Bookshelf
Here’s what I’ve been reading.
2012
May
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot
April
BZRK by Michael Grant
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2nd time)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
March
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (4th time)
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
February
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
January
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Snarf Attack, Underfoodle and the Secret of Life: The Riot Brothers Tell All by Mary Amato and Ethan Long
2011
December
The Day Before by Lisa Schroeder
November
Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
October
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Shut-Out by Kody Keplinger
Spoiled by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
September
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Small Town Sinners by Melissa Walker
August
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
July
Doll People by Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin
Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
June
Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Room by Emma Donoghue
Star Wars Adventures in Hyperspace: Fire Ring Race by Ryder Windham
May
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
City of Theives by David Benioff
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Shine by Lauren Myracle
April
Abandon by Meg Cabot
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
March
Beige by Cecil Castellucci
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
February
Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci
Hunger Games Trilogy (3rd time) by Suzanne Collins
Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier
January
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Good Girls by Laura Ruby
2010
December
Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
November
Paper Towns by John Green
When the Stars Go Blue by Caridad Ferrer
October
The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
September
August
Catching Fire (2nd time) by Suzanne Collins
Hunger Games (2nd time) by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
July
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
June
The Road by Cormac McCarthey
May
The Big Nothing by Adrian Fogelin
Crossing Jordan by Adrian Fogelin
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm
April
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
March
Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
Candor by Pam Bachorz
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
February
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
January
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Never Mind: A Twin Novel by Avi & Rachel Vail
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Conner
2009
December
Crazy Beautiful by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
November
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
October
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Tyrell by Coe Booth
September
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
August
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
July
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
June
Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr
May
Crispin by Avi
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
April
Looking for Alaska by John Green
On the Road the Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
March
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadden
The Legend of Jimmy Gollihue by George LaCas
February
Great Gatsby (3rd time) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Naked by David Sedaris
Paint it Black by Janet Fitch
January
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
My Antonia by Willa Cather