I'm keeping track of books I've read here--I swiped the idea from my friend, Sarah. All reviews are on goodreads. I've rated them one to five--five are the best. I've marked my five-star books in green. Four-star books are in blue.
2012
1. James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
2. The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
3. The Nanny Diaries (Nanny #1), Emma McLaughlin
4. Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
5. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President, Candice Millard
6. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
7. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente
8. The Giraffe and The Pelly and Me, Roald Dahl
9. The Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier
10. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
11. Don't Expect Magic, Kathy McCullough
2011
1. How to Sew a Button, Erin Bried
2. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
3. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
4. Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
5. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
6. Dinosaurs Before Dark, Mary Pope Osborne
7. The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin
8. Moloka'i, Alan Brennert
9. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
10. Love and LogicMagic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years, Jim Fay
11. The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt
12. The Greengage Summer, Rumer Godden
13. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Kerry Patterson
14. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (#2), Trenton Lee Stewart
15. Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas
16. A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck
17. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
18. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline Kelly
19. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3), Tana French
20. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
21. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
22. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
23. A Long Way From Chicago, Richard Peck
24. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
25. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, Katherine Howe
26. A Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Porter-Stratton
27. The Brass Verdict (Mickey Haller #2), Michael Connelly
28. The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
29. Nurture Shock: New Thinking about Children, Po Bronson
30. All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, David Giffels
31. Restless, William Boyd
32. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, James McBride
33. Okay for Now, Gary D. Schmidt
34. The Fifth Witness (Mickey Haller #4), Michael Connelly
35. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand
36. A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck
37. The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
38. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, Ben Sherwood
39. All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-down House, David Giffels
40. The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
41. Restless, William Boyd
42. The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier
43. Trouble, Gary D. Schmidt
44. The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner
45. Stardust, Neil Gaiman
46. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
47. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Road Dahl
48. George's Marvelous Medicine, Roald Dahl
49. My Father's Dragon, Ruth Gannett Stiles
50. Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
