2011 Reading: An Overview

Here’s what I read this past year:

1. You Can Still Wear Cute Shoes And Other Great Advice From an Unlikely Preacher’s Wife – Lisa McKay (NF)
2. Dogsled Dreams – Terrylynn Johnson (MG)
3. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green (YA)
4. Across the Universe – Beth Revis (YA)
5. Mistress of the Monarchy – Alison Weir (NF)
6. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster (MG)**
7. A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly (YA)
8. Haven – Kristi Cook (YA)
9. Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie Perkins (YA)
10. The Melon Hound – Sandy Dengler (MG)
11. You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown – Paula Danziger (MG)**
12. Jellicoe Road – Marlina Marchetta (YA)
13. Prince Caspian – CS Lewis (MG)**
14. Paper Towns – John Greene (YA)
15. Bad Taste in Boys – Carrie Harris (YA)
16. Comfort – Carolee Dean (YA)
17. Matched – Ally Condie (YA)
18. Wither – Lauren Destefano (YA)
19. Ten Miles Past Normal – Frances O’Roark Dowell (YA)
20. Memento Nora – Angie Smibert (YA)
21. Moon Over Manifest – Clare Vanderpool (MG)
22. The Healing Spell – Kimberley Griffiths Little (MG)
23. Popular – Alissa Grosso (YA)
24. Stupid Fast – Geoff Herbach (YA)
25. People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
26. The Lost Colony of Roanoke – Jean Fritz (MG/NF)
27. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – CS Lewis (MG)**
28. The Year We Were Famous – Carole Estby Dagg (YA)
29. Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony – Lee Miller (NF)
30. Hatchet – Gary Paulsen (MG)**
31. It’s a Bunny Eat Bunny World – Olga Litowinsky (NF)
32. Fairer Than Morning – Rosslyn Elliot
33. George’s Marvelous Medicine – Roald Dahl (MG)**
34. The Twits – Roald Dahl (MG)**
35. OyMG – Amy Fellner Dominy (YA)
36. Waiting for Normal – Leslie Connor (MG)
37. Never Eighteen – Megan Bostic (YA)
38. Possession – Elana Johnson (YA)
39. Brain’s Winter – Gary Paulsen (MG)**
40. Undercover – Beth Kephart (YA)
41. Belle Prater’s Boy – Ruth White (MG)
42. Publicize Your Book! – Jacqueline Duval (NF)
43. The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction – James Alexander Thom (NF)
44. Matilda Bone – Karen Cushman (MG)
45. Sparrow Road – Sheila O’Connor (MG)
46. The Pull of Gravity – Gae Polisner (YA)
47. True Tales of Old-Time Kansas – David Dary (NF)
48. With a Name Like Love – Tess Hilmo (MG)
49. My Very Unfairy Tale Life – Ana Staniszewski (MG)
50. The Raging Quiet – Sherryl Jordan (YA)
51. The Dark and Hollow Places – Carrie Ryan (YA)
52. Delirium – Lauren Oliver (YA)
53. The Night Children – Kit Reed (MG)
54. If on a winter’s night a traveler – Italo Calvino
55. Lips Touch Three Times – Laini Taylor (YA)
56. The Revenant – Sonia Gensler (YA)
57. The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless – Alan Woodrow (MG)
58. The Silver Chair – C. S. Lewis (MG)**
59. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator – Roald Dahl (MG)**
60. You Are My Only – Beth Kephart (YA)
61. We Are Not Alone: A Writer’s Guide to Social Media – Kristen Lamb (NF)
62. Vanished – Sheela Chari (MG)
63. The Faerie Ring – Kiki Hamilton (YA)
64. The Wicked and the Just – J. Anderson Coats (YA)
65. Set Fair for Roanoke – David Beers Quinn (NF)
66. Dead Rules – Randy Russell (YA)
67. The Boy Who Owned the School –  Gary Paulsen (YA)
68. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern (YA)
69. One Day –  David Nicholls
70. The Pledge – Kimberly Derting (YA)
71. Flyaway – Helen Landalf (YA)
72. Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading – Tommy Greenwald (MG)
73. The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick (MG)
74. Mockingbird – Kathryn Erskine (MG)
75. Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys (YA)
76. The Last Battle – C. S. Lewis (MG)**
77. Exposed – Kimberly Marcus (YA)
78. The Tender Bar – J. R. Moehringer (NF)
79. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever – Jeff Kinney (MG)
80. Love and Leftovers – Sarah Tregay (YA)