Meramec January

Those New Years' resolutions paid off! Meramec had 11 participants for January, including one new one (yeah, Patrick!), for a total of 51 books and 15035 pages. Damaris took top honors in both categories with 10 books and 2962 pages. Here's what we read:

 

Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
Death Be Not Proud	John Gunther
Lost in a Good Book	Jasper Fforde
A Moveable Feast	Ernest Hemingway
Marseilles Caper	Mayle
Twelve Clues of Christmas	Bowen
Mrs Queen Takes the Train	Kuhn
Art of Invention	Paley
Urban Pantry	Pennington
Culture of Knitting	Turney
Making is Connecting	Gauntlett
Cinderella Rules	Kauffmann
Two Down	Blanc
Gilded Web	Balogh
Gilded Web	Mary Balogh
Web of Love	Mary Balogh
To The Top; Gateway Arch Story	Amanda Doyle
Devil’s Web	Mary Balogh
It Happened One Season	Stephanie Laurens
Temporary Wife	Mary Balogh
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian	Sherman Alexie
This is How You Lose Her	Diaz
Round House	Erdich
Reluctant Saint: the life of Francis of Assisi	Donald Spoto
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest	Stieg Larsson
The girl who played with fire	Stieg Larsson
The girl with the dragon tattoo	Stieg Larsson
Elsewhere	Richard Russo
Astray	Emma Donoghue
Raised from the Ground	Jose Saramago
Gringos	Charles Portis
The History of Us	Leah Stewart
Tenth of December: Stories	George Saunders
Wash: A Novel	Margaret Wrinkle
Over the edge of the world : Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe	Laurence Bergreen
Tom: the Unknown Tennessee Williams	Lyle Leverich
100 things Cardinals fans should know & do before they die	Derrick Goold
Feathers : the evolution of a natural miracle	Thor Hanson
The Black House	Peter May
The Light Between the Oceans	M.L. Stedman
Biographical Essays (partial)	Joseph Epstein
Watching the Dark	Peter Robinson
Ratlines	Stuart Neville
Lives Of The Saints
Father Elijah	Michael O’Brian
Muted Grey	Dianna L. Young
The Language of Flowers	Vanessa Diffenbaugh
1968: the year that rocked the world	Mark Kurlansky
Uprooted	Gregor Thum
The Music School	John Updike
Far From the Tree	Andrew Solomon