Clear Off Your Shelves Challenge
Debut Author Challenge
Re-Reads
** Read Alouds
- The Story of Beautiful Girl – Rachel Simon
- Agatha Christie: An Autobiography – Agatha Christie (NF)
- Scarlet – A. C. Gaughen (YA)
- One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are – Ann Voskamp (NF)
- Swindle – Gordon Korman (MG)**
- Breadcrumbs – Anne Ursu (MG)
- Wonderstruck – Brian Selznick (MG)**
- The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie – Wendy McClure (NF)
- A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke – James Horn (NF)
- Wonder – R. J. Palacio (MG)
- Circle of Secrets – Kimberley Griffiths Little (MG)
- A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar – Suzanne Joinson
- Chained – Lynne Kelly (MG)
- Starters – Lissa Price (YA)
- The Fault in Our Stars – John Green (YA)
- Toilet Paper Tigers – Gordon Korman (MG)**
- Zoobreak – Gordon Korman (MG)**
- Love in Mid-Air – Kim Wright Wiley
- The Bee-Loud Glade – Steve Himmer
- The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate (MG)
- Wildflowers in Winter – Katie Ganshert
- Touch Blue – Cynthia Lord (MG)
- Under the Never Sky – Veronica Rossi (YA)
- A Voice for Kanzas – Debra MacArthur (MG)
- The Gathering Storm – Robin Bridges (YA)
- A Summer to Die – Lois Lowry (YA)
- Where the Broken Heart Still Beats – Carolyn Meyer (YA)
- The No-Brainer Wardrobe – Hayley Morgan (NF)
- All Over But the Shoutin’ – Rick Bragg (NF)
- New Found Land – Alan Wolf (YA)
- If I Lie – Corrine Jackson (YA)
- Sister – Rosamund Lupton
- Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things (YA)
- Hound Dog True – Linda Urban (MG)
- Second Sight: An Editor’s Talks on Writing, Revising, and Publishing Books for Children and Young Adults – Cheryl B. Klein (NF)
- Glory Be – Augusta Scattergood (MG)
- A Breath of Eyre – Eve Marie Mont (YA)
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie
- Sanctuary – Agatha Christie
- The Thank You Room – Serenity Bohon (NF)
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- The Wild Wood – Julie Anne Nelson (YA)
- Selkirk’s Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe – Diana Souhami (NF)
- Crossed – Ally Condie (YA)
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains – Nicholas Carr (NF)
- The Ruins of Us – Keija Parssinen
- Where Things Come Back – John Corey Whaley (YA)
- Grave Mercy – Robin LaFevers (YA)
- Small Medium at Large – Joanne Levy (MG)
- The Mapmaker and the Ghost – Sarvenaz Tash (MG)**
- Chime – Franny Billingsley (YA)
- The Case of the Deadly Ha-Ha Game (MG)**
- Horton Halfpott: or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M’Lady Luggertuck’s Corset – Tom Angleberger (MG)
- Cryer’s Cross – Lisa McMann (YA)
- A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness (YA)
- Remarkable – Lizzie K. Foley (MG)
- Paper Covers Rock – Jenny Hubbard (YA)
- Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein (YA)
- Small Damages – Beth Kephart (YA)
- Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World – Temple Grandin, Sy Montgomery (MG/NF)
- Summer of the Gypsy Moths – Sara Pennypacker (MG)
- One for the Murphys – Lynda Mulally Hunt (MG)
- The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg (NF)
What have you read so far this year?
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!
Hasn’t it been a great year for books? Thanks for including Miss May.
I keep finding more good ones that I want to read!
I like your list, girl!