The 2009 Reading List, very belatedly

• Godless, Pete Hautmann
• Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History , Michelle Abate
• Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child, Annette Wannamaker
• 31 Hours, Masha Hamilton
• The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt
• Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
• Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson
• Somewhere in the Darkness, Walter Dean Myers
• Gringolandia, Lyn Miller-Lachman
• Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Jane Yolen
• Sleeping Ugly, Jane Yolen
• The Good Thief, Hannah Tinti
• The Last Book in the Universe, Rodman Philbrick
• The Last Continent, Terry Pratchett
• Making Money, Terry Pratchett
• Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
• The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia, Laura Miller
• Fairest, Gail Carson Levine
• The Bloodstone, Jamila Garvin
• Tom Brown's School-Days, Thomas Hughes
• Let it Snow, Johnson, Green, Myracle
• Briar Rose, Jane Yolen
• Whales on Stilts, M. T. Anderson
• Dreamdark: Silksinger, Laini Taylor
• The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen
• Things Change, Patrick Jones
• A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women's Lives, ed. Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trites
• Breathless, Jessica Warman (ARC)
• Liar, Justine Larbalestier (ARC)
• Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
• Postcards from No Man's Land, Aidan Chambers
• Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke
• Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
• The House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones
• Secret Keeper, Mitali Perkins
• A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park
• Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
• Becoming Naomi Léon, Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
• Babysitting the Reader: Translating English Narrative Fiction for Girls into Dutch (1946-1995), Mieke Desmet
• Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature, Neal Lester
• Radical Children's Literature, Kimberley Reynolds
• Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature, Clare Bradford
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J. K. Rowling
• Home, Marilynne Robinson
• Free Within Ourselves: The Development of African American Children’s Literature, Rudine Sims Bishop [first book of 2009]

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