Wednesday, January 23, 2013

What I Read in 2013

For me:
1. The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days (Ian Frazier)
2. Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty (Greg Neri & Randy DuBurke)
3. Emma (Jane Austen)
4. Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
5. Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White (Lila Quintero Weaver)
6. Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple)
7. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Paul Torday)
8. The Sisters Brothers (Patrick deWitt)
9. Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion (Steve Sheinkin)
10. A Brief History of Montmaray (The Montmaray Journals, #1) (Michelle Cooper)
11. Dimanche and Other Stories (Irène Némirovsky)
12. Twelve Kinds of Ice (Ellen Bryan Obed & Barbara McClintock)
13. Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)
14. Excellent Women (Barbara Pym)
15 Code Name Verity (Elizabeth Wein)
16. The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (Jennifer Worth)
17. Every Eye (Isobel English)
18.  Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ben Fountain)
19. The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship (Jeffrey Zaslow)
20. Mr. Fox (Helen Oyeyemi)
21. Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
22. 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
23. This One is Mine (Maria Semple)
24. Building Stories (Chris Ware)
25. Trains and Lovers (Alexander McCall Smith)
26. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen (Lucy Knisley)
27. Mariana (Monica Dickens)
28. When I Forgot (Elina Hirvonen)
29. The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
30. Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1) (Louise Penny)
31. Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1) (William Kent Krueger)
32. A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) (Louise Penny)
33. Rez Life (David Treuer)
34. Tenth of December (George Saunders)
35. The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (George Saunders)
36. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
37. Eleanor & Park (Rainbow Rowell)
38. The Animals in that Country (Margaret Atwood)
39. Night Film (Marisha Pessl)
40. Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year (Ramsey Beyer)
41. One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street (Joanne Rocklin)
42. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (A.S. Byatt)
43. The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman)
44. No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days (Chris Baty)
45. Stitches: a handbook on meaning, hope, and repair (Anne Lamott)
46. The Cuckoo's Calling (Robert Galbraith/J. K. Rowling)
47. Attachments (Rainbow Rowell)
48. A Christmas Guest (Anne Perry)
49. Cinderella: The Graphic Novel (Beth Bracken & Jeffrey Stewart Timmins)
50. The Florist's Daughter (Patricia Hampl)
51. Lips Touch: Three Times (Laini Taylor)
52. The Elements of Style Illustrated (William Strunk, E.B. White & Maira Kalman)

For/with Skye (grades 8-9):
1. A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel (Hope Larson)
2. Everybody Sees the Ants (A.S. King)
3. Chiggers (Hope Larson)
4. Foiled #2: Curses! Foiled Again (Jane Yolen)
5. Giants Beware! (Jorge Aguirre & Rafael Rosado)
6. The Order of the Stick #4: Don't Split the Party (Rich Burlew)
7. Hereville #2: How Mirka Met a Meteorite (Barry Deutsch)
8. Friends with Boys (Faith Erin Hicks)
9. In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez)
10. The Order of the Stick #D: Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales (Rich Burlew)
11. Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer (Laini Taylor)
12. The Frog Princess (E.D. Baker)
13. Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
14. Hilda and the Midnight Giant (Luke Pearson)
15. Hilda and the Bird Parade (Luke Pearson)
16. A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
17. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Jon Krakauer)
18. A Tale Dark and Grimm (Adam Gidwitz)
19. Hairspray: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Hit Broadway Musical (Mark O'Donnell)
20. Cinder (Lunar Chronicles, #1) (Marissa Meyer)
21. Jane, the Fox & Me (Fanny Britt & Isabelle Arsenault)
22. Night (Elie Wiesel)
23. Hilda and the Troll (Luke Pearson)

With Skye (grades 8-9) and Felix (grades 2-3):
1. Knight's Castle (Edward Eager)
2. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Kate DiCamillo)
3. Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi)
4. 43 Old Cemetery Road #3: Till Death Do Us Bark (Kate Klise & M. Sarah Klise)
5. The One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate)
6. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #3: The Unseen Guest (Maryrose Wood)
7. Jackie & Me (Dan Gutman)
8. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)
9. James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
10. The BFG (Roald Dahl)
11. The Lemonade War (Jacqueline Davies)
12. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
13. The House at Pooh Corner (A.A. Milne)
14. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg)
15. The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook (Joanne Rocklin)
16. Stuart Little (E.B. White)
17. 43 Old Cemetery Road #4: The Phantom of the Post Office (Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise)
18. The Trumpet of the Swan (E.B. White)
19. Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1) (Patricia C. Wrede)
20. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Catherynne M. Valente)
21. Warriors #1: Into the Wild (Erin Hunter)
22. The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett (Tom Angleberger)
23. Warriors #2: Fire and Ice (Erin Hunter)

With Felix (grades 2-3):
1. Rosalie, My Rosalie (Jacquelyn Mitchard)
2. A Dog on His Own (Mary Jane Auch)
3. Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye #5: Raining Cats and Detectives (Colleen AF Venable & Stephanie Yue)
4. The Secret of the Stone Frog (David Nytra)
5. Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye #1: Hamster and Cheese (Colleen AF Venable & Stephanie Yue)
6. Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye #2: And Then There Were Gnomes (Colleen AF Venable & Stephanie Yue)
7. Calvin Coconut #2: The Zippy Fix (Graham Salisbury)
8. Bad Kitty: School Daze (Nick Bruel)
9. Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye #3: The Ferret's a Foot (Colleen AF Venable & Stephanie Yue)
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book #1) (Jeff Kinney)
11. Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye #4: Fish You Were Here (Colleen AF Venable & Stephanie Yue)
12. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2: Rodrick Rules (Jeff Kinney)
13. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3: The Last Straw (Jeff Kinney)
14. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4: Dog Days (Jeff Kinney)
15. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #5: The Ugly Truth (Jeff Kinney)
16. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid #6: Cabin Fever (Jeff Kinney)
17. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #7: The Third Wheel (Jeff Kinney)
18. Calvin and Hobbes: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (Bill Watterson)
19. The Legend of Diamond Lil: A J.J. Tully Mystery (Doreen Cronin)
20. Aliens on Vacation (Clete Smith)
21. Alvin Ho #3: Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made Catastrophes (Lenore Look)
22. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary (Jeff Kinney)
23. The Talented Clementine (Clementine, #2) (Sara Pennypacker)
24. Clementine's Letter (Sara Pennypacker)
25. My Weirder School #7: Miss Kraft Is Daft! (Dan Gutman)
26. My Weird Writing Tips (Dan Gutman)
27. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #8: Hard Luck (Jeff Kinney)
28. The Extraordinary Adventures Of Ordinary Basil (Wiley Miller)
29. When Santa Fell To Earth (Cornelia Funke)
30. Fortunately, the Milk (Neil Gaiman)

For Kids Book Club (ages 8-12):
1. A Dog on His Own (Mary Jane Auch)
2. Top of the Order (John Coy)
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book #1) (Jeff Kinney)
4. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)
5. James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
6. One Crazy Summer (Rita Williams-Garcia)
7. Okay for Now (Gary D. Schmidt)

For Teen Book Club (ages 12+):
1. Everybody Sees the Ants (A.S. King)
2. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
3. Reached (Ally Condie)
4. Ask The Passengers (A.S. King)
5. Please Ignore Vera Dietz (A.S. King)
6. The Books of Umber #1: Happenstance Found (P.W. Catanese)
7. How to Save a Life (Sara Zarr)
8. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Avi)
9. Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer (Laini Taylor)
10. A Tale Dark and Grimm (Adam Gidwitz)
11. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
12. Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)

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