Sign up for the 2010 100+ Reading Challenge over at j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com. Other challenges can count toward this one, as well.
I will use this post to list the books I read throughout the year. Feel free to re-visit, if you like. I’ll run this post again at the end of the year, showing how far I’ve gotten.
Happy Reading!
- The Gypsies of Spain – Jan Yoors (NF)
- If I Stay – Gayle Forman (YA)
- Catalyst – Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
- Fat Cat – Robin Brande (YA)
- Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
- Freedom Crossing – Margaret Goff Clark (MG)
- The Rights of the Reader – Daniel Pennac (NF)
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare (YA)
- Th1rteen R3asons Why – Jay Asher (YA)
- The Last Treasure – Janet S. Anderson (MG)
- Twisted – Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
- Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell (NF)
- Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell (NF)
- Henry and Ribsy – Beverly Cleary (MG)
- On the Banks of Plum Creek – Laura Ingalls Wilder (MG)
- Blink – Malcolm Gladwell (NF)
- On Writing – Stephen King (NF)
- The Help – Kathryn Stockett
- Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman – Dorothy Sterling (MG)
- Leaving Gee’s Bend – Irene Latham (MG)
- Flash Burnout – LK Madigan (YA)
- The Midnight Fox – Betsy Byars (MG)
- The Crimson Cap – Ellen Howard (YA)
- Riding Freedom – Pam Munoz Ryan (MG)
- Blessing’s Bead – Debby Dahl Edwardson (YA)
- Story of a Girl* – Sara Zarr (YA)
- Alabama Moon – Watt Key (YA)
- If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period* – Gennifer Choldenko (YA)
- The Long Winter – Laura Ingalls Wilder (MG)
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- Fog Magic – Julia L. Sauer (MG)
- Ramona the Pest – Beverly Cleary (MG)
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
- The Ballad of Lucy Whipple – Karen Cushman (MG)
- Three Rivers Rising – Jame Richards (YA)
- Four Perfect Pebbles – Lila Perl and Marion Lazan (MG)
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (MG)
- The Dead-Tossed Waves* – Carrie Ryan (YA)
- A Wedding in December – Anita Shreve
- Luddie’s Life – Cynthia Rylant (YA) novel-in-verse challenge title
- Aleutian Sparrow – Karen Hesse (MG) novel-in-verse challenge title
- Love, Hope, and Ivy June – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (MG)*
- The All-Of-A-Kind Family – Sydney Taylor (MG)
- The Moving Finger – Agatha Christie
- Hugging the Rock – Susan Taylor Brown (MG)
- The Hollow – Agatha Christie
- The Yearling – Marjorie Rawlings (YA)
- The Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt (YA)*
- Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder (MG)**
- Before the Lark – Irene Bennett Brown (MG)
- The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman (YA)
- The Texicans – Nina Vida
- The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
- Each Little Bird that Sings – Deborah Wiles (MG)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney (MG)**
- The Water Seeker – Kimberly Willis Holt (MG)
- Forest – Janet Taylor Lisle (MG)
- The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell – Lynda Durrant (MG)
- Far From You – Lisa Schoreder (YA) novel-in-verse challenge title
- Part of Me – Kimberly Willis Holt (MG)
- Watership Down – Richard Adams**
- Cat Among the Pigeons – Agatha Christie
- Dumb Witness – Agatha Christie
- Love That Dog – Sharon Creech (MG) novel-in-verse challenge title
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken (MG)
- Hickory Dickory Dock – Agatha Christie
- Zel – Donna Jo Napoli (YA)
- Faithful – Janet Fox (YA)
- The Year of Miss Agnes – Kirkpactrick Hill (MG)
- First Light – Rebeccs Stead (MG)
- A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray (YA)
- Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins (YA)
- The Opposite of Love – Julie Buxbaum
- Hank the Cowdog #56: The Case of the Coyote Invasion – John R. Erickson (MG)**
- Things Left Unsaid – Stephanie Hemphill – (YA) Verse novel challenge title
- Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater (YA)
- Livvie Owen Lived Here – Sarah Dooley (MG)
- Dirty Little Secrets – CJ Omololu (YA)
- The Magician’s Nephew – CS Lewis (MG)**
- Phoenix Rising – Karen Hesse (MG)
- Prisoners in the Palace – Michaela MacColl (YA)
- Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds – Lyndell Gordon
- The Great Gilly Hopkins – Katherine Paterson (MG)
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda – Tom Angleberger (MG)
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis (MG)**
- Freak Magnet – Andrew Auseon (YA)
- The True Meaning of Smekday – Adam Rex (MG)
- Your Own, Sylvia – Stephanie Hemphill (YA) Verse novel challenge title
- Witness – Karen Hesse (MG) Verse novel challenge title
- East From Granada: Hidden Andalusia and Its People – Merrill McClane (NF)
- See You Down the Road – Kim Albon Whitney (YA)
- The Invasion – Animorphs #1 – AK Applegate (MG)
- The Horse and His Boy – CS Lewis (MG)
- The Preacher’s Bride – Jody Hedlund
- We Hear the Dead – Dianne K. Salerni (YA)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth – Jeff Kinney (MG)
- Que Gitano! The Gypsies of Southern Spain – Bertha B. Quintana (NF)
- Illegal – Bettina Restrepo (YA)
- Carver: A Life in Poems – Marilyn Nelson (MG) verse novel challenge
- XVI – Julia Karr (YA)
* listened on CD
** family read aloud
Ooo great challenge. I love the year round ones. Thanks for sharing! 😀
It’s a great challenge. I think it’s a bit too much for the mommy me right now, but I plan to tackle it one day! 🙂
Like Shannon, I just don’t have time for it this year. One day.. 🙂
I like the idea of posting the books you have read. I wonder if you can cut and paste a list into a sidebar on blogs? I may have to try that…
I loved Catalyst!
I’ve heard that If I Stay is wonderful. I might have to go and steal it back from my daughter since she’s apparently taken permanent custody of it and stashed it on the bookshelves in her room.
I’m doing the same challenge. Good luck You’re already doing well!
TerryLynn, I noticed you’re doing this, too. Nice to know!
Had to comment on this as well… my father reads on average a book a day. That’s 365 in a year. Plus! It’s inspiring AND intimidating. I’m pretty sure I top 100 every year… one of my most favorite things. But I feel like a loser next to my dad. 🙂
Looks like you’ve had some good books so far. I love Catalyst and Wintergirls–Laurie Halse Anderson writes with such amazing attention to language and detail.
Good luck on the challenge!
I loved Wintergirls. I try for at least 50 books in a year, and for the last three years (that I’ve been keeping track), I’ve managed to reach that. It’s likely I’ll reach 100 if I stay at the pace I’m on now, but I can’t help it – there are just so many great books to read!
Caroline,
When I saw your name over at MotherReader I just had to stop by. 🙂
Hi Caroline! It’s Shari from your old writers’ group in VA! Love your blog – and your YA list. I read a lot for my library job (and schoolwork) so it takes a lot for a book to blow me away. Going Bovine by Libba Bray was a book that really stood out for me in the last few months.
Keep up the good work!
Shari!
How fun to run into you here! How’s writing? I miss our little group. All the best.
ooh! How did you like Flash Burnout? I’ve heard good things on Verla Kay. Recommended? We’re reading at about the same pace in this challenge!
TerryLynn: I love that you’re doing this challenge, too. Glad we’re keeping each other in line. 😉
I really enjoyed FLASH BURNOUT. I first heard about it at Lisa Schroeder’s blog in January, when she had authors post about dreaming big.
ooh! Look at your list, you’re reading up a storm! I’ll have to get serious in my reading to catch up! Way to go.
wow! you’re doing so well! You’ve gotten away on me. I’m only at 52!