in my reading chair now

    2011

YA

Fade by Robert Cormier

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Candor by Pam Bachorz

MIDDLE GRADE

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

The Ranger's Apprentice by John Flanagan

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

The Game of Sunken Places by M. T. Anderson

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Evolution of Calupurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

The Giver by Lois Lowry

PICTURE BOOK

The Gardener by Sarah Stewart, illustrated by David Small
Hot, Hot Roti for Dadaji by F. Zia, illustrated by Ken Min

NONFICTION

OTHER

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

    2010

YA

Bartimaeus Trilogy-The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Ironside by Holly Black
Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Thief by Megan Whelan Turner
Ever by Gail Carson Levine
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon
The Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

MIDDLE GRADE

Crispin and the Cross of Lead by Avi

Notes from a Liar and her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko

Defiance by Valerie Hobbes
Haunted: The Ghost on the Stairs by Chris Eboch
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
Drizzle by Kathleen Van Cleve
Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Archer's Quest by Linda Sue Park
Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville
The Book of Everything by Guus Kuijer
Sea of the Dead by Julia Durango
Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade by Stephanie Greene
The Shadow Theives by Anne Ursu
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Lily's Ghosts by Laura Ruby

Simon Bloom The Gravity Keeper by Michael Riesman
The Maze of Bones (Book One The Thirty Nine Clues) by Rick Riordan
The Garden of Eve by K. L. Going

Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
City of Ember by Jeanne Du Prau

PICTURE BOOK

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

NONFICTION

Self Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne & Dave King

    2009

    2008

YA

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Protector of the Small Series by Tamora Pierce

MIDDLE GRADE

Circle of Magic Series by Tamora Pierce
The Circle Opens Series by Tamora Pierce
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Outcast by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Penderwicks by Louise Birdsall
Song of the Lioness Series by Tamora Pierce
The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff
Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff
Turi's Papa by Elizabeth Borton Trevino
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Tintin series by Herge
Anything by Enid Blyton

ADULT

Magister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
The Caves of Steel and sequels by Isaac Asimov
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
The Incredible Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Shipping News by Annie Proulx
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Series by Alexander McCall Smith
The Avalon Series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Don Juan series by Carlos Castaneda
The Mahabharata
The Ramayana
Ursula LeGuin
Somerset Maugham
John Steinbeck
Myths, Fables, Fairy Tales from around the world

ADULT NON-FICTION

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Gould
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

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