Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Reader's Choice Winners-- 20 YEARS!

Right now the SLC Library System is celebrating 20 years of Reader's Choice!

If you live in the Salt Lake Valley, they're doing ballots like the traditional Reader's Choice lists, but for the winners over the last 20 years.

I've read 15 so far.  Out of 41.

Here's the list: (my rating is in parentheses)

2011
Girl in Translation (3 stars)
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (5 stars)

2010
The Bricklayer (4 stars)
Dog On It (3 stars)

2009
The Shape of Mercy (5 stars)
State of the Onion (4 stars)

2008
Austenland (4 stars)
Garden Spells (5 stars)

2007
The Saddlemaker's Wife (5 stars)
His Majesty's Dragon

2006
Poison Study (5 stars)
The Dead Don't Dance

2005
Three Wishes
Run No More
All That Matters

2004
Good Hope Road
Monkeewrench (4 stars)

2003
Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford (5 stars)
The Wedding Dress

2002
The Secret Life of Bees
French Impressions

2001
Letters for Emily
Daughter of the Forest

2000
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
Thunderhead

1999
Firebird
On Mystic Lake

1998
The Starlite Drive-in
The Maze

1997
The Bone Collector
My Real Name is Lisa

1996
Where the Heart Is (5 stars)

1995
Blue Rodeo (3 stars)
Pandora's Clock (4 stars)
Natural Causes (4 stars)

1994
Dying for Chocolate (5 stars)
Montana 1948 (4 stars)

1993
Tell Me No Secrets (2.5 stars)
The Forever King (5 stars)
Doomsday Book (5 stars)

1992
Loves Music, Loves to Dance (5 stars)

What have you read?  Which one should I grab next?

4 comments:

  1. Hi Britt,

    I stumbled upon your blog this evening and was delighted that you read my novel (Saving CeeCee Honeycutt) and gave it 5 stars. Thank you so much!

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  2. Aw, thanks, Beth.

    Actually when I finished your book I demanded my friend read it. :) She loved it too.

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  3. Small Change and The Secret Life of Bees are among my all-time favorite books - as is Doomsday Book, which you seemed to like as well as I did!

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  4. I'll have to pick those two up.
    LOVED Doomsday Book... really anything Connie Willis is awesome. :)

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