- On Beauty, Zadie Smith
- The Accidental, Ali Smith
- Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
- The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud
- The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen
- Maru, Bessie Head
- I Am the Messenger, Markus Zusak
- The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
- Planets, James Boylan
- Icelander, Dustin Long
- Magyk, Angie Sage
- This Lullaby, Sarah Dessen
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- The Giver, Lois Lowry
- Specials, Scott Westerfeld
- River Secrets, Shannon Hale
- The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
- Enna Burning,Shannon Hale
- Haunting Of Alaizabel Cray, Chris Wooding
- Westmark, Lloyd Alexander
- The Beggar Queen, Lloyd Alexander
- The Kestrel, Lloyd Alexander
- The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer
- Endymion Spring, Matthew Skelton
- Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
- Pretties, Scott Westerfeld
- Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
- New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
- Peter Pan in Scarlet, Geraldine McCaughrean
- Mister Monday, Garth Nix
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1, Alan Moore
- Y: The Last Man Vol. 3: One Small Step, Brian K. Vaughan
- Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party, M.T. Anderson
- The Minister's Daughter, Julie Hearn
- Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
- Ines of My Soul, Isabel Allende
- The Blood Confession, Alisa Libby
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
- The Makioka Sisters, Junichiro Tanizaki
- Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology, Arthur Green
- The News from Paraguay, Lily Tuck
- Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery, Peter Abrahams
- Libraries, Candida Hýýfer
- No god but God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Reza Aslan
- The Jews of Islam, Bernard Lewis
- A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle
- Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
- Boy Proof, Cecil Castellucci
- The Lost Colony, Eoin Colfer
- The End, Lemony Snicket
- The Blood Knight, Greg Keyes
- Celandine, Steve Augarde
- Hero's Song: The First Song of Eirren, Edith Pattou
- Fire Arrow: The Second Song of Eirren, Edith Pattou
- Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour, Scott Westerfeld
- Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry
- Messenger, Lois Lowry
- Grim Tuesday, Garth Nix
- Drowned Wednesday, Garth Nix
- Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
- Rats Saw God, Rob Thomas
- Burned, Ellen Hopkins
- Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
- Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
- Fly by Night, Frances Hardinge
- Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin
- Lyra's Oxford, Philip Pullman
- Midnighters #3: Blue Noon, Scott Westerfeld
- Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness, Scott Westerfeld
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
- Princess Academy, Shannon Hale
- The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World, Guillaume de Laubier
- The Great Libraries: From Antiquity to the Renaissance (3000 B.C. to A.D.1600), Konstantinos Staikos
- Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories, Garth Nix
- Inexcusable, Chris Lynch
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel, Gregory Maguire
- The Wind on the Moon, Eric Linklater
- Buried Fire, Jonathan Stroud
- Shakespeare's Secret, Elise Broach
- The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
- Poison, Chris Wooding
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
- Avalon High, Meg Cabot
- Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Clive Barker
- The Perilous Gard, Elizabeth Marie Pope
- The Prophet of Yonwood, Jeanne Duprau
- The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau
- The People of Sparks, Jeanne Duprau
- The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue
- The Thief of Always, Clive Barker
- Rebel Angels, Libba Bray
- A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
- The Myth of You and Me, Leah Stewart
- East, Edith Pattou
- Strange Times, My Dear, Nahid Mozaffari
- A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People: From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present, Eli Barnavi
- Maimonides, Sherwin B. Nuland
- Epistles of Maimonides: Crisis and Leadership, Moses Maimonides
- Hard Love, Ellen Wittlinger
- Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned, Brian K. Vaughan
- Y: The Last Man Vol. 2: Cycles, Brian K. Vaughan
- Captain Alatriste, Arturo Perez-Reverte
- Jews of Arab Lands a History and Source Book, Norman Stillman
- Yiddish with Dick and Jane, Ellis Weiner
- A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, John le Carre
- The Smaller Majority, Piotr Naskrecki
- Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa, Bobby Haas
- The Life of David, Robert Pinsky
- Abhorsen, Garth Nix
- Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr, Garth Nix
- Sabriel, Garth Nix
- Someone Like You, Sarah Dessen
- The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, Jeanne Birdsall
- Seventeenth Summer, Maureen Daly
- Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
- Anne of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery
- Anne of the Island, L.M. Montgomery
- Anne of Windy Poplars, L.M. Montgomery
- Anne's House of Dreams, L.M. Montgomery
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Books I've Read: 2006
This is more or less what I read in 2006. Books in bold are ones I liked especially.
Monday, January 16, 2006
My favorite books
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
The Dark Is Rising Sequence, Susan Cooper
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Emma, Jane Austen
His Dark Materials Series, Philip Pullman
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
East, Edith Patou
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Power of One, Courtenay Bryce
The Dark Is Rising Sequence, Susan Cooper
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Emma, Jane Austen
His Dark Materials Series, Philip Pullman
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
East, Edith Patou
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Power of One, Courtenay Bryce
Sunday, January 1, 2006
Books I've Read: 2011
Books in bold are ones I've especially liked:
- Matched, Ally Condie
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
- Girl Parts, John M. Cusick
- A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner
- Lord Sunday (The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 7), Garth Nix
- Divergent, Veronica Roth (ARC)
- Sapphique, Catherine Fisher
- The Born Queen (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Book 4), Greg Keyes
- The Dead-Tossed Waves, Carrie Ryan
- Princess Ben, Catherine Murdock
- Angel Burn, L. A. Weatherly (ARC)
- Delirium, Lauren Oliver
- Warped, Maurissa Guibord
- A Curse Dark as Gold, Elizabeth C. Bunce
- Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly
- The Death of Joan of Arc: A Lost Story from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flammel, Michael Scott
- Anna and the French Kiss, Stephanie Perkins
- The Dark and Hollow Places, Carrie Ryan
- Soulless, Gail Carriger
- Changeless, Gail Carriger
- Extraordinary, Nancy Werlin
- Blameless, Gail Carriger
- Across the Universe, Beth Revis
- Numbers, Rachel Ward
- Hourglass, Myra McEntire
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson (ARC)
- Heartless (The Parasol Protectorate), Gail Carriger
- The Last Little Blue Envelope, Maureen Johnson
- Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography, Rob Lowe
- The Warlock, Michael Scott
- Legend, Marie Lou (ARC)
- A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, Anthony Bourdain
- Beauty Queens, Libba Bray
- Birthmarked, Caragh M. O'Brien
- Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America, Jonathan Dixon
- Blood, Bones & Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton
- Blowing My Cover, Lindsay Moran
- Chime, Franny Billingsley
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