Here’s What We Read in Week Four!

Half way through the Reading Game, and the entries are flying in!  Here are the books chosen by the Wheel and by customers this week:

AWARD WINNERS The Best laid Plans by Terry Fallis The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson	CUSTOMER PICKS Invisible by James Patterson Fall of Giants by Ken Follett Finnie Walsh by Steven Galloway Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason Day One by Nate Kenyon Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers Gabriel’s Inferno by Sylvain Reynard Inferno by Dan Brown The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Fragments by Dan Wells How Reading Changed My Life by Anne Quindler The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade by Kevin Brockmeier Defending Jacob by William Landau Looking Back by Belva Plain The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon The Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Eye of the Needle by Ken Follet How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny Then You Were Gone by Lauren Strasnick The Collaborative Partnership Approach to Care: A Delicate Balance by Laurie Gottlieb and Nancy Feeley What Alice Forgot by Liane Morarirty The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith Gabriel’s’ Inferno by Sylvain Reynard Top Secret by Janet Evanovich
BEACH READS Summertime Death by Mons Kallentoft Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
CANADIAN Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
HISTORICAL FICTION The Death of Kings by Conn Iggulden The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak
HUMOUR I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
MYSTERY & THRILLER 4 To Score by Janet Evanovich The Dinner by Herman Koch
NOT JUST FOR TEENS Paper Towns by John Green The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brachares We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
ROMANCE Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel
SCIENCE FICTION 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
SENSE OF PLACE Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford Left Neglected by Lisa Genova Seamanship by Adam Nicolson The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
SHORT STORIES AND POETRY Writing the City: Poet Laureates of Edmonton 2005-2013
TRAVEL & ADVENTURE Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
STAFF PICKS The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Low Pressure by Sandra Brown Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler Doctor Sleep by Stephen King The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel

Week Five & Week Six Reads

Award Winners Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt The Jade Peony Wayson Choy	Customer Picks Shampoo Planet Douglas Coupland Immortal in Death  J.D. Robb An American Spy Olin Steinhauer The Girls  Lori Lansens A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews Fathermucker Greg Olear The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Driftwood Lane Denise Hunter Payment in Blood Elizabeth George Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era Amory B. Lovins The Child’s Child Barbara Vine Figure Skating Fro Dummies Kristi Yamaguchi Love Always, Petra: A Story of Courage adn the Discover of Life’s Hidden Gifts Petra Nemcova The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger The Hungry Ghosts  Shyam Selvadurai The Thread Victoria Hislop 801 Things You Should LKnow  David Olsen Cradle and All James Patterson The Best Laid Plans Terry Fallis The Whisperers John Connolly The 5th Wave Rick Yancey The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson The Last Runaway Tracy Chevalier Plum Spooky Janet Evanovich You Haven’t Changed a Bit Astrid Blodgett Drops of Gold Sarah M. Eden Still Alice Lisa Genova The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery The Racketeer  John Grisham Breakfast with Buddha Roland Merullo The Diamond Secret Lenora Worth Green River Killer: A True Detective Story Jeff Jensen Redemption Ranch Leann Harris The Poisonwood Bible Barabara Kingsolver Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea Mary Higgins Clark Now You See Her Joy Fielding Two Pints Roddy Doyle Once More with Feeling Nora Roberts  Ten Dollar Dinners Melissa d’Arabian The Age of Miracles Karen Thompson Walker Summer: A User’s Guide Suzanne Brown Falling to Earth Kate Southwood Day Elie Wiesel Bunker 10 J.A. Henderson Shania Twain Jill C. Wheeler
Beach Reads True Colors Kristin Hannah Thin, Rich, Pretty Elizabeth Harbisan
Bios and Memoirs Sylvia Plath: A Biography Connie Ann Kirk Unsinkable: A Memoir Debbie Reynolds I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted Jennifer Finney Boylan Bossypants Tina Fey Dixie Chicks Brett Mitchells Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang
Canadian The Killing Circle Andrew Pyper Toby: A Man  Todd Babiak The Cat’s Table  Michael Ondaatje The Book Of Awesome Neil Pasricha 419 Will Ferguson The Garneau Block Todd Babiak Crown Shyness  Curtis Gillespie The Headmaster’s Wager Vincent Lam
Graphic Novels Too Cool To Be Forgotten Alex Robinson Mr. Wonderful [a Love Story] Daniel Clowes My Friend Dahmer Derf Inubaka: Crazy For Dogs Yukiya Sakuragi
Classics Seize The Day Saul Bellow
Historical Fiction His Majesty’s Hope Susan Elia MacNeal Nefertiti Michelle Moran The Forbidden Queen Anne O’Brien
Humour Pineapple Grenade Tim Dorsey
Short Stories and Poetry Astray Emma Donoghue The Madness Vase Andrea Gibson Married Love and Other Stories Tessa Hadley
Mystery Undercurrent Pauline Rowson The Witch Doctor’s Wife Tamar Myers
Romance Macrieve Kresley Cole
Not Just for Teens Iceman Chris Lynch Airman Eoin Colfer
Sense of Place Irma Voth Miriam Toews The Kalahari Typing School for Men Alexander McCall Smith Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
Travel & Adventure No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travellers Barbara Hodgson Eat, Pray , Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
Staff Picks The Dinner Herman Koch Master and Commander Patrick O’Brian Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway Small Island Andrea Levy

Week Three Reads

Here’s what we read this past week:

Sense of Place 419 Will Ferguson The World We Found Thrity Umrigar	Customer Picks 419  Will Ferguson Silver Linings Playbook Matthew Quick Coventry Helen Humphreys Night Elie Wiesel Megan’s Mate Nora Roberts Sixkill Robert B. Parker More Like Her Liza Palmer Whiskey Beach Nora Roberts Elegy for Eddie Jacqueline Winspear Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead Sheryl Sandberg The Paris Wife Paula McLain Big Jack J.D. Robb Beyond Belfast Will Ferguson Dangerous Refuge Elizabeth Lowell Cinder Marissa Meyers The Painted Girls Cathy Marie Buchanan Inside Alix Ohlin Dark Visions J.L. Smith Susannah’s Garden Debbie Macomber The Wind Through The Keyhole Stephen King Island Girls Nancy Thayer Tunnels of Time: A Moosejaw Adventure Mary Harelkin Bishop The 8th Confession James Patterson Where We Belong Emily Giffin The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion
Beach Reads Shiver Karen Robards Chocolate for Two Maria Murnane Distant Shores Kristin Hannah
Mystery, Thrillers & True Crime An Apple for the Creature: All-new Tales of Unnatural Education Paganini’s Ghost Paul Adam Peach Cobbler Murder Joanne Fluke Home for a Spell Madelyn Alt The St. Zita Society Ruth Rendell
Bios & Memoirs Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls Living History Hilary Rodham Clinton Elsewhere Richard Russo
Historical Fiction The Paris Wife Paula McLain The House I Loved Tatiana de Rosnay
Graphic Novels The Imposter’s Daughter Laurie Sandell
Canadian Dance, Gladys, Dance Cassie Stocks
Romance Secretly Smitten: Love Changes Everything The Lightkeeper’s Bride Colleen Coble The Lucky One Nicholas Sparks
Award Winners The Dinner Herman Koch
Not Just for Teens Feed M.T. Anderson
Humour The Sweet Potato Queens  Jill Conner Browne
Fantasy & Sci Fi The Night Bird Catherine Asaro
Short Stories & Poetry Human Chain Seamus Haney
Staff Picks Dimanche and Other Stories Irene Nemirovsky The Wife’s Tale Lori Lansens