Favorite Books of 2014

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. 🙂