Books Read

***2013***
January:
*The Wave by Todd Strasser
*More Baths Less Talking by Nick Horby
*The 10p.m. Question by Kate De Goldi
*Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
*Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

February:
*Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
*Chiggers by Hope Larson
*The Pigman by Paul Zindel
*French Milk by Lucy Knisley
*The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
*Same Difference by Derek Kirk Kim
*The Dead of the Night by John Marden
*Friends With Boys by Faith Erin Hicks
*Wandering Son Volume 3 by Takako Shimura
*Sita's Ramayana by Samhita Arni and Moyna Chitrakar
*Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield
*A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return by Zeina Abirached
*Castle Waiting by Linda Medley (reread)
*The Lindbergh Child: America's Hero and the Crime of the Century by Rick Geary
*The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti by Rick Geary
*Castle Waiting Volume II by Linda Medley
*Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda by J.P. Stassen
*Americus by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill
*Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge
*Retrovirus by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Norberto Fernandez
*Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise Part Three by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
*Lola: A Ghost Story by J. Torres and Elbert Or
*Revival Volume One: You're Among Friends by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton
*The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
*A Killing Frost by John Marsden

March:
*Food: The New Gold by Kathlyn Gay
*Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown
*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
*Darkness Be My Friend by John Marsden
*To be a Slave by Julius Lester (reread)
*Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith & J.B. MacKinnon
*Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom by Laurie Calkhoven
*Homegrown Honey Bees: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping Your First Year, from Hiving to Honey Harvest by Alethea Morrison

April:
*Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart
*Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Search, Part One by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
*A History of US: The New Nation 1789-1850 by Joy Hakim
*Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
*Burning for Revenge by John Marsden
*The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli
*A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer
*Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm by Philip Pullman
*Kill Alex Cross by James Patterson

May:
*Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
*a cool moonlight by Angela Johnson
*Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
*silent to the bone by E.L. Konigsburg
*Ruined Landscapes: Paintings of the Balkan War Zone paintings by Laura Buxton and text by Ross Yockey
*The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah
*Genocide: Modern Crimes Against Humanity by Brendan January
*My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places by Mary Roach

June:
*Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life by Stephanie Staal
*A History of US: Liberty for All? 1820-1860 by Joy Hakim
*The Night is for Hunting by John Marsden
*Shine by Lauren Myracle
*Soonchild by Russell Hoban

July:
*The Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden
*A Delicate Balance: Living Successfully with Chronic Illness by Susan Milstrey Wells
*Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
*The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
*Hero by Perry Moore
*Strawberry Panic: The Complete Manga Collection by Sakurako Kimino
*Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

August:
*Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Setting Up the Shot: Photography Volume 1 by Jason Skog
*Under the Dome by Stephen King
*The Stand by Stephen King
*Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists edited by Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan


***2012***
January:
*Mercury by Hope Larson
*The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
*Guide to the Planet by Matthew Murrie and Steve Murrie

February:
*Hiroshima by John Hersey
*Epic by Conor Kostick
*The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne
*RASL by Jeff Smith
*Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Promise: Part One by Gene Luen Yang
*Cut Loose: Break the Rules of Scrapbooking by Crystal Jeffrey Rieger
*Mission Planet Earth: Our World and Its Climate--And How Humans are Changing Them by Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy
*Sweet Tooth 4: Endangered Species by Jeff Lemire
*Find Your Groove: A Guide to Discovering Your Scrapbook Style by Kitty Foster & Wendy McKeehan
*The Arrival by Shaun Tan
*Scrap Simple by Hillary Heidelberg

March:
*The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon
*The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
*Carrie by Stephen King
*Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
*A History of US: Making Thirteen Colonies by Joy Hakim
*Cane Toads and Other Rogue Species edited by Karl Weber
*What You Wish For: Stories and Poems for Darfur by various
*Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (reread)

April:
*When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
*Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease by Jeanette Farrell
*Step on a Crack by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
*Fables 8: Wolves by Bill Willingham

May:
*The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
*Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
*Fables 9: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham
*Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
*Life in Cold Blood by David Attenborough
*Fables 10: The Good Prince by Bill Willingham
*Fables 11: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham
*Oh, Freedom! by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne
*The Search for Wondla by Tony DiTerlizzi

June:
*A History of US: From Colonies to Country by Joy Hakim
*Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 by Juan Williams
*The Sculptor's Eye: Looking at Contemporary American Art by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
*Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
*Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise, Part Two by Gene Luen Yang
*Family by Micol Ostow
*Cut by Patricia McCormick
*The Fifties by David Halberstam
*Tower of Treasure by Scott Chantler
*Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
*Paper Towns by John Green

July:
*The Axe-Man of New Orleans by Rick Geary
*Dead by Sunset by Ann Rule
*Green River Killer: A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen
*God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
*Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
*Lottery by Patricia Wood

August:
*Atlas by Katrina Vandenberg
*Wandering Son Volume 1 by Takako Shimura
*Wandering Son Volume 2 by Takako Shimura
*Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin
*Emma Volume 1 by Kaoru Mori
*Emma Volume 2 by Kaoru Mori
*Emma Volume 3 by Kaoru Mori
*Emma Volume 4 by Kaoru Mori
*The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
*Emma Volume 5 by Kaoru Mori
*Emma Volume 6 by Kaoru Mori
*Emma Volume 7 by Kaoru Mori
*Emma Volume 8 by Kaoru Mori
*Emma Volume 9 by Kaoru Mori
*Emma Volume 10 by Kaoru Mori
*Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
*Hers&sup3 edited by Terry Wolverton with Robert Drake

September:
*The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling by Quinn Cummings
*Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
*Locke & Key: Head Games by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriquez
*Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriquez
*When I Knew edited by Robert Trachtenberg
*Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriquez
*Locke & Key: Clockworks by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriquez
*Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales edited by Deborah Noyes
*Shadow Prey by John Sandford

October:
*Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
*Go With Me by Castle Freeman Jr.
*The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
*Pretty Dead by Francesca Lia Block
*Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

November:
*A Hero for Wondla by Tony DiTerlizzi

December:
*Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
*I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
*Sweet Tooth: Unnatural Habitats (vol. 5) by Jeff Lemire
*I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
*The Evil Garden by Edward Gorey


***2011***
January:
*The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet
*The Dreaming Volume 2 by Queenie Chan
*China's Buried Kingdoms by the editors of Time-Life books
*The Dreaming Volume 3 by Queenie Chan
*Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
*Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
*Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
*Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

February:
*Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley
*The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
*The Face of Death by Cody McFadyen
*"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (short story)
*"The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (short story)
*"Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (short story)
*Nightschool: The Weirn Books Vol. 1 by Svetlana Chmakova
*"Artist of the Beautiful" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (short story)
*"A Descent Into the Maelstrom" by Edgar Allan Poe (short story)
*"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" by Edgar Allan Poe (short story)
*Nightschool: The Weirn Books Vol. 2 by Svetlana Chmakova
*Nightschool: The Weirn Books Vol. 3 by Svetlana Chmakova
*Nightschool: The Weirn Books Vol. 4 by Svetlana Chmakova
*DMZ: On the Ground by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli
*The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

March:
*Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
*Columbine by Dave Cullen
*What Life Was Like When Rome Ruled the World by the editors of Time-Life Books
*The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
*Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
*We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

April:
*A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
*The Princess and the Penis by R.J. Silver
*The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

May:
*Life in a Medieval City by Joseph and Frances Gies
*A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
*The Twits by Roald Dahl
*The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

June:
*Ship Breaker by Paulo Bacigalupi
*Shivers, Wishes, and Wolves: Stone Arch Fairy Tales Volume 1 edited by Donald Lemke
*By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
*The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
*Priceless: The Vanishing Beauty of a Fragile Planet by Bradley Trevor Greive with photography by Mitsuaki Iwago
*Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman
*2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
*How Beautiful the Ordinary edited by Michael Cart
*The Wisdom of the Radish and Other Lessons Learned on a Small Farm by Lynda Hopkins
*The Mystery of Mary Rogers by Rich Geary

July:
*grl2grl by Julie Anne Peters
*The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts edited by Michael Novacek
*Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch
*The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby and John Busby
*Whiteout by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber
*Brody's Ghost: Book 1 by Mark Crilley
*The Sister's Luck by Shari Chankhamma
*Sweet Tooth 2: In Captivity by Jeff Lemire
*Sweet Tooth 3: Animal Armies by Jeff Lemire
*Bees by Candace Savage
*Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

August:
*Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue
*The Darker Side by Cody McFadyen
*The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (reread)

September:
*Abandoned by Cody McFayden
*Higurashi When They Cry Abducted by Demons Arc Volume 1 by Ryukishio7 and Karin Suzuragi
*Science Detectives: How Scientists Solved Six Real-Life Mysteries by the editors of YES Magazine
*Higurashi When They Cry Abducted by Demons Arc Volume 2 by Ryukishio7 and Karin Suzuragi
*The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard
*The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle: The Thing Beneath the Bed by Patrick Rothfuss, illustrated by Nate Taylor
*Swimming With Sharks by Nick Arnold
*Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
*Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things by Ted Naifeh
*Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics by Ted Naifeh
*Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom by Ted Naifeh

October:
*Atlas of Geology and Landforms by Cally Oldershaw
*Copper by Kazu Kibuishi
*52 More Scrapbooking Challenges by Elizabeth Kartchner
*Night Shift by Stephen King (reread)
*Plate Tectonics by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn
*Inside Earthquakes by Melissa Stewart

November:
*Jericho Season 3 Civil War by Dan Shotz and Robert Levine
*Explorers to the New World by Shirley Jordan
*A History of US: First Americans by Joy Hakim
*Measle and the Wrathmonk by Ian Ogilvy
*Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

December:
*Rules of Prey by John Sandford
*Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver
*A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote