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My Reading List

A crazy list of books that I would like to read, what I'm reading now and what books I have reviewed.

For book details and a link to my review simply click on the book or author. My library is also searchable by title name, author name and tags. Most of this area is still under construction. So please bear with me . . .

420 books overall; 115 books read in the last year; 0 books read in the last month. That's an average of 11 books each month.

Books I Want to Read (128):

• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
• The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve
• Jewel by Bret Lott
• One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
• Black Girl White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
• Straight Man by Richard Russo
• The Crazed by Ha Jin
• Waiting by Ha Jin
• A Free Life by Ha Jin
• Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
• The Gathering by Anne Enright
• World Without End by Ken Follett
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• Blessings by Anna Quindlen
• Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
• Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
• Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
• All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve
• Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
• A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
• Roots by Alex Haley
• When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden by Amy Stewart
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Bliss by Oz Livaneli
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison
• Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Pact by Jodi Picoult
• Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
• Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
• River Secrets by Shannon Hale
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• The Pastor’s Wife by Sabina Wurmbrand
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beech Stowe
• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Spear
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor
• If This is a Man by Primo Levi
• Belong to Me by Maris De Los Santos
• Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
• Copper Sun by Sharon M Draper
• All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India by Rachel Manija Brown
• Q Road by Bonnie Jo Campbell
• Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan
• The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
• Christlike Parenting: Taking the Pain Out of Parenting by Glenn I. Latham
• Getting The Girl by Markus Zusak
• Born Blue by Han Nolan
• Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
• Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
• Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
• My Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton-Jackson
• Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
• If This is a Man by Primo Levi
• The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
• In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke
• A Place To Hide: True Stories Of Holocaust Rescues by Jayne Pettit
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
• Gossamer by Lois Lowry
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Purple Hibiscus: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Grace: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans
• Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague by Brandon Mull
• Dragon Flight by Jessica Day George
• Mira, Mirror by Mette Harrison
• The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison
• The Shakeress by Kimberly Heuston
• The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love: A Novel by A. E. Cannon
• Obasan by Joy Kogawa
• Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski
• X in Flight by Karen Rivers
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• What Happens Here by Tara Altebrando
• The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
• Silver: My Own Tale as Written by Me with a Goodly Amount of Murder by Edward Chupack
• Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When (The Snipesville Chronicles, Book 1) by Annette Laing
• A Tale Out of Luck: A Novel by Willie Nelson
• The Duggars: 20 and Counting!: Raising One of America’s Largest Families–How they Do It by Jim Bob Duggar
• Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
• Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
• The Cabinet of Wonders: The Kronos Chronicles: Book I by Marie Rutkoski
• Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See
• The Likeness: A Novel by Tana French
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel by Meg Waite Clayton
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
• When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Bac by Stephen Singular
• Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
• When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
• Sleepwalking In Daylight by Elizabeth Flock
• Because I am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Still Life With Rice by Helie Lee

Books I'm Reading Now (1):

Books I've Reviewed (289):

• Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• Into the Beautiful North: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
• Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott
• The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
• Dessert First by Hallie Durand
• The Secret Keeper by Paul Harris
• The Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm, Book 1) by Michael Buckley
• The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
• Crocodaddy by Kim Norman
• Chicken Butt! by Erica S. Perl
• Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias B. Freese
• Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
• All in a Day by Cynthia Rylant
• The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories (WEST WORD FICTION) by Catherine Brady
• Always by Ann Stott
• There’s a Wolf at the Door by Zoe Alley
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
• Emiko Superstar by Mariko Tamaki
• Chiggers by Hope Larson
• Jellaby by Kean Soo
• Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
• Longhorns and Outlaws by Linda Aksomitis
• Lunch with Lenin and other stories by Deborah Ellis
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
• The 13th Reality, book 2: The Hunt for Dark Infinity by James Dashner
• Losing Kei by Suzanne Kamata
• Fade by Lisa McMann
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott
• Mary Veronica’s Egg by Mary Nethery
• A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker
• Holbrook: A Lizard’s Tale by Bonny Becker
• My Brother, the Robot by Bonny Becker
• An Ant’s Day Off by Bonny Becker
• The Christmas Crocodile by Bonny Becker
• Ella The Elegant Elephant by Carmela D’amico
• Ella Takes The Cake by Carmela D’Amico
• Ella Sets The Stage by Carmela D’amico
• Ella Sets Sail by Carmela D’Amico
• Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
• Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki
• Be Water, My Friend by Ken Mochizuki
• Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
• The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
• Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons
• The Story Of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
• Nic Bishop Frogs by Nic Bishop
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel by Katherine Center
• The Well by Mildred D. Taylor
• The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
• Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
• Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes
• An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir by Elizabeth McCracken
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
• Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
• Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
• Matrimony: A Novel by Joshua Henkin
• The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
• The Way He Lived by Emily Wing Smith
• Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West
• The Only True Genius in the Family by Jennie Nash
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan
• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
• Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
• Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
• Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
• Ruby Among Us by Tina Ann Forkner
• Snow by Cynthia Rylant
• Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell
• Surviving Ben’s Suicide: A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery by C. Comfort Shields
• Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman
• Savvy by Ingrid Law
• Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka
• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe
• The Lump of Coal by Lemony Snicket
• The Handmaid and the Carpenter: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg
• A Midnight Clear by Katherine Paterson
• Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale by Martin Waddell
• The Light of Christmas by Richard Paul Evans
• Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo
• Angela and the Baby Jesus by Frank McCourt
• The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante
• Identical by Ellen Hopkins
• A Very Marley Christmas by John Grogan
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Santa Claus the World’s Number One Toy Expert by Marla Frazee
• Mrs. Claus Explains It All: (At Last) Answers to the Questions Real Kids Ask! by Elisabeth Claus
• Raucous Royals: Test your Royal Wits: Crack Codes, Solve Mysteries, and Deduce Which Royal Rumors ar by Carlyn Beccia
• Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles
• The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
• The Romantics by Galt Niederhoffer
• Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City: Inside the Shadow City by Kirsten Miller
• Amadi’s Snowman by Katia Novet Saint-lot
• This Is the Feast by Diane Z. Shore
• Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breakin by Elissa Wall
• Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner
• I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
• The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis
• Quake! by Joe Cottonwood
• Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones by Helen Hemphill
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
• Journey To Topaz: A Story Of The Japanese-American Evacuation by Yoshiko Uchida
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin/ Gammell, Stephen (ILT) Schwartz
• The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
• There’s No Such Thing as Ghosts! by Emmanuelle Eeckhout
• As If Being 12 3/4 Isn’t Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President! by Donna Gephart
• The Last Beach Bungalow by Jennie Nash
• A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
• T4 a novel by Ann Clare LeZotte
• Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story by Kim Powers
• The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine by Somaly Mam
• The 19th Wife: A Novel by David Ebershoff
• Janeology by Karen Harrington
• X-Indian Chronicles: The Book of Mausape by Thomas M. Yeahpau
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Best Place to Be: A Novel in Stories by Lesley Dormen
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• Genocide in Darfur (Genocide in Modern Times) by Janey Levy
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
• Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Messenger by Lois Lowry
• Second-Grade Pig Pals by Kirby Larson
• Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival by Kirby Larson
• The Magic Kerchief by Kirby Larson
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom
• Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie
• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
• The 13th Reality, The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner
• The First Hurt: Stories by Rachel Sherman
• Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman
• The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe
• Where I Live by Eileen Spinelli
• This Is What I Did: by Ann Dee Ellis
• The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
• Clementine’s Letter by Sara Pennypacker
• The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle
• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
• Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale
• Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
• Katarina by Kathryn Winter
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
• The Debs by Susan McBride
• Jimmy’s Stars by Mary Ann Rodman
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Smart One by Ellen Meister
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
• Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine
• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
• The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
• Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
• Escape by Carolyn Jessop
• Libertad by Alma Fullerton
• Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
• Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
• Farworld, Book 1: Water Keep by J. Scott Savage
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
• Admit One: A Journey into Film by Emmett James
• Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife by Irene Spencer
• Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
• Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
• The Tiger Rising by Kate Dicamillo
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel by Katherine Center
• Madapple by Christina Meldrum
• The Sudan Project: Rebuilding With the People of Darfur – A Young Person’s Guide by Melissa Leembruggen
• We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin
• The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• Keeper and Kid: A Novel by Edward Hardy
• Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Slave by Mende Nazer; Damien Lewis
• The Wednesday Wars by GaryD. Schmidt
• I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
• I Am a Mother by Jane Clayson Johnson
• Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran
• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
• Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
• Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs
• The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
• The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Sirens and Spies by Janet Taylor Lisle
• Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
• The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medievel Village by Laura Amy Schiltz
• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
• I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo
• Mud City by Deborah Ellis
• Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
• Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
• Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
• The Fiction Class by Susan Breen
• Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
• Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
• Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Illibagiza
• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
• Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
• Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• Cheap Psychological Tricks for Parents by Perry W. Buffington
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Austenland by Shannon Hale
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
• Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
• Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark haddon
• What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers
• Rules by Cynthia Lord
• Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
• My Brother’s Keeper by Patricia McCormick
• Cut by Patricia McCormick
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Everyman by Philip Roth
• The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
• The Gift by Richard Paul Evans
• Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans
• The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
• The Christmas Box Miracle by Richard Paul Evans
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
• The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Toilet Training by American Academy of Pediatrics
• The Toddler Owner’s Manuel: Operating Instructions, Troubleshooting Tips, and Advive on System Maine by Brett Kuhn and Joe Borgenicht
• The Five Lessons a Millionare Taught Me by Richard Paul Evans
• The Baby Owner’s Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Mai by Louis Borgenicht and Joe Borgenicht
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Blue Notebook: A Novel by James Levine M.D.