Wednesday, January 07, 2009

The 2008 Reading List: 85 books

# Poetry's Playground: The Culture of Contemporary American Children's Poetry, Joseph T. Thomas [last book of 2008]
# Monster Blood Tattoo Two: Lamplighter, D.M. Cornish
# Monster Blood Tattoo One: Foundling, D.M. Cornish
# Carpe Mundum: German Youth Culture of the Weimar Republic, Luke Springman
# The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor
# Beige, Cecil Castelluci
# Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
# The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson
# Eight Days of Luke, Diana Wynne Jones
# The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume Two: The Kingdom of the Waves, M.T. Anderson
# The Loud Silence of Francine Green, Karen Cushman
# Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
# Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
# The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
# Paper Towns, John Green (ARC)
# Afterwards, Rachel Seiffert
# Big Plans, Bob Shea (ARC)
# Madam President, Lane Smith (ARC)
# My Fairy Fair Godmother, Janette Rallison (ARC)
# Need Carrie Jones (ARC)
# Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
# Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, Laurie Viera RIgler
# The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
# Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, Eoin Colfer
# My Lady Ludlow, Elizabeth Gaskell
# Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
# Out of the Wild, Sarah Beth Durst
# The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
# Tam Lin, Pamela Dean
# Rapunzel's Revenge, Shannon and Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale
# The Seems: The Split Second, John Hulme & Michael Wexler
# The Ghosthunters I: The Proof that Ghosts Exist, Carol Matas & Perry Nodelman
# The Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper, Kazu Kibuishi
# The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
# Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
# Wizards at War, Diane Duane
# Mama, PhD, ed. Caroline Grant and Elrena Evans
# Wizard's Holiday, Diane Duane
# A Wizard Alone, Diane Duane
# The Wizard's Dilemma, Diane Duane
# Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
# A Wizard Abroad, Diane Duane
# High Wizardry, Diane Duane
# Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane
# So You Want to be a Wizard, Diane Duane
# Penny from Heaven, Jennifer L. Holm
# Lonely Werewolf Girl, Martin Millar
# The Liar's Diary, Patry Francis
# The Ten-Year Nap, Meg Wolitzer
# Moribito, Guardian of the Spirit, Nahoko Uehashi
# Steinbeck's Ghost, Lewis Buzbee
# The Explosionist, Jenny Davidson
# The Arrival, Shaun Tan
# Raleigh's Page, Alan Armstrong
# Still She Haunts Me, Katie Roiphe
# The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
# The Wall and the Wing, Laura Ruby
# Larklight, Philip Reeve
# Thirsty, M.T. Anderson
# Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, Adrienne Kress
# Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
# New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
# Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
# Boy Meets Boy, David Levithan
# Family Tree, Barbara Delinsky
# The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
# Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
# Not Quite What I Was Planning, ed. Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser
# Incarceron, Catherine Fisher
# The Chaos King, Laura Ruby
# Learning from the Left, Julia Mickenberg
# Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, Tess Cosslett
# In the Company of Books, Sarah Wadsworth
# Bookwomen, Jacklyn Eddy
# Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature, Carolyn Daniel
# The Heart has its Reasons, Michael Cart and Christine A. Jenkins
# Repossessed, A.M. Jenkins
# Skin Hunger, Kathleen Duey
# Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale
# Northlander: Tales of the Borderlands, Book I, Meg Burden
# Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy
# Into the Wild, Sarah Beth Durst
# The Land of the Silver Apples, Nancy Farmer
# The True Meaning of Smekday, Adam Rex
# Empire Falls, Richard Russo

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

the 2007 reading list, all in one place

  • Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett
  • The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
  • The Name of this Book is Secret, Pseudonymous Bosch
  • Cassandra's Sister, Veronica Bennett
  • Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
  • Song of the Sparrow, Lisa Ann Sandell
  • Rebel Angels, Libba Bray
  • A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
  • Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
  • Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
  • Pollyanna, Eleanor Hodgman Porter
  • Self Storage, Gayle Brandeis
  • 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Cathy Davidson
  • Feeling Like a Kid, Jerry Griswold
  • The Fourth Bear, Jasper Fforde
  • Bucking the Sarge, Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Just in Case, Meg Rosoff
  • Saving the Planet & Other Stuff, Gail Gauthier
  • Monsoon Summer, Mitali Perkins
  • Flora Segunda, Ysabeau S. Wilce
  • Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, James Patterson
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
  • Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
  • The Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones
  • Stardust, Neil Gaiman
  • An Assembly Such as This; a Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Pamela Aidan
  • The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Michael Scott
  • Prom Dates from Hell, Rosemary Clement-Moore
  • The Noah Confessions, Barbara Hall
  • Lady Catherine's Necklace, Joan Aiken
  • Whale Talk, Chris Crutcher
  • Little Children, Tom Perrotta
  • Emil and the Detectives, Erich Kastner
  • The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
  • Chicks with Sticks: Knit Two Together, Elizabeth Lenhard
  • Farthing, Jo Walton
  • London Calling, Edward Bloor
  • Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett
  • Cupid, Julius Lester
  • The BIg Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
  • Psyche in a Dress, Francesca Lia Block
  • Movie Shoes, Noel Streatfeild
  • 101 Dalmations, Dodie Smith
  • I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
  • The King of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner
  • The Queen of Attolia, Megan Whalen Turner
  • The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
  • Wings, Terry Pratchett
  • Diggers, Terry Pratchett
  • Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer, Laini Taylor
  • Witch's Business, Diana Wynne Jones
  • Tom's Midnight Garden, Philippa Pearce
  • So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld
  • Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
  • The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron
  • The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
  • The Pinhoe Egg, Diana Wynne Jones
  • Knitting, Anne Bartlett
  • An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
  • The Year of the Griffin, Diana Wynne Jones
  • Looking for Alaska, John Green
  • And Tango Makes Three, Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
  • On Beauty, Zadie Smith
  • The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold, Francesca Lia Block
  • The Princess Diaries, volumes I-VIII, Meg Cabot
  • First Book read in 2007: Heaven Eyes, David Almond

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Sunday, July 01, 2007

Reading List: November 06 - May 07

  • Witch's Business, Diana Wynne Jones
  • Tom's Midnight Garden, Philippa Pearce
  • So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld
  • Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
  • The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron
  • The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
  • The Pinhoe Egg, Diana Wynne Jones
  • Knitting, Anne Bartlett
  • An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
  • The Year of the Griffin, Diana Wynne Jones
  • Looking for Alaska, John Green
  • And Tango Makes Three, Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
  • On Beauty, Zadie Smith
  • The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold, Francesca Lia Block
  • The Princess Diaries, volumes I-VIII, Meg Cabot
  • First Book read in 2007: Heaven Eyes, David Almond
  • Last Book read in 2006: Knitting Rules, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Yarn Harlot, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Kit's Wilderness, David Almond
  • Magic's Child, Justine Larbalestier


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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Viewing List, July - Nov. 06

  • Stranger than Fiction

  • Happy Feet

  • Etre et Avoir

  • The Motorcycle Diaries

  • MirrorMask

  • I Heart Huckabees

  • The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

  • The Devil Wears Prada

  • Silverado

  • Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

  • The Aristocrats
  • Reading list, July - Nov. 06

  • Clay, David Almond

  • Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier

  • The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, volume 1: The Pox Party, M.T. Anderson

  • Ptolemy's Gate, Jonathan Stroud

  • Truckers, Terry Pratchett

  • Notes from the Midnight Driver, Jordan Sonnenblick

  • Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwartz

  • Clementine, Sara Pennypacker


  • The Scarecrow and his Servant, Philip Pullman

  • Counting Stars, David Almond

  • Secret Heart, David Almond

  • Burger Wuss, M.T. Anderson

  • Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones

  • The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones

  • Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books, Francesca Lia Block
  • Tuesday, August 01, 2006

    Archived reading list, August 05-July 06

  • The Golem's Eye, Jonathan Stroud

  • Mixed Magics, Diana Wynne Jones

  • The Magicians of Caprona, Diana Wynne Jones

  • The Lives of Christopher Chant, Diana Wynne Jones


  • Wicked, Gregory Maguire

  • The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Terry Pratchett

  • I was a Teenage Fairy, Francesca Lia Block

  • The Mouse and His Child, Russell Hoban

  • Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kudohata

  • Over and Over You, Amy McAuley

  • Criss-Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins

  • The Time of the Ghost, Diana Wynne Jones

  • Witch Week, Diana Wynne Jones

  • A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett

  • The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett

  • At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald

  • The Golden Key, George MacDonald

  • The Princess and Curdie, George MacDonald

  • Fire and Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones

  • Home Cooking, Laurie Colwin

  • Rx, Tracy Lynn

  • The Man of My Dreams, Curtis Sittenfeld

  • Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld

  • Magic or Madness, Justine Larbalestier

  • Love that Dog!, Sharon Creech

  • The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

  • Beyond Beowulf, Christopher L. Webber

  • When Dad Killed Mom, Julius Lester

  • Welcome to Lizard Motel, Barbara Feinberg

  • Habibi, Naomi Shahib Nye

  • Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones

  • Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

  • Feast, Nigella Lawson

  • The King in the Window, Adam Gopnik

  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke

  • Atonement, Ian McEwan

  • Tangerine, Edward Bloor

  • The Fire-Eaters, David Almond

  • Skellig, David Almond

  • How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff

  • Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block

  • Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

  • Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee

  • Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

  • The Bad Mother's Handbook, Kate Long

  • Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo

  • About a Boy, Nick Hornsby

  • High Fidelity, Nick Hornsby

  • Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding

  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling
  • Archived viewing list, August 05-July 06

  • Over the Hedge

  • An Inconvenient Truth

  • Lonely are the Brave

  • Walking and Talking

  • Balto

  • Cars

  • The Break-Up

  • Match Point

  • Good Night and Good Luck

  • Zelary

  • Don't Come Knocking

  • Hoot

  • Friends with Money

  • Vengeance Valley

  • Ice Age II: the Meltdown

  • Walk the Line

  • Howl's Moving Castle

  • Swing Time

  • Top Hat

  • Millions

  • Brokeback Mountain

  • Fierce Creatures

  • The Producers (original)

  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

  • Syriana

  • Matewan

  • Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

  • The Return of the Secaucus Seven

  • Irma La Douce

  • The Family Man

  • The Upside of Anger

  • The Apartment

  • Wedding Crashers

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

  • March of the Penguins

  • Be Cool

  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

  • Bride and Prejudice
  • Wednesday, November 02, 2005

    archived viewing list, July 2004-August 2005

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  • Bombon El Perro

  • A Place in the Sun

  • Doctor Zhivago

  • A Fish Called Wanda

  • Jane Eyre (A&E version)

  • Ray

  • Stage Beauty

  • Hitch

  • Moonstruck

  • Tea with Mussolini

  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

  • Local Hero

  • In the Heat of the Night

  • Garden State

  • Hero

  • Princess Mononoke

  • Gregory's Girl

  • Napoleon Dynamite

  • Midnight Run

  • The Full Monty

  • Toy Story

  • Waking Ned Devine

  • The Phantom of the Opera

  • Rushmore

  • Sideways

  • Finding Neverland

  • I Capture the Castle

  • An Everlasting Piece

  • Shaolin Soccer

  • Rivers and Tides

  • Hair

  • Vanity Fair

  • Lost in La Mancha

  • Real Women Have Curves

  • Two Brothers

  • Down with Love

  • Chicago

  • The Triplets of Belleville

  • The Pink Panther

  • The Pink Panther Strikes Again

  • Fahrenheit 911
  • archived reading list, July 2004-August 2005 or so...

  • Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl

  • Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

  • The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber

  • Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields

  • Inconsolable, Marrit Ingman

  • The Child that Books Built, Francis Spufford

  • Adele, Emma Tenant

  • The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars, Miriam Peskowitz

  • Perfect Madness, Judith Warner

  • March: A Novel, Geraldine Brooks

  • The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, . Ed. Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman

  • From Life: Julia Margaret Cameron and Victorian Photography, Victoria C. Olsen

  • First book read in 2005
  • Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson

  • Last book read in 2004:
  • Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman, Catherine Robson

  • The Thief and the Beanstalk, P. W. Catanese

  • Monster, Walter Dean Myers

  • The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer

  • Breath, Donna Jo Napoli

  • The Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer

  • Wendy, Karen Wallace

  • The Distance Between Us, Masha Hamilton

  • Catalyst, Laurie Halse Anderson

  • Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

  • The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde

  • The Heart of the Family,Elizabeth Goudge

  • Pilgrim's Inn,Elizabeth Goudge

  • The Bird in the Tree,Elizabeth Goudge

  • Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Kim, Rudyard Kipling

  • Time Cat, Lloyd Alexander

  • The Price of Motherhood, Ann Crittenden

  • The Mask of Motherhood, Susan Maushart

  • The Doctor's Wife, Elizabeth Brundage

  • A Whistling Woman, A.S. Byatt

  • The Mommy Myth, Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels
  • Wednesday, July 21, 2004

    Archived Reading List, also last August to July 2004

  • Mothering Sunday, Noel Streatfeild

  • The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler

  • Bee Season, Myla Goldberg

  • Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan

  • The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story, John Dominic Crossan

  • The Princess and Curdie, George Macdonald

  • The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, E. L. Konigsburg

  • Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde

  • The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

  • Messenger, Lois Lowry

  • Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life, Faulkner Fox

  • Aquamarine & Indigo, Alice Hoffman

  • The Giver, Lois Lowry

  • The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler

  • The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

  • Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

  • MotherShock, Andi Buchanan

  • Practicing Resurrection, Nora Gallagher

  • The Princess and the Goblin, George Macdonald

  • Charlotte's Web, E. B. White

  • I Don't Know How She Does It, Allison Pearson

  • The Bitch in the House, ed. Cathi Hanauer

  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Peter and Wendy, J.M. Barrie

  • Dracula, Bram Stoker

  • Princess Sister, Sheila Copeland

  • The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke

  • Coraline, Neil Gaiman

  • Lyra's Oxford, Philip Pullman

  • Daughter's Keeper, Ayelet Waldman

  • Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

  • North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell

  • TODDLER

  • Read by candlelight: all of the Earthsea books by Ursula LeGuin

  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (for the gazillionth time)

  • A New Christianity for a New World, John Shelby Spong

  • Archived Viewing List, August-July (whew!)

  • Mona Lisa Smile

  • Saved!

  • The Stepford Wives (original)

  • Shrek II

  • Starsky & Hutch

  • Mean Girls

  • Winged Migration

  • Chutney Popcorn

  • Dog Town and Z Boys

  • Mystic River

  • Step Into Liquid

  • This is Spinal Tap

  • School of Rock

  • Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

  • Sunshine State

  • Lost in Translation

  • Office Space

  • Truly, Madly, Deeply

  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding

  • Limbo

  • Peter Pan (the new live-action one)

  • White Fang

  • The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

  • Holes

  • Cold Mountain

  • High Society

  • Funny Face

  • Simone

  • The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Discs 1-4

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

  • Finding Nemo

  • Looney Tunes: Back in Action

  • Dancing at Lughnasa