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2013 Reading List

2013 Reading Reflections posted 1-6-14

The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau

Man’s Search For Meaning – Viktor Frankl

The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey (AK)

Storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gottschall

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Romeo: The Story of An Alaskan Wolf – John Hyde (AK, RA)

Starry River of the Sky – Grace Lin (RA)

Liar & Spy – Rebecca Stead (RA)

Running for My Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey From the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games – Lopez Lomong

Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 1 – Colin Meloy (RA)

The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska – Sherry Simpson (AK)

Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life – Maria Ross

Surviving the Island of Grace: Life on the Wild Edge of America – Leslie Leyland Fields (AK)

Under Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 2 – Colin Meloy (RA)

Telling Secrets – Frederick Buechner

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin (RA)

The Sea Captain’s Wife: A Novel – Beth Powning

Henry Huggins – Beverly Cleary (RA)

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers – Anne Lamott

Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles – Heather Lende (AK)

The Magician’s Elephant – Kate DiCamillo

Flight Behavior – Barbara Kingsolver

Henry & Ribsy – Beverly Cleary (RA)

Building A Life Out of Words – Shawn Smucker

Henry & Beezus – Beverly Cleary (RA)

The Dog Says How – Kevin Kling

Ordinary Wolves: A Novel – Seth Kantner (AK)

Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes – Jonathan Auxier (RA)

Holes – Louis Sachar (RA)

Still Points North – Leigh Newman (AK)

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel – Robin Sloan

Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome (RA)

The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing and Life – Marion Roach Smith

Tattoos On the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion – Gregory Boyle

Shopping For Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska – Seth Kantner (AK)

Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job – Jon Acuff

Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes – Shauna Niequist

The Chronicles of Prydain: Book of Three  – Lloyd Alexander (RA)

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles – Julie Andrews Edwards (RA)

And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini

A Single Shard – Linda Sue Park (RA)

The Fault In Our Stars – John Green

Colony Kids: Adventures of the First Year in Alaska – Heather Lehe (AK, RA)

North of Hope: A Daughter’s Arctic Journey – Shannon Polson (AK)

Kite Fighters – Linda Sue Park (RA)

When Mockingbirds Sing – Billy Coffey

The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family – Josh Hanagame

Keeping Score – Linda Sue Park (RA)

A Long Walk To Water – Linda Sue Park (RA)

The Growly Books: Begin – Philip Ulrich & Erin Ulrich (RA)

Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

eleanor & park – Rainbow Rowell

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg (RA)

Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots & Wings – Kenneth R. Ginsburg

And It Was Good: Reflections On Beginnings – Madeleine L’Engle

Looking for Alaska – John Green

Navigating Early – Clare Vanderpool (RA)

The Interestings – Meg Wolitzer

How to Use a Runaway Truck Ramp: And Other Tales From Our 10,000-Mile Adventure – Shawn Smucker

The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic – Jennifer Trafton (RA)

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

My One Square Inch of Alaska – Sharon Short

Glaciers – Alexis Smith

The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate

The Giver – Lois Lowry

Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon – Steve Sheinken (RA)

Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)

small faith Great God – NT Wright

the fingertips of Duncan Dorfman – Meg Wolitzer

Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)

The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown

On the Banks of Plum Creek – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)

When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice – Terry Tempest Williams

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art – Laney Salisbury & Aly Sujo

The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery – Steve Sheinkin (RA)

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer – Christian Wiman

Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones (RA)

Bo at Ballard Creek – Kirkpatrick Hill (AK, RA)

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice – Rebecca Musser

By the Shores of Silver Lake – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)

A Stone for A Pillow: Journeys with Jacob – Madeleine L’Engle

The Art Forger – B.A. Shapiro

Castle In the Air – Diana Wynne Jones (RA)

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint – Nadia Bolz-Weber

Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier  – Tom Kizzia (AK)

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky – Heidi W. Durrow

Farmer Boy – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)

Out of My Mind – Sharon M. Draper

House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones (RA)

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for the Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics – Daniel James Brown

The Long Winter – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)

Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair – Anne Lamott

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems – Mary Oliver

Water Castle – Megan Frazer Blakemore (RA)

Counting By 7s – Holly Goldberg Sloan

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

Dragon’s Tooth – N.D. Wilson (RA)

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures – Kate DiCamillo

Little Town on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder (RA)

Fortunately The Milk – Neil Gaiman (RA)

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – Betty Smith

The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didon

The Drowned Vault – N.D. Wilson (RA)

Roots: The Saga of an American Family – Alex Haley

Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things – Ken Wytsma

Beautiful Boy – David Sheff

Gold – Barbara Crooker

The Cay – Theodore Taylor

Me Before You – Jojo Moyes

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

The Boy On the Wooden Box – Leon Leyson

Timothy of the Cay – Theodore Taylor

Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for An Inspired Life – Jack Levison

Sun Shine Down – Gillian Marchenko

Several Short Sentences About Writing – Verlyn Klinkenborg

Steal Like An Artist – Austin Kleon

The Princess and the Goblin – George MacDonald

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