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Susan Coene
About My Library
My home library is everywhere. I have books in every room of the house. I spend a lot of money in live bookstores, AMAZON, etc. Love Historical fiction - especially featuring WW2.
About Me
I have always been a voracious reader. My motto is ABAB - always bring a book.
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New Jersey
Currently Reading
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
Camino Island: A Novel by John Grisham
Circling the Sun: A Novel by Paula McLain
Freya by Anthony Quinn
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple
Magpie Murders: A Novel by Anthony Horowitz
Circe by Madeline Miller
To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
Fates and Furies: A Novel by Lauren Groff
A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
The Other Woman: A Novel by Daniel Silva
The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, 16) by Daniel Silva
A Piece of the World: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline
China Rich Girlfriend: A Novel by Kevin Kwan
Seymour Hersh: Scoop Artist by Robert Miraldi
Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 by Zadie Smith
The Great Alone: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
Warlight by Ondaatje Michael
Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles: A Novel by Margaret George
Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid
The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George
Daughter of Moloka'i: A Novel by Alan Brennert
Asymmetry: A Novel by Lisa Halliday
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Lilac Girls: A Novel (Woolsey-Ferriday) by Martha Hall Kelly
The American Agent: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
The Huntress: A Novel by Kate Quinn
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand
The Old Drift by Mamwali Serpel
The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel by Pam Jenoff
Mrs. Everything: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel by Matthew Sullivan
The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie
An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones
The Female Persuasion: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2018 by Stuart Turton
The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Graham Greene
The Flight Portfolio: A novel by Julie Orringer
Mansfield Park: Jane Austen (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga: 2 by Edward Rutherfurd
The World That We Knew: A Novel by Alice Hoffman
A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
Long Bright River: A Novel by Liz Moore
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan
The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
Rodham: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King
Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen: A Novel (Six Tudor Queens) by Alison Weir
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy) by Kevin Kwan
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
In the Midst of Winter
What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, 2) by Elin Hilderbrand
The Glittering Hour: A Novel by Iona Grey
28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
Ask Again, Yes: A Novel by Mary Beth Keane
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis
A Girl is A Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
The Mirror & the Light: 3 (Wolf Hall Trilogy) by Hilary Mantel
Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Case Histories: A Novel (Jackson Brodie, 1) by Kate Atkinson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Deacon King Kong: A Novel by James McBride
The King's Curse (COUSINS' WAR) by Philippa Gregory
Troubled Blood: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021 (Cormoran Strike 5) by Robert Galbraith
Time for Mercy, A: Jake Brigance #3 by John Grisham
Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel by Gail Honeyman
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
A Ladder to the Sky: A Novel by John Boyne
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
The Searcher: A Novel by Tana French
The Dutch House: A Novel by Ann Patchett
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Exiles: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
Olive, Again: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
Troubles in Paradise (Volume 3) (Paradise, 3) by Elin Hilderbrand
The Survivors
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
The Paris Library: A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles
The Rose Code: A Novel by Kate Quinn
Gentleman in Moscow, A by Amor Towles
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Paris: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
The Woman with the Blue Star: A Novel by Pam Jenoff
My Dark Vanessa: A Novel by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Morningside Heights: A Novel by Joshua Henkin
Camino Winds by John Grisham
Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Our Woman in Moscow: A Novel by Beatriz Williams
Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Consequences of Fear: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs, 16) by Jacqueline Winspear
Love and Ruin by Paula McLain
That Summer: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
Lady Sunshine: A Novel by Amy Mason Doan
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Burning Chambers (Burning Chambers #1) by Kate Mosse
Henna Artist, The by Alka Joshi
The Cellist: A Novel (Gabriel Allon, 21) by Daniel Silva
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Order: A Novel (Gabriel Allon, 20) by Daniel Silva
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A Novel by Fiona Davis
The Damage: A Novel by Caitlin Wahrer
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
China: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Malibu Rising: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen (Six Tudor Queens) by Alison Weir
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The City of Tears: A Novel (The Burning Chambers Series, 2) by Kate Mosse
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Band of Sisters: A Novel by Lauren Willig
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale #2) by Margaret Atwood
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur: 2 (Jaipur Trilogy) by Alka Joshi
Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) by Elizabeth Strout
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The New Girl (Gabriel Allon, #19) by Daniel Silva
The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Robin by Dave Itzkoff
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
The Lake House by Kate Morton
Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media by Nora Ephron
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith
Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3) by Ken Follett
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Jane Austen
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family, #1) by Melissa de la Cruz
On the Road (Penguin Orange Collection) by Jack Kerouac
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (Perennial Classics) by Muriel Spark
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
Portrait Of A Spy (Gabriel Allon, #11) by Daniel Silva
Brideshead Revisited : The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder : A Novel by Evelyn Waugh
Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author by Edward Albee
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
Orient by Christopher Bollen
The Children's Hour (Acting Edition) by Lillian Hellman
Proof: A Play by David Auburn
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Crimes of the Heart. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Beth Henley
The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton
Room by Emma Donoghue
Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley
The House at Tyneford: A Novel by Natasha Solomons
Telegraph Avenue: A Novel by Michael Chabon
The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel by Adriana Trigiani
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, Book 3) by L. M. Montgomery
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Here on Earth (Oprah's Book Club) by Alice Hoffman
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett
While I Was Gone (Oprah's Book Club) by Sue Miller
The Prince of Tides: A Novel by Pat Conroy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Exodus: A Novel of Israel by Leon Uris
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club) by Kaye Gibbons
Cane River (Oprah's Book Club) by Lalita Tademy
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Isle of Palms (Lowcountry Tales) by Dorothea Benton Frank
The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Peachtree Road 10th anniv edition by Anne Rivers Siddons
Drowning Ruth: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Christina Schwarz
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
RICH MAN POOR MAN by Irwin Shaw
Low Country by Anne Rivers Siddons
We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club) by Joyce Carol Oates
My Sister's Keeper (Wsp Readers Club) by Jodi Picoult
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy
House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Andre Dubus Iii
The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
Black and Blue (Oprah's Book Club) by Anna Quindlen
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club) by Wally Lamb
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Katherine (Rediscovered Classics) by Anya Seton
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) by Philippa Gregory
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel by Alison Weir
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Amy Tan
Daughter of Fortune: A Novel (P.S.) by Isabel Allende
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1) by Ursula Hegi
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel (The Ya-Ya Series) by Rebecca Wells
Memoirs of a Geisha (Random House Large Print) by Arthur Golden
Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Good Mother: A Novel by Sue Miller
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes
The Saving Graces: A Novel by Patricia Gaffney
One True Thing: A Novel by Anna Quindlen
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
At Risk by Alice Hoffman
Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
alias Grace. by Margaret Atwood
Prayer for Owen Meany (Export Ed.) by John Irving
Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics) by L. M. Montgomery
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Classics) by Anne Brontë
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) by Patricia Highsmith
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote
East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) by John Steinbeck
The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) by Betty Smith
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Clan of the Cave Bear: Earth's Children, Book One by Jean M. Auel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Russian Winter: A Novel by Daphne Kalotay
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
The Light Between Oceans: A Novel by M. L. Stedman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Circles of Time by Phillip Rock
Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson
The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Donna Tartt
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Longbourn by Jo Baker
My Notorious Life: A Novel by Kate Manning
Still Life with Bread Crumbs: A Novel by Anna Quindlen
The Signature of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Alena: A Novel by Rachel Pastan
The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene
The Good House: A Novel by Ann Leary
Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel by Matthew Thomas
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) by Joël Dicker
The Silkworm (A Cormoran Strike Novel, 2) by Robert Galbraith
Citadel by Kate Mosse
Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War by Jennifer Robson
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels Book 3) by Elena Ferrante
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Mission to Paris: A Novel by Alan Furst
A God in Ruins: A Novel (Todd Family) by Kate Atkinson
The Distant Hours: A Novel by Kate Morton
The Japanese Lover: A Novel by Isabel Allende
Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara
The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
Trying to Float by Nicolaia Rips
The Trespasser: A Novel by Tana French
Istanbul Passage: A Novel by Joseph Kanon
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
The Cost of Courage by Charles Kaiser
The Story of the Lost Child: A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 4) by Elena Ferrante
The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
The Women in the Castle: A Novel by Jessica Shattuck
Forever: A Novel by Pete Hamill
Beach Music: A Novel by Pat Conroy
The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
House of Spies: A Novel (Gabriel Allon Book 17) by Daniel Silva
Saints for All Occasions: A novel by J. Courtney Sullivan
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: A Novel by Kathleen Rooney
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody) by Elizabeth Peters
Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel by Caroline Leavitt
Celine by Peter Heller
The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) by Min Jin Lee