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7. The Covenant

I am currently writing a book so I don't have as much time for reading. I'll make my goas reasonable and say 25 for the year.

18. Jeanne DuPrau: The People of Sparks (The Ember Series, #2)

13. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
14. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

19. Jeanne DuPrau: The Prophet of Yonwood (The Ember Series, #3)

I seem to have 4 or 5 books going at the moment, but none is grabbing me quite enough to make me drop the others.

8. The Thirteenth Tale
9. The Year of Pleasures

20. Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake

21. Edward Kritzler: Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge

15. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
16. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

Behind on my goal .. still on book 2!

10. At First Sight

22. Adam Fifield: A Blessing over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother

17. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

23. A. M. Homes: The Mistress's Daughter

24. Robert Frimtzis: From Tajikistan to the Moon: A Story of Tragedy, Survival and Triumph of the Human Spirit (Tajikistan)

11. Blessings

18. Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony

25. Garth Nix: Lord Sunday

12. Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Samantha, what did you think? I'm interested in Methland.

26. Larry Devlin: Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

27. Jean-Claude Staudt (Ed.), Hilary Roots (translator), island children (illustrators): Legends of New Caledonia: A Collection of Legends from the Isle of Pines (New Caledonia)

28. Nim Vantha, Ven Virak, & Sok Sotheavy: Finding Sustainable Livelihoods: A Case Study from Peam Krasaop Wildlife Sanctuary (PKWS), Koh Kong Province, Kingdom of Cambodia

Shoshanapnw wrote: "Samantha, what did you think? I'm interested in Methland."

It was very well written and I enjoyed reading it, although the subject was not enjoyable. It exposes the many things that have been factors of meth's hold on small towns. I wanted to read it because of the people that I knew that had ruined their lives with meth. It was very eye opening.

One other thing I would like to say about it is that the author wrote it almost like a story, so it is more like a narrative than a bunch of facts. It sucked me in during the first chapter.

13. Say When

19. Digging to America by Anne Tyler

29. Asian Development Bank: The Significance of Referral Systems as a Response to Human Trafficking and Unsafe Migration

It's great to have time to read the monographs I bought this winter!

20. Little Bee by Chris Cleave

30. Dillon Banerjee: Insider's Guide to the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go (2nd ed.)

31. Asian Development Bank: Broken Lives: Trafficking in Human Beings in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

Can you tell I'm prepping a class?

32. Asian Development Bank: Build It and They Will Come: Lessons from the Northern Economic Corridor: Mitigating HIV and Other Diseases

Best of the bunch so far.

33. Aicha Ben Abad: Tunisian Mosaics: Treasures from Roman Africa (Tunisia).

34. Carrie Ryan: The Forest of Hands and Teeth

35. Michael Chorost: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human (RL TBR shelf)

21. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Shoshanapnw wrote: "31. Asian Development Bank: Broken Lives: Trafficking in Human Beings in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

Can you tell I'm prepping a class?"

What class are you prepping?

It's a social services class that includes systemic interventions as well as individual/family ones. They'll be reading Somaly Mam's The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine and Bhavia Wagner's Soul Survivors - Stories of Women and Children in Cambodia. They'll also read several books unrelated to Cambodia, but these are the books that the monographs relate to, and several of those monographs from the Asian Development Bank are available from ADB as free PDFs.

14. The Betrayal

36. Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go

37. William Gibson: Spook Country

38. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

Did you like this book? I just received it from my latest Barnes and Noble order.

Shoshanapnw wrote: "38. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced"

I'll have a review up in a couple of days. The short version is, I liked it fine as information, and as a story I didn't like the style.

39. Jeanne DuPrau: The Diamond of Darkhold (The Ember Series, #4)

40. Suzanne Stone: Volunteering Around the Globe: Life Changing Travel Adventures

41. Tales of the Tikongs (Fiji or Papua New Guinea, but for now I'm using it for Fiji)

42. Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

43. Daniel M. Mengara Mema (Gabon)

22.The Giver by Lois Lowry
23. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

24. Jamie's Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals by Jamie Oliver.

Not sure if cookbooks count, but it's taken up most of my time for the last few days.

If you decide they count, they count. You're making your challenge rules. I count cookbooks, myself.

44. Patti Smith: Just Kids