2012: A Year of Reading

Clear Off Your Shelves Challenge
Debut Author Challenge
Re-Reads 
** Read Alouds

  

1. The Story of Beautiful Girl – Rachel Simon
2. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography – Agatha Christie (NF)
3. Scarlet – A. C. Gaughen (YA)
4. One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are – Ann Voskamp (NF)
5. Swindle – Gordon Korman (MG)**
6. Breadcrumbs – Anne Ursu (MG)
7. Wonderstruck – Brian Selznick (MG)**
8. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie – Wendy McClure (NF)
9. A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke – James Horn (NF)
10. Wonder – R. J. Palacio (MG)
11. Circle of Secrets – Kimberley Griffiths Little (MG)
12. A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar – Suzanne Joinson
13. Chained – Lynne Kelly (MG)
14. Starters – Lissa Price (YA)
15. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green (YA)
16. Toilet Paper Tigers – Gordon Korman (MG)**
17. Zoobreak – Gordon Korman (MG)**
18. Love in Mid-Air – Kim Wright Wiley 
19. The Bee-Loud Glade – Steve Himmer
20. The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate (MG)
21. Wildflowers in Winter – Katie Ganshert
22. Touch Blue – Cynthia Lord (MG)
23. Under the Never Sky – Veronica Rossi (YA)
24. A Voice for Kanzas – Debra MacArthur (MG)
25. The Gathering Storm – Robin Bridges (YA)
26. A Summer to Die – Lois Lowry (YA)
27. Where the Broken Heart Still Beats – Carolyn Meyer (YA)
28. The No-Brainer Wardrobe – Hayley Morgan (NF)
29. All Over But the Shoutin’ – Rick Bragg (NF)
30. New Found Land – Alan Wolf (YA)
31. If I Lie – Corrine Jackson (YA)
32. Sister – Rosamund Lupton
33. Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things (YA)
34. Hound Dog True – Linda Urban (MG)
35. Second Sight: An Editor’s Talks on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Books for Children and Young Adults  – Cheryl B. Klein (NF)
36. Glory Be – Augusta Scattergood (MG)
37. A Breath of Eyre – Eve Marie Mont (YA)
38. The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie
39. Sanctuary – Agatha Christie
40. The Thank You Room – Serenity Bohon (NF)
41. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
42. The Wild Wood – Julie Anne Nelson (YA)
43. Selkirk’s Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe – Diana Souhami (NF)
44. Crossed – Ally Condie (YA)
45. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains – Nicholas Carr (NF)
46. The Ruins of Us – Keija Parssinen
47. Where Things Come Back – John Corey Whaley (YA)
48. Grave Mercy – Robin LaFevers (YA)
49. Small Medium at Large – Joanne Levy (MG)
50. The Mapmaker and the Ghost – Sarvenaz Tash (MG)**
51. Chime – Franny Billingsley (YA)
52. The Case of the Deadly Ha-Ha Game –  John R. Erickson (MG)**
53. Horton Halfpott: or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M’Lady Luggertuck’s Corset – Tom Angleberger (MG)
54. Cryer’s Cross – Lisa McMann (YA)
55. A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness (YA)
56. Remarkable – Lizzie K. Foley (MG)
57. Paper Covers Rock – Jenny Hubbard (YA)
58. Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein (YA)
59. Small Damages – Beth Kephart (YA)
60. Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World – Temple Grandin, Sy Montgomery (MG/NF)
61. Summer of the Gypsy Moths – Sara Pennypacker (MG)
62. One for the Murphys – Lynda Mullaly Hunt (MG)
63. The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg (NF)
64. Liar and Spy – Rebecca Stead (MG)
65. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain (NF)
66. The Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand: Roanoke’s Forgotten Indians – Michael Leroy Oberg (NF)
67. Fracture – Megan Miranda (YA)
68. Inside Out and Back Again – Thanhha Lai (MG)
69. Writing the Breakout Novel – Donald Maas (NF)
70. Ender in Exile – Orson Scott Card
71. The Unnameables – Ellen Booraem (MG)
72. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
73. How to Save a Life – Sara Zarr (YA)
74. Auracle – Gina Rosati (YA)
75. The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction – Sinclair Ferguson (NF)
76. All is Well – Kristin Embry Litchman (MG)
77. The False Prince – Jennifer Nielsen (MG)
78. One Thousand White Women – Jim Fergus
79. The Absolute Value of Mike – Kathryn Erskine (MG)
80. The Brides of Rollrock Island – Margo Lanagan (YA)
81. The Girl of Fire and Thorns – Rae Carson (YA)
82. The Great Unexpected – Sharon Creech (MG)