CCR book group:

• The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan (excellent)
• Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof
• Those Angry Days, Lynne Olson (very interesting)
• This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett (articles/essays of varying interest; most good)
• The Opposite of Loneliness, Marina Keegan
• The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout (great book, interesting discussion)
• Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver (fantastic)
• The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion, Fannie Flagg (great story, interesting historical background)
• I gave up on “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd

Books from ‘old’ series:

• The Gods of Guilt, The Fifth Witness, The Brass Verdict (all Mickey Haller), The Burning Room (Harry Bosch) by Michael Connelly
• Designated Daughters (Deborah Knott), by Margaret Maron
• The Charlemagne Pursuit, The King’s Deception (both Cotton Malone), by Steve Berry
• Hardball (V.I. Warshawski), by Sara Paretsky
• His Majesty’s Secret Agent (Maggie Hope), by Susan Elia Macneal

New mysteries:

• The House on Tradd Street, Karen White (1st in a fun ‘ghost’ series set in Charleston)
• Steeped in Evil (Tea Shop Mysteries), by Laura Childs (also part of a series set in Charleston, enjoyable)
• The River of Darkness (John Madden), by Rennie Airth (first book in an incredible series of historical mysteries)
• In the Blood (Jefferson Tayte genealogical mystery series), by Steve Robinson (good fun, interesting genealogy tips)
• Hiding the Past (Morton Farrier genealogical mystery series), Nathan Dylan Goodwin (ok)
• A Deceptive Clarity, A Glancing Light, Old Scores (three Chris Nordgren art historian mysteries), by Aaron Elkins (very enjoyable and interesting)
• Loot, Turncoat (two standalone books), by Aaron Elkins (good stories)
• Anonymous Sources, debut novel by Mary Louise Kelly (excellent)
• Bluffing Mr. Churchill, by John Lawton (I remember this being good, but can’t remember anything about it.)
• Still Life (Inspector Gamache #1), by Louise Penny (I’ve had this on my Kindle since 2009, and finally read it.  Seems like a good series, and I have a couple more.)

Diplomats and Spies:

• An American Spy (3rd Milo Weaver book), by Olen Steinhauer.  (best book in this spy trilogy)
• The Cairo Affair, by Olen Steinhauer (CIA officer with State cover at Embassy Cairo)
• The American Mission, by Matthew Palmer.  Palmer is a Foreign Service Officer, and I enjoyed all the little FSO insider details in the book.  Good fast-paced thriller.

Miscellaneous fiction:

• Inferno (Robert Langdon), by Dan Brown
• An Officer and a Spy, Robert Harris (surprisingly dull novel about the Dreyfus Affair)
• Sycamore Row, John Grisham
• Damage, Felix Francis
• Oath of Office, Michael Palmer.  This is Matthew Palmer’s father; he’s an established author of medical thrillers.  Pretty good.
• The Tears of Autumn, Charles McCarry.  Weird but fascinating 1970s conspiracy thriller about the Kennedy assassination.  I got it at Powell’s bookstore.

Kids’ Classics:  “A Wrinkle in Time”, by Madeleine L’Engel, and “The Westing Game”, by Ellen Raskin.  These are often mentioned by people as ‘my favorite book growing up’ so I decided to read them.

Non-fiction:

• Bossypants, Tina Fey.  I usually avoid memoirs like the plague, but I like Tina Fey and enjoyed her book.
• Scent of the Missing, Susannah Charleson.  Lovely book about training a search and rescue dog, enjoyed it a lot.
• Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth.  I love the TV series, and the book is very good too.

I’m sure I missed some.  I also fill in nooks and crannies of reading time with old favorite mysteries and looking up stuff in history books.