies, Fireflies Light My Way (More beautiful illustrations)
• Lois Lowry - The Giver
• Roxie Munro & Julie Cummins - The Inside-Outside Book of Libraries
• Matt Ottley - What Faust Saw (Great fun)
• Katherine Paterson - The Bridge to Terabithia
• Brian Pinkney - Max Found Two Sticks
• Eric Rohmann - Time Flies
• Stacey Schuett - Somewhere in the World Right Now
• Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith - The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
• Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are
• Sarah Stewart - The Library
• Dr. Suess/Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher - My Many Colored Days
• Marcia Vaughan - Snap!
• Carole Boston Weatherford - Juneteenth Jambouree
• Jane Yolen - Owl Moon

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