What I've Read in 2014

This will be a running list of the books I've read in 2014.  I will keep it updated throughout the year.

For me:
1. Dreams of Joy (Lisa See)
2. More Than This (Patrick Ness)
3. May B. (Caroline Starr Rose)
4. A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
5. The Reason I Jump (Naoki Higashida)
6. Insurgent (Veronica Roth)
7. Allegiant (Veronica Roth)
8. Food Matters (Mark Bittman)
9. One Hundred and One Classic Love Poems (compiled by Sara L. Whittier)
10. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (Mason Curry)
11. Persuasion (Jane Austen)

For/with Skye (grades 9-10):
1. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (Norton Juster)
2. Divergent (Veronica Roth)
3. The Perfect Storm (Sebastian Junger)
4. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

With Skye (grades 9-10) and Felix (grades 3-4):
1. Warriors #3: Forest of Secrets (Erin Hunter)
2. Warriors #4: Rising Storm (Erin Hunter)

With Felix (grades 3-4):
1. The Littles (John Peterson)
2. The Littles Take a Trip (John Peterson)
3. The Littles Have a Wedding (John Peterson)
4. Tom Little's Great Halloween Scare (John Peterson)
5. The World According to Humphrey (Betty G. Birney)

For Kids Book Club, and *sometimes with Felix (ages 8-12):
1. The Running Dream (Wendelin Van Draanen)
2. Turtle in Paradise (Jennifer L. Holm)
3. *Cinderella Smith (Stephanie Barden)

For Teen Book Club, and *sometimes with Skye (ages 12+):
1. *The False Prince (The Ascendance Trilogy #1) (Jennifer A. Nielsen)
2. *Eleanor & Park on audio (Rainbow Rowell)
3. *Fangirl (Rainbow Rowell)

Picture books:
1. Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School (Laurie Halse Anderson & Ard Hoyt)
2. Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution (Laurie Halse Anderson & Matt Faulkner)
3. Boy, Were We Wrong About the Solar System (Kathleen V. Kudlinski & John Rocco)
4. Snow (Cynthia Rylant & Lauren Stringer)
5. There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow! (Lucille Colandro & Jared Lee)
6. The Mitten Tree (Candace Christiansen & Elaine Greenstein)
7. Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Doreen Rappaport & Bryan Collier)
8. Winter Is the Warmest Season (Lauren Stringer)
9. The Mitten (Jan Brett)
10. The Biggest Snowman Ever (Steven Kroll & Jeni Bassett)
11. The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats)
12. Snowflake Bentley (Jacqueline Briggs Martin & Mary Azarian)
13. The Snowman (Raymond Briggs)
14. The Day It Rained Hearts (Felicia Bond)
15. Clifford's First Valentine's Day (Norman Bridwell)
16. A Village Full of Valentines (James Stevenson)
17. Valentine Holiday Grab Bag: Stories, Crafts, Games, and More! (Judith Stamper)
18. Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library! (Vicki Myron, Bret Witter, & Steve James)

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)

What I Read in 2012

For me:

1. The Story of Beautiful Girl (Rachel Simon)
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
3. The Scorpio Races (Maggie Stiefvater)
4. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
5. Between Shades of Gray (Ruta Sepetys)
6. State of Wonder (Ann Patchett)
7. Chime (Franny Billingsley)
8. My So-Called Life (Joanna Nadin)
9. The Life of Riley (Joanna Nadin)
10. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Gary D. Schmidt)
11. Bossypants (Tina Fey)
12. Big Girl Small (Rachel DeWoskin)
13. The Kitchen Boy (Robert Alexander)
14. 15 Minutes Outside (Rebecca P. Cohen)
15. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Jeanette Winterson)
16. Peace Like a River (Leif Enger)
17. Dorrie's Book (Marilyn Sachs)
18. Pure (Julianna Baggott)
19. Hoping for More (Deanna A. Thompson)
20. Mudbound (Hillary Jordan)
21. The Long Secret (Louise Fitzhugh)
22. When She Woke (Hillary Jordan)
23. Vietnamerica (GB Tran)
24. Summer of Fear (Lois Duncan)
25. The Grounding of Group 6 (Julian F. Thompson)
26. Daughters of Eve (Lois Duncan)
27. Fatal Remedies (Brunetti #8) (Donna Leon)
28. Fractured (Will Trent #2) (Karin Slaughter)
29. Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs #3) (Jacqueline Winspear)
30. Imagine: How Creativity Works (Jonah Lehrer)
31. Wonder (R.J. Palacio)
32. Friends in High Places (Brunetti #9) (Donna Leon)
33. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Cheryl Strayed)
34. Doc (Mary Doria Russell)
35. This Dark Endeavor (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein #1) (Kenneth Oppel)
36. Ransom (Lois Duncan)
37. Triptych (Will Trent #1) (Karin Slaughter)
38. Liar & Spy (Rebecca Stead)
39. Such Wicked Intent (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein #2) (Kenneth Oppel)
40. Through Tempests Dark and Wild (Sharon Darrow)
41. Ellen Tebbits (Beverly Cleary)
42. More Baths Less Talking (Nick Hornby)
43. A Girl from Yamhill (Beverly Cleary)
44. Arcadia (Lauren Groff)
45. Silhouette of a Sparrow (Molly Beth Griffin)
46. The Raven Boys (Maggie Stiefvater)
47. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
48. Half Broke Horses (Jeannette Walls)
49. Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
50. Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers (Anne Lamott)
51. The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (Isabel Dalhousie #9) (Alexander McCall Smith)
52. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores (Jen Campbell)
53. The Round House (Louise Erdrich)
54. The Rhythm of Family (Amanda Blake Soule and Stephen Soule)
55. Crossed (Ally Condie)
56. French Lessons (Alice Kaplan)
57. The Chaperone (Laura Moriarty)

For/with Skye (grades 7-8):

1. The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
2. Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
3. Dear Bully (ed. Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones)
4. Amelia Lost (Candace Fleming)
5. Breadcrumbs (Anne Ursu)
6. Boy Meets Boy (David Levithan)
7. The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
8. The Wednesday Wars (Gary D. Schmidt)
9. Hidden (Helen Frost)
10. Americus (M.K. Reed)
11. The Wee Free Men (Terry Pratchett)
12. A Mango-Shaped Space (Wendy Mass)
13. The Order of the Stick #1: Dungeon Crawlin' Fools (Rich Burlew)
14. The Order of the Stick #2: No Cure for the Paladin Blues (Rich Burlew)
15. Spera, Volume 1 (Josh Tierney)
16. The Order of the Stick #0: On the Origin of PCs (Rich Burlew)
17. Diamond Willow (Helen Frost)
18. Amulet #1: The Stonekeeper (Kazu Kibuishi)
19. Amulet #2: The Stonekeeper's Curse (Kazu Kibuishi)
20. Amulet #3: The Cloud Searchers (Kazu Kibuishi)
21. Amulet #4: The Last Council (Kazu Kibuishi)
22. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Grace Lin)
23. The Ogre of Oglefort (Eva Ibbotson)
24. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
25. The Order of the Stick #3: War and XPs (Rich Burlew)
26. Love Rides the Rails (or Will the Mail Train Run Tonight?) (Morland Carey)
27. The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie (Tanya Lee Stone)
28. Mercury (Hope Larson)
29. Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)
30. Drama (Raina Telgemeier)

+ Cybils Graphic Novel Finalists:

Nursery Rhyme Comics (ed. Chris Duffy)

Sidekicks (Dan Santat)

Zita the Spacegirl (Ben Hatke)

Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword (Barry Deutsch)

Page by Paige (Laura Lee Gulledge)

Anya's Ghost (Vera Brosgol)

Level Up (Gene Luen Yang)

Bad Island (Doug Tennapel)

With Skye (grades 7-8) & Felix (grades 1-2):

1. Darth Paper Strikes Back (Tom Angleberger)
2. Half Magic (Edward Eager)
3. Magic by the Lake (Edward Eager)
4. The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
5. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1: The Mysterious Howling (Maryrose Wood)
6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (#1) (J.K. Rowling)
7. Matilda (Roald Dahl)
8. Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
9. The Borrowers (Mary Norton)
10. Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road #1) (Kate Klise & M. Sarah Klise)
11. Over My Dead Body (43 Old Cemetery Road #2) (Kate Klise & M. Sarah Klise)
12. Nate the Great and the Lost List (Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
13. Nate the Great and the Sticky Case (Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
14. How to Train Your Dragon (#1) (Cressida Cowell)
15. Nate the Great and the Fishy Prize (Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
16. Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag (Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
17. The Secret of the Fortune Wookie (Origami Yoda #3) (Tom Angleberger)
18. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #2: The Hidden Gallery (Maryrose Wood)
19. Henry Huggins (Beverly Cleary)
20. Time Cat (Lloyd Alexander)
21. Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
22. You're a Bad Man, Mr. Gum! (Andy Stanton)
23. The Cricket in Times Square (George Seldon)
24. Comet in Moominland (Tove Jansson)
25. The Tale of Despereaux (Kate DiCamillo)

With Felix (grades 1-2):

1. DSA #1: The New Kid at School (Kate McMullan)
2. DSA #2: Revenge of the Dragon Lady (Kate McMullan)
3. Bad Kitty Gets a Bath (Nick Bruel)
4. DSA #3: Class Trip to the Cave of Doom (Kate McMullan)
5. Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty (Nick Bruel)
6. DSA #4: A Wedding for Wiglaf?
7. Bad Kitty Meets the Baby (Nick Bruel)
8. DSA #5: Knight for a Day (Kate McMullan)
9. DSA #6: Sir Lancelot, Where Are You? (Kate McMullan)
10. Bad Kitty vs. Uncle Murray (Nick Bruel)
11. Bad Kitty for President (Nick Bruel)
12. The Trouble with Chickens (Doreen Cronin)
13. DSA #7: Wheel of Misfortune (Kate McMullan)
14. Ricky Ricotta's Giant [Mighty] Robot (Dav Pilkey)
15. The School Mouse (Dick King-Smith)
16. DSA #8: Countdown to the Year 1000 (Kate McMullan)
17. A Mouse Called Wolf (Dick King-Smith)
18. DSA #9: 97 Ways to Train a Dragon (Kate McMullan)
19. Garfield Minus Garfield (Jim Davis)
20. DSA #10: Help! It's Parents Day at DSA (Kate McMullan)
21. Alvin Ho #1: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (Lenore Look)
22. Ms. Krup Cracks Me Up! (My Weird School #21) (Dan Gutman)
23. Mr. Burke Is Berserk! (My Weirder School #4) (Dan Gutman)
24. Jake Drake, Class Clown (Andrew Clements)
25. Alvin Ho #2: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters (Lenore Look)
26. Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
27. Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet (Andrew Clements)
28. Martin's Mice (Dick King-Smith)
29. Smasher (Dick King-Smith)
30. Mayor Hubble Is in Trouble! (My Weirder School #6) (Dan Gutman)
31. Calvin Coconut #1: Trouble Magnet (Graham Salisbury)

For Kids Book Club (ages 8-12):
1. Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) (Lisa Yee)
2. Bobby the Brave (Sometimes) (Lisa Yee)
3. Matilda (Roald Dahl)
4. The Borrowers (Mary Norton)

For Teen Book Club (ages 12+):
1. Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
2. Breadcrumbs (Anne Ursu)
3. Boy Meets Boy (David Levithan)
4. The Wee Free Men (Terry Pratchett)
5. Sweetblood (Pete Hautman)
6. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Maud Hart Lovelace nominees, 2012-13 (for Kids and Teen Book Clubs):
1. Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road #1) (Kate Klise & M. Sarah Klise)
2. Diamond Willow (Helen Frost)
3. Matched (Ally Condie)
4. Extra Credit (Andrew Clements)
5. Go Big or Go Home (Will Hobbs)
6. Calvin Coconut #1: Trouble Magnet (Graham Salisbury)

What I Read in 2011

For me:

1. Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (Rachel Cohn & David Levithan)
2. Too Much Happiness (Alice Munro)
3. Ethel and Ernest: A True Story (Raymond Briggs)
4. The River Wife (Jonis Agee)
5. Excellent Women (Barbara Pym)
6. His Dark Materials #2: The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman)
7. His Dark Materials #3: The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman)
8. Detective Kubu #1: A Carrion Death (Michael Stanley)
9. Lyra's Oxford (Philip Pullman)
10. Keeper (Kathi Appelt)
11. A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
12. The Outlander (Gil Adamson)
13. Juliet (Anne Fortier)
14. Next (James Hynes)
15. Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)
16. The Dreamer (Pam Muñoz Ryan)
17. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie (Wendy McClure)
18. Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
19. Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
20. Aesop & Company: With Scenes From His Legendary Life (Barbara Bader& Arthur Geisert)
21. The Sojourn (Andrew Krivak)
22. The Tiger's Wife (Téa Obreht)
23. The Blue Castle (L.M. Montgomery)
24. Bad Marie (Marcy Dermansky)
25. Lamentations of the Father: Essays (Ian Frazier)
26. Empire State: A Love Story (or Not) (Jason Shiga)
27. Because of Winn-Dixie (Kate DiCamillo)
28. Skinny Dip (Carl Hiaasen)
29. Warped (Maurissa Guibord)
30. The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
31. Wonderstruck (Brian Selznick)
32. The Keep (Jennifer Egan)
33. The Guy Not Taken: Stories (Jennifer Weiner)
34. Inside Out and Back Again (Thanhha Lai)
35. Through No Fault of My Own: A Girl's Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age (Coco Irvine)
36. Red Bird (Mary Oliver)
37. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs)
38. The Brontes Went to Woolworths: A Novel (Rachel Ferguson)
39. The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel #8 (Alexander McCall Smith)
40. The Talisman Ring (Georgette Heyer)
41. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)


For/with Skye (grades 6-7):

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #5: The Ugly Truth (Jeff Kinney)
2. Flight Explorer, Volume 1 (ed. Kazu Kibuishi)
3. His Dark Materials #1: The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
4. Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword (Barry Deutsch)
5. Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1: Dealing with Dragons (Patricia C. Wrede)
6. Prime Baby (Gene Luen Yang)
7. Please Write in This Book (Mary Amato)
8. American Born Chinese (Gene Luen Yang)
9. A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
10. The Eternal Smile: Three Stories (Gene Luen Yang)
11. The Saga of Rex (Michel Gagné)
12. The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
13. Uglies #1: Uglies (Scott Westerfeld)
14. Foiled (Jane Yolen)
15. The Penderwicks #3: The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (Jeanne Birdsall)
16. Leviathan #1: Leviathan (Scott Westerfeld)
17. Uglies #2: Pretties (Scott Westerfeld)
18. The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
19. Epic (Conor Kostick)
20. A Tale Dark & Grimm (Adam Gidwitz)
21. Uglies #3: Specials (Scott Westerfeld)
22. Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
23. Chasing Vermeer (Blue Balliett)
24. Moon Over Manifest (Clare Vanderpool)
25. Skellig (David Almond)
26. Toad of Toad Hall (A.A. Milne)
27. The Circuit (Francisco Jiménez)
28. Anya's Ghost (Vera Brosgol)
29. The Wild Girls (Pat Murphy)
30. Crows and Cards (Joseph Helgerson)
31. When You Reach Me (Rebecca Stead)


With Skye (grades 6-7) & Felix (grades K-1):

1. Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Betty MacDonald)
2. The Doll People (Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, & Brian Selznick)
3. Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business (Barbara Park)
4. The Boxcar Children (Gertrude Chandler Warner)
5. My Father's Dragon (Ruth Stiles Gannett)
6. Elmer And The Dragon (Ruth Stiles Gannett)
7. The Dragons Of Blueland (Ruth Stiles Gannett)
8. Mr. Popper's Penguins (Richard Atwater)
9. Beezus and Ramona (Beverly Cleary)
10. The Runaway Dolls (Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, & Brian Selznick)
11. Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne)
12. The Mouse And The Motorcycle (Beverly Cleary)
13. Toys Go Out (Emily Jenkins)
14. Runaway Ralph (Beverly Cleary)
15. Toy Dance Party (Emily Jenkins)
16. Ralph S. Mouse (Beverly Cleary)
17. Toys Come Home (Emily Jenkins)
18. Clementine (Sara Pennypacker)
19. Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Maud Hart Lovelace)
20. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (Tom Angleberger)
21. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Barbara Robinson)
22. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, abridged & illustrated by Inga Moore)


With Felix (grades K-1):

1. Magic Tree House #8: Midnight On The Moon (Mary Pope Osborne)
2. Magic Tree House #5: Night Of The Ninjas (Mary Pope Osborne)
3. Magic Tree House #12: Polar Bears Past Bedtime (Mary Pope Osborne)
4. Dinosaur Cove #9: Tracking The Diplodocus (Rex Stone)
5. Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day (Barbara Park)
6. Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy (Barbara Park)
7. My Weird School #5: Miss Small Is off the Wall! (Dan Gutman)
8. My Weird School #9: Miss Lazar Is Bizarre! (Dan Gutman)
9. Bailey School Kids #47: Frankenstein Doesn't Start Food Fights (Debbie Dadey& Marcia Thornton Jones)
10. Bailey School Kids #6: Frankenstein Doesn't Plant Petunias (Debbie Dadey& Marcia Thornton Jones)
11. Bailey School Kids #24: Dragons Don't Cook Pizza (Debbie Dadey& Marcia Thornton Jones)
12. Bailey School Kids #5: Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips (Debbie Dadey& Marcia Thornton Jones)
13. Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak (Mary Pope Osborne)
14. My Weirder School #1: Miss Child Has Gone Wild! (Dan Gutman)

What I Read in 2010

Ah, this is very satisfying.  I'm organizing my lists of past reads.  Here's what I read in 2010; no links, but maybe I'll add them at some point...

For me:

1. East (Edith Pattou)
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
3. Little Heathens (Mildred Armstrong Kalish)
4. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
5. Birds of a Feather (Jacqueline Winspear)
6. Cracked Up to Be (Courtney Summers)
7. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson)
8. A Noble Radiance (Donna Leon)
9. The Out-of-Sync Child (Carol Stock Kranowitz)
10. Before I Fall (Lauren Oliver)
11. Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 1: Orientation (Thomas Siddell)
12. The Wild Party (Joseph Moncure March)
13. Getting Air (Dan Gutman)
14. Out Stealing Horses (Per Petterson)
15. William – an Englishman (Cicely Hamilton)
16. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Stieg Larsson)
17. Life As We Knew It (Susan Beth Pfeffer)
18. Keeping the Feast (Paula Butturini)
19. The Dead and the Gone (Susan Beth Pfeffer)
20. This World We Live In (Susan Beth Pfeffer)
21. Very Valentine (Adriana Trigiani)
22. Brain, Child magazine, Spring 2010
23. The Postmistress (Sarah Blake)
24. The Crimson Rooms (Katharine McMahon)
25. Day for Night (Frederick Reiken)
26. The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
27. Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
28. Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
29. Summertime (Raffaella Barker)
30. Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (Chelsea Cain)
31. The Clue in the Crumbling Wall (Carolyn Keene)
32. Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
33. The Charming Quirks of Others (Alexander McCall Smith)
34. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Aimee Bender)
35. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley)
36. Every Last One (Anna Quindlen)
37. 77 Love Sonnets (Garrison Keillor)
38. A Study in Scarlet (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
39. A Study in Scarlet: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
40. Room (Emma Donoghue)
41. The Grimm Legacy (Polly Shulman)
42. The Heretic’s Daughter (Kathleen Kent)
43. The Language of Trees (Ilie Ruby)
44. The Line (Olga Grushin)

For/with Skye (grades 5-6):

1. The Sea of Monsters (Rick Riordan)
2. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg)
3. Meet Felicity: An American Girl (Valerie Tripp)
4. Calamity Jack (Shannon Hale et al)
5. The Arrival (Shaun Tan)
6. The Titan’s Curse (Rick Riordan)
7. The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook (Eleanor Davis)
8. Smile (Raina Telgemeier)
9. When You Reach Me (Rebecca Stead)
10. A Family Secret (Eric Heuvel)
11. The Search (Eric Heuvel)
12. Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Jon Sciezcka)
13. The Mozart Season (Virginia Euwer Wolff)
14. The Magic Thief (Sarah Prineas)
15. The Magic Thief: Lost (Sarah Prineas)
16. The Magic Thief: Found (Sarah Prineas)
17. Lunch Lady and the Summer Camp Shakedown (Jarrett J. Krosoczka)
18. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Rick Riordan)
19. The Gollywhopper Games (Jody Feldman)
20. The Popularity Papers (Amy Ignatow)
21. The Last Olympian (Rick Riordan)
22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)
23. Julie: An American Girl – Story Collection (Megan McDonald)
24. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (Jeff Kinney)
25. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Jacqueline Kelly)

 

With Skye (grades 5-6) & Felix (grades PreK-K):

1. Down Girl and Sit: Smarter than Squirrels (Lucy Nolan)
2. Down Girl and Sit: On the Road (Lucy Nolan)
3. Down Girl and Sit: Bad to the Bone (Lucy Nolan)
4. Funny Frank (Dick King-Smith)
5. The Twin Giants (Dick King-Smith)
6. Dragons Don’t Cook Pizza (Debbie Dadey & Marcia Thornton Jones)
7. The School for Cats (Esther Averill)
8. Jenny’s Moonlight Adventure (Esther Averill)
9. The Big Big Big Book of Tashi
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Roald Dahl)
11. Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel (Ruth McNally Barshaw)
12. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Betty MacDonald)
13. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (Betty MacDonald)
14. Dinosaur Cove #1: Attack of the Tyrannosaurus (Rex Stone)
15. Miss Daisy Is Crazy! (Dan Gutman)
16. Jack Stalwart #1: Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur (Elizabeth Singer Hunt)
17. Mr. Klutz Is Nuts! (Dan Gutman)
18. Jack Stalwart #2: The Search for the Sunken Treasure (Elizabeth Singer Hunt)
19. Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy! (Dan Gutman)
20. Ms. Hannah Is Bananas! (Dan Gutman)
21. Dinosaur Cove #2: Charge of the Triceratops (Rex Stone)
22. The Giants and the Joneses (Julia Donaldson)
23. Dinosaur Cove #3: March of the Ankylosaurus (Rex Stone)
24. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm (Betty MacDonald)
25. The Doll People (Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin)
26. Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Barbara Park)
27. How to Save Your Tail (Mary Hanson)
28. Runny Babbit (Shel Silverstein)
29. Betsy-Tacy (Maud Hart Lovelace)
30. The Meanest Doll in the World (Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin)

 

With lit circles (grade 5):

1. Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) (Lisa Yee)
2. Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor (Donald J. Sobol)
3. Skellig (David Almond)
4. The Lemonade War (Jacqueline Davies)
5. Chasing Vermeer (Blue Balliett)
6. Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)
7. The 39 Clues, Book 1: The Maze of Bones (Rick Riordan)
8. The City of Ember (Jeanne DuPrau)
9. Holes (Louis Sachar)
10. Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom (Eric Wight)
11. Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (Jarrett J. Krosoczka)
12. Gregor the Overlander (Suzanne Collins)
13. Lunch Lady #2 (Jarrett J. Krosoczka)
14. Lunch Lady #3 (Jarrett J. Krosoczka)
15. Once Upon a Marigold (Jean Ferris)
16. Star Jumper (Frank Asch)
17. The Headless Cupid (Zilpha Keatley Snyder)

 

Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award nominees (for Kids Book Clubs at the library):

1. Eleven (Patricia Reilly Giff)
2. The Missing: Book 1 – Found (Margaret Peterson Haddix)
3. Deep and Dark and Dangerous (Mary Downing Hahn)
4. How to Steal a Dog (Barbara O’Connor)
5. All of the Above (Shelley Pearsall)
6. If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period (Gennifer Choldenko)
7. The Sloppy Copy Slipup (DyAnne DiSalvo)
8. No Talking (Andrew Clements)

What I Read in 2009

For me:
1. Shakespeare Wrote for Money (Nick Hornby)
2. The Eight (Katherine Neville)
3. Jerk, California (Jonathan Friesen)
4. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
5. Book of a Thousand Days (Shannon Hale)
6. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County (Tiffany Baker)
7. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (E. Lockhart)
8. Austenland (Shannon Hale)
9. Letter to My Daughter (Maya Angelou)
10. The Tenderness of Wolves (Stef Penney)
11. Little Bee (Chris Cleave)
12. The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
13. The Careful Use of Compliments (Alexander McCall Smith)
14. Emiko Superstar (Mariko Tamaki and Steve Rolston)
15. The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (Alexander McCall Smith)
16. The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
17. Death and Judgment (Donna Leon)
18. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (Julia Strachey)
19. Shakespeare's Landlord(Charlaine Harris)
20. The Believers (Zoë Heller)
21. How I Live Now (Meg Rosoff)
22. 44 Scotland Street (Alexander McCall Smith)
23. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)
24. Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
25. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (Cesar Aira)
26. Tender Morsels (Margo Lanagan)
27. The Actor and the Housewife (Shannon Hale)
28. Acqua Alta (Donna Leon)
29. Julie & Julia (Julie Powell)
30. The House at Riverton (Kate Morton)
31. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
32. Sarah’s Key (Tatiana de Rosnay)
33. Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
34. Brain, Child: Summer ’09 issue
35. Quietly in Their Sleep (Donna Leon)
36. The Principles of Uncertainty (Maira Kalman)
37. A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
38. When You Reach Me (Rebecca Stead)
39. The Clothes They Stood Up In (Alan Bennett)
40. The Lady in the Van (Alan Bennett)
41. The Lost Art of Gratitude (Alexander McCall Smith)
42. Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading (Lizzie Skurnick)
43. The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
44. A Wind in the Door (Madeleine L’Engle)
45. The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan (Wendy McClure)
46. Spiral-Bound (Aaron Renier)
47. The Guinea Pig Diaries (A.J. Jacobs)
48. The School of Essential Ingredients (Erica Bauermeister)
49. A Redbird Christmas (Fannie Flagg)
50. Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming (Rachel Hartman)

For/with Skye: (grades 4-5)
1. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (Trenton Lee Stewart)
2. Babymouse #4, #5, and #6 (Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm)
3. Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis)
4. Rapunzel's Revenge (Shannon and Dean Hale)
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
6. Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
7. Deltora Quest #01: The Forests of Silence (Emily Rodda)
8. Sisters Grimm #1: The Fairy Tale Detectives (Michael Buckley)
9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)
10. Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
11. The Homework Machine (Dan Gutman)
12. Savvy (Ingrid Law)
13. The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
14. Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning (Danette Haworth)
15. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney)
16. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules (Jeff Kinney)
17. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Jeff Kinney)
18. Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper (Kazu Kibuishi)
19. Caddie Woodlawn (Carol Ryrie Brink)
20. Amulet, Book Two: The Stonekeeper’s Curse (Kazu Kibuishi)
21. Warriors #4: Rising Storm (Erin Hunter)
22. Castle Waiting (Linda Medley)
23. The Lightning Thief (Rick Riodan) – reread for book group
24. Millicent Min: Girl Genius (Lisa Yee)
25. Grampa and Julie: Shark Hunters (Jef Czekaj)
26. Babymouse #7, #8, and #9 (Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm)
27. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma (Trenton Lee Stewart)
28. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Barbara Robinson)
29. The Magician's Elephant (Kate diCamillo)

With Felix (and often Skye, too): (Pre-K)
1. Two Times the Fun (Beverly Cleary)
2. Magic Tree House #01: Dinosaurs Before Dark (Mary Pope Osborne)
3. Catwings (Ursula Le Guin)
4. Magic Tree House #02: The Knight at Dawn (Mary Pope Osborne)
5. Maybelle in the Soup (Katie Speck)
6. Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #06: Frankenstein Doesn't Plant Petunias (Debbie Dadey)
7. Moongobble and Me #1: The Dragon of Doom (Bruce Coville)
8. Catwings Return (Ursula Le Guin)
9. Mummies in the Morning (Magic Tree House #3) (Mary Pope Osborne)
10. Stage Fright on a Summer Night (Magic Tree House #25) (Mary Pope Osborne)
11. Pirates Past Noon (Magic Tree House #4) (Mary Pope Osborne)
12. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (Ursula Le Guin)
13. Jane on Her Own (Ursula Le Guin)
14. Ellen’s Lion (Crockett Johnson)
15. Owly: Tiny Tales (Andy Runton)
16. Owly: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer (Andy Runton)
17. Owly: Just a Little Blue (Andy Runton)
18. Maybelle Goes to Tea (Katie Speck)
19. Owly: Flying Lessons (Andy Runton)
20. Owly: A Time to Be Brave (Andy Runton)

With lit circles: (grade 5)
1. Dear Mr. Henshaw (Beverly Cleary)
2. Spy X #1: The Code (Peter Lerangis)
3. Spy X #2: Hide and Seek (Peter Lerangis)
4. Spy X #3: Proof Positive (Peter Lerangis)
5. Spy X #4: Tunnel Vision (Peter Lerangis)
6. Freaky Friday (Mary Rodgers)
7. Room One: A Mystery or Two (Andrew Clements)
8. The Family Under the Bridge (Natalie Savage Carlson)
9. The Tiger Rising (Kate diCamillo)
10. Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)

What I Read in 2008

1. The Year of Living Biblically (A.J. Jacobs)
2. The Sweet Far Thing (Libba Bray)
3. Mr. Popper's Penguins (Richard Atwater)
4. A Book of Coupons (Susie Morgenstern)
5. Summer (Edith Wharton)
6. The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse (Bruce Hale)
7. The Soup Peddler's Slow & Difficult Soups (David Ansel)
8. Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
9. Death at La Fenice (Donna Leon)
10. Granny Torrelli Makes Soup (Sharon Creech)
11. Pleasing the Ghost (Sharon Creech)
12. Heart in the Right Place (Carolyn Jourdan)
13. Secret Letters from 0 to 10 (Susie Morgenstern)
14. Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
15. The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
16. Death in a Strange Country (Donna Leon)
17. The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin)
18. Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
19. Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
20. The Girls (Lori Lansens)
21. The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
22. The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham)
23. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) (Ellen Raskin)
24. American Born Chinese (Gene Luen Yang)
25. Words Under the Words (Naomi Shihab Nye)
26. Garden Spells (Sarah Addison Allen)
27. Lulu's Hat (Susan Meddaugh)
28. Frindle (Andrew Clements)
29. The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963 (Christopher Paul Curtis)
30. Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
31. The Mystery Guest (Gregoire Bouillier)
32. Project Mulberry (Linda Sue Park)
33. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
34. Hens Dancing (Raffaella Barker)
35. The Abbess of Crewe (Muriel Spark)
36. The Landry News (Andrew Clements)
37. The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
38. Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize (Patrice Vecchione)
39. Mouse Guard #1: Fall 1152 (David Petersen)
40. If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? (Erma Bombeck)
41. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (Christopher Moore)
42. The Victorian Chaise-Longue (Marghanita Laski)
43. Habibi (Naomi Shihab Nye)
44. Warriors #3: Forest of Secrets (Erin Hunter)
45. Gods in Alabama (Joshilyn Jackson)
46. Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize (John Hollander)
47. Three Good Deeds (Vivian Vande Velde)
48. Punished! (David Lubar)
49. The Penderwicks (Jeanne Birdsall)
50. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
51. Empress Orchid (Anchee Min)
52. James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
53. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Jeanne Birdsall)
54. Little Vampire, Volume 1 (Joann Sfar)
55. People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks)
56. Paddington Here and Now (Michael Bond)
57. The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
58. Dreams from My Father (Barack Obama)
59. Dressed for Death (Donna Leon)
60. The Lace Reader (Brunonia Barry)
61. Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)
62. Babymouse #1, #2, & #3 (Jennifer Holm & Matt Holm)
63. Maisie Dobbs (Jacqueline Winspear)
64. Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Avi)
65. The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart)
66. Everything on a Waffle (Polly Horvath)
67. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
68. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows)
69. The Rain Before It Falls (Jonathan Coe)
70. French Milk (Lucy Knisley)
71. Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas (John Baxter)

What I Read in 2007

1. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street (Helene Hanff)
2. Celebrations (Maya Angelou)
3. Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)
4. The Inimitable Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse)
5. Fables #2: Animal Farm (Bill Willingham)
6. The Goose Girl (Shannon Hale)
7. Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day (Winnifred Watson)
8. Girls of Slender Means (Muriel Spark)
9. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt (Nick Hornby)
10. The Tent (Margaret Atwood)
11. Fables #3: Storybook Love (Bill Willingham)
12. Fun Home (Alison Bechdel)
13. Round Ireland with a Fridge (Tony Hawks)
14. Fables #4: March of the Wooden Soldiers (Bill Willingham)
15. Enna Burning (Shannon Hale)
16. The Sandman #1: Preludes and Nocturnes (Neil Gaiman)
17. Fables #5: The Mean Seasons (Bill Willingham)
18. Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
19. Brain, Child magazine, Winter 2007 issue
20. River Secrets (Shannon Hale)
21. The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)
22. The Yiddish Policeman's Union (Michael Chabon)
23. Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
24. Brain, Child magazine, Spring 2007 issue
25. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)
26. Princess Academy (Shannon Hale)
27. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)
28. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling)
29. Warriors: Into the Wild (Erin Hunter)
30. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)
31. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)
32. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
33. Brain, Child magazine, Summer '07 issue
34. A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life (Dana Reinhardt)
35. Born on the Wrong Planet (Erika Hammerschmidt)
36. Mommy Tracked (Whitney Gaskell)
37. Kabul Beauty School (Deborah Rodriguez)
38. Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them (J.K. Rowling)
39. Harmless (Dana Reinhardt)
40. The Sandman #2: The Doll's House (Neil Gaiman)
41. Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)
42. Fables #6: Homelands (Bill Willingham)
43. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
44. A Great and Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray)
45. Forever... (Judy Blume)
46. Leap Days (Katherine Lanpher)
47. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)
48. Scary Stories (three volumes) (Alvin Schwartz)
49. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
50. The Agony of Alice (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor)
51. Starting with Alice (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor)
52. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
53. Rebel Angels (Libba Bray)
54. The Higher Power of Lucky (Susan Patron)
55. The Basic Eight (Daniel Handler)
56. Adverbs (Daniel Handler)
57. Watch Your Mouth (Daniel Handler)
58. The Wide Window (Lemony Snicket)
59. Warriors: Fire and Ice (Erin Hunter)
60. The Miserable Mill (Lemony Snicket)
61. The Austere Academy (Lemony Snicket)
62. The Ersatz Elevator (Lemony Snicket)
63. The Right Attitude to Rain (Alexander McCall Smith)
64. Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine)

What I Read in 2006

I started this blog in 2006, and for over two years, used it mainly to keep a running list in the sidebar of the books I read. Since my sidebar is getting unwieldly, I thought I'd turn my past year's lists into posts instead.

Here's what I read in 2006:

1. Akimbo and the Elephants (Alexander McCall Smith)
2. March (Geraldine Brooks)
3. The Bookseller of Kabul (Asne Seierstad)
4. Address Unknown (Kathrine Kressmann Taylor)
5. The Reptile Room (Lemony Snicket)
6. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
7. Thimble Summer (Elizabeth Enright)
8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
9. Akimbo and the Lions (Alexander McCall Smith)
10. The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Andrew Sean Greer)
11. Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (Ayelet Waldman)
12. When the Emperor Was Divine (Julie Otsuko)
13. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
14. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
15. The Polysyllabic Spree (Nick Hornby)
16. The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows Of Josephine B. (Sandra Gulland)
17. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
18. Postmark Paris (Leslie Jonath)
19. The Comforters (Muriel Spark)
20. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)
21. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
22. The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
23. Bet Me (Jennifer Crusie)
24. The Masque of the Black Tulip (Lauren Willig)
25. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
26. Bye-Bye, Black Sheep (Ayelet Waldman)
27. Memento Mori (Muriel Spark)
28. Where Books Fall Open (Bascove, ed.)
29. Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg (Gail Carson Levine)
30. Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers)
31. Testing Kate (Whitney Gaskell)
32. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
33. Fables #01: Legends in Exile (Bill Willingham)
34. The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog (Dave Barry)
35. Unzipped (Lois Greiman)
36. A Christmas Memory (Truman Capote)
37. 84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff)