2019

Books I Read to Myself: (61)

Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer
Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer
Persuasion by Jane Austen CLASSIC
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrick Backman
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Lovely War by Julie Berry
The Iron Trial by Holly Black
Airhead by Meg Cabot
Being Nikki by Meg Cabot
The Boy is Back by Meg Cabot

Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua *
Buster Midnight’s Cafe by Sandra Dallas
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens *
Code of Valor by Lynette Eason
Eva’s Treetop Festival by Rebecca Elliott
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman *

Odd & the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart
The Tailor’s Daughter by Janice Graham
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Planet Middle School by Nikki Grimes
Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
Real Friends by Shannon Hale
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Harding CLASSIC
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Outsidersby S.E. Hinton CLASSIC

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi *
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath by Joe Lieberman *
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
Sophomores and Other Oxymorons by David Lubar
Starry Night by Debbie Macomber
Levels of the Game by John McPhee *
The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell *
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah *

Trapped by Michael Northrop
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains by Scott O’Dell
Becoming by Michelle Obama *
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Son of War, Daughter of Chaos by Janette Rallison
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell CLASSIC

One Day in December by Josie Silver
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein CLASSIC *
Fair & Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Top Prospect by Paul Volponi
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Books I Listened to: (23)

The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte CLASSIC
Teen Idol by Meg Cabot
The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman *
5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Son by Vicki Courtney *
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank * CLASSIC
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby *
The Call of the Wild by Jack London CLASSIC
The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie *
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
The War With Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne CLASSIC
Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Night by Elie Wiesel * CLASSIC

Books I Read to Isaac: (1)

Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli

Books I Read to Jane: (1)

Third Grade Angels by Jerry Spinelli

Books I Read to Jane & Isaac: (13)

Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop
Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson
Bill’s New Frock by Anne Fine
The Doughnut Fix by Jessie Janowitz
Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
Confessions from the Principal’s Kid by Robin Mellom

The Borrowers by Mary Norton CLASSIC
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Report to the Principal’s Office by Jerry Spinelli

Books we Listened to as a Family: (15)

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater
The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
Moving Day by Meg Cabot
The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Neil Gaiman Audio Collection
Bunnicula by James Howe
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret *
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

Wedgie & Gizmo by Suzanne Selfors
Wedgie & Gizmo vs. The Toof by Suzanne Selfors
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Soof by Sarah Weeks

114 books, 17 nonfiction, 11 classics

Books I started, then Discarded (10):

Be Careful What You Wish by Jeffrey Archer
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand
Christmas in London by Anita Hughes
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Captain Nobody by Dean Pitchford
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate