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2014 Reading List

January 2014 Reading posted 1-31-14
Reading and Re-Reading posted 8-3-14


January

These Happy Golden Years – Laura Ingalls Wilder (read aloud)

The Pieces We Keep – Kristina McMorris

Empire of Bones – ND Wilson (read aloud)

The Silent Wife – A.S.A. Harrison

Line Dance -Barbara Crooker

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci – Diana Wynne Jones (read aloud)

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage – Ann Patchett

February

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Volume II – Diana Wynne Jones (read aloud)

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction – Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd

Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It – Maile Meloy

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Volume III – Diana Wynne Jones (read aloud)

The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life – Dani Shapiro

Mixed Magics: Four Tales of Chrestomanci – Diana Wynne Jones (read aloud)

Listening for Madeleine – Leonard Marcus

Prepared for a Purpose – Antoninette Tuff

The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue – Michael J Tougas (read aloud)

Still Life With Bread Crumbs – Anna Quindlen

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

Slow Motion: A True Story – Dani Shapiro

March

Dragon Rider – Cornelia Funk (read aloud)

Oryx & Crake – Margaret Atwood

The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd

Ice Dogs – Terry Lynn Johnson

Widewater – Philip & Erin Ulrich

Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Itidarod – Gary Paulsen

Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage – Allison Vesterfelt

Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys

April

The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More – Janet Mock

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin

God and the Gay Christian – Matthew Vines

Under the Egg – Laura Marx Fitzgerald

Learning to Walk in the Dark – Barbara Brown Taylor

Where’d You Go Bernadette – Maria Semple

The Round House – Louise Erdich

May

Out of the Silent Planet – C.S. Lewis

The Madwoman in the Volvo – Sandra Tsing Loh

Heaven is For Real – Todd Burpo & Lynn Vincent

June

The Body Broken – Lynne Greenberg

Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling

The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia – David Stuart MacLean

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness – Susannah Cahalan

When We Were On Fire – Addie Zierman

Surprised by Scripture – N.T. Wright

The Witch of Blackbeard Pond – Elizabeth George Speare (read aloud)

Ice Whale – Jean Craighead George (read aloud)

Family History: A Novel – Dani Shapiro

July

Year of the Black Pony – Walt Morey (read aloud)

Devotion: A Memoir – Dani Shapiro

Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes (read aloud)

The Glass Sentence – S.E. Groves (read aloud)

Game of Thrones Book One – George RR Martin

The Long Goodbye: A Memoir – Meghan O’Rourke

Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found – Frederic Buechner

Hannah Coulter: A Novel – Wendell Berry

Radiance – Barbara Crooker

August

Mr. Revere and I – Robert Lawson (Read Aloud)

the splendid things we planned – Blake Bailey

The Princess and the Goblin – George MacDonald

Carry On Mr. Bowditch – Jean Lee Latham

Chains – Laurie Halse Anderson (Read Aloud)

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons – Sam Kean

The Question that Never Goes Away – Philip Yancey

Landline – Rainbow Rowell

Justin Morgan Had a Horse – Marguerite Henry (Read Aloud)

September

Witch Week – Diane Wynne Jones

Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott

The Landmark History of the American People Volume 1 – Daniel Boorstin (Read Aloud)

October

What the Living Do – Marie Howe

Hooks Revenge – Heidi Schulz (Read Alous)

The Winged Watchman – Hilda Van Stockum (Read Aloud)

By the Great Horn Spoon! – Sid Fleischman (Read aloud)

Moccasin Trail – Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Read Aloud)

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass – Meg Medina

Stonewall – Jean Fritz (Read Aloud)

All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr

Across the Lines – Carolyn Reeder (Read Aloud)

November

how i discovered poetry – marilyn nelson

Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt (Read Aloud)

Cow Woman of Akutan – Joan Brown Dodd

Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson

December

The Great Wheel – Robert Lawson (Read Aloud)

Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace – Anne Lamott

Holy Land – Sandra Kleven

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