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2012 Reading Update

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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 (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 Mulally Hunt (MG)
  63. The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg (NF)

What have you read so far this year?

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Comments

  1. Andrea Mack says

    October 13, 2012 at 11:15 am

    Great list! Some of my favourite MG and YA reads this year include: The One and Only Ivan, The False Prince, The Lions of Little Rock, May B., The Unwanteds, The Fault in Our Stars, The Scorpio Races…okay, I’ll stop there because I think there are too many to list!

    Reply
    • Caroline Starr Rose says

      October 13, 2012 at 3:18 pm

      Hasn’t it been a great year for books? Thanks for including Miss May.

      Reply
    • Andrea Mack says

      October 17, 2012 at 3:32 pm

      I keep finding more good ones that I want to read!

      Reply
  2. Kimberley Griffiths Little says

    October 17, 2012 at 1:00 am

    I like your list, girl!

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