Non Chick Lit/YA

[angnshaun]

Share the books here that are non chick lit or YA...

They are all crazily numbered because i just took my 2011 & 2012 reading list and deleted the ones that are chick/ya


13. Learn Me Good - John Pearson
18. All The Pretty Girls (Taylor Jackson Series # 1) - J. T. Ellison
19. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
20. The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
21. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest - Stieg Larsson
25. Baltimore Blues - Laura Lippman
26. Run - Blake Crouch
31. & 32. The Mysterious Affair at Styles & The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie (it came as a 2 in 1 deal on the nook)
36. Serial - Blake Crouch & Jack Kilbourn (VERY SHORT STORY, but VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY GRAPHIC)
38. Locked Doors - Blake Crouch (another page turner)
42. Lethal People - John Locke (Donovan Creed #1)
43. Lethal Experiment - John Locke (Donovan Creed #2)
44. Saving Rachel - John Locke (Donovan Creed #3)
45. Now & Then - John Locke (Donovan Creed #4)
46. Wish List - John Locke (Donovan Creed #5)
47. A Girl Like You - John Locke (Donovan Creed #6)
48. Vegas Moon - John Locked (Donovan Creed #7)
49. The Lion - Nelson DeMille
50. Night Fall - Nelson DeMille
51. The Lion - Nelson DeMille
52. By The Rivers of Babylon - Nelson DeMille
56. Painless - Derek Ciccone
57. The Value of Life - Andy Crowson
58. To Kill or Not to Kill - Andy Crowson
59. The Abbey - Chris Culver
62. The Black Echo - Michael Connelly
63. A Cold Day For Murder - Dana Stabenow (Kate Shugak #1)
64. This is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper
65. The Dandelion Conspiracy - Kirk Mustard, Leon Stern
66. Sudden Death - Michael Balkind
67. The Love You Crave - John Locke (Donovan Creed # 8)
68. Nemesis - Jo Nesbo
69. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hossen
70. The Fallen (Derek Stillwater #3)- Mark Terry
71. Learn Me Gooder - John Pearson
73. The Devils Pitchfork (Derek Stillwater #1) - Mark Terry
74. The Serpents Kiss (Derek Stillwater #2) - Mark Terry
75. Valley of Shadows (Derek Stillwater #4) - Mark Terry
76. Under A Raging Moon (River City Crime Novel #1) - Frank Zafiro
77. Heroes Often Fail (A River City Crime Novel #2)- Frank Zafiro
78. Beneath A Weeping Sky - (A River City Crime Novel #3) - Frank Zafiro
79. And Every Man Has To Die (A River City Crime Novel # 4) - Frank Zafiro
80. Waist Deep (Stefan Kopriva #1) - Frank Zafiro
81. No Good Deed (A River City Anthology) - Frank Zafiro
83. Ground Zero - Bonnie Ramthun (NOT related to 9/11... this book was published in 1999)
84. Earthquake Games (Elieen Reed #2)- Bonnie Ramthun
85. The Thirteenth Skull (Elieen Reed #3)- Bonnie Ramthun
86. Plum Island - Nelson DeMille (John Corey #1)
87. Secret Sanction - Brian Haig (Sean Drummond Series #1)
88. The Bone Collector - Jeffrey Deaver (Lincoln Rhyme #1)
90. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
91. Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Vincent Bugliosi
93. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets - Curt Gentry

2012 list
1. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max
2. The Ghosts of Belfast - Stuart Neville
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
5. War Horse - Michael Morpurgo
7. Look Again - Lisa Scottoline
9. Access To Power - Robert Ellis
10. Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
11. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
12. Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles and Altered the Course of the Civil War - H. Donald Winkler
13. Dust to Dust - Tami Hoag
15. Night Road - Kristin Hannah
16. Sick - Brett Battles
17. Outlander (Outlander #1)- Diana Gabaldon
18. Now You See Her - James Patterson
19. Dragonfly In Amber (Outlander #2) - Diana Gabaldon

[hopecounts]

Elizabeth the Queen
In the Garden of the Beast
The Tudors
The Princes in the Tower

All good non-fiction history/biography

[PinkSquirrel]

Is there an easy way to pull lists off of goodreads without it bringing all of the images and links?

[chicacocodrilo]

Same of my top ones from 2012 so far:

Fiction:
Arcadia, Lauren Groff
Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O'Nan
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
The Fates Will Find Their Way, Hannah Pittard
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
The Flowers, Dagoberto Gilb
Before the End, After the Beginning, Dagoberto Gilb
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides

Non-Fiction:
The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea

Err, I haven't read a lot of non-fiction this year ...

[angnshaun]

May 15, 2012 23:03:21 GMT -5 chilerellanos said:

I just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin...worth a read

I couldnt get past page 10... I could not stand the way she wrote. I felt likebshe took random words and they used a thesaurus to change them. I didmt think the sentences had and flow to them!

[ThirdandLong]

Outlander is not chick lit? I can't think of any non-chicks that would read it. JMO

[angnshaun]

May 16, 2012 7:47:00 GMT -5 chilerellanos said:

May 16, 2012 6:40:31 GMT -5 angnshaun said:

I couldnt get past page 10... I could not stand the way she wrote. I felt likebshe took random words and they used a thesaurus to change them. I didmt think the sentences had and flow to them!

I HATED the first half of the book. The second half was better.

Maybe i'll give it another shot then... thanks

[angnshaun]

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

[charminglife]

Do you track your reading list on your own or through something like Goodreads?

[angnshaun]

May 16, 2012 11:42:05 GMT -5 charminglife said:

Do you track your reading list on your own or through something like Goodreads?

i do use goodreads as well as track it this way... another board i use we have a thread that everyone updates their post. Going to 100 different profiles is kind of annoying sometimes. I also have this list as a note to share with some FB book groups

[lemondrop]

May 16, 2012 7:58:05 GMT -5 ThirdandLong said:

Outlander is not chick lit? I can't think of any non-chicks that would read it. JMO

I definitely think the target audience is chicks (LOL), but I think the general content falls under one or two more categories (slight Sci-Fi and historical fiction come to mind).

[secretlyevil]

May 16, 2012 7:58:05 GMT -5 ThirdandLong said:

Outlander is not chick lit? I can't think of any non-chicks that would read it. JMO

Chick Lit is the fluffy stuff that takes two minutes to read like the Shopaholic series, etc. That's what I think of for chick lit.

Outlander series would be general fiction IMO.

ETA: I agree with historical fiction.

[angnshaun]

May 16, 2012 12:13:52 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

May 16, 2012 7:58:05 GMT -5 ThirdandLong said:

Outlander is not chick lit? I can't think of any non-chicks that would read it. JMO

Chick Lit is the fluffy stuff that takes two minutes to read like the Shopaholic series, etc. That's what I think of for chick lit.

Outlander series would be general fiction IMO.

Thats kinda what i consider chick lit too...