October at Highland Park

What would you campus peeps do without us at Highland Park? We do all the behind-the-scenes work to keep your libraries well-stocked, and we kick your behinds every month in MO Book Challenge (and pump up STLCC Libraries' numbers). Our SEVEN readers read a total of 10,225 pages. Marian, the perennial champeen reader, read 2869 pages; Sheila came in second with 2160; Jim was third with 1648. I was fourth, BTW, with 1451 pages, but we won't mention fourth place. Here's what we read: 
  
Caught / Harlan Coban
Back Fire / Catherine Coulter
The Wind through the Keyhole / Stephen King
Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion / Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank (ed)
The Race / Clive Cussler
Those Who Save Us / Jenna Blum
The Happiness Project / Gretchen Rubin
Creole Belle / James Lee Burke
11th Hour / James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
The Outlook (October 8, 2012) / S&P
The Brass Verdict / Michael Connelly
Harper's Magazine (September 2012)                            
The Sun (June 2012)                                                              
Low Pressure / Sandra Brown
The Outlook (October 15, 2012) / S&P
The Boy in the Suitcase / Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
The Racketeer / John Grisham
The Outlook (October 22, 2012) / S&P
Salt Dancers: a novel / Ursula Hegi
The Rainbow: a novel / Pearl Buck
Plant Dreaming Deep / May Sarton
Alaska: a novel / James A. Michener
As They Were: Essays / M.F.K. Fisher
The Dog Who Came in from the Cold: a novel / Alexander McCall Smith
In Revere in Those Days: a novel / Roland Merullo
Wish You Were Here: a novel / Graham Swift
War Stories: Poems About Long Ago and Now / Howard Nemerov
Grand and Arsenal: Poems / Kerri Webster
The Porcupine: a novel / Julian Barnes
The Voice of the Poet: Poems / Elizabeth Bishop
Rite of Passage: a novel / Richard Wright
Playing Through: a Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coasts / Curtis Gillespie
World Without End / Ken Follett
The Time in Between / Maria Duenas
Girlchild / Tupelo Hassman
Corduroy Mansions / Alexander McCall Smith
Presidents Club                                                                       
In the garden of the beasts / Erik Larson
God Clobbers Us All / Poe Ballantine
What's the Matter With Kansas? / Thomas Frank