Book Log

2011 Reads

1. *Love. Ruby Lavender. Deborah Wiles – CB
2. Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis – CB, AB (loved the audio reader!)
3. If I Built a Car – Chris VanDusen – PB
4. *Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen – A, BC, AB
5. Alice I Have Been – Melanie Benjamin – A, BC, AB (reader was terrific!)
6. Mudball – Matt Tavares – PB
7. Rhyming Dust Bunnies – Jan Thomas – PB
8. Shark Vs. Train – Chris Barton – PB
9. Real Murders – Charlaine Harris – A
10. A Bone To Pick – Charlaine Harris – A
11. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse – Charlaine Harris – A
12. Interrupting Chicken – David Ezra Stein – PB
13. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson – A
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For ease in deciphering my codes:
BC: book club
PB: picture book
CB: children’s book
YA: young adult book
A: book for adults
AB: audio book
PROF: professional book
*starred books are ones I really enjoyed.

2010 Reads

1. Bread Alone – Judith Ryan Hendricks – BC
2. Running Out of Time – Margaret Peterson Haddix- CB
3. The Red Lemon – Bob Staake – PB
4. Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (and other things not to do) – Judi Barrett – PB
5. Fallen – Lauren Kate – YA
6. *Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater – YA
7. Bed of Roses – Nora Roberts – A
8. *After Ever After – Jordan Sonnenblick – CB
9.  Sisters Grimm #8 The Inside Story – Michael Buckley – CB
10.*Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins -YA, BC – (Excellent book)
11. *Catching Fire – Suzanne Colllins – YA (Sequel to Hunger Games, equally excellent)
12. Dealing with Dragons – Patricia Wrede – CB
13. Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris – A
14. Heat Wave – Richard Castle (?) – A
15. The Dark Divine – Bree Despain – YA
16. Gregor the Overlander – Suzanne Collins – CB
17. All the Broken Pieces – Ann Burg – CB
18.*Soulless- Gail Carriger – A – new genre for me – steampunk – fascinating
19. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer – YA – REREAD to prep for the movie
20. Just Like Me, Only Better – Carol Snow – A
21. Clementine – Sara Pennypacker – CB
22. Chains – Laurie Halse Anderson – CB
23. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -Stieg Larsson – A, BC
24. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins – YA/A (final in the series. INTENSE)
25. Leonardo the Terrible Monster – Mo Willems – PB
26. The Houdini Box – Brian Selznick – CB
27. I am the Messenger – Markus Zusak – AB
28. Unwind – Neal Shusterman – AB, YA
29. Bedhead – Margie Palatini – PB
30. Stinky Smelly Feet: A Love Story – Margie Palatini – PB
31. The Magicians – Lev Grossman – AB, BC
32. Kat Kong – Dav Pilkey – CB
33. Rhyming Dust Bunnies – Jan Thomas – CB
34. *The Lost Hero – Heroes of Olympus – Rick Riordan – CB
35.* The Red Pyramid – Kane Chronicles Book 1 – Rick Riordan – CB
36. The Stranger – Chris VanAllsburg – C, PB
37. Linger – Maggie Stiefvater – YA
38. Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech – CB

2009 Reads
1. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne – BC, CB
2. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger – BC, A
3. *Project Mulberry – Linda Sue Park – CB
4. *Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie – Jordan Sonnenblick – CB
5. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo – CB
6. Tacky and the Winter Games – Helen Lester – PB
7. A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama -Laura Amy Schlitz – CB
8. Once Upon A Cool Motorcycle Dude – Kevin O’Malley -PB
9. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman (2009 Newbery Winner) – BC, CB
10. *Sisters Grimm #7  The Everafter War – Michael Buckley – CB
11. Born to Read – Judy Sierra – CB, PB
12. *The Wright 3 – Blue Balliet – CB, AB
13. Second Glance – Jody Piccoult – BC, A,
14. *The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan – CB
15. *Today I Will Fly – Mo Willems – CB, PB (an Elephant and Piggie Book)
16. There Is a Bird On Your Head – Mo Willems – CB, PB (an Elephant and Piggie Book)
17. *The Book Thief – Markus Zusak – YA, BC
18. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink – A
19. If You Give a Cat a Cupcake – Laura Numeroff – PB
20. *The Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt – CB
21. The Mozart Question – Michael Morpurgo – CB
22. One Tiny Seed – Eric Carle – PB
23. Avalon High – Meg Cabot – YA
24. *Home of the Brave – Katherine Applegate – CB
25. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris  (HBO’s True Blood base) – A
26. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris- A
27. Loving Frank – Nancy Horan – A
28. The Calder Game – Blue Balliet – CB
29. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris – A
30. Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris – A
31. All the Lovely Bad Ones – Mary Downing Hahn – CB
32. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris – A
33. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris – A
34. All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris -A
35. From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris – A
36. Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris – A
37. On the Road (Down Girl and Sit series) – Lucy A. Nolan -CB
38. Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct – Mo Willems – PB
39. Notes from the Midnight Driver – Jordan Sonnenblick – CB/YA
40. Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree – Lauren Tarshis – CB
41. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder Mystery – Joanna Fluke – BC, A
42. A Touch of Dead – Charlaine Harris – A
43. Crazy Ladies – Michael Lee West – BC, A
44. Remember Me – Sophie Kinsella – A
45. Cedar Cove Christmas – Debbie Macomber
46. *The Help – Kathryn Stockett – BC, A