Favorite re-read:
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Best New Author found for the boys:
Andrew Clements, we read: No Talking, Troublemaker, Room One, A Week in the Woods
Favorite Book Club books:
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Favorite Young Adult book:
All the Truth That’s In Me by Julie Berry
Favorite Read Alouds:
With Isaac (6 yrs old): Wayside School, My Father’s Dragon, The Wizard of Oz, Charlotte’s Web
With Blake & Clark (8 and 10): Hatchet, Shiloh, Number the Stars, Maniac Magee
Favorite Children’s Audio Books:
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
New Author I am Liking:
Jojo Moyes: One Plus One, Me Before You
Favorite Middle-Grade Books:
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Good Romance:
My Name is Memory by Anne Brashares
Love Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge
Best Non-Fiction:
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Favorite Classic:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Previous Favorites: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009
I read a total of 18 books to Isaac, 11 books to Blake & Clark, we listened to 7 audio books, and I read 44 books for myself: a grand total of 80 books. 11 of those were Newbery winners. It was a good year of reading. And I’ve already planned a lot of good books to read in 2015. 🙂